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How We Clean a Multi-Tenanted McEvoy Street Warehouse Conversion, Alexandria 2015
This page sets out how we scope and run cleaning in a two-level brick warehouse conversion of the kind found throughout Alexandria 2015 — subdivided into two or three commercial tenancies, with a shared lobby, a lift, a fire stair and a basement. A typical mix is a design consultancy upstairs, a small professional practice below it, and a wholesale showroom with attached storage at ground level. It describes our method rather than a named client. Pro Clean Corp services Alexandria 2015 and surrounds.
The problem: several cleaners, nobody owning the middle
Each tenancy engages its own cleaner at a different time, on a different schedule, with a different idea of where its responsibility stops. The result is predictable. The shared lobby is cleaned inconsistently because no single tenant is paying for it. The bin room, usually undersized for the building's output, is tidied only when someone complains. High-level dust on the exposed steel and ductwork above the lobby goes untouched from fit-out onwards. And tenants routinely believe entry glass is in their contract when no cleaner has ever quoted for it.
It is usually the building owner who raises it, because the lobby is the first thing a prospective tenant walks through.
What we set up
- One written scope covering every tenancy and every common area, with each line attributed to whoever is paying for it
- One supervisor and one crew, starting after the earliest-closing tenancy and moving top-down through the building
- An initial deep clean quoted separately where needed: high dusting of steel and ductwork, degreasing the bin room, and a machine scrub of the ground-floor concrete
- Quarterly high-level pole work built into the ongoing program so the deep clean does not have to be repeated
- Bin room wash-down and drain treatment fixed to the day after collection, not to the day after a complaint
- Entry and lobby glass on a fortnightly round, with internal partition glass in each tenancy done monthly
- A monthly photo audit sent to every tenancy contact and to the owner, with a shared defect log
Why consolidating works
A combined monthly figure generally prices well against separate per-tenancy arrangements, because travel, set-up and supervision are absorbed once rather than once per cleaner — and the common areas, which are otherwise effectively unfunded, become genuinely covered. The pattern we look for in the defect log is a lot of catch-up items in the first month falling away by the third. That is what a site stabilising looks like.
Attached storage areas are usually added to the scope under our Alexandria warehouse cleaning program, and tenancies with soft floors add twice-yearly carpet extraction. Where an owners corporation exists, moving the common-area portion to a direct arrangement under strata cleaning is a cleaner structure again.
If your building looks like this
Multi-tenanted conversions are common across Alexandria 2015, and the shared-area gap is almost universal. The fix is not more cleaning, it is one scope with named responsibility. Ongoing tenancy programs are described on our office cleaning page, pricing on the cost guide and rates page, and the second Alexandria write-up covers street-front retail on Botany Road. General questions are answered on the FAQ.
Multi-tenancy cleaning — FAQs
What kind of building does this cover?
Converted brick warehouses near McEvoy Street, Alexandria 2015, subdivided into two or three commercial tenancies across two levels, with a shared entry lobby, a lift, a fire stair and often a small basement. It is one of the most common building types in the postcode.
What typically goes wrong in these buildings?
Each tenancy engages its own cleaner on its own schedule, so nobody owns the shared lobby. The bin room gets attended to when somebody complains rather than on a cycle, high-level dust above the lobby goes untouched for years, and tenants often believe entry glass is included when no cleaner has ever quoted for it.
What do you change operationally?
One scope, one supervisor and one visit pattern covering every tenancy plus the common areas. Cleaning starts after the earliest-closing tenant, high dusting moves onto a quarterly cycle with pole equipment, and the bin room goes onto a fixed wash-down tied to collection day rather than to complaints.
How is it priced?
As one combined monthly figure with each line attributed to whoever is paying for it. Consolidating usually prices well against separate arrangements because travel, set-up and supervision are absorbed once rather than once per tenancy. Any initial deep clean is quoted and invoiced as a separate one-off rather than averaged into the first month.
How is quality tracked?
A signed checklist after every visit and a monthly photo audit emailed to each tenancy contact and to the building owner, with any logged defect closed out within 48 hours.
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