Clearing a Bay Area office. Get the value out first.

It is priced by volume, labor, and building access rather than a flat rate per square foot. Downtown San Francisco and San Jose towers with restricted freight windows and after-hours requirements sit at the high end. East Bay and Peninsula buildings are usually cheaper because access is easier. The number that matters is the net cost after resale recovery, which on a furniture-dense floor can offset a large share of the removal.

Ninety days before your lease end is comfortable, sixty is workable, and thirty means you are buying speed. Under thirty days you lose most of the resale window, because buyers need time to inspect, commit, and schedule a pickup. That lost window is usually the single most expensive thing about a late decommission.

It gets sorted into donation first, then recycling, and disposal is the last stop rather than the default. Storage and filing in particular are usually better donated than disposed of, because they are heavy, low value on resale, and expensive to tip. Every diverted pound gets weighed and documented so the numbers hold up in an ESG or grant report.

Yes. Certificates of insurance, freight elevator reservations, floor and elevator protection, after-hours scheduling, and the written waste plan most Bay Area property managers require. In downtown towers the freight elevator is usually the real constraint on the schedule, so it gets booked before the crew does.

Diverted weight, items rehomed, donation receipts, and CO2e avoided, packaged per project. On one 147,000 square foot enterprise decommission that came to 952 pieces rehomed and 588 metric tons of CO2e avoided, at a 183 percent ROI against the disposal-only alternative.

Yes, if it is commercial grade and in serviceable condition. Task seating from the last seven years, height-adjustable bases, benching, matched systems furniture, and recent conference and lounge pieces all have real secondary value. RESEAT buys and brokers this inventory across the Bay Area. Unbranded budget furniture and anything broken or incomplete generally does not clear the cost of moving it.

It depends on brand, age, condition, quantity, and how well it matches. Matched volume lots in a consistent finish are worth considerably more than the same count in mixed models, because a buyer can take the whole thing. The fastest way to a real number is to send an inventory through the decommission intake: manufacturer, model, finish, quantity, and condition by zone.

A-grade task seating and height-adjustable bases can move in days. Bulk systems furniture typically needs two to four weeks of buyer coordination, because large lots usually get split across several buyers. That timing is why a decommission should start ninety days before the lease ends rather than thirty.

Yes. Partial clear-outs are common in the Bay Area right now, and a downsize is often a better lot than a full closure because you keep the worn pieces and release the good ones. We can also handle the reconfiguration of what stays in the same project.