How much does commercial cleaning cost in Double Bay?

Square-metre pricing suits warehouses, where the floor genuinely is the job. Almost nothing in Double Bay 2028 works that way. A boutique on Knox Street is mostly glass, joinery and a stone floor; a professional suite above Cross Street is mostly detail work across small rooms; a clinic on Bay Street is a protocol, not an area. In each case the labour sits in the detail rather than the square metres, so honest quoting starts from how long the scope actually takes.

That is why every quote we issue in the village starts as a written room-by-room scope with an estimated time against each line, and only then becomes a fixed monthly amount. You are never billed on a timesheet, but you can see how the number was built.

Two sites of identical floor area in the same building can differ by 40 percent in cost, and the reasons are always the same handful of things.

Ask both providers for the same three documents: a written room-by-room scope with a frequency against every line, a current certificate of currency for public liability, and confirmation that cleaners hold national police checks. A quote that is $8 an hour cheaper almost always resolves into fewer hours on site, a bathroom cleaned three times a week instead of five, or no insurance behind the work.

Once both scopes are genuinely comparable, the price gap in this suburb tends to close to a few percent. The cheap tender is rarely cheaper work — it is usually less work, described in a way that hides the difference until month three.

A properly written Double Bay agreement states the monthly amount ex-GST and GST-inclusive, lists exactly what is cleaned and how often, names the consumables arrangement, and sets the notice period. Ours are month-to-month with 30 days written notice, because a provider confident in the work does not need a three-year term to keep a client.

It should also say what happens when something is missed. Ours is simple: flag it and we re-attend free, usually within 24 hours, and repeated issues trigger a supervisor site review rather than an apology email.