Working while you’re closed
How out-of-hours works
Your floors are our night shift.
Every service we offer is delivered when your building is empty — overnight, at weekends or during closures. This page explains exactly how that works: scheduling, access, security and sign-off.
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- Out-of-hours delivery
- Minimal disruption to your business
- We work while you’re closed
- Cornwall & Devon coverage
Why it matters
Disruption is the real cost of floor care.
A quote is a number; disruption is the hidden invoice behind it — lost trade, displaced staff, cordoned corridors, complaints. Removing disruption from the equation is worth more than any discount, and it’s the entire reason Zest works the hours it does.
Overnight
The standard model: work begins after your last person leaves and signs off before your first person arrives. Ideal for offices, retail and hospitality.
Weekends
For work that needs a longer window — larger floor plates, longer cure times — delivered between Friday close and Monday open.
Closure periods
School holidays, seasonal shutdowns, refurbishment windows: the big restorations, programmed well in advance to use every day of the closure.
We work while you’re closed
A typical night, hour by hour.
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17:30
Your business closes
Staff and customers head home. Your premises are handed over under agreed access protocols.
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18:00
Zest arrives
Our technicians arrive on site with everything needed — no deliveries, no daytime setup.
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Overnight
Professional restoration
The full restoration is completed while the building is empty. No noise complaints, no closed-off areas.
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05:30
Final inspection
Every area is checked, dried and signed off against the agreed specification.
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08:00
You open on restored floors
Doors open on time, to a floor that looks new. Your team simply arrives to the result.
Trust, earned properly
Handing over your building shouldn’t feel like a risk.
The honest objection to out-of-hours work isn’t the floor — it’s the keys. Here’s how we make an empty building the safest place we work.
Agreed access protocols
Keyholding, alarm procedures and lock-up responsibilities are documented before the first visit — and followed to the letter on every one.
Vetted, uniformed technicians
You know who is in your building, when, and why. Our technicians arrive in Zest uniform, work to the agreed method, and leave the site secure.
Documented sign-off
Every visit ends with a completed checklist: areas restored, floors dry, building secured. You get the record without having to be there.
Your hours, not ours
Night work isn’t a surcharge-laden exception for us — it’s the operating model. Scheduling around your business is the default, not a favour.
Questions, answered
What managers ask before the first night.
If your question isn’t covered, ask it at the survey — free, on site, without obligation.
Does out-of-hours work cost more?
No — it’s how we operate, not a premium add-on. Our quotations are fixed and itemised, and out-of-hours delivery is the standard they’re built on.
How does building access work?
However suits your security arrangements: a keyholder on site, key or fob handover under signed protocol, or coordination with your existing security provider. The arrangement is documented before any work begins.
What if something goes wrong at 2am?
You have a named contact with an out-of-hours number, and agreed escalation procedures for building issues. In practice the most common 2am event is the work finishing early.
Can you really finish before we open?
Yes — because programmes are sized to the window. If a floor genuinely needs more time than one night, we phase it across several, and every area we touch is back in service by morning.
Who is responsible for security while you work?
Responsibilities are split explicitly in the access protocol: what we secure, what your keyholder or security provider covers, and how handover is confirmed. Nothing is assumed.
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Ready to give your floors a night shift?
Tell us about your premises and we’ll arrange a free, no-obligation site survey — at a time that suits your operation.
- Free quotation — no obligation
- Flexible scheduling around your hours
- Evening, night and weekend work
- Cornwall & Devon coverage
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