Indianapolis · Bonded, insured, background checked
Square footage in. A number out.
You are comparing three bids and none of them will give you a figure without a site visit. We checked 49 cleaning companies and not one showed a price. Put your building in below, get an indicative monthly range now, and a written proposal within one working day.
- An indicative range before you speak to anyone
- Written proposal inside one working day
- Every cleaner background checked and badged
- One named account manager, not a call centre
The scope
What "nightly cleaning" actually means
Every proposal in this category says "thorough" and "detail-oriented". Neither of those is a frequency. This is the document you should be comparing bids on, and ours is published before you ask for it.
Standard office scope. Frequencies shown are for a five-night schedule.
- Trash and recycling
- Every visit. Liners replaced when soiled, not on a rota.
- Restrooms
- Every visit. Fixtures disinfected, dispensers filled, floors machine-mopped not spot-mopped.
- Vacuuming, traffic lanes
- Every visit.
- Vacuuming, full coverage including under desks
- Weekly.
- Hard floor damp mop
- Every visit in kitchens and restrooms, weekly elsewhere.
- Kitchen and break room
- Every visit. Counters, sinks, table tops, appliance exteriors.
- Glass, interior partitions
- Weekly, plus spot cleaning every visit.
- High and low dusting
- Monthly and weekly respectively. Most bids omit high dusting entirely.
- Vents and diffusers
- Quarterly.
- Floor burnishing or buffing
- Monthly, quoted as an extra rather than assumed.
- Carpet extraction
- Twice a year, quoted separately.
Sample scope for demonstration. Replace with your own before launch. The proposal you receive lists every task at the frequency agreed for your building.
Who we clean for
Six building types, priced differently for a reason
A medical suite and a warehouse are not the same job at a different scale. They have different scopes, different compliance and different rates per square foot. Every figure below is per cleanable square foot per month at five nights a week.
Office
Multi-tenant and single-tenant. The base case, and the one every other rate on this page is indexed against.
From 20c per sq ft per month
Medical and dental
Treatment room protocols, regulated waste handling kept separate, and staff trained on bloodborne pathogen procedure.
From 34c per sq ft per month
Schools and childcare
Cleaning around a timetable, disinfection of high-touch surfaces, and every cleaner cleared for work around children.
From 26c per sq ft per month
Industrial and warehouse
Large floors, low touch-point density. Machine scrubbing rather than mopping, and safety induction for our crew, not just yours.
From 12c per sq ft per month
Retail and showroom
Glass, entrance matting and floor appearance, which is most of what a customer notices. Cleaned before opening rather than after closing.
From 22c per sq ft per month
Gyms and studios
Equipment disinfection, changing rooms and a shower schedule. The highest touch-point density of any building we clean.
From 30c per sq ft per month
Starting rates are sample data for demonstration. Replace with your own before launch.
Our people
Turnover is the product
Industry turnover in janitorial runs high enough that "who is cleaning my building this month" is a real question. Almost every quality problem in this trade traces back to it.
- We pay above the local average
- It is the single highest-leverage thing a janitorial company can do about quality, and it is the reason our price is rarely the lowest of the three you are comparing.
- The same crew, named on your account
- You get the names and you meet them at the walkthrough. If somebody is covering, you are told in advance rather than finding a stranger in the building.
- Background checked and badged
- Every cleaner, checked before their first shift and badged on site. Certificates go to you before the contract starts, not when you ask.
- Supervised, and the log proves it
- A supervisor walks each site weekly and records it. You see the log. An unsupervised night crew is how a contract quietly degrades over six months.
How it goes
From the form to the first night
Four steps, and the first one you can do on this page.
- 01
You price it here
Building type, square footage, frequency and any extras. You get an indicative range immediately and a written proposal within one working day.
Under two minutes
- 02
We walk the building
Usually within three working days. We measure what is actually cleanable, which is normally less than the leased area, and that is what you are billed on.
30 to 60 minutes
- 03
You get one number and a scope
A single monthly figure, with every task and its frequency listed. If you are comparing bids, this is the document to compare.
Within 1 working day of the walk
- 04
We start, supervised
A supervisor is on site for the first week and weekly thereafter, with the log shared with you. Your account manager is named on the contract.
Usually within 2 weeks
Where we work
Central Indiana, with crews based on both sides of the I-465 loop. We take buildings within about forty minutes of a depot, because a night crew that travels too far starts late.
- Indianapolis
- Carmel
- Fishers
- Noblesville
- Zionsville
- Avon
- Greenwood
- Plainfield
- Brownsburg
- Westfield
- Speedway
- Beech Grove
- Franklin
- Danville
Replace this list with your own towns. Written as plain text it is the cheapest local search signal a services site has.
What facilities managers say
Sample references for demonstration. Replace with your own, and get permission before naming a client.
“They were the only one of four bidders who gave me a number I could take to my director before the site visit. That alone shortened the process by two weeks.”
“The scope document is the reason we switched. Our previous contract said "regular dusting" and it turned out that meant twice a year.”
“Same two people for eighteen months. In this industry that is genuinely unusual and it shows in the building.”
Before you request a proposal
The things procurement asks, answered here.
Because you are comparing three bids and none of the others will give you a figure. Of 49 cleaning companies we looked at, five asked for square footage anywhere in the quote flow, and it is the single biggest driver of the number they were about to send you. A range costs us nothing and saves you a fortnight.
No, and we would rather say so twice. It is derived from square footage, building type and frequency. The walkthrough finds the things that move it: how much of the floor is actually carpet, how many restrooms, whether there is a loading dock, how the building is accessed at night.
The area we actually clean, which excludes leased-but-empty space, elevator shafts, mechanical rooms and anything you exclude. It is usually meaningfully less than the leased area, and billing on leased area is one of the quiet ways a bid gets inflated.
Employees, paid above the local average, background checked and badged. It costs more than the subcontract model and it is the reason the same people are in your building next year.
Two million dollars general liability, workers compensation and a janitorial bond. Certificates go to you before the contract starts. Ask every bidder for these up front, because the cheapest bid in this category is sometimes the uninsured one.
We hold relief crews seven nights a week, charged at the standard nightly rate with no premium. If we cannot staff it we will tell you within the hour rather than send somebody who has never been in your building.
Comparing bids and missing a number?
Put your square footage in and you will have a range in about a minute, and a written proposal tomorrow.