A fixed monthly number
Priced by square footage, frequency and task list, so your operating budget stays flat and predictable across the year.
For business
Commercial cleaning that happens before anyone notices it was needed
Offices, clinics, salons, studios and storefronts cleaned after hours on a set schedule, with a task list built for your space and a supervisor you can actually reach.
Overview
What this service actually covers
Commercial cleaning is judged differently than residential work. A homeowner notices what looks clean; a business notices what does not get complained about. Restrooms that never run out of paper, entry glass without handprints, a break room that does not smell like Thursday's lunch, floors that hold up under boots and salt. The work is invisible when it is done right, and unmistakable the first week it slips.
We run commercial accounts as scheduled routes rather than appointments. Your space gets a fixed night or nights, a written task list specific to your layout, and the same cleaners each time so they learn where the supply closet is, which door sticks and which room the alarm panel covers. Nightly, three-times-weekly and weekly frequencies all work; the frequency should follow foot traffic, not a sales pitch.
Restrooms get their own protocol, because they generate most complaints and most risk. Fixtures are cleaned in a fixed order with color-coded cloths that never leave that room. Disinfectant is applied and given its full dwell time on toilets, urinals, handles and dispensers instead of being wiped away in the same motion. Floors are mopped edge to edge, including the strip behind the door where residue collects and turns into odor.
Touchpoints are the other half of the job. Door handles, push plates, light switches, elevator and keypad buttons, shared phones, refrigerator handles, microwave keypads, faucet handles and stair rails carry far more transfer risk than the open floor everyone looks at. In clinics and salons we follow whatever your own protocol requires and document what was done — including your log format, if you keep one.
Access and keys are handled formally, not casually. Codes and keys are issued to named team members, logged, and returned or removed when service ends or the assignment changes. Alarm procedures are written into the account rather than passed along verbally. If your building requires check-in with property management or a specific after-hours entrance, that goes into the route notes as well.
Benefits
What you get that you would not get by default
Cleaned outside business hours
Evening and early morning routes mean no vacuum running during a client meeting and no wet floor during business hours.
A task list for your space
A clinic, a salon and an accountant's office need different lists. Yours is built from a walkthrough, not a template.
Restroom and touchpoint protocols
Color-coded cloths per zone, correct dwell times, and no cross contamination between restrooms and break rooms.
Supplies managed for you
We track paper, soap and liners and restock from your stock or ours, so nobody discovers an empty dispenser at 9:00 AM.
One point of contact
You reach a person who knows your account, not a queue. Requests are confirmed in writing and reflected on the next visit.
Included
The checklist, in writing
This is the scope you approve before the first visit. Anything outside it is quoted separately.
Offices and open work areas
- Desks and shared surfaces wiped around equipment
- Monitors and keyboards dusted, screens left to your policy
- Chairs, arms and bases wiped
- Trash and recycling emptied, liners replaced
- Carpet vacuumed with edge and corner work
- Hard floors dust-mopped and damp-mopped
Restrooms
- Toilets, urinals and fixtures disinfected with full dwell time
- Sinks, counters, faucets and dispensers detailed
- Mirrors and partitions cleaned
- Paper, soap and liners restocked
- Floors mopped edge to edge, corners included
- Odor sources found and treated, not masked
Break rooms and kitchens
- Counters, sink and backsplash sanitized
- Appliance exteriors, handles and microwave interior
- Tables and chairs wiped
- Refrigerator exterior and handle
- Trash removed and containers wiped
- Floors degreased under the table line
Entry, glass and touchpoints
- Entry glass and door frames cleaned
- Interior partition glass spot-cleaned
- Door handles, push plates and switches disinfected
- Reception counter and waiting seating
- Mats vacuumed or shaken out
- Stair rails and landings
Process
How a commercial cleaning job runs
Walkthrough
We visit during your hours to see the layout, the floor types, the restroom count and how your people actually move through the space.
Scope and quote
You receive a written task list by area with frequencies, plus a fixed monthly price with no automatic escalator.
Access setup
Keys, codes and alarm procedure are documented and assigned to named team members before the first visit.
Route begins
Your night is your night. The assigned team works the list and notes anything that needs your attention.
Monthly review
We check the list against reality, adjust frequencies where traffic has changed, and re-price only if the scope actually changes.
Recent work
Real projects
Photographs from recent commercial cleaning work — our own jobs, not stock imagery.
Worth knowing
Why this is worth hiring out
The version most small businesses try first is asking staff to handle it. It fails predictably: the person who cares most does the most, resentment builds, restrooms get done last, and nobody has the equipment to keep a hard floor from going grey. Cleaning is not a task you can add to a job description without taking something else out.
Commercial spaces also fail differently than homes. Grout in a public restroom absorbs odor and holds it. Entry tile takes winter salt daily and hazes without neutral-pH cleaner and rinse. VCT loses its finish in the traffic lanes first, so it wears in stripes. Catching those patterns early is much cheaper than restoration once they have set in.
There is a client-facing argument too. A prospective customer forms an impression in your entry and confirms it in your restroom. Those two spaces do more quiet work for your reputation than most marketing you will pay for this year.
Questions
Commercial Cleaning: common questions
A rolling monthly agreement with 30 days' notice on either side. Long lock-ins protect the cleaning company, not the client, and a route that has to be defended contractually is a route that is not being run well.
We can, and some retail and salon clients prefer a midday touch-up on restrooms and glass. Full cleaning still works better after close, when floors can dry and nobody has to work around us.
We clean waiting areas, offices, restrooms, break rooms and treatment room surfaces to your written protocol. We do not perform regulated biohazard or sharps handling; that stays with your compliance vendor.
Either way works. Most clients buy their preferred brands and we manage the stock and tell you when to reorder; some prefer we supply everything and bill it as a line item.
Those are periodic projects quoted separately from your route, typically once or twice a year. Rolling them into a monthly rate hides their real cost and usually means they quietly never happen.
Issued to named team members, logged, and returned or deactivated when the assignment changes. If your insurer requires specific handling procedures, we follow them and confirm in writing.
Yes, with a week's notice. Seasonal businesses around the lakes often move up in summer and back down after Labor Day, and the price follows the actual schedule.
Related services
Often booked alongside this
Deep Cleaning
Hand detail on grout, tracks, baseboards, vents and built-up grease — the reset that makes regular cleaning worth paying for.Regular Cleaning
Weekly, biweekly or monthly visits with the same assigned team and a rotating detail schedule so nothing slowly falls behind.House Cleaning
A complete clean of the rooms you actually use, top to bottom, with the tracks, edges and fixtures included instead of skipped.
Service area
Commercial Cleaning across sixteen towns
Commercial routes run after hours through these towns, including the business corridors along Highway 61 and the downtown blocks further south.
Every town we cover, by direction and distance
Distances are from Wyoming, MN. If you are just outside the circle, ask anyway — when we already have a stop near you that day, we can usually fit you in.
- Wyoming, MNHome base
- Forest Lake, MNS · 5 mi
- Chisago City, MNNE · 6 mi
- Stacy, MNN · 6 mi
- Columbus, MNSW · 8 mi
- Lindström, MNNE · 9 mi
- Center City, MNNE · 10 mi
- Scandia, MNE · 11 mi
- Hugo, MNS · 11 mi
- North Branch, MNN · 12 mi
- Lino Lakes, MNSW · 13 mi
- Ham Lake, MNW · 16 mi
- White Bear Lake, MNS · 18 mi
- Blaine, MNSW · 18 mi
- Taylors Falls, MNNE · 19 mi
- Stillwater, MNSE · 24 mi
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Send the city, the size of the space and a couple of photos. We reply with a fixed number and a realistic time estimate.