Commercial fit-out · Stockport

A £175K Cat B fit-out in a building that never closed

A public-facing service floor with ninety-plus staffed positions, refitted around the people using it, with the building open every working day.

Stockport service centre after the Cat B fit-out: the open-plan staffed floor. Photograph: Tatton Projects.

Contract value: circa £175,000
Sector: Commercial, Cat B
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester
Completed: 2025

The job

The floor could not shut. Ninety-plus staffed positions kept serving the public while the fit-out moved through the building in phases, so every day's work had to be agreed, recorded and signed off before the next one started.

That is the kind of job where paperwork decides the margin. Variations arrive daily, the client wants to see the programme move, and the final account is only as good as the record behind it.

Delivered by Tatton Projects (a Federation of Master Builders member, Constructionline Gold) for Confidential client. Contract value as published by Tatton Projects. See the full project and photographs on tatton-projects.co.uk → References for this job are available from Tatton Projects on request.

What a job like this needs from the software

Variations logged the day they happen

On a phased job in a live building, extras are agreed on the floor. Each one goes on the job record with a photo and a price, and lands on the next valuation.

Variation orders