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Sectors

Six kinds of building

The routine is the same discipline in each of these; the constraints are not. What changes is when the work can happen, who asks for the evidence and which assets stop the building.

01

Offices

The client
Office managers, facilities leads and landlords with single or multi-tenant buildings.
What matters here
The building has to be ready before the first person arrives and presentable all day. Cleaning runs early or late, reactive jobs are visible to everyone, and the compliance record has to satisfy a landlord, an insurer and a tenant who all ask for it differently.
A typical schedule
Daily clean before 08:00, washrooms topped through the day, weekly fire alarm test, monthly emergency lighting and water temperatures, quarterly fire doors, planned mechanical visits at the intervals set on the register.
02

Education

The client
School and academy business managers, bursars and estates leads.
What matters here
The year is term-time and holidays, and the two need different schedules: light-touch during teaching, the heavy periodic work in the breaks. Access is governed by the school's own safeguarding arrangements, and the compliance file has to be ready for a governors' meeting or an inspection at short notice.
A typical schedule
Daily clean after the last lesson, periodic and deep work planned into each holiday, weekly fire alarm test, termly fire door checks, water temperatures monthly, grounds through the growing season.
03

Healthcare

The client
Practice managers, clinic managers and small independent healthcare providers.
What matters here
Cleaning is a clinical matter as much as a presentational one, so the schedule follows the standard the practice works to, and the evidence of it matters as much as the work. Water systems, ventilation and clinical waste carry their own frequencies, and a room out of use costs a list.
A typical schedule
Clinical and non-clinical areas cleaned to separate schedules and signed off, water temperatures monthly with weekly flushing where outlets are little used, ventilation and filter checks on the planner, fire checks on the weekly round.
04

Retail

The client
Store managers, retail estate teams and the managers of small parades and centres.
What matters here
Nothing may interrupt trading hours, so cleaning and maintenance work around opening, and a reactive job on the shop floor is measured in minutes rather than days. Front of house has to look new; back of house has to be safe, and both are inspected by people who arrive without notice.
A typical schedule
Clean before opening or after closing, hard floors on a periodic cycle, weekly fire alarm test, monthly extinguisher and emergency lighting checks, planned work booked outside trading hours.
05

Residential blocks

The client
Block managers, managing agents and resident management companies.
What matters here
Communal areas are the whole of the service charge that residents can see, so the schedule has to be visible and the evidence has to survive a challenge at an annual meeting. Fire doors, emergency lighting, dry risers and lifts carry the weight, and one invoice for cleaning, grounds and repairs is usually the point.
A typical schedule
Communal clean at a set frequency with a signed sheet, grounds through the season, weekly and monthly fire checks, quarterly fire door checks, lift alarm checks weekly with the examination arranged.
06

Industrial

The client
Site managers and operations leads on warehouses, light industrial units and depots.
What matters here
The building serves production, so planned work is booked around shifts and a shutdown is the only chance for some of it. Yards, doors, roofs and drainage take the most punishment, and the assets that stop the site are the ones the planner has to protect.
A typical schedule
Weekly and monthly fire checks on a round, planned mechanical and electrical visits booked around shifts, roller shutter and loading door servicing on the register, yard and drainage work seasonally.

Typical schedules, not a quotation. Your building's regime and the regulations apply.

These sections describe the building type and the schedule it usually needs. Sector commitments, such as the checks our staff hold for work in a school or the standard a clinical clean is audited against, appear here once the company has supplied them in writing.

Sectors

Six kinds of building

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