Furniture Estate Audit
Know what your office furniture estate is worth, what it is costing you and what your ESG report can claim. Coggin SOS audits every item on site, then does the work afterwards from its own Lancashire facility.
- In business since the 1960s and in office furniture since the 1980s
- Impact tracked since 2017, item by item
- Trusted by TalkTalk, Overbury and fit-out and FM partners across the UK
Free
half a day on site for estates of 200 items or more
Fixed
and part-credited if we do the work
Two
valuation and ESG from one dataset
We do the work
refurbish, resell, clear and recycle from one supplier
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What We Record for Every Asset
Photograph
Every item, tagged and numbered
Identity
Brand, model and location on your estate
Condition grade
A+, A or B, with a defined standard for each grade
Valuation
What the item is worth on the second-life market
Carbon figure
What retaining or rerouting it saves, with the methodology shown
Compliance status
Fire-safety and standards check on seating and upholstered items
Recommended route
Retain, refurbish, resell, donate or recycle
Every item on your estate gets a complete record. Seven data points per asset, captured once and kept current.
Five Steps, and the Fifth Is the Difference
A furniture estate audit is a site-by-site record of every item of office furniture an organisation owns. Each item is photographed, condition graded, valued and carbon assessed, and given a recommended route: retain, refurbish, resell, donate or recycle.
Most audits stop at a spreadsheet. Ours ends with the work done.
- 1
Free scoping visit
Half a day on site for estates of 200 items or more
- 2
Every item audited
Photographed, condition graded, valued and carbon assessed
- 3
Routes recommended
Retain, refurbish, resell, donate or recycle, item by item
- 4
A living asset register
In your client portal and kept current, not a PDF that goes stale
- 5
We do the work afterwards The difference
Refurbishment, resale, clearance and recycling from one supplier
One Dataset, Two Reports
The sustainability brief
Carbon savings mapped to Scope 3 categories, with the methodology and every assumption disclosed. Numbers that survive an assurance review.
The FM action plan
What happens to each item, phased logistics, storage needs, and the waste transfer and duty-of-care documentation for every route.
Every audit produces a single asset register and two summaries written for different readers. The full register lives in our client portal and stays live after the audit. You watch assets age, trigger refurbishment at the right moment, and keep your ESG numbers current.
What Happens After the Audit
Retain
Items worth keeping stay put, logged in your live register
Refurbish
Rebuilt at our Lancashire facility, with loan chairs provided while seating is away
Resell
We buy quality items from you, cash or credit against the work
Donate
Matched to UK charities with the paperwork to prove it
Recycle
Zero to landfill, with waste transfer notes and carbon documentation
Every recommended route is one we deliver ourselves. No brokers, no handoffs.
What One Estate-Wide Project Delivered
We recently entrusted our office chair and desk refurbishment project to Coggin Sustainable Office Solutions. The level of quality and professionalism they exhibited surpassed our expectations. The dedication and precision of their work truly speak volumes about their expertise. We're not only satisfied but are eagerly looking forward to potential future collaborations. A heartfelt thank you to the entire team for their service.
Sharon Luther
Sustainability Manager
Merseyside Police
£32,628
versus buying new
63,855kg
estimated CO2e avoided on this project
Zero
every item accounted for
A refurbishment project: the same per-item dataset the audit produces.
Why Audit Before You Act
Value
Most estates hold serious resale and reuse value that nobody has counted
Cost
Clearance bills shrink when resale value offsets them
Carbon
Reuse decisions become reportable Scope 3 savings instead of guesswork
Compliance
Disposal routes documented before the pressure of moving day
Timing
Findings feed your refit or relocation plan while there is still time to act
The worst time to value furniture is the week the building has to be empty.
Built for Moves, Refits and Lease Ends
Before a relocation
Know what moves, what sells and what goes
Before a refit
Your fit-out partner gets a furniture schedule on day one
At lease end
Dilapidations planning with the disposal paperwork handled
Ahead of ESG reporting
Current, defensible asset and carbon data
A Carbon Number You Can Defend
Plenty of reuse claims collapse under scrutiny. Ours are built to survive it. Our figures use WRAP and DEFRA methodology, mapped to Scope 3 Categories 1 and 5, and we disclose every assumption including displacement rates, the detail most claims quietly skip. Your sustainability team can put our numbers in front of an assurance reviewer with the workings attached.
Every figure is an estimated net saving against buying new, calculated from our own item-level records using WRAP and DEFRA emission factors.
A Fixed Fee, Part-Credited Against the Work
The scoping visit is free for estates of 200 items or more. The detailed audit is a fixed fee, quoted at scoping and based on estate size and number of sites. If you go ahead with any of the recommended work afterwards, we credit part of the audit fee against it. We confirm timing at the scoping visit. Audits run to a fixed schedule agreed around your teams, not an open-ended consultancy engagement. The audit pays for itself the moment it stops one skip being ordered too early.
Rated by the Organisations We Work With
The team at Coggin helped me with an office refurb this summer and the service was 10/10. No pressure was applied and Jess allowed me to plan and take my time. We went ahead with 10 desks and multiple storage units, also replacing my old furniture and recycling it. Install was extremely smooth with minimal disturbance to our sales floor. We will be using Coggin to refurb 2 other offices in 2026 and 2027.
Matthew Welch
Verified review · July 2026
We used Coggin for our recent office refit. They removed for recycling our old office kit and supplied c. 30 refurbished chairs, at a fraction of the cost of buying new. From start to finish, Jess was a delight to work with, being prompt with information, keeping us informed and being flexible when we changed our minds. Would recommend these chaps in a heartbeat.
John Lister
Verified review · July 2026
Thank you to Jess and all the team at Coggin for their hard work and dedication in providing us with more high quality refurbished chairs, and a full impact report for our ESG & sustainability reporting. I'd have no hesitation in recommending their services, every item we've received has been of very high quality with service to match.
Samantha Hamilton-Smith
Verified review · June 2026
Furniture Estate Audit FAQ
What is a furniture estate audit?
A furniture estate audit is a site-by-site record of every item of office furniture an organisation owns. Each item is photographed, condition graded, valued and carbon assessed, then given a recommended route: retain, refurbish, resell, donate or recycle. The output is an asset register you can act on before a move, refit or lease end.
What is a furniture asset register?
A furniture asset register is a live list of every furniture item an organisation owns, with a photo, location, condition grade, current value and carbon figure against each one. Coggin SOS keeps yours in its client portal after the audit, so the register stays current as items move, get refurbished or leave.
What does a furniture audit include?
A free scoping visit, then a full on-site audit where every item is photographed, tagged, graded and valued. You receive an asset register with a recommended route for each item and a carbon and cost report built from the same data. Coggin SOS then delivers the refurbishment, resale, donation or recycling the audit recommends.
How much does a furniture estate audit cost?
The scoping visit is free. The audit itself is a fixed fee, quoted after scoping once we know how many items and sites are involved. Part of the fee is credited back against any refurbishment, resale or recycling work Coggin SOS then carries out, so the audit costs least when it leads to the work.
Is the scoping visit really free?
Yes. The free scoping visit is for estates of 200 or more items, or for any estate spread across more than one site. We walk the space, count the broad categories and confirm whether a full audit is worth doing. If it is not, we say so and you have lost nothing.
Can we use the carbon figures in our ESG reporting?
Yes. Each figure is an estimated net saving against buying new, calculated from item-level records using WRAP and DEFRA emission factors and mapped to Scope 3 Categories 1 and 5. We disclose every assumption, including displacement rates, so your assurance reviewer can check the workings.
Do you deliver the work the audit recommends?
Yes. Coggin SOS refurbishes, resells, donates and recycles office furniture from its own facility in Lancashire, so the audit and the work afterwards come from one supplier. Items you retain stay in your live register. Items that leave are tracked through to their end route, with certificates and waste transfer notes issued.
Does the audit disrupt our staff?
Rarely. Auditors work desk by desk with a camera and a tag gun, and a typical floor takes hours rather than days. Nothing is moved, unplugged or cleared during the audit. Refurbishment or clearance work that follows is scheduled separately around your teams.
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