Role guide · Shopfitting
Shopfitting is carpentry, electrics and finishing performed overnight in someone's trading shop — with the stock still on the shelves next door and the store opening at nine regardless. The kit is the multi-trade van list tuned for dust discipline, night work and shopping-centre rulebooks.
The job
The base list is first-fix familiar: holster trousers (fixings all night), knee inserts for floor-level shopfront and plinth work, cut-rated gloves for board, laminate and metal trim, S1P footwear (S3 on structural phases), and eye protection that actually goes on for overhead drilling into concrete soffits. The carpenter's van list is the cousin; shopfitting adds trades per project.
What makes it shopfitting: dust discipline beside trading stock — extraction-equipped tools, FFP2/FFP3 per material (MDF routing earns the 3), and sheeting-off that protects thousands of pounds of product from a night's cutting; night-shift realities — hi-vis for the loading dock and service corridors, layers for buildings whose heating sleeps when the store does, and the fatigue-hour discipline that keeps blades and fingers apart at 4am; and the rulebooks — shopping centres and retail chains run contractor inductions like construction sites (banksman rules on the service yard, permit systems for hot work), so the crew's kit is checked at a security desk, not a site gate. Presentability rides along: crews walk trading floors before close and after open, and branded kit that looks professional keeps centre management friendly — the build-day/show-day logic compressed into one shift.
The list
| Item | The spec | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Holster trousers + knee inserts | Stretch, EN 14404 pockets | Fixings and floor work all night |
| RPE | FFP2/FFP3 by material — MDF earns the 3 | Cutting beside covered trading stock |
| Gloves | Cut B–C, dexterity-first | Laminate edges and metal trims |
| Hi-vis & layers | For docks, corridors and sleeping HVAC | Night buildings run cold |
| Branded presentable layer | Embroidered polos/softshells | Security desks and trading floors judge it |
Questions
The multi-trade list: holster trousers with knee-pad inserts, cut-rated gloves, S1P footwear, eye protection and FFP2/FFP3 respiratory protection by material — plus hi-vis for service yards, warm layers for overnight buildings and embroidered presentable kit, since crews cross trading floors and answer to centre security.
Because the shop trades by day — refits happen between close and open, with hard 6am-9am handover deadlines. The kit consequences are real: layers for unheated overnight buildings, lighting-and-fatigue discipline around blades, and dust control tight enough that stock and fittings survive the night's cutting.
Yes — centres run contractor inductions, permit systems and service-yard rules much like construction sites: hi-vis and safety footwear in service areas, banksman requirements at docks, hot-work permits and often escorted access. The centre's contractor handbook is the governing document.
Everything in this guide is stocked, embroiderable and priced for teams — send the headcount.