Industrial, warehouse and distribution cleaning

Our Method

How we clean industrial facilities

At industrial scale the constraint is almost never willingness, it is equipment and access. A 200,000 square foot floor plate cannot be cleaned with walk-behind machines inside a single shift, and no amount of extra labor fixes that. So the method starts from machine selection and the window operations can actually give us, then works backwards to the schedule.

1. 01

   Size the machine to the plate and the window

   Ride-on scrubbers, industrial sweepers and walk-behind units are selected against square footage and available hours. Published rates put a warehouse at roughly 6,000 to 8,000 square feet per hour with ride-on equipment and about half that walk-behind, which is the calculation that decides whether your floor finishes in one shift.

2. 02

   Zone around live operations

   Crews are briefed on forklift routes, traffic patterns, restricted zones and your lockout and PPE requirements before the first shift, then work zone by zone so production is never waiting on cleaning. Aisles are released back to operations promptly rather than held for convenience.

3. 03

   High bay on a scheduled cycle, not on complaint

   Racking, structural steel, ductwork, sprinkler lines and light fixtures are dusted from scissor and boom lifts on a planned cycle. Overhead dust is a housekeeping issue until it becomes a fire-inspection or product-contamination issue, so it is scheduled rather than reactive.

4. 04

   Docks controlled because they feed the whole building

   Dock doors, levellers, seals, staging lanes and approaches are cleaned deliberately, since debris tracked from the dock is the source of most of the soil load inside the facility. Cleaning the plate without controlling the dock means cleaning the same soil repeatedly.

5. 05

   Degrease and reseal on wear, not on calendar

   Soil load, not the month, sets the degreasing frequency, and sealed concrete is resealed when wear shows rather than on a fixed rotation. We inspect the surface and tell you when it is due, which is usually cheaper than either extreme.

6. 06

   Staff the shift pattern that exists

   Programs commonly run second or third shift, between shifts, or continuously where the facility operates around the clock. We staff to the pattern rather than asking a 24-hour operation to create a shutdown window it does not have.

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