Insights for facility & property managers

Practical guidance on specifying, tendering and managing cleaning contracts. Written to be useful on its own, so a single link carries an introduction.

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Tendering

The 12 questions to ask a cleaning contractor before you sign

Most cleaning contracts fail on things that were never asked about at the quote stage: who supervises, who is actually employed, what happens when someone does not turn up.

7 min read · Updated August 2026

Guides

Compliance

What $20m public liability actually covers

5 min read

Aged care

Infection control in retirement villages

6 min read

Costs

Why the cheapest cleaning quote usually costs more

5 min read

Case notes

Strip & seal: when vinyl actually needs it

4 min read

Medical

Cleaning a clinic between patient lists

5 min read

Tendering

How commercial cleaning is priced, line by line

8 min read

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Short notes from jobs in progress. Two minutes to write, and they keep this section alive between longer guides — the same posts feed Instagram and LinkedIn.

Aug 14

Overnight strip and seal at a Clayton clinic

Aug 02

New extraction machine on the Berwick run

Jul 21

Bin room rebuild at a Dandenong strata site

Jul 09

What a 4am supermarket clean looks like

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