Office Cleaning Nottingham | Commercial Contracts

Office cleaning is contracted cleaning of a commercial workspace, normally carried out outside working hours. It covers desks and touch points, washrooms, kitchens and breakout areas, floors and waste, with periodic deeper work on carpets, windows and high level surfaces.

Unlike domestic cleaning it is partly a legal obligation. Under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, employers in Great Britain must keep workplaces and the furniture and fittings in them sufficiently clean, remove waste appropriately, and provide suitable washing facilities.

We quote against a written specification with the hours allocated against each section. A price with no specification is a number you cannot compare with anything, and it is the single most common reason cleaning contracts go wrong in month five.

We do a lot of this work in Nottingham City Centre, where small offices above the retail streets and in lace market conversions, where access is the constraint rather than the cleaning. See office & commercial cleaning in Nottingham City Centre, across Bulwell or Stapleford and NG9.

What is included

Every visit

Desks and hard surfaces, subject to a clear desk policy
Touch points named individually: door handles, push plates, light switches, lift buttons, handrails, kitchen taps
Washrooms cleaned and consumables restocked
Kitchen and breakout areas
Waste and recycling to the collection point
Floors vacuumed and hard floors mopped
Reception, entrance glass and meeting rooms reset

Weekly or fortnightly

Internal glass and partitions
Skirting boards
Desk legs and chair bases
Microwave interiors
Window sills
Stairwells including handrails and risers

Periodic, scheduled and priced up front

Carpet deep cleaning
Hard floor machine scrub, strip and reseal
High level dusting including light fittings and vents
Internal and external window cleaning
Upholstery on soft seating
Entrance matting deep cleaned or replaced

What is not included

Individual staff washing up, which no contract can fix
Clearing personal items from desks
Confidential waste, which needs a separate certified destruction process
Clinical or hazardous waste
Work at height beyond a small step without proper equipment and method statements

We supply site-specific RAMS, COSHH assessments and safety data sheets before the first visit, along with public liability and employers liability certificates. If you are changing contractor, raise TUPE at the start: if existing cleaners are assigned to your site the regulations may require us to take them on at their existing terms, and that materially affects the price.

How long it takes

Property	Our team	On your own
Up to 10 desks	2 to 3 visits a week	About 1 hour per visit
10 to 25 desks	3 to 5 visits	1.5 to 2 hours
25 to 50 desks	5 visits	2 to 3 hours
50 to 100 desks	5 visits	3 to 4 hours, often two cleaners
Salon or clinic	Daily or per session	Set against your own risk assessment

Washroom count moves a quote more than desk count does. Two extra cubicles change the hours more than twenty extra desks. Match the frequency to actual occupancy: if the office is empty on Fridays, do not pay for a Friday clean.

What office & commercial cleaning costs in Nottingham

Contract office cleaning, weekly cost on a standard specification out of hours. Our own cost research puts the Midlands at around the UK average to 10% below it, so Nottingham sits in the lower half of every range on this page.

Property	Typical per week
Up to 10 desks, 2 to 3 visits	£60 to £120
10 to 25 desks, 3 to 5 visits	£120 to £280
25 to 50 desks, 5 visits	£280 to £520
50 to 100 desks, 5 visits	£520 to £950
100+ desks	£950 and up

Washroom count moves a quote more than desk count does. Two extra cubicles change the hours more than twenty extra desks.

Priced separately

Extra	Typical cost
Office cleaning, per hour	£15 to £28
Carpet deep clean	£1.50 to £3.50 per m²
Hard floor strip and reseal	£3 to £7 per m²
Washroom deep clean and descale	£150 to £400

These are typical Nottingham market ranges, not our price list. We quote a fixed price in writing for your property before anything starts, because a number produced from a bedroom count alone has priced an average property rather than yours. The figures above come from our own UK cost research, set out in full in this guide.

How a contract is set up

A site visit before a price

Washroom count, flooring type, kitchen use, access and security all determine the hours, and none of them are visible from a floor area. A contractor who quotes without visiting has priced an average building.

A written specification with hours against it

Every task, its frequency, and the hours allocated. If the daily list takes two hours and the contract funds one, the list will not be completed and nobody will have agreed which half gets dropped. It will be the half nobody sees.

Touch points named individually

Door handles, push plates, light switches, lift buttons, handrails, kitchen taps, shared keyboards and printer panels. Named individually they get done; written as touch points they get interpreted.

Detergent first, then disinfectant, left wet

Disinfectant on a soiled surface achieves very little, and sprayed then immediately wiped it achieves almost nothing. The contact time on the label is how long the surface has to stay visibly wet, and it is the most commonly mis-executed task in commercial cleaning.

A monthly walk-round, logged

Ten minutes a month against the specification, dated, with a named person each side. Contracts that are reviewed stay good. Contracts nobody reviews decline slowly, and by the time anyone says anything the relationship is past saving.

When to book it

Allow four to six weeks between first contact and the first clean if you are changing contractor, because TUPE consultation, key handover and site induction all take real time. Starting a contract badly is expensive to correct.

Whoever turns up is directly employed by us, DBS-checked and reference-verified, which is not the same arrangement as most companies quoting against this. More on how we work on the about page, and the common pre-booking questions are on the FAQ page.

Where we do this

Office & Commercial Cleaning runs across all 23 areas we cover, at the same price with no travel supplement. Each link goes to what this job involves in that particular place.

If you want everything we do in one place rather than this service on its own, the area pages cover that: Nottingham City Centre, Bulwell, Stapleford and every other area. The services hub compares this service against the other 7.

What goes wrong, and how to avoid it

The mistakes below account for most of the disappointment in this kind of work, ours included. Several of them will save you money whether you hire us or not.

Comparing prices instead of hours

Two cleaners for one hour is not the same as one cleaner for two hours, and neither may be the ninety minutes the building needs. A quote without a specification and an hours allocation cannot be compared with anything.

Leaving TUPE until after award

If existing cleaners are assigned to your site the regulations may require the incoming contractor to take them on at existing terms. A bidder who has not asked about it has probably not priced it, and that becomes your problem and your price increase.

Buying desk cleaning without a clear desk policy

If staff leave papers and equipment out, the desks will not be wiped, and no contractor can fix that from their side.

Never scheduling the periodic work

Carpets, hard floor machine work, high level dusting and windows are almost never in the recurring price. Scheduled and priced at contract stage they happen; requested ad hoc they cost more and usually never happen at all, and the building quietly degrades over two or three years until you are replacing rather than maintaining.

Making yourself the quality control

If the only monitoring is you noticing things and complaining, standards drift, because they always do. Ask what the contractor's own audit looks like.

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What people ask about office & commercial cleaning in Nottingham

How much do office cleaners cost?

On a standard specification out of hours, roughly £60 to £120 a week for up to ten desks and £280 to £520 for twenty five to fifty. Washroom count moves the figure more than desk count does. A price with no written specification and no hours allocated against it cannot be compared with another price.

How much is a cleaner per hour in Nottingham?

Commercial cleaning runs about £15 to £28 an hour through a company. Domestic is £17 to £25. The Midlands sits at around the UK average to 10% below it. The gap between an independent rate and a company rate covers employer national insurance, holiday pay, insurance, vetting and cover when someone is ill.

Is £20 an hour a lot for a cleaner?

No, it is about the middle of the market for a company rate in the Midlands. An independent cleaner working for themselves charges less because they carry none of the employment cost. What £20 buys that £13 does not is insurance, a vetted and directly employed cleaner, and someone else turning up when yours is ill.

What should a cleaner do in 3 hours?

In an office, three hours covers desks and touch points, washrooms restocked, the kitchen, waste out and floors, for roughly twenty five to fifty desks. Ask for the hours allocated against each section in writing. If the daily list takes two hours and the contract funds one, half of it silently will not happen.

Questions

Office & Commercial CleaningQuestions

Anything not covered here, ring us on 07438 843980.

Do you supply the consumables?

We can, and it is usually more reliable because we see the stock levels. Either way it gets agreed explicitly, along with who to call when the soap runs out at nine in the morning.

Will you provide RAMS?

Yes, site-specific rather than a template with your name pasted in, referencing your own fire procedure and access arrangements. Many landlords and managing agents will not permit access without them.

What happens if the cleaner does not turn up?

We tell you proactively and send cover. Ask any contractor this before you sign, because one who says it never happens is not answering the question.

Can you clean during office hours?

Yes, and it has become more common with hybrid working. It costs more, because daytime hours attract higher rates and the work is slower around occupants.

Do you clean salons, clinics and surgeries?

Yes, with colour-coded equipment, enforced contact times and signed cleaning schedules. Those settings are a different discipline from office cleaning and we specify them separately.