Washroom & Shared Facility Cleaning
Documented washroom routines with separated equipment, in the same overall arrangement.
General Cleaning of Buildings
Office & Workplace Cleaning
Recurring cleaning of the floors people actually work on — desks and shared surfaces, meeting rooms, breakout areas, tea points, reception and circulation space — delivered to a written routine around the working day.
- Starting priceFrom £700
- Typical indicative durationApproximately 6–10 hours
- Service categoryGeneral Cleaning of Buildings
- Pricing basisQuotation-based agreed scope
- PremisesUnited Kingdom
- AvailabilitySubject to location and schedule
Desks and shared surfaces cleaned to a written routine rather than by whatever looks worst.
Service overview
An office is cleaned well or badly at the level of detail.
Nobody notices a clean office. They notice a sticky meeting-room table, a bin that was not emptied on Friday, a keyboard tray of crumbs and the ring left on a desk by somebody's mug.
Office cleaning is unusual among cleaning disciplines because the same people see the result every day. That makes consistency worth far more than intensity: a scope that is delivered fully on every attendance beats an ambitious one that gets abbreviated whenever the clock runs short.
We build an office scope around how the floor is actually used — where people eat, which rooms turn over constantly, which desks are hot-desked and which are permanently occupied, where the bins genuinely fill and where they do not. Then we write it down, in your building's own vocabulary, and work to it in a fixed sequence so that nothing depends on somebody remembering.
Personal desk items, papers and equipment are left alone. Cleaning around them properly is part of the job; tidying them is not, and moving somebody's work is a good way to lose their confidence permanently.
Time on site
How long the work usually takes.
Published so you can plan around the attendance. Like our prices, these are indicative starting points rather than fixed commitments.
Approximately 6–10 hours Typical indicative duration
Indicative durations are based on a typical medium-sized agreed scope. Larger, heavily used or more complex premises may require additional time. The final schedule is confirmed after the property requirements, access and service scope have been reviewed.
Staffing is not fixed in advance either. How many people attend, and for how long, is determined once the scope, access and property requirements have been reviewed.
What moves the duration
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Floor area and layout
Cellular offices take longer than open plan of the same size: more doors, corners, bins and switches.
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Desk density and occupancy
Waste volume and surface contact scale with the number of people, not with square metres.
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Kitchen and breakout provision
A single tea point is quick. A staffed kitchen in daily use is not.
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Access and sign-in
Escorted access, lift restrictions and signing-in procedures consume time before work begins.
Suitable properties
Where this service fits.
If your premises are not listed here but the requirement is broadly similar, describe them in an enquiry — the categories exist to organise the website, not to limit what we will quote for.
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Single-tenant office floors
One organisation occupying a floor or building, where the scope can be written once and applied consistently across the whole space.
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Serviced and managed offices
Suites within a managed building, where cleaning has to fit around the landlord's own arrangements for shared parts and access.
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Studios and creative workspaces
Spaces with unusual layouts, mixed finishes and equipment that cannot simply be worked around without instruction.
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Professional practices
Solicitors, accountants, consultancies and similar offices with client-facing reception and meeting areas held to a higher visible standard.
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Small workplaces and trade offices
Office areas attached to workshops, depots or light industrial premises, where dust ingress from the operational side is a constant factor.
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Hybrid and part-occupied floors
Workplaces where occupancy varies by day and the pattern of use — rather than the floor area — determines what actually needs attention.
The workplace plan
A route through the working floor.
An office scope is written as a sequence, not a wish list. This is the order an attendance normally follows, and why each stage sits where it does.
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Stop 01
Reception and entrance
Done first, because it is the part of the floor that is seen by everyone and judged in the first ten seconds. Matting, thresholds, the reception desk and the visitor seating.
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Stop 02
Open-plan desks
Worked in a fixed direction so nothing is missed. Surfaces cleaned around personal items, bins emptied, under-desk carpet vacuumed where the space is clear.
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Stop 03
Meeting and focus rooms
Reset to a neutral state: tables cleaned, chairs straightened, glass detailed. Rooms in use are noted and revisited within the same attendance where the schedule allows.
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Stop 04
Tea points and breakout
The highest-turnover part of most floors. Worktops, sinks, appliance fronts and food waste, with equipment kept separate from washroom use.
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Stop 05
Circulation and touchpoints
Handles, switches, rails and push plates, then hard floors last so nothing is walked back across a cleaned surface.
Scheduled scope
Recurring attendance on an agreed pattern. Each visit deals with less accumulation, so the standard holds rather than being rebuilt each time.
- Same areas, same tasks, same sequence
- Periodic tasks listed with their own intervals
- Frequency confirmed in the quotation, not assumed
One-off scope
A single agreed attendance — before an office opens, after a move, ahead of an inspection, or to establish a baseline a routine scope can then hold.
- Itemised against a defined outcome
- Priced as its own job, not pro-rated
- Often paired with a deep clean first
Clean-desk considerations
Where a clean-desk policy operates, cleared surfaces are cleaned properly. Where it does not, desks are cleaned around and nothing is moved.
- Papers and files never sorted or relocated
- Confidential material stays your responsibility
- Attendance timing aligned to how the floor clears
Possible inclusions
What an office scope usually contains.
A realistic list of what can be included. Your written scope will confirm which of these apply to your premises, in which areas and at what frequency — some on every attendance, some periodically.
Working areas and desks
- Desk surfaces and shared work surfaces cleaned around personal items
- Monitor stands, desk rails, drawer fronts and pedestal tops
- Telephones and shared peripherals wiped where accessible
- Waste and recycling emptied, liners replaced
- Carpets vacuumed, including under-desk areas where clear
- Hard floors swept and mopped with appropriate materials
- Chair bases, spot-cleaning of fabric where required and suitable
Meeting and breakout areas
- Meeting tables cleaned and marks removed from surfaces
- Whiteboards wiped where instructed to do so
- Chairs straightened and rooms reset to a neutral state
- Glass partitions and internal doors cleaned within reach
- Breakout seating, low tables and soft furnishing surfaces
Tea points and kitchens
- Worktops, splashbacks, sinks and taps cleaned and dried
- Fronts of cupboards, fridges, dishwashers and appliances
- Microwave interiors cleaned at an agreed frequency
- Kettle and coffee machine exteriors and drip areas
- Food waste and recycling emptied and liners replaced
Reception, circulation and periodic tasks
- Reception desk, seating and visible surfaces
- Entrance matting, thresholds and approach floors
- Touch points: handles, switches, rails and push plates
- Stair treads, handrails and landings within the demise
- Skirtings, ledges, vents and high dusting at agreed intervals
- Internal glass doors, mirrors and reachable partition glass
- Washroom cleaning where included in the same scope
Scope qualifications
Stated plainly so they are agreed rather than discovered.
- Personal belongings, documents and equipment are not moved, tidied or reorganised
- Desks buried under papers or equipment are cleaned around, not cleared
- IT equipment is wiped externally only — we do not clean screens, ports or internals unless specifically agreed
- Rooms occupied at the time of attendance are recorded and reported rather than disturbed
- Where washroom cleaning is required, it is scoped under Washroom & Shared Facility Cleaning
Not included unless separately agreed
- External window cleaning or any access from outside the building
- High-level work beyond ordinary reach or needing specialist access equipment
- Carpet or upholstery extraction cleaning — see Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
- Deep cleaning or restoration of neglected areas — see Deep & One-Off Cleaning
- Consumable supply where products and supply arrangements are not agreed
- Confidential waste handling, shredding or secure disposal
- Clearance of furniture, stock or equipment to gain access
Working process
How an office scope is set up and run.
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Understand the floor
We ask how many people use the space and on which days, where they eat, which rooms turn over constantly, what the floor finishes are, and when the space is quiet enough to work in properly. Where the floor area or complexity warrants it, we arrange to walk the space.
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Write the scope
Areas, tasks, frequencies and exclusions are set out in writing, using your building's own names for rooms and zones. Periodic tasks such as high dusting and skirtings are listed with their intervals so they cannot quietly disappear into the routine.
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Settle access and timing
Keys, fobs, codes, alarm sequences, signing-in arrangements, where equipment can be stored and who to contact on the day — all confirmed before the first attendance rather than worked out on it.
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Attend and deliver
Work follows the written scope in a fixed sequence, within the agreed hours. Occupied rooms, blocked desks and anything that could not be completed are recorded and reported rather than silently skipped.
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Review and adjust
Offices change: teams move, a meeting room becomes a store, occupancy shifts. We expect the scope to need adjusting and would rather revise it deliberately than let it drift out of step with the building.
Before we attend
What to tell us, and what to prepare.
Neither list is a hurdle. Each item removes a round of questions, sharpens the quotation and reduces the chance of something being discovered on the day.
Tell us
What we need to know
- Approximate floor area, the number of desks and how many people use the floor on a typical day
- Which areas are in scope — and any rooms we should not enter at all
- The floor finishes across the space, particularly timber, stone or specialist surfaces
- Whether a clean-desk policy operates, and what we should do with desks that are not cleared
- Access arrangements: keys, fobs, alarm codes, sign-in procedures and any landlord rules for contractors
Prepare
What to have ready before arrival
- Clear desks where a clean-desk policy applies, so the surfaces can actually be cleaned
- Store confidential documents securely — we do not move, read, sort or dispose of paperwork
- Leave bins reachable rather than tucked behind stacked boxes
- Confirm which meeting rooms are booked so we can sequence the work around them
- Provide a named on-site contact and a number we can call if something is unclear
After the work
How an attendance is closed out.
Every attendance closes the same way, so you always know what happened on your floor.
- Completed work is checked against the written scope, area by area
- Anything that could not be done — an occupied room, a blocked desk, an unsuitable surface — is recorded and reported
- Observations about the floor are passed on: a failing door closer, a damaged floor finish, a socket that no longer holds a plug
- Waste is taken to the agreed collection point and any signage is cleared away
If something is not right, tell us promptly and we will agree how to put it in order. That process is set out in our Terms and Conditions.
Limitations
Documents, belongings and equipment
The most important boundary in an occupied office, stated plainly rather than buried in a scope.
- Personal belongings, papers and files are never moved, tidied, sorted or reorganised
- Desks buried under paperwork or equipment are cleaned around, not cleared
- IT equipment is wiped externally only — we do not clean screens, ports or internals unless specifically agreed
- Confidential waste, shredding and secure disposal are not handled
- Rooms occupied at the time of attendance are recorded and reported rather than disturbed
Pricing
Office & Workplace Cleaning starts from £700.
An indicative starting price for an agreed service scope — published so you can judge whether we are in the right range before spending time on an enquiry.
How to read this figure 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. This price is not stated per hour, per visit, per week or per month unless an accepted quotation defines that basis.
What shapes an office quotation
- Layout over area. Cellular offices take longer than open plan of the same size — more doors, corners, bins and switches.
- Occupancy density. Desks per square metre drives waste volume, kitchen use and surface contact far more than floor area does.
- Frequency. Recurring attendance deals with less accumulation each visit; a single agreed clean is a different job.
- Working hours. Early mornings, evenings and weekends carry a different staffing cost from daytime attendance.
- Access. Signing in, escorted access, restricted lifts and loading windows all consume time before work begins.
- Floor finishes. Mixed carpet, timber, vinyl and stone need different materials and different machines.
- Kitchen provision. A single tea point is not comparable to a staffed kitchen with appliances in daily use.
- Location. Travel, congestion and parking or loading arrangements differ across the UK.
Questions
Office cleaning — common questions.
Will you clean desks with papers and equipment on them?
We clean around them. Personal items, documents and equipment are not moved, stacked or reorganised — partly because it is not our place to handle someone's work, and partly because a moved file is remembered far longer than a clean desk. If you want desks cleared to a clean-desk policy before attendance, that is something your team arranges; we will happily align our attendance times to make it practical.
Can you work outside office hours?
Early mornings and evenings are the most common arrangements for office cleaning, and both are usually possible. Access, alarm procedures and lone-working considerations are settled before the first attendance. Working hours affect staffing cost and are reflected in the quotation. We do not operate a 24-hour service, and the hours we have agreed will be recorded in your accepted quotation.
Do you clean the washrooms as part of this?
Washrooms can be included in the same overall arrangement, but they are scoped under Washroom & Shared Facility Cleaning because they need separated equipment, a documented routine and a decision about consumables. Keeping them as a distinct scope means the washroom tasks and their frequencies are explicit rather than buried in a general office list.
What about the carpets — is that covered?
Vacuuming is part of an office scope. Extraction cleaning — the wet process that lifts embedded soiling out of the pile — is a separate discipline with its own equipment and drying requirements, covered by Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning. A common arrangement is routine vacuuming within the office scope plus periodic extraction cleaning scheduled into the year.
Our office has been neglected. Where do we start?
With a baseline. A routine scope maintains a standard; it cannot create one from a poor starting point, and paying for routine visits that are quietly fighting a backlog is the most expensive way to be disappointed. We would normally recommend a deep or one-off clean first, quoted separately, then an office scope to hold the result.
Can the scope change once it has started?
Yes, and it usually should. Teams move, rooms change use and occupancy shifts. Changes to scope are agreed between us and reflected in an updated quotation where they affect the price — additional work is only carried out once it has been agreed, as set out in our Terms and Conditions.
Related services
Often arranged alongside office cleaning.
All services
The complete NEATFIELD range.
- 01Office & Workplace Cleaningfrom £700
- 02Communal Areas & Entrance Cleaningfrom £750
- 03Washroom & Shared Facility Cleaningfrom £800
- 04Retail & Showroom Cleaningfrom £850
- 05Interior Glass Cleaningfrom £900
- 06Carpet & Upholstery Cleaningfrom £1,050
- 07Deep & One-Off Cleaningfrom £1,250
- 08Post-Works & Handover Cleaningfrom £1,600
Next step
Tell us about the floor and how your team uses it.
Approximate area, how many people, which areas you want covered and the times that suit you. We will come back with the questions that affect the price, then a written scope and quotation.