Office flooring replacement is the staged uplift and reinstallation of carpet tile, LVT or resilient flooring in an occupied workplace, typically after-hours or on weekends. Premrest Flooring delivers office flooring replacement across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane using a rolling furniture-lift methodology so tenants trade Monday to Friday and the floor changes overnight.
Built for programs, not one-offs
- Corporate property teams refreshing existing tenancies
- Building owners performing base-build refurbishments while tenanted
- Facilities managers on multi-level workplaces
- Tenant reps coordinating make-good and defit works
- Head contractors on occupied refurbishments
Our process
Site walk & staging
We walk the floor with the property team, map access, lift and dock windows, tenant constraints and back-of-house circulation.
Furniture lift plan
Rolling furniture-lift methodology in bays so tenants find their workstation where they left it on Monday morning.
After-hours install
Uplift, prep, install and protection run out-of-hours or on weekends. IT and cabling are left in place where the floor permits it.
Make-good & defit
Full or partial defit works, patch-and-match repair, and clean handover to the make-good specification.
Staged after-hours replacement, floor by floor
We break the tenancy into workable bays and replace flooring bay by bay in evenings and on weekends. Furniture is lifted in sections, the floor is uplifted, substrate prepared or spot-repaired, and new tile or LVT laid. By Monday morning the workstations sit where they were on Friday afternoon, and the tenant trades through the change with minimal disruption.
Rolling furniture-lift methodology
For working workplaces we run a rolling furniture-lift crew separate from the flooring crew. The lift crew moves workstations, chairs, pedestals and screens into a temporary holding bay, protects IT and cabling, and reinstates the furniture set-out to the same layout when the flooring crew finishes. On a typical 1,500 square metre floor plate the whole cycle runs across two nights.
Make-good and defit works
When a tenant vacates we deliver flooring make-good to the lease specification, from tile-by-tile patch repair through to full floor replacement. Defit works include uplift of existing flooring, base-build reinstatement, moisture and slab prep, and clean handover ready for the next tenant.
How this fits your program
We commit to floor-by-floor dates, run daily reports through the works, and hand back a clean floor with waste diversion data. On multi-level programs we sequence adjacent floors so trades never queue at the lifts, and after-hours access is booked once with building management rather than repeatedly.
Where this service lands
Common questions
How long does replacing the flooring on a typical office floor plate take?
For a 1,000 to 1,500 square metre floor plate with a rolling furniture-lift methodology, a full replacement is usually complete across one weekend, occasionally two. Multi-level buildings are scheduled floor by floor to match the program.
Can our staff keep working during the flooring replacement?
Yes. Most office flooring replacement is staged after-hours and on weekends around trading. Staff arrive Monday morning to a new floor with their workstation where they left it on Friday.
Do you handle furniture removal and reinstatement?
Yes. A rolling furniture-lift crew works alongside the flooring crew, lifting workstations, chairs, pedestals and screens, protecting IT and cabling, and reinstating the set-out to the original layout.
What about IT and cabling under the floor?
Where the specification allows, we lift tiles around cabling and leave IT in place. For access floor systems, we coordinate with the base-build tenant contractor to lift and reinstate panels in sequence.
Available across our three cities
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