Seven guides, reviewed September 2026
Office Cleaning Guides
These office cleaning guides are written for Melbourne office managers, practice managers and business owners who buy cleaning but have never had to become experts in it. They cover budgets, cleaning checklists, visit frequency, contracts and how to pick a company. Each one answers the question first. When you are ready to act, our office cleaning service for Melbourne workplaces is here.
In these guides
- Real Melbourne prices
- Printable checklists
- Contract clauses to check
- No sales pitch
- $20M insuredPublic liability cover
- Police-checkedEvery cleaner
- No lock-inMonth to month
- Written scopeBefore the first clean
Start here
Which office cleaning guide should I read first?
Start with whichever office cleaning guide matches the job in front of you. Setting a budget? Read the cost guide. Writing a scope or checking your current cleaner? Use the checklist. Choosing or switching companies? Begin with the buying guide, then the contracts guide before you sign anything.
What should cleaning cost us?
Per-visit rates by office size and visits a week, a calculator for your monthly figure, and the line items that push a quote up or down.
Open the cost guide Checking the workWhat should our cleaner actually do?
A room-by-room list of daily, weekly and monthly tasks that you can print, pin up in the kitchen, or check your current cleaner against.
Open the checklist Hiring or switchingHow do we pick the right company?
Eight questions to ask every company that quotes, the paperwork to request, and the warning signs that turn up in cheap proposals.
Open the buying guideMost readers need two guides, not seven. An office manager replacing a cleaner who keeps missing the bathrooms usually wants the checklist, to show what was missed, and the contracts guide, to see how much notice they owe. A new business setting up its first office mostly needs the cost guide and the frequency guide, so the budget matches a sensible number of visits. The rest are there when a specific question comes up.
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What does each guide cover?
Seven guides cover the full buying cycle: cost, what gets cleaned, deep cleans, frequency, choosing a company, contracts, and keeping the office tidy between visits. Each one links to the service page it relates to, so you can move from reading to a quote without searching.
Office cleaning costs in Melbourne, 2026
Real 2026 per-visit rates for small, medium and large offices, a monthly calculator, and how to compare quotes that are built in different ways.
Read the cost guide
Office cleaning checklist
Daily, weekly and monthly tasks, room by room, with a printable version.
See the checklist
Office deep cleaning checklist
Everything a deep clean should include, and how it differs from a regular visit.
See the deep clean list
How often should an office be cleaned?
Weekly, twice weekly or nightly: matching visits to headcount, kitchen use and visitors.
Read the frequency guide
How to choose an office cleaning company
Eight questions, the documents to ask for, and red flags in cheap quotes.
Read the buying guide
Office cleaning contracts guide
What a fair agreement includes and the lock-in and price clauses worth refusing.
Read the contracts guide
Keeping the office clean between cleans
Simple desk, kitchen and shared-space habits, with a staff etiquette list.
Read the staff tipsHow they are written
Where does the information in these guides come from?
From the work itself. The prices come from our own quotes across Melbourne, the checklists from the scopes we write for real offices, and the contract advice from agreements clients have shown us from previous cleaners. Where a guide relies on law or pay rates, it links to the official source.
Cleaning prices move with wages, and cleaners' minimum pay comes from the Cleaning Services Award, whose rates change after each annual wage review. When that happens, we check every figure in these guides against our current price list and change the reviewed month shown under each guide's title. We do not take payment to mention products or other businesses, and there are no affiliate links anywhere on this site.
We are a cleaning company, so these guides naturally mention what we do. We have tried to make each one useful even if you never call us: the checklist works for any cleaner, the questions in the buying guide are ones you should ask us as well, and the contracts guide explains the clauses we would rather you refused elsewhere.
Free quote
Read enough and want a real number?
Send your office size, suburb and preferred nights, and a guide price arrives by email, normally inside two business hours. It is the quickest way to test what the guides say against your own office, and there is nothing to sign until a walk-through has fixed the scope.
- Size, suburb, nights. That is all we need to start.
- Guide price by email. With GST already in.
- Free walk-through. Then a fixed scope and price.
Questions
Questions about the guides
Updates, sharing and what they do not cover.