Services
Cleaning Services in Melbourne
These are the cleaning services Melbourne builders, agents, property managers and business owners book us for, all on one page. Each one has its own crew skills, machines and finish line, and each has a full page of detail behind it. If you would like the bigger picture first, read about Cleaningia as a Melbourne cleaning company, then come back to pick the service that fits your site.
Most people land here with one job in mind and a date attached to it. A builder needs a final clean before the handover inspection. A tenant has a make-good clause to satisfy. An agent has a photographer booked for Thursday. A shop owner found paint on the roller door this morning. The service you need depends less on the size of the mess and more on who has to sign it off, so that is how this page is organised.
Every service below starts the same way, with a scoped quote that lists the areas, the tasks, what is excluded and when we can be there. What changes from one service to the next is the equipment, the chemicals, the crew and the standard we are working to.
What every service has in common
- A written scope with inclusions and exclusions, agreed before booking
- A supervisor on site who has read that scope
- Public liability insurance, with the certificate available on request
- A final walk-through, with anything raised fixed before the crew leaves
- Photos of the finished work sent with the signed scope
At a glance
What cleaning services in Melbourne can you book with us?
Cleaningia provides eight cleaning services in Melbourne: construction cleaning for builders, floor care, graffiti removal, vacate cleans, pre-sale presentation, event crews, scheduled office cleaning and commercial upholstery. The table shows who usually books each one and what it is for.
| Service | What it is for | Usually booked by | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Builders cleaning | Taking a new build or fitout from construction dust to handover | Builders, developers, site managers | In stages, to the programme |
| Floor care | Restoring the finish on vinyl, tile, concrete and coated timber | Property and facility managers | After hours or weekends |
| Graffiti removal | Taking paint and etching off walls, doors and glass | Shop owners, owners corporations | As soon as it appears |
| Vacate cleaning | Returning a tenancy to its entry condition | Tenants, agents, landlords | Before the final inspection |
| Pre-sale cleaning | Presenting a property for photos and opens | Agents and vendors | Before the photographer |
| Event cleaning | Setting up, servicing and resetting a venue | Venues, organisers, companies | Before, during and after |
| Office cleaning | Keeping a workplace clean on a schedule | Office managers, building owners | Evenings or early mornings |
| Upholstery | Cleaning chairs, lounges and booths by fabric type | Offices, venues, reception areas | After hours, dry by morning |
Plenty of businesses sell a cleaning service in Melbourne; fewer explain what they will and won't do before you book. If you are comparing providers, ask each one what their scope excludes and who checks the work at the end. The best cleaning services in Melbourne answer both questions in writing, and that is the standard we hold ourselves to on every job below.
A quick way to use the table: find the row that matches the person who has to approve the result, because that tells you which standard the clean will be judged against. If it is a site manager, start with builders cleaning. If it is a property manager or landlord, start with vacate cleaning. If it is a buyer walking through, start with pre-sale. Each service page then explains exactly what the crew does and what you need to have ready.
Our main service
What does builders and post-construction cleaning cover?
It covers everything between the last trade leaving and the keys being handed over: debris and dust removal, paint and silicone off glass and fittings, joinery wiped inside and out, floors finished and a final detail clean. We run it in three stages, timed to your build programme.
- Rough cleanBulk debris out, floors vacuumed, heavy dust off ledges.
- Practical completionResidue off every surface ahead of the defects walk.
- Final cleanFine dust, glass and floors, then the handover walk.
Post-construction cleaning is the wider term we use for commercial sites: office floors, retail fitouts and new buildings, plus ongoing cleaning of site amenities while the build is still running. Crews arrive with WorkSafe white cards, sit your induction and work to your site rules.
Good to know: we bag and remove our own cleaning waste, but construction debris goes in the builder's skip, so it helps to keep one on site until the final clean. Power and water on each floor save hours, and a copy of the programme lets us book stages before the dates get tight.
How our builders cleaning works, stage by stage
Floor care
Which floor care services do you offer?
We strip and reseal vinyl, burnish sealed floors back to a shine, deep scrub tile and grout, top up guard coats on polished concrete and maintain coated timber. The work is done with rotary and burnishing machines, mostly after hours so the floor can dry untouched.
- Sealed vinyl
- Tile and grout
- Polished concrete
- Coated timber
- Safety vinyl
A floor that has gone grey usually has nothing wrong with it underneath; the sealer has worn through and dirt has settled into what is left. Stripping that layer off and laying fresh coats brings most vinyl back for a fraction of the cost of replacing it. Sanding timber to bare boards is a separate flooring trade, and we will tell you if your floor has reached that point.
How often a floor needs attention depends on traffic. A busy entry or corridor might want burnishing every few weeks and a full strip and seal every year or two, while a quiet office floor can go far longer. We will suggest a schedule after seeing the floor rather than selling a fixed plan.
Floor polishing and floor care in detail
Graffiti removal
How does your graffiti removal service work?
You send a photo and the address, we identify the surface and the paint, and a crew removes it with the method that surface can take. Brick, render, painted walls, metal doors and glass each need a different approach, which is why we ask what is underneath before quoting.
Speed makes a real difference. Spray paint that is a day old sits on top of the surface; a month of sun and rain drives it into porous brick and render, where it takes longer and costs more to lift. For shopfronts that get hit often, we can talk through anti-graffiti coatings that make each removal quicker.
Etched glass is the one surface where cleaning has limits. Light scratching can often be polished out, deep etching may mean a new pane, and we will say which before any work starts.
To price it quickly, send a photo of the whole area, a close-up of the surface and a note of how high the tag goes. If the building is heritage-listed or the brick is old and soft, tell us, because it changes the product and the pressure we can safely use.
Graffiti removal for every surface
Vacate cleaning
What is included in a vacate clean?
Everything the lease says must go back clean, whether that is set out in an entry report for a rental or in a commercial make-good clause: floors, walls where marked, kitchens, bathrooms, glass, fittings and fixtures. We quote against that document, so the clean matches what the inspector will actually check.
Commercial tenancies are most of this work, from small shops to whole office floors, often timed around make-good trades. Book the clean for after the furniture has gone and the trades have finished, with a day of buffer before the final inspection in case anything is raised. We also do residential vacates on houses and apartments, where the test under Victorian rules is whether the home is left reasonably clean and as it was when the renter moved in, with normal wear accepted (see Consumer Affairs Victoria on condition reports).
Vacate cleaning in Melbourne
Pre-sale cleaning
When should you book a pre-sale clean?
Book it for the day before the photographer, because the listing photos are what most buyers see first and they can't be retaken cheaply. Then add a light refresh before each open, so kitchens, bathrooms, glass and floors look the same in person as they did online.
A pre-sale clean is about presentation rather than a checklist. We spend the time where cameras and buyers look: benchtops, splashbacks, mirrors, tapware, window glass, skirting boards and the first room people walk into. Agents with regular listings can set up a standing arrangement. If the vendors are still living in the home, we work room by room around them; decluttering and styling stay with them and the stylist.
Pre-sale cleaning for agents and vendorsEvent cleaning
What does an event cleaning crew do?
An event crew works in three blocks. It gets the venue presentable before guests arrive, keeps bins, bathrooms and spills under control while the event runs, and resets the space afterwards so it can be handed back on time, often late at night or early the next morning.
- BeforeFloors, glass, bathrooms and entries prepared, and bin stations set up where the crowd will be.
- DuringRoving crew on bin runs, spills, bathroom checks and restocking, out of the way of guests.
- AfterRubbish out, floors cleaned, furniture reset and the venue walked with the manager before handback.
We work with function venues, halls, corporate events and outdoor gatherings. The part that matters most is timing, so we plan the crew size against your run sheet and the venue's handback time rather than guessing. Send us the run sheet, bump-in and bump-out times, where the bins can go and the venue's handback checklist, and we will size the crew from that. For multi-day events and festivals we can run shifts, so a fresh crew takes over rather than one team working through the night. Read more about event cleaning for venues and organisers.
Office cleaning
Do you provide regular office cleaning?
Yes. We run scheduled office cleaning outside business hours, built on a written scope that lists every task and how often it is done, from daily bins to the monthly high dusting. The same crew looks after your office each visit, so they learn the building and you always know who has been in.
- Desks, kitchens, bathrooms and floors on a set frequency
- Consumables supplied and restocked, or left to you
- Floor care and upholstery added when the scope calls for it
- A named contact for anything that is missed
Offices come to us because they want the specialist work and the routine work from one company. For commercial cleaning services in Melbourne across larger portfolios, we will tell you honestly if another provider is a better fit.
Switching cleaners is simpler than most people expect. We walk the office with you, agree the scope, collect keys or swipe cards and alarm details, and start on an agreed night, so there is no gap between the old contractor finishing and us starting.
What to expect from our office cleaning company
Upholstery
How do you clean commercial upholstery?
By reading the fabric's cleaning code first, then using the method it allows: hot water extraction for most water-safe fabrics, a dry solvent clean for those that shrink or bleed, and a separate clean and condition for leather. Office chairs, booths, lounges and reception seating are the usual jobs.
- WWater-based cleaning
- SSolvent only
- WSEither method
- XVacuum only
The code is usually on a tag under the seat or in the furniture supplier's specification. If the tag is missing, we test a small hidden area first and choose the gentlest method that still lifts the soiling. We clean seating after hours so it has the night to dry, test a hidden spot before the main clean, and tell you upfront if a stain has set into the fibre and won't come out. With some airflow, most fabrics are dry within a few hours, and we lift chairs off carpet while they dry so nothing marks.
Upholstery cleaning for offices and venuesCombining services
Which services are worth booking together?
The ones that share a deadline. Booking them together means one crew plan, one set of access arrangements and no second visit to fix what the first crew disturbed. These are the combinations clients ask for most, and why each one saves time.
| Situation | Services together | Why it helps |
|---|---|---|
| New fitout handover | Final builders clean with a vinyl seal | The floor is sealed once the dust has gone, not before |
| End of a commercial lease | Vacate clean with a strip and seal | Worn vinyl often decides whether make-good is signed off |
| Renovated home going to market | After builders clean then pre-sale presentation | Dust is out before the photographer, not during |
| Office refresh | Office cleaning with upholstery and floor burnish | Done in one night, with the floor finished last |
| Tagged shopfront before an event | Graffiti removal with the event set-up clean | The front of house is sorted in the same visit |
Sequencing is the part people rarely think about. Sealing a floor before the last trade has left means sealing it twice; cleaning windows before the builders clean means cleaning them again. When we plan combined work we write the order into the scope, and the supervisor holds each step until the one before it is signed off. That small bit of planning is usually where the saving comes from, more than any discount for booking two services at once.
Pricing
How do you get a price for one or more services?
Send one request covering everything the site needs, with the address, the services, a rough size and the date. We price each service separately inside a single scope, so you can see what each part costs and drop anything that isn't needed before you accept.
- One requestList every service you are considering. It is easier to take something out than to add it later.
- One scopeEach service is its own line with its own inclusions, so nothing gets lost in a single total.
- One crew planWhere services share a site, we sequence them so later work doesn't undo earlier work.
A site visit is sometimes worth doing before we price, especially for floors, graffiti on older brick and larger builds. When you are ready, send us your quote request with any photos or plans you have.
Prices depend on the size of the site, its condition, access and how soon you need it, so we don't publish a single rate card. What we can say is that the quote you accept is the price you pay for that scope, and anything extra that comes up on the day is priced in writing before it is done, never added to the invoice afterwards. Where there is a clear pattern, the service pages explain what moves the cost, and the builders cleaning prices and vacate cleaning prices pages go into more detail.
Questions
What else do people ask about our services?
Three questions that come up when people are choosing between services or planning more than one.
Can you combine services in one booking?
Do you work weekends and after hours?
Who supplies the products and equipment?
Not sure which service fits your site?
Describe the job and the deadline. We will match it to the right service and send the scope in writing.