Strata and common area cleaning

Common areas, keptfor everyone who shares them.

Lobbies, stairwells, lifts, bin rooms and courtyards, cleaned to a written scope. Each visit is logged, so the committee or strata manager can see what was done without walking the building.

Brick-paved courtyard between brick units, with a carport pergola and a wheelie bin
Covers
Lobby, stairs, lifts, bin rooms, courtyards
Reports to
The committee or your strata manager
How often
Weekly or fortnightly, set by building use
Proof
Visit records you can forward on

The scope

What every common area visit covers. Floor by floor.

This is the routine visit. Your scope lists each common area and how often it's done. Cleaning inside apartments sits outside the strata scope.

Every visit

  • Lobby floor, glass doors and mailboxes
  • Stairwells and corridors swept, vacuumed or mopped
  • Lift car, doors and buttons wiped
  • Handrails, switches and door handles wiped
  • Bin rooms swept and spills cleaned up
  • Common paths and courtyards cleared

Common schedule

  • Bin wash and bin room hose-outMonthly
  • Pressure clean of paths and courtyardsQuarterly
  • High dusting and cobwebsQuarterly
  • Carpet extraction in corridorsEvery 6 months

How we do it

One building, many owners. One scope everyone can read.

Dark grey floor tiles beside a recessed entry mat

Inside

Top floor down to the lobby.

Each visit works down the building: corridors and stairs from the top, then the lifts, then the lobby last, so the entry is the freshest thing residents see. Hard floors are matched to their surface. Terrazzo and tile get a machine scrub on schedule, not a wet mop every week.

Paved unit courtyard with wheelie bins and a cardboard box beside the lawn

Out the back

Bin rooms that don't smell.

Bin areas are where most complaints start. They're swept and checked on every visit, with spills cleaned up. A monthly hose-out and bin wash stops the build-up that brings odour and pests. Hard waste left by residents is reported to the manager rather than left to sit.

Surface cleaner on wet brick pavers beside a brick wall, half the path cleaned

Outside

Paths cleaned on a schedule.

Brick pavers and concrete paths collect algae, leaf stain and grime, and that makes them slippery underfoot. A surface cleaner lifts it evenly without blasting the sand out of the joints. It's booked quarterly or as needed, and before and after photos go into the visit record.

Your scope

See the hours for your site.

Set the size and the visits. You'll see the scope and the time on site; the price comes after the walk-through.

Site What are we cleaning?
400m²

About a 25-desk office.

Visits How often?
Extras Anything else?

Draft scope

Office · 400 m² · 3 visits a week

Time on site, per visit

2.5–3 hrs

About 8 hours a week

Every visit

    Scheduled

      Book the walk-through

      Hours, not a price. We price the scope after a 15-minute walk through the site. Or call (08) 6385 6664.

      Every visit, on the record.

      See a visit record
      • In and out

        Time-stamped on arrival and when the visit closes.

      • Ticked

        Each area marked done against the scope you signed off.

      • Photographed

        The areas that matter, finished. Faults flagged with a photo.

      Questions

      Strata cleaning: questions.

      Does strata cleaning include inside the apartments?

      No. The strata scope covers common property only: entries, lobbies, stairwells, corridors, lifts, bin rooms, paths and shared courtyards. Cleaning inside an apartment is a private arrangement with the owner or tenant. Owners can book it at book.jccommercial.com.au.

      How often should the common areas be cleaned?

      It depends on the number of apartments, the foot traffic and whether there's a lift. A small walk-up block is often fine with a fortnightly visit. A larger building with lifts and a busy lobby usually needs weekly visits or more. Bin rooms, paths and corridor carpet go on their own schedule.

      Who do you report to: the committee or the strata manager?

      Whoever the scope names. Most buildings have visit records sent to the strata manager, who passes them to the committee. Each record shows when the visit happened and what was done, so a question from an owner can be answered from the record instead of from memory.

      How do you quote a strata building?

      With a 15-minute walk-through of the common areas. We count the floors, stairs, lifts and bin rooms, check the floor surfaces and access, then send a written scope with the price. It's set out so the manager can table it at the next committee meeting.

      Do you supply the products and equipment?

      Yes. Cleaning products, machines and equipment come with the visit. All we need from the building is keys, fobs or codes for the common areas and bin rooms, and a small storage space on site if there is one.

      What if a resident reports a problem?

      Send it to us through the manager, or directly if the scope allows. We check it against the visit record and the scope, fix what's ours on the next visit or sooner, and report back. Anything outside the scope, such as hard waste or a broken light, goes to the manager.

      Walk the building with us. Then table the scope.

      Fifteen minutes through the common areas, then a written scope with the price, set out for the committee or manager.