About Dilapidations Cost
The separate money lines in a dilapidations matter, and fee proposals from dilapidations surveyors.
What is on this site
One question, "dilapidations", answered with a quote form that works on the page with no account, 5 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Dilapidations survey cost: what the surveyor's fee actually covers: Dilapidations survey cost: the fee to prepare or answer a schedule is a professional fee, separate from the claim. What it covers, what moves it, how to compare.
- Schedule of dilapidations: interim, terminal, and what it must contain: What a schedule of dilapidations is, the difference between interim and terminal schedules, the protocol's endorsement requirement, and how a tenant should respond.
- The dilapidations protocol: the timetable both sides are judged against: The pre-action protocol for terminal dilapidations claims: 56 days for the schedule and quantified demand, 56 days to respond, diminution valuation, ADR and stocktake.
- Section 18: the cap that turns a schedule total into a real number: Section 18(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 caps repairing damages at the diminution in the landlord's reversion, and bars them where premises are to be demolished.
- Office dilapidations: fit-out, reinstatement and the per square foot trap: Why office dilapidations turn on licences for alterations and reinstatement rather than repair, and why a cost per square foot benchmark will not support a provision.
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Contact for a question about the site, or enquiries@dilapidationscost.co.uk. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.
Dilapidations Cost is an independent site and free introduction service operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd; we pass your details to dilapidations surveyors who send you fee proposals directly. We may receive a fee from those surveyors; you pay nothing and are under no obligation. We are not a firm of surveyors or solicitors, we are not affiliated with or endorsed by RICS, the Ministry of Justice or any body named on this site, and nothing here is legal, valuation, tax or accounting advice. We separate surveyors' fees from claim values deliberately, and we do not publish cost per square foot figures, because section 18(1) makes recovery a question about your own landlord's reversion.