About the Buffrota price record

Who it is for

The facility or office manager pricing a cleaning contract for the first time

The practice or retail manager comparing a renewal against the market

Anyone who has been handed three quotes in three different units

What it does not do

• It does not average a per-visit rate with a per-month rate to produce a single number
• It does not estimate a price for a company that publishes none
• It does not rank companies, because a published rate is not a measure of quality
• It does not sell placement, and no figure here was supplied by the company it names

What is on this site

61 guides, each with its sources on the page , 92 answers to the questions around them , and the comparison.

• Commercial floor stripping: Stripping a hard floor is the most expensive thing that happens to it.
• Stripping and waxing: Stripping and waxing is sold as one job and priced as two.
• 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.
• 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.
• Professional janitorial cleaning: Every contractor calls itself professional, so the word carries no information on its own.
• 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.
• Commercial disinfection: Disinfection is not a deeper clean.
• Industrial cleaning: Every published rate in this record is an office rate.
• Construction cleaning: There are three cleans on a building project and they are routinely confused, quoted against each other, and paid for twice.
• Event cleaning: An event clean has almost nothing in common with the contracts the rates in this record describe.
• 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.
• School janitorial: A school is the one commercial building whose cleaning demand collapses for a quarter of the year and then spikes.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Laboratory cleaning: A laboratory is the building type where the cleaning contract has the least authority and the most to lose.
• Gym cleaning: A gym's floor area is large and simple and its equipment is neither.
• 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.
• Property portfolio cleaning: Buying cleaning for one building and buying it for twenty are different problems with different failure modes.
• 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.
• Dealership cleaning: A dealership is three buildings pretending to be one.
• Manufacturing cleaning: On a manufacturing site the cleaning schedule is not the cleaning contractor's to set.
• 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.
• Electrostatic cleaning: Electrostatic application charges droplets so they wrap around a surface rather than settling only where they were aimed.
• Fitness centre cleaning: A fitness centre is a gym with more rooms, and the extra rooms are where the cleaning gets complicated.
• Hospital cleaning: A hospital is the one building in this record where cleaning stops being a facilities service and becomes a clinical one.
• Stadium cleaning: A stadium is the extreme case of event cleaning and it inverts everything a commercial cleaning contract normally assumes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chesapeake VA: Chesapeake sits inside the Hampton Roads defence, marine and logistics economy, and its commercial cleaning demand looks like that rather than like a conventional office market.
• Newport News: Newport News is a shipbuilding and defence city, and the commercial space here is weighted heavily towards industrial, maintenance and controlled-access facilities rather than conventional offices.
• 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.
• Tucson: Tucson's commercial demand comes from a large university, an aerospace and defence sector, and the low-rise office and retail around both, all under a desert climate that puts fine dust through every opening all year.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Texas: Texas is not one commercial cleaning market and a statewide rate would describe none of its parts.
• Pensacola: Pensacola's commercial demand comes from naval aviation and the contractors around it, a regional medical sector, and a Gulf-coast visitor economy.
• Harrisburg PA: Harrisburg is Pennsylvania's capital and it sits inside one of the busiest distribution corridors on the east coast.
• Wilmington DE: Wilmington's office market is shaped by corporate registration, banking and the legal sector around both, concentrated in a small dense core.
• 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.
• 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 labour market as the rest of New York City.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lexington KY: Lexington's commercial cleaning demand comes mostly from a large university and its medical centre, with a manufacturing base and an equine economy around them.
• Fresno: Fresno sits at the centre 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.
• 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.
• Corpus Christi: Corpus Christi's commercial demand is refining, petrochemical and port activity with a modest office and hospitality layer above it.
• Montgomery: Montgomery is Alabama's capital, with a large air force presence and an automotive manufacturing belt in the surrounding region.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tyler: Tyler is the medical and commercial centre 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.
• 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.
• Broken Arrow: Broken Arrow is a large suburb south-east of Tulsa with a substantial light manufacturing base alongside newer commercial parks and retail.
• Fayetteville AR: Fayetteville anchors a corridor that holds a large university, several corporate headquarters and a very substantial logistics and supplier presence.
• Florence AL: Florence is a small north Alabama city with a university, a regional medical presence and a manufacturing base along the river.
• Jackson TN: Jackson is the regional centre 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.
• Mobile AL: Mobile is a working port and shipbuilding city with an aerospace assembly presence and a modest downtown office core.
• Albany NY: Albany is New York's capital, with a state office estate, a university and a semiconductor and nanotechnology corridor around it.

Where the figures come from

Every figure is quoted from the company's own published page, read through the estate fetch service and hash-pinned; no figure here is ours and none is averaged across units.

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