Shop Fitting Skills - What Makes a Good Shopfitter?

If you are planning to start a new business or refurbishing your old store, you would definitely need a shop fitter. With the immense amount of competition in the market, it is important that you choose one of the best suitable London Shopfitters for your business and for that it will be helpful to know the general skills you should look for in a shopfitter. 

Project management is the largest aspect of shop fitting which comprises of three main components - deliverables, time scale and the budget. 

The whole process of shop fitting will be a combination of these aspects:

1.     Design

CAD designing allows you to visualise the layout of your store with your shop fitter. Planning and designing of the layout well in advance helps in preventing alterations later, which saves time and money?

2.     Joinery

All reputed and reliable shop fitters come with a set of skilled joiners as a part of their team. These are meant for manufacturing tailor made and customised furniture, display units or to fit equipment in a shop like Glass Door Chiller etc.

3.     Metal work

This is similar to joinery, but only in metal. For example, to create a special staircase within the shop.

4.     Electricals and plumbing

This is one area that the shop fitters usually outsource to a third party. Only a shop fitting company that is very large in operations would have in house plumbers and electricians.

5.     Signage

It is extremely important that the shopfitter is capable enough to produce high quality signage for your shop front. The signage should be so designed that it draws the attention of passing customers.

6.     Security

The nature of your operations will determine the amount of resources you would require to dedicate to the aspect of security. A more secure upfront is required for a jewellery shop as compared to a shop that sells vegetables.

These are the primary key areas and skills which are to be looked for in a shopfitter company. As you go further into more specialised stores, the skill requirements increase accordingly.