Commercial cleaning in London for shops, studios, clinics and shared offices is priced on a call or after a £20 viewing, with the floor area measured as part of the price.
Larger premises rarely have one kind of room. A shop has a sales floor the public walks on, a stockroom and a staff toilet. A clinic has a waiting area, treatment rooms and a kitchen for the team. The cleaning plan for a site like that is written area by area, and each area gets its own frequency: the shop entrance every visit, the stockroom shelves once a month.
Shops, studios, clinics and shared offices
In a shop, the cleaner works before the doors open: the entrance where street grit comes in, the sales floor, fitting rooms, the inside of the window and the counter. Dance and yoga studios have wooden or sprung floors that want a damp mop with very little water, plus a wall of mirrors and changing rooms that get heavy use. In a clinic, the cleaner does reception, the waiting area, the staff kitchen and the toilets; tell us on the call what the treatment rooms need, and clinical waste stays with your clinical waste contractor. In a shared office, the kitchen and the meeting rooms are used by several companies at once, so the schedule is agreed with the operator or the managing agent and covers the communal areas between the private suites.
One-off deep cleans and regular contracts
A one-off clean suits a shop before it opens, a unit at the end of a lease, a studio before a new season of classes or premises that have fallen behind. It is a single visit with as many cleaners as the area needs, and the £67 minimum for one-off work applies. A contract is the same premises on fixed days, with the checklist from the first visit kept as the standard.
Starting with the one-off and then setting up regular visits is a sensible order: the heavy work is done once and the contract only has to hold the level. A single-tenant office on a simple weekly rota is covered on the office cleaning page, and a unit full of dust after a fit-out is an after builders clean.
Floors on commercial premises
Floors take the wear in commercial premises, so they are measured and priced on the call or at the viewing. To estimate the area, measure length by width in metres, and split an L-shaped shop into two rectangles before adding them up.
Carpet in separate rooms, such as a consulting room or a private office, is listed room by room on the quote. Open-plan carpet tiles across a whole floor are priced on the call from the area. Outside the front door, a forecourt or a yard can be jet washed on the same visit.
The viewing for larger premises
Anything bigger than a few rooms starts with a viewing, which costs £20. Someone walks the premises with you, measures the floors and notes the access: the alarm, roller shutters, loading bays and the times the lift or the service entrance can be used. They also ask when your busy hours are, so the shop floor is not being mopped in the middle of the lunchtime rush. The price for a one-off or a contract follows from that walk and the frequency you choose. Rates for home services, for a flat above the shop say, are on the prices page.
Questions about commercial cleaning
Can the cleaning happen outside our opening hours?
Yes. Early mornings before opening and evenings after closing are agreed when the work is priced. Our office takes calls from 8am to 7pm, seven days a week, for changes to the schedule.
Do the cleaners take the rubbish away?
The cleaners empty bins into the premises’ own commercial waste containers. Collection stays with your own waste contractor, who must be a registered waste carrier.
Who brings the floor machines and products?
The cleaners bring the products and the equipment, floor machines included. Consumables the premises use up, such as hand towels and toilet roll, come from your stock and are refilled by the cleaner.