How often should an Annandale office be cleaned?

The useful question is not how big the office is, it is how many people use the bathroom and the kitchen each day. Those two rooms drive both the workload and the complaints. A twelve-person suite above the Booth Street village with one bathroom generates a very different load to a twelve-person studio with two bathrooms and a full kitchen used for client lunches.

As a working rule for Annandale 2038 offices: under ten staff usually suits one to two visits a week, ten to twenty-five staff two to three, and above twenty-five staff three to five. Client-facing reception areas, food handling on site and shared-building bathrooms all push the number up a step.

Under-cleaning does not announce itself. It shows up as a slow accumulation of things people stop mentioning because raising them feels petty.

Given a fixed budget, most owners instinctively choose fewer, longer visits. For an office that is usually the wrong call. Bathrooms and kitchens degrade on a daily cycle regardless of how thoroughly they were cleaned three days ago, and a longer visit cannot retrospectively fix the two days a bathroom sat unattended.

The exception is detail work — skirtings, vents, sills, behind furniture, light fittings. That genuinely benefits from time, which is why a well-built scope runs those on a monthly rotation inside the normal visits rather than demanding a longer visit every time.

Scopes should be living documents. Adding or dropping a visit, adding a room after a fit-out, or bringing in a quarterly carpet extraction should re-fix the monthly price in writing from the following cycle — not trigger a renegotiation of the whole agreement or a penalty.

That flexibility is one practical reason to avoid twelve-month lock-in terms. On month-to-month terms with 30 days notice, an Annandale business can trial three visits a week for a quarter, see whether the bathroom complaints stop, and adjust either way without being trapped by a decision made before they had the data.