Offices
- Desks and work surfaces wiped down
- Kitchenette and break-room cleaned
- Washrooms cleaned
- Reception and meeting rooms tidied and dusted
- Floors vacuumed or mopped
- Bins emptied
The exact list is written into your specification, room by room.
Commercial cleaning across London
The same clean,every visit,on your schedule.
Contract cleaning for offices, shops and commercial units. A written specification for your site, a schedule built around your opening hours, and vetted, uniformed crews who work to it.
- Vetted, uniformed crews
- Schedules around your hours
- £2 million insurance cover
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- Premises
- Offices, retail, commercial units
- Schedule
- Built around your hours
- Specification
- Written, site by site
- The quote
- Free, no obligation
The real test
A workplace is judged on the worst day.
Any contractor can clean a site well once. The job is the fortieth visit.
Nobody notices a clean office. They notice the morning the kitchenette was missed, the washroom that was not checked, or the Monday the floor was still marked from Friday. A site is judged on its worst visit, and that is the reason to choose a contractor on consistency, not on how good one clean looks.
A single excellent clean is the easy part. It is one visit, done carefully, with attention on it. The difficult part is doing the same work on a wet Tuesday in February, weeks into a contract, when the person who did it last time is not the person who turns up. Standards slip in the gaps between visits, and they slip quietly, until someone in the building notices.
What consistency is made of
It is not willpower. It is three plain things. A written specification for your site, listing the areas, the tasks and how often each is done, so the standard lives on paper and not in anyone's memory. A fixed checklist, so every visit answers the same list. And the same crew wherever possible, because people who already know a site clean it better than people meeting it for the first time.
Why the specification matters most
Without one, "clean the office" means something different to everyone involved. With one, there is a shared answer to the question "was that done?". It also protects both sides: you can see exactly what you are paying for, and a crew can see exactly what is expected of it. If a site changes, the specification changes, in writing, and nobody has to remember a conversation.
That is the model here. We write the specification with you, we schedule the visits around your hours, and the vetted, uniformed crew works to the list.
The schedule
Cleaning that fits around you.
Pick a pattern. The silver arc is when the premises are open, the green arcs are the cleaning windows around it.
Pick a pattern
Example scheduleOffice
- Open
- 08:00 to 18:00
- Cleaning before opening
- 06:00 to 08:00
- Cleaning after closing
- 18:00 to 21:00
Most of the work happens before the first desk is taken or after the last one is left, so nobody works around a vacuum cleaner.
- Open
- 09:00 to 18:00
- Cleaning after closing
- 18:00 to 21:30
A shop is usually cleaned once the doors are shut, with the floor, fittings and tills ready for the next morning.
- Open
- 12:00 to 24:00
- Cleaning before opening
- 07:00 to 11:30
When the premises open at midday and run late, the quiet part of the day is the morning, before the first customer.
Example hours only, to show the shape of a schedule. Yours is agreed with you.
The specification
What goes on the list.
Every site is different, so every specification is written for the premises. These are the areas a specification typically names.
Retail
- Shop floor swept, vacuumed or mopped
- Counters, tills and glass surfaces cleaned
- Fitting rooms and display areas dusted
- Entrance and door glass cleaned
- Staff area and washroom cleaned
- Bins emptied
Shops differ a great deal, so the specification follows the layout of yours.
Commercial units
- Communal areas and corridors cleaned
- Reception and waiting areas tidied
- Washrooms and kitchen areas cleaned
- Floors vacuumed or mopped
- Door handles and touch points wiped
- Bins emptied
For shared buildings, the specification can set out who is responsible for which areas.
Access and paperwork
The practical questions come first.
Settled once, at the start, so that every visit after it runs without anyone having to think.
A cleaning contract usually goes wrong at the door, not at the desk. Who holds the keys, how the alarm is handled, whether anyone is on reception at 06:00: none of it is glamorous, and all of it decides whether the first visit runs smoothly.
Access, keys and alarms
When the crew works before opening or after closing, the premises are often empty, so access has to be arranged in advance. Say in the quote notes whether it is keys, a fob or a code, how the alarm works, whether there is a reception or security desk, and any lift or loading rules. It shapes both the schedule and the quote, so it is better said at the start than discovered on the first morning.
Products and health and safety
Some cleaning products are hazardous substances, and workplaces have duties around them. The Health and Safety Executive points employers to the COSHH regulations as the framework for managing that: assessing the risk, controlling it, and keeping people informed. If your site has particular requirements, such as products to avoid, say so in the notes and they go into the specification.
Changes to the site
Premises change: a new tenant, a different layout, an extra floor. The specification is the document that changes with them. Tell us when something moves and the list is updated, so the work keeps matching the building.
How it works
From enquiry to first clean.
Four steps, agreed in writing, the same for every site.
Tell us about the premises
Postcode, the kind of site, its rough size and how often you want it cleaned, through the quote form. Opening hours and access go in the notes.
Agree the specification
We put the areas, the tasks and the frequency in writing, with a real price and no obligation, so you both know exactly what is being done.
Set up access
Keys or fobs, alarm arrangements, a reception or security desk, lift and loading rules. Settled once, at the start, so visits run smoothly.
Cleaning begins
A vetted, uniformed crew works to the specification at the agreed times, and the same people wherever possible.
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Questions
Contract questions, answered.
Can't see yours here? Call us or use the quote form and we'll come back to you.
Offices, retail and commercial units. Tell us what the site is and how it is used in the quote form, and we'll say what we can take on.
Contract cleaning is scheduled around your business hours. Tell us when the premises are open and when they are empty, and the schedule is built around that.
Yes. ReadySpace carries £2 million of insurance cover.
It is the written list of what gets cleaned at your site, in which areas, how often and at what times. It is what turns "the cleaners come in" into something you can check, and it means the standard does not depend on who happens to be on shift.
Put the arrangements in the quote notes: keys or fobs, alarm codes, a reception or security desk, lift and loading rules. Access shapes both the schedule and the quote, so it is better to say up front.
Some cleaning products are hazardous substances, and the COSHH regulations are the framework the Health and Safety Executive points employers to for managing them. If your site has particular product requirements, put them in the quote notes.
Wherever possible, yes. A site runs best when the people cleaning it already know it, rather than starting from scratch each visit.
Tell us what else the site needs in the quote notes, such as carpets or exterior jet washing, and we'll say what we can include.
Fill in the quote form with the postcode, the type of premises, its rough size, how often you want it cleaned and your opening hours. We come back with a real price, with no obligation.
Every London borough, and the City of London. Add your postcode to the quote form and we'll confirm.
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- Covering all of London
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