Commercial
The difference on a commercial job is rarely the cleaning. It is the access, the hours the work can happen in, and the paperwork the person approving it needs before anyone turns up.
Transformation
A continuous run of roof across adjoining properties, all of it carrying the same growth.
Done as a single visit with one set-up, which is what makes a shared roofline worth coordinating.
What differs
The work itself is the same as on a house. Everything around it is not.
A forecourt cleaned at nine on a Saturday is a lost trading morning. Most commercial work is done early, late or on a closed day, and that is planned into the quote rather than treated as a premium. The question we ask first is when the site is empty, not when we are free.
Barriers, service yards, shared car parks, permit-to-work systems, and whoever holds the key all get sorted in advance. The commonest reason a commercial job overruns is not the cleaning, it is arriving to find the area still in use or nobody on site with authority to open it.
Method statement and risk assessment for the specific site rather than a generic template, insurance documentation on request, and photographic records of what was done. On a managed property the person approving the invoice usually was not there, so the record is what they are approving against.
Most commercial exterior cleaning is better on a cycle than on demand — gutters before winter, forecourts and entrances on a regular interval, roofs as needed. A schedule costs less per visit than an emergency call-out and it stops the building reaching the state where someone complains about it.
The person who quotes the job is the person you deal with during it and afterwards. On a multi-unit or multi-visit contract that matters more than it does on a house, because the alternative is repeating the site's access arrangements to somebody new every time.
Premises
Ground-level and tower-accessible work. Rope access and cradle work are a different discipline and we will say so rather than take the job.
Useful to send: the address, what needs doing, the hours the area can be closed, and whether there are access restrictions. For a portfolio, a list of properties is enough to start — we will come back with a per-site schedule.
Request a QuoteQuestions
Yes, and for most commercial sites that is the default rather than an option. Early mornings, evenings and closed days are normal for this work, and scheduling it that way is planned into the quote rather than added to it. What matters is knowing in advance who can grant access at that hour, because that is the arrangement that usually fails rather than the work itself.
Yes, written for the specific site rather than issued as a generic document, and provided before the work rather than on request afterwards. Where a site operates a permit-to-work system we work within it. Insurance documentation is available on request — a facilities manager will normally want to see the certificate itself rather than a statement on a website, which is the right instinct.
Per site, then as a schedule. Pricing each property individually keeps the numbers checkable against what was actually done, which matters when the invoice goes to someone who was not present. A recurring schedule generally costs less per visit than the same work booked reactively, because the visits can be planned and combined geographically.
Anything needing rope access, cradle work or a permanent scaffold is outside what this is. That is genuinely a different discipline with different equipment and different certification, and the honest answer is to say so rather than to subcontract it and mark it up. High-rise glazing is the clearest example. Ground-level and tower-accessible work across multiple buildings is squarely in range.
Yes, and the requirements are usually documentation and predictability rather than anything about the cleaning. Photographic before-and-after records per unit, clear per-property invoicing, and a schedule that does not need chasing are what makes a supplier easy to keep. Tenants being told in advance when work is happening is normally part of that.
It depends on the sector far more than on a fixed calendar. A forecourt with constant footfall and vehicle traffic wants a shorter interval than an office entrance used by the same twenty people each day, and a school is usually driven by holiday access rather than by how dirty the entrance looks.
Yes — an Owners' Management Company or managing agent is treated the same way as any other commercial client: insurance on request, a method statement for the actual site, and photographic records the committee can point to when residents ask what the service charge covers. Authorisation and access just work differently on a residential estate than on a shopfront.
Send the address and the hours it can be closed, and we will come back with a schedule and a per-site price.
