Cleaning Cost Alexandria — What Cleaners Actually Charge in 2015
Getting a straight answer on cleaning cost in Alexandria 2015 is harder than it should be, because the suburb contains four very different kinds of site: converted-warehouse office floors, small shopfronts on Botany Road and McEvoy Street, apartment buildings with shared common property, and clinical or childcare sites with a compliance scope. Each carries a different hourly rate for good reasons. This page sets out the ranges we quote, what moves them, and where the money usually goes. Pro Clean Corp services Alexandria 2015 and surrounds.
Hourly ranges by site type
- Office and professional suites: $35–$48 per hour ongoing; $45–$58 for one-off or pre-inspection work
- Retail shopfronts: $36–$48 per hour, with early pre-open starts at the upper end
- Medical and allied health: $42–$55 per hour, reflecting colour coding, dwell times and documentation
- Childcare and early learning: $40–$50 per hour for a scope closer to clinical than commercial
- Gyms and studios: $38–$50 per hour, mostly overnight
- Machine work: carpet extraction $3.50–$6.00/sqm; concrete scrubbing $0.35–$0.80/sqm
Monthly examples from real Alexandria site types
Hourly rates are only half the answer — what most people actually want is the monthly number. As a guide: a 250 square metre first-floor suite off McEvoy Street cleaned three nights a week generally lands between $650 and $950 per month. A single Botany Road shopfront cleaned six mornings a week runs $900 to $1,600. A boutique fitness studio on a six-day overnight program sits at $1,300 to $2,200. A three-room allied health practice cleaned five nights lands at $1,100 to $1,900. A 30-lot warehouse-conversion apartment building with one lobby, one lift and a basement is usually $950 to $1,800 for twice-weekly common area service.
Those bands are wide on purpose. The bottom of each range assumes straightforward access, one amenity block, and consumables supplied by the client. The top assumes overnight access, multiple bathrooms, and us holding stock. A quote that arrives without a walkthrough is a guess dressed up as a number.
Where an Alexandria quote goes wrong
Three things reliably blow a budget here. The first is entry grit: sites fronting Botany Road need more matting attention and more frequent glass than their floor area implies, and a quote that ignores it becomes a monthly argument. The second is the first deep clean — old concrete, neglected grout and a year of high-level dust in a converted building are not an ongoing-rate job, and we price that initial pass separately rather than hiding it. The third is access: a site that can only be cleaned between 11pm and 4am costs more than the same site at 6pm, and no amount of negotiation changes that.
For a line-by-line breakdown of inclusions against each rate, see our Alexandria cleaning rates page. Service-specific pricing sits on the office, retail, strata and end of lease pages, and general questions are answered on the FAQ. Pricing for the wider Sydney network is published at https://www.procleancorp.com.au/.
Cleaning cost Alexandria — FAQs
What does cleaning cost in Alexandria per hour?
Ongoing commercial cleaning in Alexandria 2015 sits between $35 and $48 per hour. One-off and pre-inspection work runs $45 to $58 because there is no established routine to work from. Clinical and childcare sites sit at the upper end, around $40 to $55, because the scope includes documented disinfection and colour-coded systems that take longer to run correctly.
Why is a quote per hour and not per square metre?
Because labour is what you are buying. Two Alexandria tenancies of identical floor area can differ by 40% in cleaning hours if one has three bathrooms and a kitchen and the other has a single amenity. Floor-area pricing only makes sense for machine work — carpet extraction and concrete scrubbing — where the machine sets the rate.
What actually changes the price?
Five things, in order of impact: frequency, number of bathrooms and kitchens, after-hours or overnight access, floor type and how much of it is hard surface, and whether consumables are supplied by us or by you. Floor area matters far less than most people expect.
Is there a minimum charge?
Yes, effectively two hours per attendance for commercial work in Alexandria. Below that the travel and set-up cost more than the cleaning, and the honest answer is that a fortnightly two-hour visit will not hold a site to a standard anyone is happy with.
Do you charge extra for weekends or public holidays?
Saturday and Sunday work carries a loading that is written into your agreement up front, and public holidays are either rescheduled or charged at the agreed penalty rate — your choice, agreed in advance. There are no surprise line items on the invoice.
Are consumables included?
Only if you ask for them to be. Many Alexandria clients prefer us to hold and restock paper, soap and liners because running out is worse than the cost; others buy their own. Either way it appears as its own line, never buried in the hourly rate.
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