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Suites from 1,000 to 100,000 square feet. No obligation on the call.
Nobody Emails You When the Office Is Clean
They email you when the second-floor restroom runs out of paper towels at 2pm. They email you when a client sits down in the conference room and finds yesterday's coffee rings on the table. If you manage the facility, office cleaning is a line item that stays invisible while it works and gets very loud the moment it doesn't.
That's the buyer we built this line for. HomeEck matches offices with vetted commercial cleaning crews across 16 metros. One call covers your square footage and schedule, plus whatever your building requires on the insurance side. You'll hear a realistic per-square-foot range while you're still on the phone, then get a firm walkthrough quote from a crew that already services spaces like yours.
No RFP theater. Just a number you can defend at the next ops meeting.
Have These Four Answers Ready Before You Call
Quotes come back tighter when you can answer the questions every janitorial estimator asks first.
1. Square footage and layout
Your lease has the exact number. Note whether it's open plan or built out with private offices, since walls slow a crew down and nudge the rate up.
2. Restroom and breakroom count
Restrooms drive janitorial pricing more than any other room. Four restrooms in 8,000 square feet is a very different job than one restroom in the same space.
3. Schedule and access
Nightly, three nights a week, or weekly? And how does the crew get in: key, fob, or alarm code? After-hours access questions stall more contracts than price does.
4. Building requirements
Ask your property manager what insurance minimums the building demands before you collect quotes. It saves a week of back-and-forth later.
Office Cleaning Prices Per Square Foot
Commercial cleaning quotes look opaque until you see the per-square-foot logic underneath. Here's what crews in our network charge.
| Service | Typical range | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Nightly janitorial | $0.07 to $0.15 per sq ft | Restroom count, desk density |
| Weekly service, small office | $150 to $300 per visit | Under 3,000 sq ft, flat rate |
| One-time deep clean | $0.15 to $0.30 per sq ft | Condition, after-hours access |
| Day porter | $18 to $28 per hour | Shift length, duty list |
| Commercial carpet extraction | $0.20 to $0.35 per sq ft | Method, cubicle moving |
| VCT strip and wax | $0.30 to $0.60 per sq ft | Floor condition, coat count |
For scale: a 2,500 square foot suite on twice-weekly service typically invoices $500 to $900 a month. Density is the quiet variable in every quote. An open floor plan with two restrooms prices near the bottom of the range, while a medical office or packed call center lands near the top because there's simply more to touch every night. If you're also budgeting cleaning at home, our house cleaning cost guide covers the residential side with the same kind of real numbers.
Janitorial Contract or One-Time Clean?
Ongoing contracts fit any office that generates daily mess, which is most of them. The crew learns your space, supplies stay stocked, and the per-visit cost beats ad hoc booking. Month-to-month terms are standard now. Push for a 30-day cancellation clause, and be suspicious of anyone who won't grant one. Good crews keep clients with performance, not paperwork.
One-time cleans have their own lane. Post-construction dust after a buildout. The deep scrub before a lease-end walkthrough. The morning after the holiday party nobody wants to discuss. These price higher per square foot because the crew starts cold, but there's no commitment attached.
Need a number before the next budget meeting?
Call with your square footage and schedule. You'll have a defensible range in minutes, not weeks.
Day Porter or After-Hours Crew: What's the Difference?
The after-hours crew is the backbone. They arrive once the office empties, handle the heavy nightly scope, and you only see the evidence. A standard visit covers:
- Restrooms disinfected, floors mopped, paper and soap restocked
- Trash and recycling pulled from every workstation, liners replaced
- Breakroom counters, tables, and sink sanitized
- Floors vacuumed in traffic areas, hard surface dust mopped and damp mopped
- Touchpoints wiped: door handles, light switches, elevator buttons
- Conference rooms and reception reset for the morning
A day porter is the daytime layer on top. They keep lobbies presentable, restock restrooms before they run dry, and catch spills while they're still fresh. Buildings with public foot traffic justify porter hours easily. A quiet suite of accountants doesn't need one, and an honest estimator will say so.
Floor care usually rides on a separate schedule. Quarterly carpet cleaning keeps cubicle areas from developing those gray walking lanes, and it's cheaper bundled into the contract than booked cold. And if what you actually need is help at your house on a schedule, that's our recurring cleaning service, which works on the same discount logic.
COIs, Insurance, and What Property Managers Actually Require
Before a cleaning crew sets foot in most commercial buildings, management wants a certificate of insurance on file. The usual bar is $1 million per occurrence in general liability plus active workers compensation, and many landlords require they be named as additional insured on the policy. None of this is exotic. A legitimate commercial crew's agent turns the COI around in about a day.
It protects you too. An uninsured cleaner who slips on your wet breakroom floor at midnight becomes your company's problem in a hurry. Every commercial crew we refer carries commercial coverage and runs background checks on staff who hold keys and alarm codes. Ask for the COI anyway. The good operators are proud to send it.
Metros With Commercial Cleaning Coverage
Office demand clusters where the towers do. The cleaning crews in Charlotte we work with run nightly routes through Uptown, and cleaning help in Atlanta stays booked between Midtown and the Perimeter office parks. We also place Dallas-area crews across the Plano and Frisco corporate corridor, Denver cleaning services around LoDo, and Minneapolis cleaning pros who know their way through the skyway-connected buildings downtown. Suburban office parks in all 16 of our metros are fair game too. Call and we'll check the block.
Office Cleaning Questions Facilities Managers Ask
What does office cleaning cost per square foot?
Nightly janitorial service usually quotes between $0.07 and $0.15 per square foot, and building density does most of the work inside that spread. An open floor plan with two restrooms cleans fast and prices low. A medical suite or a dense call center prices high. Small offices under about 3,000 square feet usually get a flat rate instead, often $150 to $300 per visit on a weekly schedule. One-time deep cleans run $0.15 to $0.30 per square foot.
What's included in a standard nightly janitorial visit?
The core scope repeats across almost every contract: restrooms disinfected and restocked, trash pulled from every station, breakroom surfaces wiped, floors vacuumed or dust mopped, and touchpoints like door handles cleaned. Conference rooms and reception get reset for the morning. What's excluded matters just as much. Interior glass above arm's reach and carpet extraction get quoted separately, and so does anything outside your suite. Get the full scope in writing before the first invoice ever lands.
Will the crew provide a COI for our property manager?
Yes, and you should insist on one everywhere. A certificate of insurance shows active general liability coverage, usually $1 million per occurrence for office work, plus workers compensation. Many buildings also require the landlord be named as additional insured, which takes the crew's insurance agent about a day to issue. The commercial crews in our network expect these requests. If a cleaning company hesitates on a COI, that hesitation tells you plenty about what else gets skipped.
What's a day porter, and does our building need one?
A day porter works during business hours keeping the visible things handled: lobby glass, mid-day restroom restocking, spills, package staging, conference room turnarounds. The nightly crew still does the heavy cleaning after everyone leaves. Buildings with steady public foot traffic or multi-tenant lobbies get real value from a porter at $18 to $28 per hour. A quiet 20-person office usually doesn't. Start with nightly service and add porter hours only if mid-day complaints actually show up.
Can we get office cleaning without a long contract?
Yes. Month-to-month janitorial agreements are common now, and a 30-day cancellation clause is a fair ask that reputable crews accept without drama. Annual contracts sometimes buy a slightly lower rate, maybe 5 percent, but they mostly protect the vendor. Our advice: start month-to-month, hold the crew to the written scope for 90 days, then talk about a longer term if the work holds up. One-time cleans need no contract at all, just a walkthrough quote.
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