Commercial cleaning · Epping
Three different markets in one suburb: the Northern Hospital health precinct, the wholesale markets and the food and freight logistics around them, and the retail and professional centre at Epping Plaza. Each is quoted as the different job it is.
Three Eppings
Epping is not one market. It is a hospital and health precinct, a wholesale food and freight belt, and a suburban retail and services centre, and a contractor who quotes all three the same way has understood none of them.
The Northern Hospital anchors a large public and private health cluster, and the medical suites, day procedure rooms, specialist consulting and allied health around it keep expanding. This is clinical work at $72 an hour plus GST with a documented two step protocol, and a great deal of it is in new premises that have never held a cleaning contract.
The wholesale markets and the freight, cold storage and food distribution businesses that cluster around them. Overnight and pre-dawn operations, hygiene sensitive, and a cleaning window that has to fit between the last truck and the first. Amenities heavy, and the documentation matters because much of it is audited.
Retail, food outlets, professional suites, agencies, allied health and services around Epping Plaza and the station. Smaller tenancies, cleaned before opening or after close, with the same scope discipline as a larger site and considerably fewer hours.
About 20 minutes from our Broadmeadows base · no travel charge · covers Epping, Wollert, Lalor and Mill Park
The window
Food logistics does not have an after hours. It has a slightly quieter hour, and it moves depending on the day of the week and the time of year.
So the scope has to be built around the operation rather than around a roster. That usually means a pre-dawn attendance finishing before the first shift, or an overnight window quoted at $72 an hour plus GST, and it means the cleaner has to be someone who can hold an unsociable start reliably rather than someone who agreed to it once. This is a large part of why we employ our cleaners rather than subcontracting: you cannot roster a 4:30am start against an ABN holder who has a better offer on Tuesday.
We also quote it honestly. An overnight finish costs more than an evening one because the award pays more for it. A contractor quoting a single flat rate for a site that can only be cleaned at four in the morning has either not read their own obligations or is planning to revisit the price later.
Health precinct
The health cluster around the Northern Hospital is one of the few places in Melbourne where genuinely new clinical floor space keeps arriving. New suites, new day procedure rooms and new allied health tenancies mean a steady supply of practices arranging cleaning for the first time.
Those sites are quoted at $72 an hour plus GST and cleaned to a documented two step protocol: soil removed with detergent first, then Whiteley Viraclean, AUST L 69000, left for the contact time on the label. Colour coded equipment, a chemical and safety data sheet register, and a scope written per room type rather than per square metre. The full method is on medical centre cleaning in Melbourne.
Where a new suite is still being fitted out, the pre-opening handover clean is quoted per job at $74 an hour plus GST. It is a different job from a recurring clean and it is nearly always on a fixed date.
Around Epping Plaza and the station the work looks like any suburban centre: retail, food, agencies, professional suites, dental and allied health, gyms and services. Small tenancies cleaned before opening or after close.
Early learning is a significant part of it too, and growing, particularly out toward Wollert. Those centres are cleaned at $68 an hour plus GST by Victorian Working With Children Checked cleaners against a scope written for Quality Areas 2 and 3, set out on childcare cleaning in Melbourne.
Terms
The complete Victorian rate card, the method and the compliance package are on commercial cleaning in Melbourne.
Epping industrial connects west into Campbellfield and Somerton and south into Thomastown, and a great deal of the stock changes tenants regularly. Melbourne's northern industrial vacancy sits near 7.7 per cent, which keeps producing make good, handover and fit-out cleans with no incumbent contractor attached.
Industrial scopes, floor work, high dusting and the make good detail are on warehouse cleaning in Melbourne. Homes in Epping, Lalor, Wollert and Mill Park are covered by house cleaning in Melbourne.
Questions
Yes, and around the markets and the food freight belt it is often the only workable window. An overnight shift finishing between midnight and 8am is quoted at $72 an hour plus GST, and a start before 6am at $64. We quote the window the site actually needs rather than a daytime rate that gets revised later. Because our cleaners are employees rather than subcontractors, an unsociable start is a roster we can hold.
We clean private medical suites, day procedure rooms, specialist consulting and allied health premises in and around the precinct, at the clinical rate of $72 an hour plus GST with a documented two step protocol. We are a commercial contractor rather than a hospital cleaning provider, so a public hospital ward environment is outside what we take on and we will say so rather than tender for it.
Documentation that survives an audit rather than a walk-through. A chemical register with a current safety data sheet for every product, held on your site rather than in our office. Visible colour coded separation with the chart on the cupboard wall. A dated scope listing each task and its frequency, and a monthly scored inspection, so the answer to whether there is a system is a document rather than an opinion.
Yes, along with Lalor, Mill Park and Bundoora, and there is no travel charge to any of them. Wollert in particular keeps adding early learning and community facilities as the estates fill, and new premises usually have no incumbent cleaning contractor, which makes the first conversation about scope rather than about somebody being replaced.
By counting amenities rather than measuring the shed. Crib rooms, lunch rooms, toilets, urinals, basins, showers, change rooms, lockers and site offices carry nearly all the labour hours. The floor is priced separately by zone and by whether you want it swept, machine scrubbed or spot cleaned. The quote shows each element so you can see what you could drop.
Yes, at $74 an hour plus GST or as a fixed job price. Northern industrial vacancy sits near 7.7 per cent, so tenants move constantly and make good work is created weekly across Epping, Campbellfield, Somerton and Thomastown. Tell us the handover date at the first call, because it is the only thing in the job that cannot move.
Yes, at $68 an hour plus GST, after the last child leaves, by cleaners holding a current Victorian Working With Children Check. The scope is written against National Quality Standard Quality Areas 2 and 3 and comes with a chemical register, an outbreak response scope agreed in advance, and a monthly scored inspection you can put in your quality improvement file.
Next step
Arranged around your operation, including at four in the morning if that is when your site is quiet. A written scope and three options inside two business days.