Periodic and specialist work

Periodic work is where a building shows its age: the carpet in reception, the vinyl in the corridor that has gone grey, the dust on top of the lights. It is scheduled into every contract and also done as one-off jobs for buildings we do not otherwise clean, from a half day with a floor machine to a week on a builders' clean.

Carpets and upholstery are hot-water extracted with a test patch first and dry in hours; hard floors are stripped, sealed and burnished with the right chemistry for vinyl, stone or wood. High-level work covers lights, ducting, beams and the tops of partitions with access equipment our operatives are trained on. Internal glass and partitions are squeegeed; external windows we subcontract to a reach-and-wash firm we have used for nine years.

Builders' cleans come in two stages, a rough clean when the trades finish and a sparkle clean before handover, with the dust that gets into every drawer and the labels off every pane of glass. Dilapidation cleans at the end of a lease are done to the landlord's schedule with a photo report. All specialist work is priced in writing before it starts, from a survey or from plans and photographs.

What is included

• Carpets and upholstery hot-water extracted
• Hard floors stripped, sealed and burnished
• High-level dusting, lighting and ductwork
• Internal glass and partitions
• Builders' cleans in two stages, dilapidation cleans with a photo report
• Priced in writing before it starts

What it costs

£26 an operative hour, four-hour minimum. Carpets £2.40 a square metre, internal glass £2.50 a pane. Builders' cleans and floor restoration priced from a survey. Rates exclude VAT. The prices page has every rate and extra, and an estimate builder that turns your floor area into hours and a monthly figure.