Fixout is the stage where a building stops being a structure and starts being a room. Doors, jambs, skirting, architraves, linings, shelving, bulkheads, and every trim that covers a junction. It is also the stage where the programme is tightest and where a delay costs a builder the most.

We take on full fixouts for apartments, houses and commercial fitouts, and we work to the builder's programme rather than our own. That means measuring while the walls are still being set out, ordering early, and arriving with material already machined.

The thing that actually keeps a fixout on time is ordering before the site is ready. Lead times on doors, custom profiles and hardware are the long pole on almost every job, so we take the setout off the drawings and confirm it on site, rather than waiting for one to follow the other.

Custom architectural work is the rest of it: bulkheads, feature linings, integrated shelving, seating, reveal linings around windows, and the one off that the drawings show but nobody priced. If it is timber and it has to be right, it usually lands with us.

Site conditions are never the drawing. Walls are out, floors fall away, and openings are rarely the size on the plan. Scribing, packing and adjusting on site is the job, and a trade that will not do it hands the builder a punch list instead.

We work clean and we work around other trades. Offcuts leave with us, the area is swept, and anything that has to survive until the painter arrives gets protected.

For builders and project managers the useful thing is usually a fixed price against a drawing set, plus a start date we will hold. If a date is not achievable we will say so rather than take the job and let it slip.

Send the drawings or a schedule and we will quote from them. If a job is already running and the fixout has fallen over, call us and we will tell you what we can pick up and when.