Shop & Office Defit in Brisbane CBD & Inner City

A shop or office defit, also called a make-good strip out, returns a leased commercial tenancy to the condition your lease requires at end of term, usually a bare shell or the original handover state. Strip It Out provides shop and office defit services across the Gold Coast and Brisbane, working with tenants, landlords and property managers to deliver a clean, on-time handover.

Part of our broader internal strip out and demolition services — see the hub page for the Queensland regulatory framework, process, cost factors and contractor vetting checklist.

A defit typically removes the previous fitout in full: partitions and walls, shopfront joinery and counters, signage and branding, floor coverings, ceiling and lighting changes, and any tenant-installed services. We read your make-good clause carefully, scope the works to match it exactly, and document the result so your bond or handover is signed off without dispute. All waste is removed and the floor is left clean, with concrete grinding available if the slab needs preparing.

What affects the cost of a shop or office defit

Defit pricing depends on the make-good clause and the fitout being removed. The main factors:

• The exact scope your lease specifies: shell, base build, or original condition
• How extensive the existing fitout is
• Centre or building access rules and after-hours requirements
• Patching, painting and ceiling reinstatement, if the lease calls for it

We quote to the clause, in writing, so there is no gap between our scope and what the landlord expects.

How long a shop or office defit takes

Most retail and office defits are completed within one to four days, scheduled around your lease end date and the centre's trading hours. We plan the works backwards from your handover deadline and, where required, work nights or weekends so you hand the keys back on time and stop paying rent.

We handle defits for retail shops, offices, food and hospitality tenancies, and professional suites, in shopping centres, strip retail and standalone buildings. For larger or full-interior projects see our commercial strip out service, and for office partition removal as a stand-alone job.

Strip It Out is fully licensed and insured, family-owned, and has handled commercial make-goods across South East Queensland for more than seven years. We coordinate directly with property managers and centre management to keep the handover smooth. Call for a free, fixed-scope defit quote anywhere across the Gold Coast and Brisbane.

Strip Out Services in Brisbane CBD & Inner City

Brisbane's CBD and inner-city ring is South East Queensland's busiest commercial strip-out market, and Strip It Out travels up from the Gold Coast to service it — the city centre, Fortitude Valley, South Brisbane, West End, Newstead, Teneriffe, New Farm and the inner-east suburbs through to Bulimba and Coorparoo.

Commercial defits and make-goods

The inner city runs on commercial tenancy turnover. Offices around Queen Street, Eagle Street and Spring Hill, retail across the Valley and South Brisbane, and the dense hospitality scene in Fortitude Valley and West End all generate constant end-of-lease defit and make-good work. Our commercial strip-out and shop and office defit services are built for exactly this: scoping the works to the lease's make-good clause, coordinating with building and centre management, and working after hours where a tenancy or trading neighbours require it.

Inner-city residential

The inner ring is also some of Brisbane's most valuable residential property. New Farm, Teneriffe, Bulimba and Hawthorne are full of heritage worker's cottages and converted warehouses where renovation is constant, and apartment work is common. These jobs call for careful, dust-controlled bathroom and kitchen strip-outs, tile removal and non-structural wall removal — and, in apartment buildings, body-corporate-aware planning around lifts, loading docks and noise hours.

Urban access, handled

Inner-Brisbane jobs come with urban realities — restricted parking, lift bookings, building-management sign-in, tight loading windows. We plan access before we arrive and schedule around it, so a CBD strip-out runs as cleanly as a suburban one.

We provide free, fixed-scope written quotes for commercial and residential strip-outs, defits and internal demolition across Brisbane's CBD and inner suburbs.