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Every London borough

Commercial Building Maintenance Contracts Across London

Planned and reactive building maintenance for London offices, retail, hospitality and managed commercial buildings. Our own trades, one contractor, agreed response times, one monthly report.

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  • DBS-checked operatives
  • Named contract manager
  • SafeContractor and CHAS accredited
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What a building maintenance contract with BW covers

Most contractors sell call-outs. We hold cover. A BW contract sets a planned schedule against your buildings and their assets, fixes response times for the things that go wrong in between, and reports the whole picture back to you once a month. For commercial property that means fewer emergencies disrupting tenants and trading hours, fewer complaints landing on your desk and a paper trail you can put in front of a client or an auditor.

Contracts are written per portfolio, from a single office or retail unit to a hundred-plus sites across London. Planned preventative maintenance and reactive repair sit under one agreement, one contract manager and one invoice.

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  • A planned schedule against your assets

    Communal areas, plant, roofs, drainage, lighting and external fabric surveyed, scheduled and revisited on a fixed cycle so failure is caught before residents report it.

  • Agreed response times

    Emergency, urgent and routine bands written into the contract and measured against, with out of hours cover for the things that cannot wait.

  • One named contract manager

    A single person who knows your buildings, answers your messages and is accountable when something slips. No call centre, no chasing individual trades.

  • Monthly reporting you can forward

    Completed planned works, reactive jobs by property, performance against the SLA and recommended works, in one document written to be read by your client.

  • One invoice, predictable cost

    Planned works carry a fixed contract value and reactive work is charged against agreed rates, consolidated monthly so service charge budgeting stops being guesswork.

Building maintenance services in London

Every trade a commercial building needs, run by one contractor. Work is grouped the way a maintenance contract is actually managed, and everything below can sit inside a planned schedule, a reactive line, or both.

OUR TRADE TEAMS

  • Handymen
  • Painters and decorators
  • Plumbers
  • Electricians
  • Carpenters
  • Roofers
  • Bricklayers

Planned preventative maintenance

Scheduled inspection and servicing of the parts of a building that fail predictably: roofs and rainwater goods, communal lighting, door entry, plant, drainage and external fabric. We survey the asset list, set a cycle against it and record every visit, so planned spend replaces emergency spend and your reactive volumes fall year on year.

Reactive and emergency repairs

A single reporting channel for everything that breaks between planned visits, triaged into agreed response bands and attended by operatives who already know the building. Out of hours cover is available for leaks, loss of power, failed door entry and anything affecting safety or access.

Handyman and general maintenance

The small jobs that pile up in any commercial building: ceiling tiles, door closers, signage, shelving, fixtures, sealant, minor repairs and snagging lists. Our handymen work through them on a scheduled visit rather than as separate call-outs, so offices, shops and common parts stay presentable without a stream of individual orders to raise and approve.

Communal areas and blocks

Block maintenance across the parts residents see and complain about first: halls and stairwells, entrance and fire doors, communal lighting, floor coverings, bin stores, car parks and external grounds. Works are programmed to keep disruption and noise inside sensible hours in occupied buildings.

Plumbing, heating and drainage

Leak tracing and repair, tap and sanitaryware replacement, cold water services, communal heating faults, blocked stacks and gully and drainage clearance. Recurring drainage and leak problems are logged and fed back into the planned schedule rather than being attended repeatedly as separate jobs.

Electrical works and testing

Communal and in-unit electrical repairs, lighting replacement and upgrades, emergency lighting attendance, distribution board work and periodic inspection and testing with certificates issued for your compliance file.

Carpentry, joinery and locks

Door and frame repair and replacement, fire door adjustment and ironmongery, locks and access control, skirtings, kitchen units, windows and second fix joinery. Useful where a block has repeated forced-entry damage or door closers that keep failing and need a durable fix rather than another patch.

Painting, decorating and making good

Cyclical decoration of communal areas and external woodwork, plaster repair, patch and full redecoration, and making good after other trades so a repair does not leave a mark behind it. Cyclical programmes can be phased across a service charge year to spread cost.

Roofing, guttering and external fabric

Flat and pitched roof repair, tiling and slating, gutter and downpipe clearance, flashing, pointing, render and brickwork repair, and water ingress investigation. Most internal damp and leak complaints in older London blocks start on the outside, so external fabric is inspected on a cycle rather than only after a report.

Bricklaying and masonry

Brickwork repair and rebuilding, repointing, boundary and retaining walls, lintels, cracked and spalled masonry, and small construction works such as bin stores and plant enclosures. Our bricklayers match existing brick and mortar so a repair on a commercial frontage or older London building does not stand out from the rest of the elevation.

Voids and refurbishment

Turning empty units around to relet standard on a fixed scope: clearance, repairs, safety checks, decoration, flooring, kitchen and bathroom works, clean and handover. Void turnaround is measured in days lost, so scopes and target dates are agreed up front and reported against.

Compliance-related works

Remedial works arising from your inspections and risk assessments: fire door and compartmentation repairs, signage, emergency lighting, water hygiene remedials and access issues, with evidence returned in a format that closes the action out.

Recent work

Photographs from recent jobs, taken by our own operatives on site.

Completed timber garden building with French doors and two uPVC windows on a concrete base

CARPENTRY AND GROUNDWORK

Timber garden building, from delivery to handover

A tongue-and-groove timber building assembled on a prepared concrete base. Our carpenters set out and levelled the wall logs, framed the door and window openings, fitted the roof, and installed uPVC French doors and windows ready for use.

  • Concrete base and level setting out
  • Interlocking wall logs and framed openings
  • Roof, French doors and windows fitted
Timber wall logs, boards and window frames delivered and stacked beside the concrete base
01 - MATERIALS ON SITE
First courses of timber wall logs assembled with the door frame set in place
02 - WALLS GOING UP
Front elevation of the timber building with door and window openings framed
03 - OPENINGS FRAMED
Timber building walls at full height with floor joists laid inside
04 - SHELL AT FULL HEIGHT

PLUMBING AND BATHROOMS

Bathroom: shower over bath and fittings

An exposed thermostatic shower with rigid riser and fixed head, a curved bath screen, bath shower mixer and chrome accessories, fitted neatly into an existing tiled bathroom and left clean and ready to use.

Exposed thermostatic shower with fixed head and curved glass screen over a white bath Finished bathroom with shower bath, vanity basin, radiator and tiled floor
BW operative removing a worn floor spring and flush bolt from a commercial glazed shopfront door

LOCKS AND DOOR HARDWARE

Commercial shopfront door repair

A glazed aluminium entrance door that would no longer secure properly. We removed the worn bolt hardware, cleaned and freed the mechanism and refitted it so the door locked reliably again, with the premises kept open throughout.

Who we hold contracts for

Commercial property owners and occupiers

The problem: breakdowns cost trading time.

Offices, retail, hospitality and mixed-use buildings kept running on a planned schedule, with reactive work done around your opening hours and tenants, and every trade under one contract.

Housing associations and social landlords

The problem: evidence, conduct and KPIs.

DBS-checked operatives who behave properly in occupied homes, appointment discipline, and an audit trail for every job with performance measured against the agreed SLA.

Managing agents and portfolio landlords

The problem: unpredictable cost, complaints come back to you.

One accountable contractor and one point of contact across every building, attending inside agreed times and shifting spend out of emergencies into a schedule you can budget for.

Residents and tenants

The problem: you need a repair, not a quote.

If we maintain your building, report the repair directly and it goes straight to the team attending. You do not need to speak to anyone about contracts.

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How a contract starts

From first survey to steady state is normally a matter of weeks, not months.

  1. 01

    Site survey and asset review

    We walk each property with you, record the assets and their condition, and note the recurring faults your reactive history already shows.

  2. 02

    Agreed schedule, rates and SLA

    You get a planned cycle, a rate card for reactive work and written response bands. Nothing starts until the numbers and the times are signed off.

  3. 03

    One reporting channel set up

    A single route for your team, and for residents where you want it, feeding jobs to your named contract manager with reference numbers from the start.

  4. 04

    Planned works and reactive cover running

    The schedule runs to date and the reactive line absorbs what comes in between, with residents notified in advance of works affecting access.

  5. 05

    Monthly report and review

    One report, one invoice, and a standing review to adjust the schedule where the data says the building needs something different.

Send us the portfolio. We will survey it and price the cover.

One shop or a hundred sites - offices, retail, hospitality or mixed-use - anywhere in London.

BW operative in hard hat and hi-vis fixing netting to a building facade from scaffolding

Building maintenance across every London borough

Contracts run across the whole of London, every borough, north and south of the river. Multi-site portfolios are covered under one agreement regardless of which side of the city the buildings sit on.

CENTRAL LONDON

  • Westminster
  • City of London
  • Camden
  • Islington
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Southwark
  • Lambeth

NORTH LONDON

  • Barnet
  • Enfield
  • Haringey
  • Brent
  • Harrow
  • Waltham Forest

EAST LONDON

  • Hackney
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Newham
  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Redbridge
  • Havering

SOUTH LONDON

  • Wandsworth
  • Merton
  • Croydon
  • Bromley
  • Lewisham
  • Greenwich
  • Sutton
  • Kingston upon Thames

WEST LONDON

  • Hammersmith and Fulham
  • Ealing
  • Hounslow
  • Richmond upon Thames
  • Hillingdon

Contract questions, answered

Do you only work on contracts, or will you take one-off jobs?

Our work is built around ongoing maintenance contracts for organisations with a portfolio of properties. We do take standalone projects such as void refurbishments where they sit alongside a contract, but we are not set up for one-off domestic call-outs.

How quickly do you respond to a reactive repair?

Response times are written into your contract and agreed before we start, usually split into emergency, urgent and routine bands.

Who will be our point of contact?

Every contract has one named contract manager who owns your portfolio, plus a single reporting channel for jobs. You are not passed round a call centre and you do not chase individual trades.

Are your operatives DBS checked?

Yes. Operatives working in occupied homes and communal areas are DBS checked, carry identification and follow an agreed code of conduct on site.

What insurance and accreditations do you hold?

We are SafeContractor approved and a CHAS accredited verified supplier, and fully insured including public liability and employers liability cover. Certificates are supplied with any tender or contract pack.

How do you report on the work you have done?

You receive a monthly report covering completed planned works, reactive jobs by property, response performance against the agreed SLA and anything we recommend acting on. Work is invoiced on one consolidated invoice.

Can you cover multiple buildings across London?

Yes. Multi-site portfolios are the normal shape of our contracts. We cover the whole of London under a single agreement, with one schedule and one reporting line across all sites.

I am a resident with a repair. How do I report it?

Send us a WhatsApp message with the building address and a short description of the problem. It will be passed straight to the team that maintains your building.

Do you work with any partner companies?

Yes. We work alongside trusted London businesses including Biowise Services, DeskAgent and Monty Gordon, so the buildings we look after are supported beyond day-to-day maintenance.

Request a building maintenance quote

Send us a WhatsApp message with your building or portfolio and the cover you need. We will come back to arrange a site survey.

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Tenant or resident? Report a repair

Repairs in buildings we maintain: message us on WhatsApp with the building address and the problem.

WHATSAPP Chat on WhatsApp Send photos, addresses and what you need. We reply with next steps and a time for a site survey. EMAIL Email us info@bwbuildingmaintenance.co.uk. Send schedules, drawings or tender packs.