Old Street and Silicon Roundabout sit at the heart of London’s tech and digital economy, with EC1V and EC2A hosting one of the densest concentrations of scale-up, SaaS, fintech and creative-tech occupiers in the UK. The market stretches from the City Road roundabout north into Shoreditch, south toward Moorgate and west toward Clerkenwell, taking in flagship buildings such as The White Collar Factory, The Bower, Alphabeta and 2 Moorgate. Active landlords — Derwent London, British Land, Helical and Brookfield among them — hold tenants to demanding lease-end specifications, and the floor plates tend to carry heavy, bespoke fit-outs put in by fast-growing tech businesses and serviced-office operators.
London Dilaps Ltd is a specialist commercial dilapidations, strip-out and Cat A reinstatement contractor serving Old Street, Silicon Roundabout and the wider EC1V and EC2A market. We work with tenants, landlords, and commercial surveyors to plan, price and deliver the full scope of lease-end works — from removing serviced-office operator fit-outs to full Cat A reinstatements on new-build towers. Every project is delivered under a fixed-price contract with a single dedicated point of contact from first assessment through to final landlord sign-off. If your Old Street office lease is approaching its end, contact us for a no-obligation assessment and a clear fixed-price proposal.
Old Street’s commercial stock runs from converted Victorian warehouses and former industrial sheds through to purpose-built tech towers such as The White Collar Factory, The Bower, Alphabeta and Principal Place. Floor plates range from 2,000 sq ft in upper-floor creative suites to 50,000 sq ft whole-building headquarters. Anchor occupiers are drawn from scale-up tech, fintech and SaaS — Monzo, Wise, GoCardless, TransferGo, Riot Games, CapGemini and a significant cluster of serviced-office operators including WeWork, Mindspace, Labs and Uncommon. Fit-outs are typically heavy, with exposed services, bespoke joinery, phone booths, bike stores, shower blocks and specialist AV that all need removing at lease-end.
Old Street leases are drafted tightly by institutional landlords, and full Cat A reinstatement — ceilings, floor finishes, perimeter lighting, M&E balancing and reversal of every licensed alteration — is routinely enforced, particularly in the newer towers and refurbished warehouse stock. We review every lease and licence for alterations before pricing, challenging schedule items that fall outside your contractual responsibility. Cash settlements in the EC1V and EC2A market are routinely padded with contingency, supervisor fees and lost-rent allowances — often adding 20–40% on top of the true cost of the works. Completing the physical works directly almost always delivers a materially lower net cost and, just as importantly, closes your liability definitively on handover. Settlements can be reopened for up to six years if further damage is alleged; a completed and documented handover cannot.
Old Street’s narrow approach roads, constant roundabout traffic, pedestrian underpasses and multi-tenanted tower stock make mobilisation more demanding than a typical City project. Loading has to be carefully sequenced — many buildings share goods lifts and loading bays with other tenants and require early-morning, evening or weekend windows for heavier strip-out works. We mobilise daily from our London base into EC1V and EC2A, and our coverage extends naturally into Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, the City of London, Moorgate and Bethnal Green, giving clients a single specialist contractor across the full City fringe and East London tech corridor.
Every Old Street dilapidations project begins with a proper on-site assessment against the served schedule and the underlying lease. We produce a clear, itemised fixed-price proposal, build a programme around your handover date and manage building management induction, permit-to-work and surveyor liaison directly. When you employ a specialist contractor you stay in control of specification, quality and programme — not the landlord’s surveyor. At completion we carry out a full pre-handover inspection, compile photographic documentation and deliver a complete compliance pack that closes your liability at handover, with one dedicated point of contact throughout.
Old Street is not an area to hand to a general refurbishment contractor learning the dilapidations process on your project. The landlord community is among the most experienced in London, the schedules are demanding — particularly across the newer Derwent and British Land stock — and the logistics of working in multi-tenanted tech towers demand a contractor that understands permit systems, goods-lift bookings and out-of-hours working. London Dilaps Ltd brings focused specialist expertise — dilapidations, strip-out and Cat A reinstatement is our entire focus, not a side service — with £5 million Public Liability and Employers’ Liability insurance cover as standard, documented handovers on every project, and direct-to-contractor pricing that typically beats the landlord’s contractor by 20–50% on like-for-like scope.
Our Old Street clients include scale-up tech and fintech companies, serviced-office operators, creative and digital agencies and commercial surveyors across EC1V, EC2A and the surrounding Shoreditch, Clerkenwell and Moorgate market. Our coverage extends naturally across the full City fringe — Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Farringdon, the City of London, Kings Cross and Canary Wharf — giving you a single specialist contractor for lease exits across Central London. Fixed-price proposals, experienced site teams, full estate and surveyor liaison and a closed handover every time.
Our specialist office dilapidations service covers the complete lease-end repair and compliance programme for tenants across Old Street and the wider EC1V / EC2A tech cluster. We review your lease, agree scope with your surveyor and deliver all required works — repairs, redecoration, removal of alterations and full schedule-of-condition compliance — under a single fixed-price contract, from initial assessment through to documented final handover.
We deliver complete office reinstatement programmes for Old Street offices, restoring spaces to base-build condition in line with landlord specification. Our service covers suspended ceilings, perimeter lighting, raised access flooring, power distribution, decoration, M&E balancing and all make-good works — delivered under a single managed contract to the standard that Old Street’s estate landlords and surveyor community expects.
Our office strip-out services in London cover full removal of tenant and serviced-office operator fit-outs across Old Street — partitions, ceilings, raised floors, phone booths, kitchens, bike stores, data cabling and M&E installations. Works are planned carefully to protect base-build fabric, coordinated with estate building management in line with access and waste-removal protocols, and completed to a standard ready for reinstatement or landlord inspection.
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