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Office Deep Cleaning
Office deep cleaning services for Melbourne workplaces that need more than a nightly clean can give: carpets extracted, vents and light fittings dusted, kitchens degreased, upholstery cleaned and touch points disinfected. It runs as a single planned job, overnight or across a weekend, and works alongside the regular cleaning programs we run or stands alone.
Every deep clean includes
- A written job scope first
- TGA-listed disinfectants
- Before and after photos
- Floors dry by morning
- $20M insuredCertificate before the job
- Police-checkedCrew named in advance
- Out of hoursNights or weekends
- Fixed priceQuoted per job
A regular cleaner keeps an office tidy. Over months, though, a layer builds up that nightly visits never reach: grey tracks in the carpet between the lifts and the kitchen, a film on the top of every light diffuser, grease behind the fridge, grime in the fabric of meeting chairs. None of it is a cleaner's failure. It is simply work that needs time, equipment and an empty office.
A deep clean clears that layer in one go. It is planned like a small project, with a scope, a crew, a start time and a finish time, so it fits around your business instead of the other way round. When staff come in the next morning, the difference is usually obvious before they have put their bags down.
When does office deep cleaning in Melbourne make sense?
Office deep cleaning in Melbourne makes sense once or twice a year for most offices, and at six specific moments: before a fit-out or move, before an audit or big visit, after an illness goes through the team, after renovation dust, at the start of a new lease, and when a new cleaner takes over.
- Twice a year, by habit
Many clients book a deep clean in late summer and again before the end of the financial year, so carpets and kitchens never fall too far behind.
- Before an audit or visit
Accreditation visits, investor days and client tours are when stained chairs and dusty vents cost you the most.
- After illness in the team
Gastro or flu working through the office calls for disinfection of every shared touch point, not just the usual wipe.
- After renovation work
Fine plaster and timber dust settles on every flat surface and into carpets and vents for weeks after the trades leave.
- New lease or new layout
Moving into space someone else used, or rearranging desks, is the easiest time to reset everything at once.
- Switching cleaners
A deep clean gives a new regular crew a true baseline, so the standard they keep is the one you actually want.
Scope and method
What is included in an office deep clean, and in what order?
An office deep clean includes high dusting, vents and lights, all surfaces and upholstery, a full kitchen degrease, detailed bathrooms, and carpet extraction or hard floor scrubbing. We work top to bottom and dry to wet, so dust knocked down early is picked up by the floor work at the end.
- High dustingTops of partitions, cupboards, window frames, picture rails and any ledge above head height.
- Vents, lights and blindsAir-conditioning grilles, light diffusers and blinds dusted or wiped, depending on the material.
- Surfaces and upholsteryDesks cleared and cleaned right through, chair fabric extracted, meeting chairs and lounges shampooed.
- Kitchen degreaseFridge emptied and washed, microwave, oven and splashback degreased, cupboard fronts and kickboards scrubbed.
- Bathrooms in detailGrout scrubbed, exhaust fans cleaned, partitions and door frames washed, fittings descaled.
- Floors lastCarpet hot water extraction by traffic area, hard floors machine scrubbed and dried.
Touch points are disinfected at step three with TGA-listed products left on for the contact time the label requires, which is the part most rushed jobs skip. Every chemical comes with its safety data sheet. The full standard scope that a deep clean builds on is set out in what's included in office cleaning, and a printable version of the deep clean list sits in our office deep cleaning checklist.
The difference
How is a deep clean different from a regular clean?
A regular clean maintains what people see and touch every day. A deep clean restores what builds up out of sight. The table sets the two side by side for the areas where the gap is largest, so you can judge which one your office actually needs right now.
| Area | Regular visit | Deep clean |
|---|---|---|
| Carpet | Vacuumed, spots treated | Hot water extraction pulls out ground-in soil |
| Kitchen | Benches, sink, appliance fronts | Fridge emptied, oven and cupboards degreased inside |
| Chairs | Arms and bases wiped | Fabric seats and backs shampooed or extracted |
| High areas | Within easy reach only | Vents, diffusers, partition tops, blinds |
| Bathrooms | Sanitised and restocked | Grout, exhaust fans, fittings descaled |
| Hard floors | Damp mopped | Machine scrubbed, edges and corners by hand |
A good regular program makes deep cleans cheaper and faster, because the job starts from a clean base. Offices without regular cleaning can still book one; the first deep clean simply takes longer, and if a regular program would cost you less across the year, we say so up front.
Sanitising
How do you sanitise an office after an illness?
After a stomach bug or flu goes through the team, we clean every shared touch point first and then disinfect it with a TGA-listed product, leaving it wet for the full contact time. Bathrooms and kitchens get the most attention, and cloths are changed between areas so nothing is carried from one room to the next.
- Step oneClean first
Disinfectant does not work well through grime, so every surface is cleaned with detergent before anything else.
- Step twoDisinfect touch points
Taps, handles, switches, lift buttons, keyboards, phones, toilet seats and flush buttons.
- Step threeLeave it working
Each disinfectant sits on the surface for the minutes printed on its label before anyone wipes it away.
- Step fourSeparate cloths
Colour-coded cloths per area, bagged and laundered after the job, never reused between rooms.
Cleaning supports your workplace's own health steps rather than replacing them. Victoria's Better Health Channel advises that people with gastro stay home for 48 hours after symptoms stop, and it names taps, toilet seats and kitchen tops as the surfaces to clean. We time a sanitising clean so the office is ready when people come back.
We can usually run a sanitising clean the same night or the next, because it needs fewer machines than a full deep clean. For clinics and practices with their own infection control policy, we follow the practice's instructions on products and order; our role is to carry out the cleaning and record what was done, not to set clinical policy.
Scheduling and price
How many hours does an office deep clean need, and what is the price?
Most offices under 300 square metres are deep cleaned in one evening by a crew of two or three. Larger floors and heavily soiled carpets take a weekend. Each job is priced as a fixed amount after a walk-through, because carpet area, kitchen condition and chair numbers vary far more than floor size alone.
| Office | Typical crew and time | What drives the price |
|---|---|---|
| Suite under 100 m² | Two people, one evening | Carpet area, kitchen condition |
| 100 to 300 m² | Two or three people, one long evening | Chairs to shampoo, number of bathrooms |
| 300 to 1,000 m² | Three to five people, a weekend | High areas, drying time, lift access |
| Multi-floor | Staged floor by floor | Floors per night, periodic calendar |
Getting the office ready helps the crew spend time on cleaning
- Clear desks of papers you want left untouched
- Empty the fridge of anything worth keeping
- Unplug and lift cables off the floor under desks
- Tell staff not to come in during the job
- Leave the air-conditioning on to help carpets dry
- Flag any fragile or confidential items in writing
Carpets are extracted with enough airflow to dry by the next morning in most offices; heavy wool carpets or winter jobs may need fans left running overnight. We move light furniture and put it back where it was, photographing desks first where the layout matters. Heavy items such as compactus units and fully loaded filing cabinets stay put and are cleaned around.
The price is fixed before we start and covers labour, machines, products and waste removal. Clients on a regular program get deep cleans at a lower rate because the job starts from a maintained office. Our office cleaning pricing page explains how regular visits are priced, which is the best comparison point.
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How do I book an office deep clean?
Send your suburb, office size and the reason for the clean, whether that is an audit, a move or an illness. A guide price follows inside two business hours; a quick walk-through or a few photos fix the price, and we lock in a night or weekend that suits you.
- Tell us why and when. The trigger shapes the scope: an audit is different from a post-illness clean.
- Agree the job scope. Rooms, carpets, chairs and anything to leave untouched, in writing.
- Walk in to the result. Before and after photos arrive with the completion report.
Questions
What else should you know before a deep clean?
Short answers on price, timing and commitment. For everything else we do, see our guide to office cleaning across Melbourne.