Commercial cleaning contracts, single site or portfolio
Contract Cleaning in London
A cleaning contract is a specification, a team and a way of checking it happened. All three are written down before the first shift.
A contract is a specification with a team attached.
Contract cleaning is the ongoing agreement: a building cleaned on a fixed schedule, month after month, to a standard both sides have agreed in writing. It differs from a one-off clean in that the value is in consistency. The same tasks, the same team, the same standard on the fortieth visit as on the first.
We hold cleaning contracts for commercial premises across London. Some are offices, and those have a page of their own. Many are not: retail units and shopping parades, schools and nurseries, GP surgeries and dental practices, gyms and sports centres, warehouses and light industrial units, and mixed-use blocks where the ground floor trades and the upper floors are let.
Building types we hold contracts for.
- Retail: shops, showrooms, shopping parades and estate common areas
- Education: schools, nurseries, colleges and training centres
- Healthcare: GP surgeries, dental practices, clinics and care settings
- Leisure: gyms, studios, sports clubs, changing rooms and wet areas
- Hospitality: front and back of house for cafes, bars and restaurants
- Industrial: warehouses, workshops, trade counters and welfare areas
- Residential common parts: lobbies, stairwells and bin stores for managing agents
Each building type has its own priorities. A school cares about the toilets and the dining hall by lunchtime. A gym cares about the changing rooms and the equipment touch points. A warehouse cares about the welfare block and the office pod. The specification is written for the building in front of us.
What sits inside a contract.
A contract usually starts with the routine clean and grows to take in the tasks that were being bought separately: washroom consumables and sanitary services, periodic deep cleans, carpet and hard floor care, internal and external window cleaning. Bringing them under one agreement means one invoice, one contact and one audit trail.
Contracts are priced on the hours needed to deliver the specification, not on a rate card. If the building changes, if a floor is let or a room is repurposed, the specification and the price are revisited rather than quietly left to drift.
How it runs
What a cleaning contract includes.
Specification by room
Every area listed with its tasks and frequencies. The document that the team, the supervisor and you all work from.
Regular, inducted staff
A team assigned to the building and briefed on its access, safeguarding and security requirements before the first shift.
Supervision and audit
Checks on a rota, recorded and shared. A standard that slips is found by us before it is found by you.
Materials and equipment
Cleaning chemicals, machines and colour-coded equipment supplied and maintained. Safety data sheets on site.
Add-on services
Washrooms, deep cleans, floor care and windows on the same contract, scheduled and invoiced together.
Monthly review
A short review of what was found, what changed and what is coming up on the periodic rota.
How it works
How a contract starts.
- 01
Survey
Every area, its use and its footfall. Access, hours, security and any safeguarding or hygiene requirements the sector brings.
- 02
Specify and price
A specification by room and frequency, the labour to deliver it, and a monthly price. Add-ons itemised so you can choose.
- 03
Start on site
Team inducted, equipment and materials delivered, key-holding agreed, and a baseline deep clean where the building needs one.
- 04
Run and review
Supervised visits, recorded audits, monthly review. The specification changes when the building does.
Common questions
Contract cleaning questions.
What is the minimum contract length?
We work to rolling agreements with a notice period rather than long lock-ins. The specification and the price are set out in writing before anything starts.
Can you take over from an existing cleaning contractor?
Yes. Where staff transfer under TUPE we handle the process properly, and where the building needs a baseline clean before the new specification starts we schedule one as part of mobilisation.
Do you hold contracts outside office hours?
Most cleaning happens outside the hours the building is used, so evenings, early mornings and weekends are the normal pattern. Daytime cleaning is arranged where a building needs it, such as a school or a clinic.
Can one contract cover several sites?
Yes. A portfolio of shops, a group of surgeries or several blocks for a managing agent can run under a single agreement with consistent standards and consolidated invoicing.
Are your staff vetted?
Staff are right-to-work checked and inducted on each site. Where a building requires enhanced checks, such as a school, we arrange them before the team starts.
Guides
The rules behind contract cleaning, in plain English.
What the regulation or specification actually requires, what a compliant job and report look like, and the sources to check it against.
Ventilation Ductwork Cleaning in London: TR19 Air
When general ventilation ductwork is due a clean under TR19 Air and BS EN 15780, and how dust is measured.
Read the guide →Office Cleaning Specification and Checklist
The six parts of a specification, the daily, weekly and periodic tasks, and the four things to compare in a quote.
Read the guide →Medical and Dental Practice Cleaning in London
The NHS cleanliness standards 2025, CQC expectations, functional risk categories and colour coding, room by room.
Read the guide →School and Nursery Cleaning in London
DBS levels under Keeping Children Safe in Education, the term-time routine and what a holiday deep clean covers.
Read the guide →Elsewhere on the site
Related services, sectors and areas.
Office cleaning
Daily or scheduled cleaning for workspaces, from a single floor to a multi-let building.
Office cleaning →Deep cleaning
One-off and periodic deep cleans: kitchens, washrooms, carpets, hard floors, high level and post-works.
Deep cleaning →Window cleaning
External and internal window cleaning for commercial buildings, from shopfronts to multi-storey glazing.
Window cleaning →By building type: office and workplace cleaning and retail and showroom cleaning. Contract cleaning is available across the areas we cover, including Battersea, Putney, Canary Wharf and Clerkenwell.
One contract for the whole building.
Tell us what the premises is, how it is used and what is being cleaned today. We will come back with a specification and a monthly price.
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