Industries
Retail Store and Showroom Cleaning
Street-level retail has a problem no office has: the sidewalk comes inside. Grit, salt, rain and litter enter every time the door opens, which in New York is constantly. Retail cleaning is therefore an entry-management problem first — matting, entry frequency and floor protection — and a presentation problem second.
Storefront Glass Is Your Most Valuable Surface
It is what stops people on the sidewalk, and in Manhattan it gets dirty within a day — street film, exhaust residue, fingerprints and, in winter, salt spray. Most retail cleaning contracts do storefront glass far too infrequently. It should be daily on the inside face and on a tight cycle outside.
Floors and the Winter Problem
Between November and March, ice-melt salt is tracked across your sales floor by every customer. On sealed concrete it dulls the finish. On hardwood it leaves white residue and eventually damages the finish. On stone it etches. Proper matting depth at the entry — enough for several footfalls, not a token mat — plus neutral-pH cleaning and increased entry frequency is the whole answer, and it saves a floor restoration bill in April.
Fitting Rooms and Back-of-House
Fitting rooms are high-touch, enclosed and constantly used, and they are where a customer forms a close-up impression. Mirrors, benches, hooks, door handles and floors need daily detail, not a weekly pass. Back-of-house — stockroom, staff area, receiving — is usually the most neglected part of a retail cleaning contract and the part your staff experience every shift.
Our Protocol for This Environment
- Storefront glass: interior daily, exterior on a tight cycle appropriate to street conditions
- Entry matting specified for depth, maintained daily, intensified November to March
- Sales floor: daily vacuum or dust mop with neutral-pH product appropriate to the surface
- Fitting rooms daily: mirrors, benches, hooks, handles, floors
- Cash wrap, POS terminals and counter high-touch disinfection
- Display fixtures, shelving edges and merchandising surfaces dusted on a rotation
- Back-of-house: stockroom, receiving, staff room and staff restroom on the same standard as front
- Waste and cardboard broken down and staged for collection
- Pre-opening presentation pass where the schedule allows it
Get a Scope Built for Your Space
We will walk the space, ask the questions specific to your environment, and send back a written scope, a fixed price and the exclusions.
Get a Scope for This Space
Written scope, fixed price and exclusions, usually within two business days.
We reply to every request. If your building needs a Certificate of Insurance or vendor registration, we handle that paperwork before the first night.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you clean before we open?
Yes, and for retail it is often the better window — an early-morning pass means the store is at its best when the doors open rather than at 11pm. It also lets us handle the entry and glass after any overnight street conditions.
Our floor looks terrible by February. What can be done?
Matting depth and entry frequency, mostly. Salt is abrasive and, on stone, chemically aggressive. A proper matting run — long enough for several footfalls — plus daily entry cleaning and neutral-pH chemistry prevents most of it. It is dramatically cheaper than the restoration you would otherwise book in April.
Do you clean the sidewalk in front of the store?
A sweep of the immediate entry area, yes. Pressure washing, gum removal and snow and ice clearance are separate services — and snow removal on a public sidewalk carries its own liability, so it should sit with a contractor insured for it.
Ready for a Cleaning Contract You Can Actually Read?
Send us your square footage and how many nights you need. You get a written scope, a fixed monthly price, and the SLA in the same document — usually within two business days.