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Commercial Cleaning Services
Commercial cleaning is the umbrella term for professional cleaning of any business premises — offices, retail floors, medical suites, studios, showrooms and light industrial space. What separates it from residential cleaning is scope documentation, insurance requirements, building access protocols and the fact that it is measured and scored rather than judged by eye.
If you are searching for “commercial cleaning” you are probably at the start of the process and not yet sure what you are buying. Here is the map.
Recurring nightly service is the contract — the thing that happens every week whether anyone thinks about it or not. For an office that is office cleaning; for a building it is janitorial service. This is 80% of what you will spend.
Periodic work is scheduled but infrequent — deep cleaning quarterly, carpet extraction and floor refinishing once or twice a year, high dusting quarterly, interior glass on a cycle. Budget for it annually or it arrives as an unwelcome invoice.
Project work happens once — post-construction cleaning after a build-out, move-in or move-out at a lease boundary, or emergency response after a water event.
Presence-based service is a person on site during business hours — a day porter. This is the one most offices under-buy and then wish they had.
What Makes Commercial Cleaning Different From a House Cleaner
Four things, and they all cost money. Your building requires a Certificate of Insurance naming specific entities before anyone gets badge access. The people working in your space overnight need to be screened, because the building screens nobody on your behalf. The work has to be specified in a scope exhibit precise enough to settle a dispute. And it has to be inspected against a standard, with the score written down, or quality drifts within a quarter.
A residential cleaner does none of that, which is why residential pricing is not a useful benchmark and why the “average cost” figures you find online — largely scraped from home-services marketplaces — will mislead you badly.
What Is Included
- A written scope exhibit organised by area and frequency, attached to the agreement
- Certificate of Insurance issued to your building's exact requirements before the first visit
- Background-screened employees on payroll, named on the roster submitted to building security
- Documented weekly supervisor inspection and a monthly scored audit
- A named account manager with a direct number and a contractual response time
- After-hours dispatch during your service window
What Is Not Included Unless You Ask for It
This list exists on purpose. Almost every dispute between an office and its cleaning company traces back to something one party assumed was in scope and the other did not.
- Residential and household cleaning
- Waste hauling off site (requires a BIC trade waste licence)
- Facade work, exterior high-rise glass, suspended scaffold or rope descent operations
- Asbestos, lead, mould remediation and biohazard cleanup requiring a licensed abatement contractor
- Pest control and extermination
Get This Scoped and Priced
Tell us the space and we will send back a written scope exhibit, a fixed price, and the exclusions — in one document, usually within two business days.
Commercial Cleaning — Get a Price
Written scope and fixed price, 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.
Commercial Cleaning: Frequently Asked Questions
What size businesses do you work with?
From about 1,200 square feet up to roughly 100,000. Below 1,200 the economics of a nightly crew rarely work and you are usually better served by two or three visits a week. Above 100,000 you should be looking at an open-book management-fee structure rather than a flat monthly fee, and we will tell you so.
Do you work outside New York City?
Yes. Westchester County, Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, and Bergen County in New Jersey, with crews dispatched from within each region. See the towns covered.
How is commercial cleaning priced?
Per square foot per visit, converted to a flat monthly fee. The full arithmetic, including the labour cost underneath it, is on our pricing page.
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.