Desks and workspaces
Desks, tables and chairs damp wiped, sills and fittings dusted, and touchpoints sanitised. Personal items are worked around, not moved.
Office cleaning
Contract office cleaning you don't have to supervise
Cleaning for occupied offices, run from a written plan. Your team works to a fixed daily order, detail tasks have a set day each week, and standards are written down so an inspection has something to measure against.
Typical scope
What an office contract usually covers
The real scope is set by your site plan after a survey, because a single floor and a four-storey building do not need the same thing. This is what a typical office contract includes.
Kitchens and breakout
Crockery washed and put away, appliances and surfaces cleaned including underneath, cupboards left ordered rather than just closed.
Washrooms
Cleaned top to bottom and cleanest to dirtiest, consumables replenished, and finished with the floor.
Floors
Vacuumed into corners, under desks and across entrance matting; hard floors mopped, with a weekly machine clean.
Waste and recycling
Every stream to the right bin, bins wiped, and the area around them cleaned rather than stepped over.
Glass and touchpoints
Internal glass, doors, handles and push plates — the surfaces people actually touch and notice.
Daily
The daily order of work
Every Acies shift follows the same nine steps in the same order. Each one ends by checking the work before moving on, which is what stops the last room of a shift looking different from the first.
Opening walkthrough
Lights and ventilation on, caution signage out, and a look at the state of the space before anything is touched — bins, kitchen, general appearance, stock levels.
Kitchens
Crockery washed and put away, appliances and surfaces damp wiped including underneath, cupboards left ordered.
Surfaces
Desks, tables and chairs damp wiped, sills and fittings dusted, glass and handles cleaned, and every touchpoint sanitised.
Washrooms
Ventilated and signed, consumables replenished, then cleaned top to bottom and cleanest to dirtiest, finishing with the floor.
Waste
Every stream to the right bin, bins themselves wiped, and the area under and around them cleaned rather than stepped over.
Vacuum
Under desks and furniture, into corners and edges, and across entrance matting — the places a quick pass misses.
Mop
All hard floors, left free of removable marks rather than simply wet.
Machine clean
Hard floors cleaned with a scrubber dryer on a weekly cycle, which is what stops a mopped floor slowly greying over a year.
Closing walkthrough
The space set back to how it should look on arrival, anything to report written down, equipment cleaned, and the building left secure.
Weekly
Detail work has a day, not an intention
Most contracts promise periodic cleaning "as required", which is how descaling, dusting and cobwebbing quietly stop happening. Acies gives each theme a fixed day of the week, so the detail work is part of the routine rather than something to catch up on.
Monday
Kitchens
- Cupboards, drawers and shelves damp wiped
- Fridge damp wiped
- Sinks and taps descaled
- Dishwasher maintenance clean
- Cobwebbing
Tuesday
Surfaces
- Desks dusted and damp wiped
- Doors and kick plates damp wiped
- Fixtures, fittings and lampshades dusted
- Plug sockets and picture frames dusted
- Walls spot damp wiped
Wednesday
Washrooms
- Doors damp wiped
- Sinks, taps and chrome descaled
- Toilet bowls descaled
- Shower heads descaled quarterly
- Drains and overflow pipes quarterly
Thursday
Waste
- Bin storage area swept and kept clear
- Waste receptacles washed inside
- Liners replenished at every bin point
- Cobwebbing
Friday
Floors
- Internal stairs vacuumed and damp mopped
- Skirting boards dusted
- Edges and corners given specific attention
The exact tasks on each day are set by your site plan. This is the shape of it, not a fixed list.
The standard
What "clean" means, in writing
Acies specifies the result rather than the activity. "Mopped the floor" is an activity and proves nothing. The table below is what both sides measure against at an inspection — including what is reasonable to see between cleans, because a building in use is not a photograph.
| Area | Acceptable on completion | Acceptable between cleans | Unacceptable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hard floors | Dry, uniform in appearance, and free from spillages, removable stains, superficial marks and loose debris. | Debris and spillages arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of spillages, removable stains, scuff marks or debris. A non-uniform finish. |
| Soft floors | Free from visible loose debris, dust, fluff and lint, with an overall even appearance. | Debris arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of debris, dust or lint, particularly around edges and the bases of furniture. |
| Vertical and high-level surfaces | Free from impacted debris, dust, cobwebs and removable marks. | Dust and marks arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of dust or impacted debris, especially where vertical surfaces meet horizontal ones. |
| Furniture, fixtures and fittings | Dry, uniform in appearance, and free from impacted debris, dust, cobwebs and removable stains. | Debris, dust and marks arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of dust or impacted debris. Removable stains and smears. |
| Sanitary fittings | Dry, odour free, uniform in appearance, and free from impacted debris, removable stains, scale and body fats. | Debris and residual odour arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of impacted debris, fats or scale on any surface. Removable stains and smears. |
Why it holds up
The parts that stop standards drifting
An office contract does not usually fail in week one. It fails around month four, when the detail work quietly stops and nobody notices until a complaint arrives.
- The plan is a document. When something is disputed, there is a written task and frequency to check rather than a conversation to have.
- Detail work is scheduled.Descaling, dusting and cobwebbing sit on a named day rather than on good intentions.
- Checks compare like with like.Inspections measure the site against its own plan — seequality assurance.
- The method travels. Cover works to the same order of work as your regular team — seethe Acies Method.
Get a written plan for your office
A site survey takes about an hour. You get a task-and-frequency plan for your building, and it is yours to keep whether or not you go on to work with Acies.