Offices, medical suites, retail and strata from North Sydney and St Leonards through Chatswood to Gordon, Turramurra and Hornsby. Building inductions completed before the first shift, after-hours crews, directly employed police-checked staff and 20 million public liability cover.
We clean offices, medical suites, retail tenancies and strata common property across the Lower and Upper North Shore, from North Sydney and St Leonards through Chatswood to Hornsby. Office cleaning in Sydney generally runs between $35 and $50 per hour, with small offices cleaned three times a week typically between $600 and $1,200 per month.
The North Shore is usually described as one region and cleaned as though it is, which is why so many contracts on this side of the harbour underperform. It is really three commercial environments strung along the same rail corridor. North Sydney, Milsons Point and St Leonards form a genuine second CBD of A-grade and B-grade towers with corporate tenants, building management regimes and after-hours access procedures indistinguishable from the city. Chatswood is a mixed commercial and retail centre with towers, a major shopping precinct and a large professional services base.
Then the Upper North Shore, from Roseville and Lindfield through Gordon, Pymble and Turramurra to Wahroonga and Hornsby, is almost entirely low-rise: suburban professional suites, medical and dental practices, childcare centres, schools, small retail strips and community facilities. The cleaning requirement there has nothing in common with a tower. Access is by key rather than security desk, tenancies are small, and the client is usually the business owner rather than a facilities manager.
Quoting all three the same way produces contracts that are wrong at both ends. We scope by district and by building type, which is why a Turramurra dental practice and a St Leonards office floor get different frequencies, different equipment and different visit times rather than a single template with the address changed.
Written scope and fixed price after a walkthrough. Month to month with 30 days written notice.
1300 494 983Enquire OnlineThe North Sydney commercial core and the St Leonards precinct behave like the CBD in every way that affects a cleaning contract. Tenancies are floor plates rather than suites. Cleaning happens after hours with security sign-in, and equipment and waste move through a loading dock on a booking rather than out the front door. Buildings run their own induction requirements, and a crew that has not completed one does not get past the lobby, regardless of what the contract says.
The work itself is standard commercial: workstations and desk surfaces, meeting rooms and boardrooms turned over daily, kitchens and breakout areas which in a modern tenancy generate more work than the desks do, end-of-trip facilities with showers and lockers, bathrooms on a defined frequency, and internal glass. Waste and recycling separation matters here because most buildings run a sustainability programme the tenant is measured against, and a cleaner who consolidates streams undoes it.
Periodic work sits over the top on an annual calendar: carpet extraction, hard floor maintenance in lobbies and kitchens, high dusting, internal glazing and partition cleaning. Facade and external glazing on the taller assets is handled by our high rise window cleaning team. Tenants and building owners running several assets usually consolidate through facilities management cleaning.
The area around Royal North Shore Hospital at St Leonards is one of the densest concentrations of private medical practice in Sydney, and it extends outward through Crows Nest, Chatswood, Hornsby and the Macquarie Park precinct. Specialist consulting suites, day procedure facilities, imaging, pathology collection centres, dental practices and allied health clinics all cluster along that corridor, frequently several to a floor in the same building.
These tenancies need a clinical scope, not an office scope. Consult rooms are cleaned with examination couches, sinks, waste points and equipment surfaces treated as named items. Treatment and procedure rooms need a defined method and product with dwell times observed. Clinical and sharps waste is handled to the practice's own contractor arrangement rather than consolidated into general waste. Waiting rooms carry high patient density and need touch point attention rather than a vacuum and a wipe.
Practices are also accredited, and environmental cleaning is examined during that process, so the schedule and the records need to exist in a form the practice manager can produce. Consulting suites are scoped under our medical centre cleaning service, day procedure facilities under day surgery cleaning, and allied health under allied health clinic cleaning.
North of Chatswood the commercial landscape changes completely. Gordon, Pymble, Turramurra, Wahroonga and Hornsby run on small professional suites above shops, standalone medical and dental practices, childcare centres, private and public schools, community halls and short retail strips. The buildings are low-rise, often older, frequently with timber or vinyl floors rather than commercial carpet, and access is by key or code rather than a security desk.
The client relationship is different too. The person signing is usually the practice owner or the business principal, not a facilities manager, and they judge the contract on whether the place looks right when they walk in on Monday morning. That makes consistency of crew far more important than reporting sophistication. We assign named staff to these sites rather than rotating them, because a practice owner should not have to re-explain the building every fortnight.
The Upper North Shore also carries a large education footprint. Schools and childcare centres have their own requirements around working with children clearances, holiday period deep cleans and the specific hygiene expectations of early learning environments. Those are scoped under our school cleaning and childcare cleaning services.
The North Shore retail picture is dominated by strips rather than centres outside Chatswood: Military Road through Neutral Bay, Cremorne and Mosman, Willoughby Road at Crows Nest, Longueville Road at Lane Cove, and the village strips at Roseville, Lindfield, Gordon and Turramurra. Those tenancies are small, cleaned before opening, and judged almost entirely on the shopfront glass, the entry mat and the floor. Cafes and restaurants along them need a food premises scope rather than a retail one.
Strata is the other large volume on this side of the harbour. The North Shore holds everything from 1960s and 1970s walk-up blocks through Neutral Bay, Cremorne, Lane Cove and Chatswood to the newer high-rise stock around St Leonards and Chatswood interchange. Common property scopes cover lobbies, corridors, lifts, stairwells, bin rooms, car parks, letterbox banks and external entries, with the periodic items, glazing, hard floors, pressure washing of entries and driveways, built into an annual calendar so the committee is not approving surprise quotes.
Owners corporations are best served by our strata cleaning scope, and agencies managing both tenancies and buildings usually run both through property manager cleaning services. Cafes and restaurants on the strips are scoped under hospitality cleaning.
Suburb pages with the local detail for each part of the North Shore. If your suburb is not listed, call 1300 494 983 and we will confirm coverage.
The Lower North Shore from North Sydney, Milsons Point and Kirribilli through Crows Nest, St Leonards, Artarmon, Naremburn, Willoughby, Lane Cove, Hunters Hill, Neutral Bay, Cremorne and Mosman. Chatswood, Roseville, Lindfield and Killara through the middle. Then the Upper North Shore from Gordon, Pymble and Turramurra to Wahroonga and Hornsby. We also cover the Ryde and Macquarie Park corridor, which many North Shore businesses treat as part of the same catchment.
Office cleaning in Sydney generally runs between $35 and $50 per hour. A small office cleaned three times a week typically falls between $600 and $1,200 per month, and a medium office cleaned daily between $1,200 and $2,500 per month. North Shore pricing sits inside those ranges; the variables that actually move a quote are the number of amenities, whether the tenancy has a kitchen or an end-of-trip facility, and the building access arrangements rather than the postcode.
Yes. The corridor around St Leonards and Royal North Shore Hospital carries one of the densest concentrations of specialist consulting suites, day procedure facilities and allied health practices in Sydney, with more around Chatswood, Hornsby and the Macquarie Park precinct. Those tenancies need a clinical scope covering consult rooms, treatment areas, waiting rooms and clinical waste handling, not a general office scope with a bathroom added.
Yes, and on the North Shore this is a real part of the job. The commercial towers at North Sydney, St Leonards and Chatswood have building management access procedures, after-hours security sign-in, dock bookings for equipment and waste, and induction requirements that vary building by building. We complete those before the first shift rather than on the night, so a start date is a start date.
Yes. The North Shore has a very large residential strata stock, from the older walk-up blocks through Neutral Bay, Cremorne and Lane Cove to the newer towers around Chatswood and St Leonards. Common property scopes cover lobbies, corridors, lifts, stairwells, bin rooms, car parks, letterbox banks and external entries, with periodic work for glazing, hard floors and pressure washing built into an annual calendar for the committee.
Most office work runs after hours, typically from six in the evening, or early morning before eight. Retail on the Chatswood, Crows Nest and Military Road strips is generally cleaned before opening. Medical suites are cleaned after the last patient. Strata common property is done in daylight hours on a set day so residents know when to expect it. Schedules are set to the site rather than to a run sheet built for the contractor convenience.
North Sydney to Hornsby, towers to village suites, scoped to the building rather than to a template.
