Commercial floor stripping and cleaning rates, quoted from the companies that publish a number

Every company checked, and what it publishes

Each figure is quoted from the company's own page and carries the day it was read. A company with no figure was read in full and prints none, or could not be read; both are recorded against the same URL rather than left out.

1. Commercial floor stripping Stripping a hard floor is the most expensive thing that happens to it.
2. Stripping and waxing Stripping and waxing is sold as one job and priced as two.
3. Floor stripping companies Floor care is a specialism inside commercial cleaning rather than a trade of its own, so the company you are choosing is usually a janitorial contractor with a floor crew, a national franchise system selling through local operators, or a hard floor specialist.
4. Janitorial cleaning services The hardest thing about buying janitorial service is not finding a contractor, it is that no two quotes arrive in the same unit.
5. Professional janitorial cleaning Every contractor calls itself professional, so the word carries no information on its own.
6. Contract cleaning Contract cleaning means the recurring agreement rather than the one-off job: a fixed scope, a fixed frequency and a monthly figure that is supposed to hold.
7. Commercial disinfection Disinfection is not a deeper clean.
8. Industrial cleaning Every published rate in this record is an office rate.
9. Construction cleaning There are three cleans on a building project and they are routinely confused, quoted against each other, and paid for twice.
10. Event cleaning An event clean has almost nothing in common with the contracts the rates in this record describe.
11. Medical cleaning Every company in this record that breaks its rates down by building type puts clinical space above general office, and they give the same reason for it.
12. School janitorial A school is the one commercial building whose cleaning demand collapses for a quarter of the year and then spikes.
13. Commercial kitchen cleaning A commercial kitchen is cleaned three times over by three different arrangements, and treating them as one contract is how kitchens fail inspections while under contract.
14. Apartment building cleaning The cleaning a property manager buys for an apartment building is a commercial contract that happens to sit in a residential asset.
15. Daycare cleaning A nursery is a small commercial building cleaned to an expectation somewhere between an office and a clinic, and judged by an audience that inspects it daily.
16. Laboratory cleaning A laboratory is the building type where the cleaning contract has the least authority and the most to lose.
17. Gym cleaning A gym's floor area is large and simple and its equipment is neither.
18. Outbreak cleaning A great deal of cleaning was bought between 2020 and 2022 on urgency rather than on evidence, and some of it is still on contracts that nobody has revisited.
19. Property portfolio cleaning Buying cleaning for one building and buying it for twenty are different problems with different failure modes.
20. Bank branch cleaning A branch is a small commercial space with two features that dominate its cleaning contract and appear in almost no other building type.
21. Dealership cleaning A dealership is three buildings pretending to be one.
22. Manufacturing cleaning On a manufacturing site the cleaning schedule is not the cleaning contractor's to set.
23. Clinic cleaning A clinic differs from a medical office in one way that changes the whole contract: patient flow is continuous through the day and the rooms turn over constantly.
24. Electrostatic cleaning Electrostatic application charges droplets so they wrap around a surface rather than settling only where they were aimed.
25. Fitness center cleaning A fitness center is a gym with more rooms, and the extra rooms are where the cleaning gets complicated.
26. Hospital cleaning A hospital is the one building in this record where cleaning stops being a facilities service and becomes a clinical one.
27. Stadium cleaning A stadium is the extreme case of event cleaning and it inverts everything a commercial cleaning contract normally assumes.
28. Gainesville FL Gainesville's commercial cleaning demand comes overwhelmingly from one university and one health system, plus the research, clinical and student-adjacent property around them.
29. Phoenix AZ Phoenix is a very large, very low-rise metro under a desert climate, and both facts push a janitorial quote in directions a national average cannot express.
30. Chesapeake VA Chesapeake sits inside the Hampton Roads defense, marine and logistics economy, and its commercial cleaning demand looks like that rather than like a conventional office market.
31. Newport News Newport News is a shipbuilding and defense city, and the commercial space here is weighted heavily towards industrial, maintenance and controlled-access facilities rather than conventional offices.
32. West Palm Beach West Palm Beach has acquired a substantial financial-services office presence alongside its established medical and hospitality base, and all three are judged to a presentation standard above conventional office space.
33. Tucson Tucson's commercial demand comes from a large university, an aerospace and defense sector, and the low-rise office and retail around both, all under a desert climate that puts fine dust through every opening all year.
34. Clermont Clermont is a fast-growing satellite west of Orlando, and its commercial stock reflects that: comparatively new, low-rise, at grade, with surface parking and service access designed rather than inherited.
35. Columbus OH Columbus carries three demands at once: a state capital's public office estate, one of the largest university estates in the country, and a substantial distribution and logistics belt.
36. Ocala FL Ocala's commercial base has shifted markedly towards distribution and logistics alongside its established equine and agricultural economy, with a low-rise commercial core serving both.
37. Texas Texas is not one commercial cleaning market and a statewide rate would describe none of its parts.
38. Pensacola Pensacola's commercial demand comes from naval aviation and the contractors around it, a regional medical sector, and a Gulf-coast visitor economy.
39. Harrisburg PA Harrisburg is Pennsylvania's capital and it sits inside one of the busiest distribution corridors on the east coast.
40. Wilmington DE Wilmington's office market is shaped by corporate registration, banking and the legal sector around both, concentrated in a small dense core.
41. Norfolk Norfolk's commercial cleaning demand is shaped by the naval complex and the port rather than by its office market, and a very large share of it sits behind access control.
42. Brooklyn NY Brooklyn's commercial stock is disproportionately converted industrial: former warehouses and factories now holding offices, studios and light manufacturing, under the same building rules, insurance requirements and labor market as the rest of New York City.
43. Toledo OH Toledo's commercial base is glass manufacturing, automotive supply and the logistics around them, with a modest office layer and a port on the lake.
44. Fort Myers Fort Myers has a commercial market whose demand genuinely changes with the season: the population swells in winter and recedes in summer, and medical, retail and hospitality space follows it.
45. Chattanooga TN Chattanooga carries a large automotive assembly and supply base, a substantial logistics sector built around the interstate crossing, and a compact downtown that has been rebuilt into offices and hospitality.
46. Knoxville TN Knoxville's commercial demand is a large university estate, the national laboratory activity nearby and the engineering firms serving it, above a compact conventional office core.
47. Lexington KY Lexington's commercial cleaning demand comes mostly from a large university and its medical center, with a manufacturing base and an equine economy around them.
48. Fresno Fresno sits at the center of one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world, and its commercial cleaning demand reflects that: food processing, packing, cold storage and distribution, with a modest office and public layer.
49. Fort Worth Fort Worth is routinely quoted as if it were Dallas and it is a different market: more aerospace and manufacturing, more logistics, a smaller and more compact downtown, and a contractor pool that is not identical.
50. Corpus Christi Corpus Christi's commercial demand is refining, petrochemical and port activity with a modest office and hospitality layer above it.
51. Montgomery Montgomery is Alabama's capital, with a large air force presence and an automotive manufacturing belt in the surrounding region.
52. Wake Forest Wake Forest is a fast-growing town north of Raleigh, and its commercial stock is almost entirely new: low-rise, at grade, with surface parking and service access designed rather than inherited.
53. Noblesville Noblesville sits in the fast-growing corridor north of Indianapolis, and its commercial stock is mostly new: low-rise office parks, light industrial and retail, at grade with straightforward access.
54. Tyler Tyler is the medical and commercial center for East Texas, which gives it a hospital and clinic sector considerably larger than its population suggests and a service area reaching well beyond the city.
55. Brandon Brandon is a large suburban market east of Tampa, and its commercial space is mostly retail, medical offices and the service businesses around them rather than conventional office towers.
56. Broken Arrow Broken Arrow is a large suburb south-east of Tulsa with a substantial light manufacturing base alongside newer commercial parks and retail.
57. Fayetteville AR Fayetteville anchors a corridor that holds a large university, several corporate headquarters and a very substantial logistics and supplier presence.
58. Florence AL Florence is a small north Alabama city with a university, a regional medical presence and a manufacturing base along the river.
59. Jackson TN Jackson is the regional center for west Tennessee, with a medical sector serving a wide area and a distribution and manufacturing base built on its position between Memphis and Nashville.
60. Mobile AL Mobile is a working port and shipbuilding city with an aerospace assembly presence and a modest downtown office core.
61. Albany NY Albany is New York's capital, with a state office estate, a university and a semiconductor and nanotechnology corridor around it.