Category 01 — SIC 81210
Recurring, agreed-scope cleaning for the parts of a property that are used every day — delivered to a written routine rather than to whatever seems most urgent on arrival.
What this category covers
General cleaning is the work that stops a property drifting. It is not dramatic, and that is the point: the same areas, the same tasks, at the same standard, on a rhythm that matches how the building is actually used.
Most of what people notice about a building — whether it feels cared for, whether staff want to be there, whether visitors form a good impression in the first ten seconds — comes from this category rather than from any single deep clean.
The four services here can be arranged as recurring attendance on an agreed pattern, or as individual visits to a defined scope. What we will not do is publish a frequency and imply it is universally available: how often we can attend a particular property depends on its location, the size of the scope and our capacity at the time, and that is settled honestly in the quotation rather than promised in advance.
Where a property has fallen behind, a routine scope will not fix it on its own. In that situation we normally recommend a deep or one-off clean to establish a baseline, then a general cleaning scope to hold it. Those are two separate pieces of work with two separate prices, and we will say so rather than quietly stretching a routine visit to cover restoration.
Recurring or one-off? Both are available. Recurring attendance changes the economics of the work because each visit deals with less accumulation — but a single agreed-scope clean of a general cleaning area is perfectly reasonable, and is priced as its own job.
Four services
Each has its own page setting out suitable property types, likely inclusions, the working process, the starting price and the factors that shape the final quotation.
From £700
Desks and shared surfaces, meeting and focus rooms, breakout areas, tea points, reception and circulation space — cleaned around the working day on an agreed pattern.
From £750
Entrance matting and thresholds, lobbies, post box walls, stairwells, landings, lift interiors, corridors and the approaches to bin and cycle stores.
From £800
Washrooms, accessible facilities, showers and changing rooms, shared kitchens and welfare rooms — cleaned with separated equipment on a documented routine.
From £850
Sales floors, display plinths and cabinets, counters, fitting rooms, entrance glass and stockroom thresholds — worked around trading activity or outside it where agreed.
How a general scope is built
A general cleaning scope is only useful if both sides can point at the same document and agree what should have happened. Ours sets out four things for every area of the property.
Every space that is covered, named as your building names it — not a generic list of rooms that may or may not exist on site.
What is done in each area, at a level of detail that survives a disagreement. “Clean the kitchen” is not a task; a list of surfaces and appliances is.
How often each task happens. Some are every attendance, some are periodic. Both are stated, so periodic work does not quietly disappear.
What is deliberately not included, written plainly. Exclusions in a scope are a courtesy; exclusions discovered later are an argument.
Separated equipment and prepared materials, checked against the scope before attendance.
Consistency
Routine cleaning fails slowly. A task gets skipped once because of time, then again because nobody noticed, and six weeks later the scope has quietly shrunk.
We work against the written scope in a fixed order, and we record what could not be done and why. An occupied meeting room, a blocked cupboard, a floor still wet from a spill — these are ordinary, and they are reported rather than absorbed. That way the scope stays what you agreed to rather than what happened to fit.
Indicative pricing
£700 from
Working floors, meeting rooms, tea points and circulation space.
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£750 from
Entrances, lobbies, stairwells, lifts and shared corridors.
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£800 from
Washrooms, welfare rooms, showers and shared kitchens.
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£850 from
Sales floors, displays, cabinets, fitting rooms and entrance glass.
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How to read these figures Prices shown are indicative starting prices for an agreed service scope. The final quotation depends on the size and condition of the premises, cleaning frequency, access arrangements, working hours, staffing requirements, location, equipment, materials and any additional requirements. They are not per hour, per visit, per week or per month unless an accepted quotation defines that basis.
Questions
That is agreed in the quotation, not fixed in advance. Some buildings suit attendance on most working days; others are better served by a smaller number of longer visits. We will tell you honestly what frequency we can commit to for your property and location, rather than agreeing to a pattern we cannot reliably hold.
Often, yes — early mornings and evenings are common for general cleaning, and access arrangements are settled before the first attendance. Working hours affect staffing costs and are one of the factors reflected in the quotation. We do not offer a 24-hour service, and any agreed hours are recorded in the accepted quotation.
Usually not on its own. Routine cleaning maintains a standard; it does not create one. Where a property needs restoring first, we will recommend a deep or one-off clean to set a baseline, quoted separately, followed by a general cleaning scope to hold it. That is more honest — and normally cheaper — than paying for routine visits that cannot succeed.
In most cases we supply cleaning materials and equipment, and the quotation will state this. Washroom and kitchen consumables — soap, paper, liners — are only included where the products and the supply arrangement have been agreed, because they are a recurring cost that needs to be owned by one side or the other explicitly. See Washroom & Shared Facility Cleaning for detail.
It is recorded and raised with you. Rooms in use, blocked access, a surface that turns out to be unsuitable for the intended method — all ordinary occurrences. What matters is that you hear about them from us rather than discovering a task has silently dropped out of the routine. If you are not satisfied with completed work, tell us and we will agree how to put it right; this is covered in our Terms and Conditions.
Also available
Next step
Areas, approximate size, occupancy and the times that work for you. We will come back with the questions that affect the price, then a written scope and quotation.