Shop Fit-Out and Refurbishment in Swansea
Daffodil Property Refurbishment helps Swansea shops, cafés and restaurants get a unit ready for customers, whether it is new or already trading.
The work includes:
- Carpentry: first-fix and finishing carpentry, plus bespoke timber shelving and storage
- Shop fittings: your supplied counters and displays, fitted
- Floors and walls: preparation and flooring
- Painting and wallpapering: with practical colour and finish advice
Call 01792 223 223 to discuss your shop and arrange your free visit.
All trades coordinated
Shop Refurbishment Services
Looking for shop fitters in Swansea? Get your shop ready for customers with the carpentry, decorating, electrics and plumbing coordinated by one team.
Fit Out Your New Shop
Turn a bare or half-finished unit into a shop that is ready to open, with the counter, displays and storage you need.
For an independent shop on a street such as Newton Road in Mumbles, the team can fit display walls that show your stock well, with counters and storage suited to your space.
- Counter and displays: a place to pay, and shelving that shows your products
- Storage: replacement stock kept close to the shop floor
- Preparation: walls and floors made ready before anything is decorated
- Finishes: painting and wallpaper that match the new fittings
Refurbish Your Existing Shop
Refresh a shop that is trading, relaunching or rebranding, without starting from scratch.
- Keep what works: fittings that still do the job stay in place
- Adapt shelving and storage: reworked for the stock you carry now
- Update finishes: worn walls, woodwork and floors brought up to date
- Plan around trading: the team plans the work with you, including which areas you need first and whether a staged reopening suits your shop
Coordinate Your Trades
One contact brings together your carpenter, decorator, electrician and plumber, so you can focus on your business.
- Hidden work first: cable routes and connection points are prepared before walls are closed
- Trades in the right order: carpentry and decorating are planned together to avoid unnecessary rework
- Changes talked through: you hear about any change before it affects another trade’s work
- One contact: someone to speak to about the whole job, rather than chasing each trade separately
First fix to final finish
Three Stages to Get Your Shop Ready for Business
From preparing the unit to fitting your displays and decorating, the team brings each part together to get your shop ready for customers.
1. Prepare Your Shop
Get your walls, floors and partitions ready for the shop you want to open:
- First-fix carpentry: timber framing and the supports behind the wall where shelving, panelling and counters will later be fixed.
- Partition walls: dividing the unit into a sales floor, a stockroom and a staff area.
- Wall preparation: removing loose or unsuitable material, filling holes and damaged areas, and sanding repairs smooth.
- Making good: putting affected surfaces back into a suitable condition after alterations, for example around a moved socket, so paint or wallpaper goes onto a smooth base.
- Floor preparation and flooring: preparing the floor, then fitting flooring suited to the foot traffic, stock trolleys and cleaning the shop will see.
The team agrees socket, lighting, till and plumbing positions with you before walls are closed or finishes go on. Electricians and plumbers carry out their own first-fix work, and the team coordinates their work around your counter and display positions.
2. Fit the Shop Details
Bring your shop together with second-fix carpentry: the visible fittings, shelving and woodwork that customers see and staff use every day.
- Supplied counters and displays: fitted level and secure in the planned position, with fixings suited to the wall behind them and any power needed nearby.
- Bespoke timber shelving and storage: display walls with shelves at heights that suit the products you sell, and storage for replacement stock kept close to where it is needed.
- Panelling and timber counter units: wall panelling behind a counter or display, and suitable wooden counter units for a till point or wrapping area.
- Doors, handles and trims: doors hung and adjusted, handles fitted, and skirting and architraves (the trim around a doorway) that give doorways and wall edges a neat finish. Pipework is boxed in neatly, with access kept where it is needed.
Electricians and plumbers have their own second fix, when sockets, lights and taps go on, so it is arranged around the carpentry. Lighting and power for displays are considered at the same time as the fitting, so cables are not added afterwards. Neat edges where each fitting meets the wall and floor leave a tidy surface for decorating.
3. Decorate and Finish
The team gives your shop its finished, customer-facing look, with practical colour and finish advice:
- Preparation and making good: repairs sanded smooth and the surfaces around new shelves, panels and sockets made good before the final coats.
- Painting and wallpaper: cleanable, hard-wearing finishes where hands, bags and trolleys meet the walls, around the counter, the entrance and the door frames. A different sheen or a feature wallpaper suits a wall that is there to be looked at, such as behind a display or seating area.
- Woodwork: shelving, panelling, doors and trims finished to stand up to daily knocks, and picked out to tie in with the walls and fittings.
- Colour and finish advice: practical advice in the actual space, with written ideas available.
Sometimes the decorator prepares a wall before panels go up. Sometimes the carpenter fits first and the decorator finishes around the new work. Final touch-ups follow once the fittings are in, then the agreed work is checked with you.
Ready to Fit Out Your Shop?
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Shop refurbishment case study
Wimozee Technology, Morriston
The team refurbished a shop unit for Wimozee Technology on Woodfield Street, Morriston, with three trades run back to back on one project:
- Electrics: 3 days
- Carpentry: 7 days
- Decorating: 5 days
The project took about three weeks overall. The carpentry was purpose-built racking and display work for the shop, and the decorating covered the shopfront and the interior.
See the full Wimozee project in Morriston.
Want your own shop fitted out with the trades coordinated like this? Get a free quote for your shop.
Shopfront preparation and decorating, with masking protecting the glazing.
Timber backing and display panels during the shop fitting work.
Display fittings inside the Wimozee Technology shop during refurbishment.
The completed black and green shopfront, open for customers in Morriston.
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Before you sign the lease
Planning Your New Shop
Once the landlord or agent has agreed access, the team can visit a unit before you sign the lease. Seeing the space first means you know what work it needs, and what that might involve, before you commit to it.
The visit looks at:
- Existing condition: the walls, floor and any fittings left behind, and which of them are usable
- What the shop needs to do: the counter, displays and storage you have in mind
- Budget and finish priorities: what matters most to you, and where simpler choices fit the budget
- Access and deliveries: how stock reaches the shop and where it is stored
- Target opening: the date you are working towards
You get a clear list of the work needed. The team also agrees who will approve the quote and any changes, whether that is you, a co-owner or the landlord.
View the Unit Before You Commit
Arrange a visit once access is agreed.
Shops, cafés and restaurants
Refurbishment for Your Business
Refurbishment for shops, cafés and restaurants, from the service counter to the customer area.
Shops
The team prepares the shop floor with display space, a checkout point and storage, so products are easy to see and stock has somewhere to go.
- Entrance and window display: a welcoming front that draws people in.
- Display walls and shelving: timber fittings that present your products.
- Counter: a checkout position with power where the till needs it.
- Stock storage: space to keep replacement stock close to the shop floor.
- One finish: walls, woodwork and fittings decorated to match, for a consistent look from the entrance to the counter.
The Morriston project above shows display and racking carpentry carried through to decoration. A beauty or wellness shop can have a calm customer area, display shelving for retail products and a water point where one is needed.
Cafés
The team refurbishes the service counter, seating area and finishes customers see, and prepares the connections your equipment needs.
- Service counter: customers order, see the display and pay on one side. The staff side has room for the preparation surface, under-counter fridges and coffee machine.
- Equipment connections: sockets, water and drainage, positioned from each piece of equipment’s own information and agreed with the specialists appointed for it.
- Seating area: wall and woodwork finishes that look good and last, such as a cleanable finish on the counter wall, a feature wallpaper behind the seating or woodwork in a darker accent colour.
For a café in an area such as Uplands, the visit is a chance to talk through the counter, seating and finishes together.
Restaurants
Give your restaurant a welcoming entrance, seating area and bar, with fittings and finishes that stand up to daily use.
- Front of house: the entrance, reception, seating and any bar, with timber counter units for a reception desk or bar where they suit, and walls and woodwork finished to match.
- Back of house: staff and storage areas, plus surfaces in food preparation areas that suit regular cleaning, a different choice from a dining-room feature wall.
- Specialist teams: kitchen, extraction, ventilation and catering teams are appointed separately. The project manager plans access and the order of work with them, so the fittings, finishes and equipment installation work together.
Keep, adapt or replace
Refresh Your Existing Fittings
Shelving, counters, storage, doors and panelling often have life left in them. The team helps you make the most of them, with repairs, alterations and new timber fittings where needed.
- Keep: sound fittings are cleaned, repaired and re-finished. This takes preparation and decorating time but no new construction.
- Adapt: a counter moved, shelves re-spaced for different stock or a unit extended in new timber, so the layout matches how the shop works now.
- Replace: worn or unsuitable fittings come out and bespoke timber ones are made and fitted. This adds making and fitting, plus making good to the wall and floor behind.
For an established shop or café in Gorseinon, you might keep the counter, adapt the shelving and replace a tired door. Decorating then ties the old and new fittings together.
For offices, mixed-use premises or landlord handovers, see our commercial property refurbishment service.
Areas We Cover
Daffodil Property Refurbishment covers shop fit-out and refurbishment across Swansea, from the city centre and SA1 Waterfront to Fforest Fach and Swansea Enterprise Park, and in the surrounding areas below.
- Central Swansea: Uplands, Brynmill, Sketty, Cockett, Cwmbwrla, Manselton
- North and east Swansea: Landore, Plasmarl, Treboeth, Morriston, Llansamlet, Birchgrove, Clydach, Penderry
- Mumbles: Mumbles, West Cross, Oystermouth, Newton, Langland
- Gower and west Swansea: Bishopston, Pennard, Killay, Dunvant
- North-west Swansea: Fforest Fach, Waunarlwydd, Gowerton, Kingsbridge, Gorseinon, Loughor, Penllergaer, Pontarddulais
- Nearby towns: Neath, Port Talbot, Pontardawe, Llanelli
From call to final check
How It Works
Here is how to get started and what happens next.
1
Get in touch
Call 01792 223 223 or use the contact form. Tell us about your premises and what you have in mind. You can add project details now or talk them through later.
2
Discuss your shop and arrange a visit
Meet the team at your premises to discuss the work, access, priorities and timing. With access arranged, this can happen before you sign the lease.
3
Agree your quote
Receive a free written quote covering the work, materials, access arrangements and start date. Review and agree the scope before work begins.
4
Get the work underway
The team coordinates the trades and keeps you involved. Any changes are agreed with you before the affected work goes ahead.
5
Final check
The agreed work is checked with you and any final touch-ups are completed.
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