Commercial
Commercial joinery has to be programmed as well as made. There is usually a fitout guide, a works window, a building induction, a dock and a lift to book, and a make good obligation waiting at the end of the lease. We build commercial cabinetry, counters, storage and staff areas at our Huskisson workshop and install them in Canberra offices, consulting suites and shops. Because we are not around the corner, the drawings and the program carry more of the job than they would locally, which is what a fitout needs anyway.
Builder Managed
Commercial Grade
On-Time Delivery
Minimal Disruption
An office fitout usually means working to a timetable somebody else sets: an after hours install, a booked loading dock, and a lift with a weight limit and a door opening that decides how the joinery is broken up. We size the units to fit the lift rather than the stairwell, split them into sections two people can carry, and put the install into the window the building gives us instead of asking for a different one.
A retail or hospitality fitout has to look right from the customer side and work from the staff side, and those are rarely the same requirement. Counters, display cabinetry, back of house storage and service areas are drawn together so the finishes carry across the whole tenancy. Where a counter takes daily trolley or till traffic we detail the corners and the kick to survive it rather than to photograph well.
Cabinetry in a workplace is opened and knocked about far more than the same unit in a house, so we build it heavier and we say so in the quote rather than letting you find out later. Commercial grade board, edging that survives a trolley, and hardware rated for the number of times a door gets opened in a working day. Consulting rooms, staff kitchens, storerooms and workshop offices all get the same treatment.
Ashbrook is builder owned, so a commercial job gets programmed rather than guessed at. We take the site dimensions, the services, the ceiling grid and the access restrictions on one visit, issue shop drawings, and only then start manufacture. That matters more on a Canberra job than a local one, because a return trip to correct something is not a short one. It also means the install date we give you is one you can put in front of a landlord or a building manager without hedging it. If the tenancy has a defined works window, we quote to that window rather than discovering it later.
Our commercial joinery and reception desks pages cover the same work across the region.
Programmed around the access window the building gives us, not around ours.