Commercial cleaning · Campbellfield
One of Melbourne's densest light industrial estates, ten minutes from our Broadmeadows base. Warehouses, transport depots, trade suppliers and manufacturing along the Hume Highway and Sydney Road. Crib rooms and amenities first, floors second.
The estate
Campbellfield is one of the densest light industrial estates in Melbourne, and 56 businesses in our own Melbourne prospect list sit inside it. Almost none of them want what a general commercial cleaner is selling.
The work here is crib rooms, lunch rooms, toilets, urinals, showers, change rooms, lockers and a site office, with a floor component attached. A warehouse manager in Campbellfield is not asking anyone to make 3,000 square metres of concrete look good. They are asking for a lunch room their staff are willing to eat in and toilets that do not generate a complaint every fortnight.
That is why we count fixtures rather than measure floor area when we quote here. Two buildings of identical size on the same street can differ by a factor of three in labour hours, entirely on the strength of how many people work in them and what facilities they use.
About 10 minutes from our Broadmeadows base · no travel charge
Food and beverage
On an ordinary warehouse, a chemical register is good practice. On a food or beverage manufacturing site it is an audit item, and a contractor who cannot produce one on the day becomes your problem rather than theirs.
A safety data sheet for every chemical we bring in, held where your staff can reach it rather than in our office. Decanted containers pre-labelled. In Victoria this answers the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017, which is a different instrument from the harmonised scheme most interstate contractors quote.
Colour coded cloths and mops, green for food areas, never shared with a toilet or a general area. The chart goes on the cupboard wall. An auditor can see the system in thirty seconds without asking us anything, which is the point.
A dated scope listing each area, each task and its frequency, plus a monthly scored inspection. Together they answer the question an auditor actually asks, which is not whether it is clean today but whether there is a system that keeps it clean.
The full detail on industrial scopes, floor work and high dusting is on warehouse cleaning in Melbourne, and the complete Victorian rate card is on commercial cleaning in Melbourne.
Tenant movement
Melbourne's northern industrial precinct sits at roughly 7.7 per cent vacancy, the loosest in the city, and Campbellfield is in the middle of it. Tenants move in and out continually, and each move creates cleaning that did not exist the month before.
If you are handing a building back, the make good clean has to satisfy a lease clause and a date that does not move. If you are moving in, the fit-out clean has to happen after the trades and before your first pallet. Both are quoted at $74 an hour plus GST or as a fixed job price, and both are usually urgent.
Tell us the handover date before anything else. If we cannot hold it we will say so rather than take the booking and let you find out in the final week.
Nearby
Campbellfield does not stop at its boundary. The estate runs into Somerton to the north and connects through to Thomastown and Epping to the east, and plenty of operators hold buildings in more than one of them.
Established engineering and manufacturing on a tighter street grid, about 15 minutes east. Older stock, more workshops, earlier starts.
The markets, food logistics and the freight belt around them, about 15 minutes north east. Overnight operations and a cleaning window most contractors will not staff.
Our base, about 10 minutes west, with its own light industrial pocket along Maygar Boulevard and Widford Street.
Where a Campbellfield business runs a front office or a showroom alongside the warehouse, that part is quoted the way office cleaning in Melbourne is. Portfolios across several buildings are quoted as one agreement with a scope per address.
Questions
Crib rooms and lunch rooms, toilets, urinals, basins and showers, change rooms and lockers, the site or dispatch office, the entry and visitor toilet, and then the floor by zone. Amenities carry most of the hours. The warehouse floor is usually swept as the recurring task and machine scrubbed as a periodic on a quarterly or half yearly cycle.
Because floor area predicts almost nothing here. Two identical sheds on the same street can differ by a factor of three in labour hours depending on how many people work in them and what facilities they use. We count toilets, urinals, basins, showers, lockers, crib rooms and offices at the inspection, and the quote shows each of them separately.
Yes. We complete your site induction before the first shift, work in hi-vis with whatever protective equipment your site requires, and our cleaners are briefed on forklift routes, pedestrian paths and exclusion zones. Attendance is timed around dispatch or shift change, and any wet floor near a traffic route is signed and cordoned.
That is exactly the kind of site where our documentation earns its cost. You get a chemical register with a current safety data sheet for every product we bring in, held on your site rather than in our office, colour coded equipment separation with the chart on the cupboard wall, a dated scope listing each task and its frequency, and a monthly scored inspection. Those are the documents an auditor asks for.
Yes, at $74 an hour plus GST or as a fixed job price once we have seen it. Floor swept and scrubbed including under racking, racking and services high dusted, roller doors and dock levellers, the office fit-out cleaned through, and amenities stripped and detailed. What we will not do is quote repair items on your make good schedule as if they were cleaning. We will tell you which ones are a builder's job.
For a recurring contract, usually two to three weeks from the inspection, because we want the scope agreed, cleaners assigned by name and the induction completed first. For a make good or fit-out clean with a hard handover date, tell us the date at the first call and we will give you a straight answer about whether we can hold it.
Yes. The estate runs continuously from Campbellfield into Somerton and there is no travel charge across either. We also cover Thomastown and Epping industrial, and operators holding buildings in more than one of them are quoted as a single agreement with a separate scope per address.
Next step
We walk the amenities first because that is where the hours are, then the floor. A written scope and three frequency options inside two business days.