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Commercial cleaning in Southwark

Local commercial cleaning for Southwark and its 14 covered areas. South-bank riverfront and Borough Market at the top, Peckham and Dulwich villages at the bottom.

SE1SE15SE16SE17SE21SE22SE24SE5
  • 8 outward codes covered, 14 named areas
  • Congestion Charge and ULEZ itemised, never hidden
  • Mobilisation typically takes 7–10 working days from signed scope; urgent cover can start within 48 hours.
  • £10m public liability, employer's liability, DBS-checked operatives and a full RAMS and COSHH pack — the standard London managing agents ask for before issuing access.
Commercial cleaning in Southwark, Southwark
Commercial cleaning in Southwark — photographed on a Hello Services job.
Commercial cleaning in Southwark, Southwark
Hello Services crews work across Southwark every week.
Areas covered
14Areas covered
Outward codes
8Outward codes
Residents
308kResidents
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Fixed prices

Commercial cleaning prices in Southwark

These are the Southwark floor prices for a commercial clean. Frequency, headcount and hours drive the price, not floor area alone. Out-of-hours access and single-visit weeks cost more per hour than a five-day contract. In this borough the additional variables are the Congestion Charge, ULEZ and permit-only frontages, and each is quoted separately so you can see it.
Commercial cleaning price guide for Southwark
JobFromTypical timeWhat sets the price
Office clean, per hour per operative£22Min. 2 hrsThe London rate carries the London Living Wage, travel inside Zones 1–4 and the operative's DBS check and uniform.
Small office contract (up to 10 desks), per visit£552 hrsDesks, kitchen, washrooms and floors on a fixed scope, three to five times a week.
Retail unit daily clean, per visit£652–3 hrsShop floor, fitting rooms, glass and back-of-house before opening — priced for a pre-7am start.
Out-of-hours premium+15%Nights, Sundays and bank holidays carry the enhanced rate we pay the operative, shown as its own line.
Periodic deep clean, per sq ft£0.35OvernightHard-floor machine work, carpet extraction and high-level dusting, usually quarterly on a London office.

Commercial work is quoted plus VAT at 20%. Contracts run rolling monthly with 30 days' notice — we do not use 12-month tie-ins. Consumables can be supplied at cost plus 10% or you can buy your own.

Working in Southwark

Why Southwark is not a generic London job

The Shard and Tate Modern is the landmark; the working detail below is what actually changes the price and the method in Southwark.

The housing stock

The stock in Southwark is riverside warehouse conversions, huge estates like the aylesbury, victorian terraces and dulwich's detached villas, and the mix changes street by street — Bermondsey (SE16), Camberwell (SE5) and Canada Water (SE16) each behave differently on the day.

Access, parking and permits

London Borough of Southwark sets the constraint: riverside loading restrictions, red routes on the new kent road and cpzs from se1 to peckham. Locally that means railway-arch loading limits, tight factory-yard entrances and permit bays and hospital-area restrictions, narrow georgian streets and steep front steps. Part of Southwark sits inside the Congestion Charge zone, so the charge is quoted as its own line rather than hidden in the labour rate.

London Borough of Southwark rules

Commercial premises in Southwark generate trade waste, and London Borough of Southwark enforces the duty of care on the occupier. Our contract cleans include the waste stream: bagged, transferred and evidenced, so your file stands up to an inspection.

How the borough got this way

Southwark took its present shape because london's medieval overspill of inns and theatres, then wharves and warehouses; the riverside was rebuilt for offices and flats from the 1990s.

Scope

What's included in Southwark

The same scope everywhere in the borough, whether the job is in Bermondsey or Walworth.

Included in the price

  • Named, DBS-checked operatives — the same faces, not a rota of strangers
  • RAMS pack, COSHH file and £10m public liability at mobilisation
  • Colour-coded equipment and a written scope of work per area
  • Supervisor site visits and a digital sign-off sheet per clean
  • Trade-waste bagging and transfer, evidenced for your duty-of-care file

Not included

  • Specialist decontamination, sharps or clinical waste
  • External window cleaning above ground floor
  • Consumables unless you add them to the contract
  • Deep-clean machine work, which is quoted separately as periodic work

Method

How a Southwark booking runs

Five steps, the same on every Southwark job, so you know what happens before you commit.
  1. Step 1

    Site survey

    We walk the floor, measure it and write the scope against what is actually there.

  2. Step 2

    Fixed proposal

    Hours, headcount, frequency and price per visit — no vague 'as required' lines.

  3. Step 3

    Mobilisation

    Fobs, inductions, RAMS and the consumables order sorted before day one.

  4. Step 4

    Daily delivery

    Digital sign-off per visit so building management can see what was done and when.

  5. Step 5

    Monthly review

    A supervisor audit against the scope, with the score sent to you in writing.

Local questions

Commercial cleaning in Southwark — your questions

  • How much does a commercial clean cost in Southwark?

    Office clean, per hour per operative starts at £22 in Southwark, and the ladder runs up to £0.35 for the largest job on the table above. Frequency, headcount and hours drive the price, not floor area alone. Out-of-hours access and single-visit weeks cost more per hour than a five-day contract. Part of the borough is inside the Congestion Charge zone, so a £15 daily charge is added as its own line when the job falls inside the charging hours.

  • Which Southwark postcodes do you cover?

    We cover the whole borough: SE1, SE15, SE16, SE17, SE21, SE22, SE24 and SE5. On the ground that includes Bermondsey, Camberwell, Canada Water, Dulwich Village, East Dulwich and Elephant and Castle.

  • How quickly can you get to Southwark?

    Mobilisation typically takes 7–10 working days from signed scope; urgent cover can start within 48 hours. Central London is covered by crews already working in the borough, so travel time is not billed on top.

  • What about parking and permits in Southwark?

    Riverside loading restrictions, red routes on the New Kent Road and CPZs from SE1 to Peckham. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with London Borough of Southwark and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.

  • Do you work in Southwark flats and blocks with no lift?

    Yes. Riverside warehouse conversions, huge estates like the Aylesbury, Victorian terraces and Dulwich's detached villas is exactly the stock we work in daily. Where there is no lift, the crew size is set by the floor level at quote stage, so a third-floor walk-up is priced as a third-floor walk-up rather than re-quoted on the doorstep.

  • Are you insured and licensed for work in Southwark?

    £10m public liability, employer's liability, DBS-checked operatives and a full RAMS and COSHH pack — the standard London managing agents ask for before issuing access. Certificates go out with the booking confirmation, which is what London Borough of Southwark tenancies and most local managing agents ask for.

  • Who turns up, and with what?

    One to four operatives depending on floor area, with a named supervisor and a mobile cover team for sickness. Vehicles are ULEZ-compliant, which matters in every Southwark postcode, and the crew carries everything needed to complete the job in one visit.

  • What is not included?

    Specialist decontamination, sharps or clinical waste, External window cleaning above ground floor and Consumables unless you add them to the contract. If something on that list turns up in Southwark, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.

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Get a fixed commercial cleaning price for Southwark

Send a few details and you get a written quote for your Southwark address, with permits and charges shown separately.

No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.

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