Manchester is the largest fit out market outside London, and office packages there have brought RWS back on repeat projects, which is what the review from a Manchester contractor on this site is about. Partitions, SFS, wall linings, ceilings, fire stopping and plastering in Manchester for main contractors and fit-out companies.
Manchester is a large fit out market, where the packages are bigger, the programmes are tighter and the site is usually a city centre building with restricted deliveries and no room to store board. In practice most of what we are asked for in Manchester is office fit outs, with the rest of the package available alongside it.
All metal stud, Metsec SFS, set out and boarded square.
Independent linings, sound-rated and fire-rated walls, built to the tested spec.
Metal frame, suspended grid and tile, acoustic and fire-rated ceilings.
Fire stopping and fire-rated installations, certificated and signed off.
Tape and joint, skim, render and high-spec internal finishes.
Strip-out, light demolition and area prep ahead of fit-out.
Across Manchester (M1) it is mostly office fit outs, city centre leisure and retail, high rise residential, with partitions, SFS, wall linings, ceilings, fire stopping and plastering all covered by the same company. Manchester is a large fit out market, where the packages are bigger, the programmes are tighter and the site is usually a city centre building with restricted deliveries and no room to store board. Every package is priced off the drawings and the programme, free of charge.
No. Manchester is around 37 miles out, which is a normal run for us. Travel is priced into the package rather than added on top, and on a multi week scheme the team is on site for the duration.
Manchester is the largest fit out market outside London, and office packages there have brought RWS back on repeat projects, which is what the review from a Manchester contractor on this site is about. If your scheme is near Deansgate, send the drawings across and we will tell you what the building type usually means for the drylining package before anyone prices it.
Yes, and in Manchester it is mostly about logistics. City centre sites have booked delivery slots, no storage and a lift or a stair for the board, so the package is sequenced floor by floor with the material called off to match, rather than delivered in one drop that blocks the site.
Yes. The passive fire work is carried out by RWS Contracts Ltd, the group's IFC certificated fire division, which shares the same office and management team. On schemes in Manchester the rated walls, the ceilings and the fire stopping through them can be let as one package with one point of responsibility.
Manchester is about 37 miles from the Rotherham yard, so a site visit is normally arranged within a week or two. Starting the works depends on the current contracts, and we would rather give you a real date against your programme than an optimistic one.
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