What does strata cleaning include in Canberra?
Strata cleaning covers the common property of a building: the entry and lobby, the stairwells and corridors, the carpeted common areas and the car park, with the windows, the glass at height and the pressure washing able to sit on one contract. What your building gets, and how often, is written down after we walk it with you.
Why the scope starts with a walkthrough
No two strata buildings need the same thing. A small block with an open car park and a tall building over a basement are different jobs, and a price sheet cannot see the difference. So we quote strata cleaning after we come and see the building. Melody set this rule when the website was built. The walkthrough is free.
On the walk we check the common property against a ten-point checklist. The scope, and how often each part is cleaned, are set for that building from what we find.
At the end of tenancies, basically all residential work, you can sort of get an estimation online but for the commercial and also all those construction and strata things, we do have to request a quote and we come and see them.
Inside the building
Inside, the contract covers the shared space that residents and visitors walk through every day:
- Entry glass and lobby floors
- Stairwells and corridors
- Carpeted common areas, cleaned by extraction
The car park and the grounds
Basement and multi-storey car parks are swept by machine. We bring a ride-on sweeper to the deck, and the car park goes on the same written schedule as the inside.
Outside, the driveways, walkways, car parks and outdoor areas can be pressure washed, and so can the building itself. Our high pressure cleaning crews run a petrol rotary surface cleaner over the big flat areas. Building washing is done from the ground and from a boom lift.
The windows and the glass at height
A window clean on a strata building takes in the glass, tracks, frames, fly screens and external cobwebs. The glass is done on both faces where access allows. Lower storeys are washed from the ground on a water-fed pole, and a balcony or a pane the pole cannot reach squarely is done from a ladder. The detail is on our window cleaning page.
Facade glass above ladder height is a different job. Our own crew reaches it from a boom lift, a scissor lift or a water-fed pole, and which one your building needs is decided when we look at it. The same crew washes cladding and roofs, so the glass, the cladding around it and the roof above can be quoted on one visit. See height window cleaning.
How the contract starts
- 1
We walk the building with you
The checklist, the scope and the interval for each part. A clear quote and contract follow, to accept or decline.
- 2
A deep clean sets the baseline
The first visit is a deep clean. Every visit after it is held to that standard.
- 3
The routine begins, supervised
Supervisors monitor the teams and change the plan when the building's use or demands change.
How the building is used sets how often the deep clean comes back, anywhere from quarterly to yearly. The three stages are set out on our how we work page.
What the owners corporation gets
We schedule cleans to suit the building. On a commercial contract that includes outside office hours, the same as our office cleaning contracts.
The full list of what a strata contract can cover is on our strata cleaning page.