Commercial building repairs across South Devon.
Shops, offices, holiday lets and small commercial premises — repairs and alterations planned around the fact that you still have to open in the morning.
Commercial building work has one constraint domestic work usually does not: downtime costs money every day. That changes how the job should be planned far more than it changes how it is built.
ADB SW carries out repair, strip-out, alteration and refurbishment work for small commercial premises across Torbay and South Devon. The scale that suits us is the independent shop, the office suite, the holiday let, the small unit — not a national framework contract.
Planning around trading, not against it
Before pricing, the first conversation is about when we can be there. Some work genuinely has to be done in a closed unit; a surprising amount can be phased, screened or done outside trading hours.
Where the premises must stay open, the site boundary matters as much as the work: hoarding or screening that looks deliberate rather than improvised, clear routes for customers and staff, dust control, and leaving the space presentable at the end of each day rather than at the end of the job.
- Phased or out-of-hours working where it protects trade
- Screened, signed and safe public separation
- Daily make-safe and clean-down
- One point of contact for the duration
Strip-outs and change of use
Taking a unit back to shell is often the cleanest start for a new occupier. Controlled strip-out means knowing what is structural, what is services and what is simply previous tenants' fit-out — and removing the third without damaging the first two.
We handle the demolition and strip-out side alongside the rebuild, which avoids the common gap where one contractor strips out, leaves, and the next arrives to find surprises nobody owns.
Fabric repairs on commercial buildings
The failures are the same as domestic, at a larger scale and usually with a longer history of patching: flat roofs at the end of their life, parapet and flashing failures, rainwater goods that were never accessible enough to clear, and shopfront joinery that has been repaired around rather than repaired.
Sea-front and near-coast commercial premises in Torbay take particularly hard weather exposure, and the maintenance cycle needs to reflect that rather than a generic schedule.
- Flat roof repair and re-covering
- Parapet, flashing and rainwater repairs
- Shopfront and external joinery works
- Internal alterations, partitions and making good
Landlords, agents and holiday lets
Turnaround windows on holiday lets are short and immovable. Work either fits the changeover window or it waits for the season to end — and the useful thing a contractor can do is be honest about which of the two applies before you book the dates.
For managing agents, the priority is usually a clear scope, a fixed access window and a straightforward report at the end. We keep that simple.
Common questions
Can you work outside normal hours?
Where the work and the premises allow it, yes. It is often the difference between a job that is disruptive and one that is barely noticed.
Do you take on strip-outs as well as rebuilds?
Yes. Controlled strip-out and demolition sits within our services, which avoids handover gaps between two different contractors.
What size of commercial job suits you?
Independent shops, offices, holiday lets and small units. We are an owner-led builder, and that is the scale where clients get the most from that.
Which areas do you cover?
Torbay — Paignton, Torquay and Brixham — plus Newton Abbot, Teignmouth, Dawlish and the wider South Hams and Teignbridge areas.
Tell us about the job and we’ll come back with a clear next step.
Serving Paignton, Torbay & South Devon. Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00.