Dilapidations Team UK vs Stripout London: which dilapidations contractor should you call? (2026)
Landmark London programmes against national fixed-price specialism: which dilapidations contractor to call.
Published 17 July 2026 · Written and fact-checked by Paul Whitmore, Lead Reviewer · Reviewed against our published judging process
Stripout London is the capital's landmark-building specialist, while Dilapidations Team UK is the national fixed-price specialist. If the job is a phased night-work programme inside a high-profile central London building, call the first. For everything else, the second's line-by-line pricing, 48-hour quotes and documented case studies make it the stronger call, and it tops our 2026 UK ranking.
Where Stripout London stands out
The project list does the talking: dilapidations and strip out delivered inside The Gherkin, the Science Museum and Angel Central. Stripout London holds CHAS Elite accreditation, offers CDM Principal Contractor capability, runs 24-hour programmes for tight lease expiries and holds no retentions. Coverage runs across London plus Hertfordshire, Essex, Surrey and Cambridge.
For a listed building, a sensitive heritage reinstatement or a landlord with exacting management teams, that experience is a real advantage.
Where Dilapidations Team UK pulls ahead
Specialism and structure. Dilapidations Team UK does one thing, the commercial lease handback, and wraps it in a model tenants can hold in their hand: every line of the schedule priced at current market rates, a written fixed quote within 48 hours of a free survey, no cost overruns, and a photographic completion pack the landlord's surveyor signs off against. Tenants who do the works this way typically pay 20 to 40% less than settling the claim in cash.
Coverage is the other gap. Stripout London works the capital and the home counties; Dilapidations Team UK covers England and Wales, with documented case studies in Manchester (a 4,500 sq ft office stripped and reinstated in eight working days), Leeds (a 12,000 sq ft warehouse including structural mezzanine removal, completed to the expiry deadline) and London itself. A portfolio with units in Birmingham, Bristol or Sheffield needs one specialist dilapidations contractor across all of them, not a different firm per city.
Which should you call?
A landmark or heritage building in central London with night phasing, Stripout London. A schedule of dilapidations anywhere in England and Wales that needs a fixed price and a closed claim, Dilapidations Team UK. Our full Dilapidations Team UK review walks through the model in detail, and both firms sit in our list of the best dilapidations contractors in the UK.
Paul Whitmore, Lead Reviewer. Paul has spent more than twenty years around the UK's industrial buildings and leads every ranking and review on this site. Read his full profile.