From Empty Warehouse to Staff Welfare Facility

Our client asked us to provide a quotation and work schedule for converting a large empty warehouse into an employee welfare facility at their clients head office. The current welfare facilities for employees were spread across numerous areas on their site.

Using an empty warehouse, an additional staff welfare facility was created. The completed facilities consisted of new toilets, new disabled toilets, urinals, kitchen area and shower and hand wash area. We completed all the first and second fix commercial plumbing within the new space.

The Commercial Plumbing Project

Most projects start with a set of drawings and specifications which we will review. We then have an initial site visit with our client in order to discuss the practicality of the design.

Following this, we will go through our quotation process which involves:

• Obtaining costs for the specified sanitaryware and other materials.
• Working out if the material choices are suitable and discussing this with our client.

Once a project has been confirmed, we then prepare our health and safety risk assessment and method statement and plan our programme of works.

For this project, it was a complete empty shell, so we attended and carried out our first fix plumbing which consists of:

• Hot and cold services
• Running pipework from the original mains position
• Running new above ground waste services

Once the individual areas and structural walls had been created by our client, we then carry out our second fix plumbing which included the installation of the following items:

• New toilet installation
• New bespoke stainless steel urinal trough
• New shower area
• Under counter water heaters
• Kitchen facilities
• Testing all installations
• Chlorination is carried out with certification issued

Our project manager then attends and checks over everything before the final handover.

How this project benefited the client

For our immediate client, we are their go to experts. We help them with:

• Plumbing and heating advice
• Specification of sanitaryware and heating products
• Quoting
• Supply and Plumbing and Heating engineer labour
• Project Management
• Any ongoing project aftercare

This project was completed ahead of schedule. They were able to handover a project to their client with complete confidence.

Their client is a lab-based industry and therefore they need to wash down at the end of their shift.

Before, the new welfare facility this client had to ‘de-suit’ in their staff car park before being able to wash. Now, they have a better working environment where they can de-suit in their location which saves time and is safer.

How Lacey Plumbing & Heating can benefit your business

Lacey Plumbing and Heating can provide quotations, design and advice for the M&E aspects of your projects. We manage our Plumbing and Heating Engineers for the installation work and any aftercare required following project completion.

We have been carrying out refurbishment services in public houses, offices, supermarkets, leisure facilities and schools around Greater Manchester and the North West for over 17 years and are able to price work from drawings, project manage projects and provide qualified tradesmen for the work.

How can you get a quotation for your project?

If you need a quotation for commercial plumbing and heating, please email your drawings and schedule to our email office@laceyplumbing.co.uk. One of our team will be in touch.