About us
The Business Behind the Buying
OfficeMatrix works with facilities and workplace teams across London to assess and recover value from surplus office chairs and furniture. We handle the whole process — valuation, collection, refurbishment and resale — so surplus stock leaves the building cleanly and comes back to you as value rather than a cost.
What we do
We buy surplus office chairs and furniture from London businesses. Our focus is premium task seating, where the residual value is highest, but we also buy desks, storage and meeting furniture where the specification is right. Everything runs under one roof: we value the stock, collect it, refurbish it in our own workshop and resell it.
We deal plainly. If a batch has real resale value we tell you what it is worth and pay for it. If it does not, we say so rather than talking the figure up and revising it later. Facilities managers need a straight answer they can take to a budget holder, not an optimistic estimate that changes on collection day.
How we work with facilities teams
The service is built around the realities of managed buildings rather than around our own diary. Evening, overnight and weekend slots are normal for central London work, and we plan around loading bay bookings, goods lift permits and landlord conditions. RAMS, insurance certificates and operative details are supplied in advance so building management can sign the works off before we arrive.
Afterwards you get a collection note itemising exactly what left the building, which is usually what finance needs for write-off records, and a reuse and recycling summary where you need it for reporting. Throughout, you deal with one point of contact rather than being passed between a valuer, a haulier and a clearance crew.
Where the furniture goes
Everything we buy comes back to our workshop, where chairs are cleaned, tested and repaired. Mechanisms are checked, worn components are replaced and each item is graded before it goes back on the market. That work is what makes buying rather than clearing viable in the first place.
The refurbished stock is resold to smaller businesses, charities and start-ups who could never justify the cost of the same furniture new. It keeps the embodied carbon in those items working instead of being written off, and it keeps sound furniture out of landfill.
Why it matters
Surplus office furniture is still an asset. It has residual value on the day it becomes surplus, and disposal is not the only option available — it is simply the default, because paying a contractor to remove things is the path of least resistance when a move is already underway.
The circular argument here is a practical one rather than a moral one. Reusing good furniture keeps value in the business that owned it, puts quality stock within reach of organisations that could not otherwise afford it, and avoids the waste of scrapping items with years of service left. That is the whole model, and it works because the furniture is worth something.
Our team
The people who handle your collection
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Tell us what you're clearing and we'll tell you what it's worth — plainly, and usually within one working day.