Commercial cleaning · Craigieburn
One of the fastest growing corridors in the country, fifteen minutes from our Broadmeadows base. New medical suites, early learning centres, professional rooms, retail and community facilities, many of them in premises that have never had a cleaning contractor.
Growth corridor
Craigieburn sits in one of the fastest growing corridors in Australia, and that changes the entire shape of the cleaning market here. Most commercial cleaning is won by displacing somebody. In Craigieburn a large share of it is not.
New medical suites, new early learning centres, new professional rooms and new retail keep opening in premises that have never had a cleaning contract. Nobody has to be sacked for us to start. The conversation is about what the scope should be rather than about what the last contractor kept missing, which is a far better conversation for everyone in it.
It also means the buyer is often doing this for the first time. A practice manager opening their first clinic, or a centre director opening a new service, usually does not know what a cleaning scope should contain. We write the draft, send it before we price it, and expect to be told what we have missed.
About 15 minutes from our Broadmeadows base · no travel charge
Opening
A new premises needs two different cleans, and they are almost always bought from two different people, which is how the second one ends up being written badly.
After the trades leave and before you move in. Construction dust off every surface including the ones nobody looks at, protective film removed, adhesive residue and paint spatter off glass and hardware, cabinetry cleaned inside and out, floors stripped of site grime, washrooms and kitchens commissioned. Quoted per job at $74 an hour plus GST. It is a one-off and it is not a bigger version of a weekly clean.
Written by someone who has already seen every room empty, which is the argument for having the same contractor do both. We know where the floor changes surface, which cabinet doors mark, where the water sits and which rooms take twice as long as their size suggests. That is the difference between a scope that holds for a year and one that gets renegotiated in month three.
For a new medical suite the recurring scope follows medical centre cleaning at $72 an hour plus GST. For a new early learning centre it follows childcare cleaning at $68, with Victorian Working With Children Checks and a scope written against Quality Areas 2 and 3.
Sectors
The mix here skews heavily toward services that follow population: health, early learning, fitness, food and community facilities. Industrial work is comparatively light compared with Campbellfield or Thomastown, and the buildings are newer, which changes the scope more than people expect. New surfaces mark differently, new grout stains faster, and new buildings tend to have more glass than old ones.
The other pattern worth naming is that a lot of Craigieburn's premises are small. A three room clinic, a single suite, a studio. A small site rarely reaches our $750 plus GST monthly minimum on a weekly scope, and we would rather tell you that at the first call than write a padded contract. Where an owner or a group holds several, the portfolio clears it easily.
The corridor keeps moving north through Roxburgh Park, Mickleham, Wollert and Donnybrook, and all of those are inside our no travel charge radius from Broadmeadows. Growth moving north means it is moving toward our base rather than away from it.
Homes
A growth corridor produces an unusual amount of residential turnover. People move into a new build, rent out the last place, or move again within the same estate. That means move in cleans, exit cleans and a steady demand for regular cleaning from households where both adults work and neither wants to spend Saturday on it.
Regular cleaning is a fixed price per clean from a published table, with no surcharge for pets and the same cleaner each visit. The numbers are on house cleaning in Melbourne.
Our exit cleans carry a seven day re-clean guarantee and a published fixed price, set out on end of lease cleaning in Melbourne.
No law requires a renter in Victoria to hire a professional cleaner when they move out. The standard is that the property is returned reasonably clean, allowing for fair wear and tear. We have set out what the law actually says on moving out in Victoria, including when you genuinely do not need to buy anything from anybody.
Questions
Two things, in order. A handover clean after the trades leave and before you move in, quoted per job at $74 an hour plus GST, which deals with construction dust, protective film, adhesive residue and paint spatter. Then a recurring scope, ideally written by whoever did the handover clean, because they have seen every room empty and know which ones take longer than their size suggests.
We write the draft and send it before we price it, and we expect to be told what we have missed. Most first time buyers of cleaning have no reason to know what a scope should contain, and a contractor who hands you a price without showing you what is behind it is relying on that. You will know things about your premises that we cannot see in forty minutes.
Possibly, and we will say so rather than write a padded contract. Our minimum recurring commercial contract in Victoria is $750 plus GST a month. A three room clinic on a weekly scope will often not reach that. A fortnightly or periodic arrangement sometimes suits better, and where an owner holds several premises the portfolio clears the minimum easily.
Every cleaner attending an early learning centre or a school holds a current Victorian Working With Children Check, and the word Victorian matters because the check is not portable between states. Card numbers and expiry dates go to you in writing before the first clean and are reissued on renewal without you chasing them.
There is no travel charge within about 25 kilometres of Broadmeadows, which covers Craigieburn, Roxburgh Park, Greenvale, Mickleham, Wollert and Donnybrook. The growth front is moving north, which means it is moving toward our base rather than away from it, so this is a corridor we expect to keep servicing rather than one we will quietly withdraw from.
Seventy two dollars an hour plus GST for the clinical protocol: a documented two step clean and disinfect using Whiteley Viraclean AUST L 69000 with the contact time observed, colour coded equipment and a scope written per room type. It is above the standard rate because the method takes longer, not because clinics are assumed to pay more.
Yes. Changing rooms, showers, wet area floors, foyers, activity rooms and public washrooms are a specific kind of work with their own frequency and their own chemical selection, and we quote them by counting fixtures rather than measuring floor area. Pool plant and water treatment are not ours and we will not pretend otherwise.
Next step
Whether the premises is trading or still being fitted out. Forty minutes on site, no obligation, and a draft scope sent to you before it is priced.