Central London · Office cleaning
Commercial Office Cleaners in City of London, London
Office cleaning across all 10 areas of City of London, priced by desks, washrooms and frequency rather than a guessed rate per square foot — and delivered out of hours by a team that already works this borough most evenings.
- Published specification matrix — every task, every frequency, in writing
- Scored, photographed audit every 4 weeks
- 30-day rolling notice, no lock-in and no exit fee
- 10 areas covered, each with its own page
The service, locally
Office cleaning across City of London Central London
The borough holds 25,555 local business units employing 614,000 people, with finance and insurance (32.4%), professional and legal services (27.7%) and technology and information (14%) leading the mix, and 75.1% of businesses employing fewer than ten people. That is why our City of London rounds are built from several small and mid-sized contracts a night: the travel is shared, so your rate is not carrying it alone.
Locally the stock is grade a towers and refurbished multi-let floors, glass-partitioned meeting suites, client-facing reception areas, high-spec washrooms and staffed hospitality space. Security passes and a permit-to-work, goods lift booked with building management, contractor induction before the first shift and a logged sign-in and sign-out on every visit. Congestion Charge and ULEZ, ring-of-steel camera controls, almost no free kerb — loading bays must be booked around office hours. City of London Corporation permits and suspensions are arranged and paid for by us, and every price on this page already includes travel, parking, products, machines, consumables and cover.
Local commercial profileDominant commercial stock: multi-let towers and corporate floors. Access out of hours: Security passes and a permit-to-work, goods lift booked with building management, contractor induction before the first shift and a logged sign-in and sign-out on every visit.
- Areas covered
- 10Areas covered
- Local business units
- 25,555Local business units
- Jobs in borough
- 614,000Jobs in borough
- Per visit from
- £42Per visit from
Contract estimate
Price your City of London office contract in under a minute
Contract estimate
Price an office cleaning contract in City of London
£884 a month + VAT
£68 per visit · 13.0 visits a month · 2–2.5 hrs on site · 1–2 cleaners
Around £10,608 a year. 11–25 desks · Three days a week.
- The most common London hybrid pattern — cleaning lands on the days the office is actually busy.
- Consumables, guaranteed sickness and holiday cover, RAMS, COSHH, insurance, travel, parking and out-of-hours scheduling are already inside this figure.
- 30-day rolling notice, no auto-renewal, rate held for twelve months.
Mobilisation
Starting a contract in City of London from survey to first audit
- Site survey and specificationWe walk the floor with you, count desks, washrooms, kitchens and meeting rooms, note the floor finishes and agree the specification matrix line by line. Fifteen to thirty minutes, at a time that suits your day.
- Fixed written quoteYou get a per-visit rate, a monthly figure and the specification in one document, with consumables, cover, compliance and travel already inside it. Nothing is priced 'on application'.
- Mobilisation and complianceSite-specific RAMS and COSHH sheets, insurance certificates, DBS and right-to-work checks, building inductions, key or fob handover and a security protocol agreed in writing before the first shift.
- First clean with a supervisorA supervisor attends the first visit with the cleaning team, works through the matrix zone by zone and confirms the schedule, alarm codes and out-of-hours arrangements actually work in practice.
- Audits, reporting and account reviewA scored, photographed audit every 4 weeks, issues answered within 4 working hours by a named account manager, and a review whenever your headcount or hybrid pattern changes.
The published specification
Every task, every zone with the frequency in writing
| Zone | Task | Frequency | What that means on site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workstations | Desks, touch points and screens | Every visit | Clear desk areas sanitised, phones, keyboards and mice wiped with a screen-safe product, monitor arms and desk edges dusted. Papers are never moved or read. |
| Workstations | Bins emptied, relined and segregated | Every visit | Desk and communal bins emptied to your building's streams, liners replaced, and recycling kept separate rather than bagged together at the last minute. |
| Workstations | Under-desk vacuuming and cable trays | Weekly | Vacuum under and behind desks, cable trays and floor boxes dusted, chair bases and castors cleaned. |
| Reception and client areas | Reception desk, seating and entrance glass | Every visit | The first thing a visitor sees, done first: desk polished, seating wiped, entrance glass and door furniture cleaned to a streak-free finish, mats vacuumed or shaken out. |
| Reception and client areas | Meeting rooms reset | Every visit | Tables cleaned, chairs squared, whiteboards wiped where marked 'clean', glasses and cups cleared, AV remotes and table boxes sanitised. |
| Washrooms | Full washroom service and restock | Every visit | WCs, urinals, basins, taps and mirrors cleaned and disinfected, cubicle doors and touch points sanitised, floors mopped with a dedicated washroom mop, and soap, paper and hand towels restocked from our stock, not yours. |
| Washrooms | Sanitary and nappy waste units | Monthly | Serviced and exchanged on a documented schedule with duty-of-care transfer notes filed against your account. |
| Washrooms | Descale, grout and dispenser deep clean | Quarterly | Limescale removed from taps, spouts and WC pans, tile grout scrubbed, dispensers stripped and cleaned inside. |
| Kitchens and breakout | Worktops, sinks, appliances outside | Every visit | Worktops cleared and sanitised, sink and taps descaled and polished, fridge, microwave, kettle and coffee machine exteriors cleaned, dishwasher loaded and run. |
| Kitchens and breakout | Fridge and microwave interiors | Monthly | Interiors emptied on a notified date, shelves and seals cleaned, out-of-date items removed with your consent, and the cupboard fronts and handles done at the same time. |
| Floors | Vacuum carpet and mop hard floors | Every visit | All traffic routes and open-plan carpet vacuumed, hard floors dust-mopped then damp-mopped with the correct product for the finish — no bleach on wood or resin. |
| Floors | Machine scrub, buff or spray-burnish | Quarterly | Hard floors machine-cleaned and re-finished on a scheduled visit so the traffic lanes do not go dull between contract renewals. |
| Floors | Carpet hot-water extraction | Not included | Quoted as a periodic add-on and scheduled out of hours, because carpets need drying time no daily contract can absorb. |
| General | Internal glass, partitions and doors | Weekly | Partition glass, meeting-room fronts and door panels de-smeared, frames and handles sanitised. |
| General | High and low dusting | Monthly | Ledges, sills, picture rails, vents and light fittings dusted, along with skirtings, radiator tops and the tops of cabinets and lockers. |
| General | External window cleaning | Not included | Anything above ground floor needs access equipment and its own method statement, so it is quoted separately rather than promised inside a daily rate. |
| Compliance | Consumables managed and reordered | Every visit | Stock levels checked every visit and topped up before you notice, invoiced at cost or bundled into a fixed monthly figure — your choice. |
| Compliance | Scored audit and photo report | Monthly | A supervisor walks the site, scores it against this matrix and sends the report with photographs and any corrective actions taken. |
What this contract deliberately does not cover
- External window cleaning above ground-floor level — quoted separately with its own access plan and method statement.
- Kitchen extract and ductwork cleaning to TR19 — a specialist certificated job we will refer you to rather than pretend to cover.
- Clinical or category-B waste collection — dental, medical and laboratory streams need a licensed carrier.
- Builders and post-refurbishment cleans — a different scope entirely, quoted through our after builders cleaning service.
- IT decommissioning, confidential paper shredding and archive removal, unless added as a scheduled periodic task.
Contract rates
Office cleaning prices in City of London per visit and per month
| Office size | Desks | Per visit | Monthly at 3×/week | Time on site | Team | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small suite or studio | Up to 10 desks | £42 | £546 | 1–1.5 hrs | 1 cleaner | Desks and touch points sanitised, bins emptied and relined, kitchen or tea point wiped down and dishwasher run, one washroom serviced and restocked, floors vacuumed and hard floors mopped, glass door and reception panel spot-cleaned. |
| Single-floor SME office | 11–25 desks | £68 | £884 | 2–2.5 hrs | 1–2 cleaners | Everything above plus meeting rooms reset, breakout seating and soft furnishings, up to two washrooms with consumables managed, kitchen appliances inside and out on rotation, internal glazing and partition smears, and a logged security check on the way out. |
| Multi-room commercial floor | 26–50 desks | £118 | £1534 | 3–4 hrs | 2 cleaners | Reception and client-facing areas to a visitor standard, all meeting and focus rooms, washroom blocks serviced twice where usage demands, kitchens and canteen areas, hard-floor traffic routes machine-cleaned on rotation, and a monthly scored audit. |
| Whole floor or headquarters | 51–100 desks | £195 | £2535 | 4–6 hrs | 2–4 cleaners | Zoned specification with a named supervisor on site, reception, hospitality and client suites, full washroom and shower provision, waste segregated to your building's streams, periodic works scheduled into the contract, and monthly management reporting. |
| Multi-floor or multi-site contract | 100+ desks | £340 | £4420 | 6+ hrs | 4+ cleaners | Site-specific method statement, TUPE handled where an incumbent team transfers, day porters through core hours, out-of-hours deep-clean programme, KPI dashboard with audit scores, and a single account manager across every site. |
All prices are in GBP and exclude VAT. Commercial contracts are invoiced through the company at 20% VAT, which VAT-registered businesses reclaim. Every quote is issued against a purchase-order reference where you need one, with 14-day payment terms as standard and monthly invoicing in arrears.
Why Hello Services
What an office cleaning contract in City of London actually gets you
Built for multi-tenant buildings
Our Aldgate teams already hold passes and inductions for buildings like yours: permit-to-work where it applies, goods lifts booked with building management, and a logged sign-in and sign-out that the estate team can audit.
Clear-desk and confidentiality protocols
Papers are never moved, read or stacked. Cleaners are briefed on clear-desk policy, work with security present where required, and sign confidentiality terms as part of their contract with us.
A published specification, not a promise
Every task in your contract is written down with the frequency next to it, and the same matrix is what the supervisor scores at each audit. If a line is not on the matrix, you are not paying for it — and if it is, it happens on every Aldgate visit.
Cover is guaranteed, not hoped for
When your regular cleaner is ill or on holiday, a briefed relief cleaner attends on the same schedule with the same specification. You are never phoned to be told tonight's visit is not happening.
Issues answered in 4 working hours
One named account manager, a direct number and 020 3633 4555 behind it. Raise something at 09:00 and you have an answer and a corrective action the same working day — not a ticket number.
Scored audits every 4 weeks
A supervisor walks the site against the matrix, scores each zone, photographs anything below standard and sends you the report with what was done about it. It is the evidence trail your landlord, auditor or head office asks for.
Add-ons and local costs
What can change the price in City of London and what never does
| Add-on | From | Basis | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumables managed end to end | Included | included | Soap, hand towels, toilet tissue, bin liners and washroom fresheners monitored every visit and restocked before they run out. Invoiced at cost or folded into a fixed monthly figure. |
| Compliance pack: RAMS, COSHH, insurance | Included | included | Site-specific risk assessment and method statement, COSHH data sheets for every product, £5m public liability and £10m employers' liability certificates, and right-to-work checks on every cleaner. |
| Day porter or housekeeper hours | £16 | per hour | A presence through core hours for washroom checks, meeting-room turnarounds, kitchen resets, deliveries and spillages. Priced by the hour with a two-hour minimum. |
| Washroom hygiene and sanitary disposal | £9 | per unit / month | Sanitary and nappy bins supplied, serviced and exchanged on a documented schedule, with duty-of-care transfer notes filed against your account. |
| Carpet hot-water extraction | £2.4 | per m² | Pre-spray, agitation and extraction with fast-dry settings, scheduled out of hours so the floor is usable the next morning. Traffic-lane and spot treatment included. |
| Hard floor scrub, buff or re-seal | £2.9 | per m² | Rotary scrub and extraction, spray-burnishing on sealed floors, or strip and re-seal on vinyl and safety flooring, always with the correct product for the finish. |
| Internal and reachable external glazing | £95 | per visit | Partition glass, atrium screens and reachable external panes cleaned with pure-water poles where access allows, on a monthly or quarterly cycle. |
| Kitchen and canteen deep clean | £165 | per visit | Appliance interiors, cupboard interiors and fronts, splashbacks degreased, floor edges and under-unit voids cleared, and a food-safe sanitiser finish on all preparation surfaces. |
| Touch-point sanitisation programme | £28 | per visit | A second sanitising pass across handles, rails, lift buttons, door plates, shared desks and hot-desk peripherals, logged so you can evidence it during illness peaks. |
| Recycling and waste stream management | £45 | per month | Segregation into your building's streams, bin-store presentation on collection days, and a documented duty-of-care trail for anything we remove. |
| Out-of-hours or weekend scheduling | Included | included | Evenings, early mornings and weekends at no premium on contracts of two visits a week or more — most London offices are cleaned outside core hours anyway. |
| Guaranteed sickness and holiday cover | Included | included | A briefed relief cleaner attends on the same schedule when your regular cleaner is off. You are never told the visit is cancelled. |
- Access and out-of-hours entry
- Security passes and a permit-to-work, goods lift booked with building management, contractor induction before the first shift and a logged sign-in and sign-out on every visit. We build that into the schedule rather than charging for the time it takes.
- Parking, permits and charging zones
- Aldgate gyratory red routes, tower-block concierge sign-in and lift booking. Part of City of London sits inside the Congestion Charge zone and all of it is inside ULEZ. Permits, suspensions and ULEZ and the Congestion Charge are inside your monthly figure — never added later.
- Building type
- Grade A towers and refurbished multi-let floors, glass-partitioned meeting suites, client-facing reception areas, high-spec washrooms and staffed hospitality space. That decides the specification weighting, not a generic price per square foot.
- Who signs it off
- Managing agents and facilities teams buying for the whole building, plus tenant office managers buying for their own demised floor. We quote in the format your finance team needs, with a purchase-order reference where required.
- Local business density
- 25,555 local business units in City of London, 75.1% of them micro businesses with fewer than ten staff — so our teams are already working within a few streets of you most evenings.
- Contract terms
- 30-day rolling notice, no auto-renewal and no exit fee. Rates are held for twelve months from the start date.
This building stock
Where a contract earns its keep in City of London offices
Glass partitions and meeting-room fronts
Full-height glazing in a corporate floor shows every handprint under downlights. Partition fronts, door pulls and frames are de-smeared with a two-cloth method, not sprayed and smeared.
Reception hospitality and client suites
Cups, glassware, water stations and coffee rings in a client suite are a reputational issue rather than a hygiene one. The first zone cleaned each visit is the one a visitor sees first.
Kitchen sink traps, fridge seals and the coffee machine
The smell in an office kitchen almost always comes from the plughole, the fridge seal or the drip tray. All three are on the schedule rather than waiting for someone to complain.
Carpet traffic lanes and entrance matting
Soil arrives on shoes and stops in the first six metres. Matting is lifted and vacuumed underneath, and traffic lanes are rotated into the periodic extraction programme before they go visibly grey.
Under-desk floors and cable trays
The area nobody vacuums because chairs are in the way. Chairs get moved on the weekly pass, cable trays and floor boxes dusted, and chair castors cleaned so they stop marking the floor.
Washroom touch points, not just the pans
Cubicle locks, door plates, dispenser buttons, taps and the back of the seat are what people notice and what spreads illness. They get a dedicated colour-coded cloth and an EN 1276 sanitiser on every visit.
Coverage
Office cleaning around City of London
Areas we clean offices in across City of London
- Office cleaning in AldgateAldgate (Circle, Metropolitan)EC3
- Office cleaning in Bank and CornhillBank (Central, Northern, Waterloo & City, DLR)EC3
- Office cleaning in BarbicanBarbican (Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City)EC2
- Office cleaning in BlackfriarsBlackfriars (Circle, District, Thameslink)EC4
- Office cleaning in ClerkenwellFarringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink)EC1
- Office cleaning in FarringdonFarringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink)EC1
- Office cleaning in Liverpool StreetLiverpool Street (Central, Circle, Elizabeth line, National Rail)EC2
- Office cleaning in Monument and EastcheapMonument (Circle, District)EC3
- Office cleaning in MoorgateMoorgate (Northern, Elizabeth line)EC2
- Office cleaning in St Paul'sSt Paul's (Central)EC4
Neighbouring boroughs
Related services
Other cleaning we run in City of London for the same buildings
End of tenancy cleaning
Handing a City of London office or flat back to a landlord? The dilapidations-standard clean, worked against the schedule of condition.
One-off deep cleaning
A single restorative clean for an City of London workplace before a contract starts, an inspection, or a return-to-office date.
Oven and appliance cleaning
Office kitchens, canteens and staff microwaves in City of London stripped and cleaned properly rather than wiped.
Commercial cleaning
Retail, hospitality and mixed-use premises around City of London cleaned to a programme with the same out-of-hours access and reporting.
After builders cleaning
Fitting out or refurbishing a City of London floor? The post-construction clean that hands it back at occupancy standard before your contract starts.
Carpet cleaning
Periodic extraction for City of London office carpet, run out of hours so the floor is dry for the morning.
About the borough
City of London in context
The Square Mile — banking towers, medieval lanes and a resident population dwarfed by 500,000 weekday workers. Roman Londinium's walled city, rebuilt after the 1666 fire and again after the Blitz, now layered with towers around Bishopsgate.
City of London holds 25,555 local business units employing 614,000 people, with 75.1% of them employing fewer than ten staff — which is why our borough rounds are built from several small and mid-sized contracts a night rather than one anchor building.
Grade A towers and refurbished multi-let floors, glass-partitioned meeting suites, client-facing reception areas, high-spec washrooms and staffed hospitality space. Confidentiality and clear-desk protocols, measurable audit scores, washroom and hospitality standards that survive a client visit, and cover arranged the moment someone is off.
Access sets the schedule. Congestion Charge and ULEZ, ring-of-steel camera controls, almost no free kerb — loading bays must be booked around office hours. City of London Corporation permits and suspensions are arranged and paid for by us, and any cost sits inside the quoted monthly figure.
- Postcode families
- EC1, EC2, EC3, EC4
- Areas with their own page
- 10
- Council
- City of London Corporation
- Dominant commercial stock
- Grade A towers and multi-tenant floors
- Who signs the contract
- Managing agents and facilities teams buying for the whole building, plus tenant office managers buying for their own demised floor.
- Charging zones
- ULEZ and Congestion Charge
Questions
City of London office cleaning questions, answered
From £42 a visit for up to ten desks, rising with desk count, washroom and kitchen provision and frequency. A 26–50 desk floor cleaned three evenings a week is around £1,534 a month plus VAT across City of London, with consumables, cover, travel and parking already included. Every quote is written, fixed for twelve months and issued with the full specification attached.
All 10 areas listed on this page, each with its own page covering the local building stock, access reality and business mix. Between them they hold 25,555 business units. Businesses with offices in more than one borough are run on one contract with one invoice.
Yes — evenings, early mornings and weekends at no premium on contracts of two visits a week or more. Congestion Charge and ULEZ, ring-of-steel camera controls, almost no free kerb — loading bays must be booked around office hours. Access, alarm codes and key-holding are agreed in writing during mobilisation.
A mobilisation pack containing a site-specific risk assessment and method statement, COSHH data sheets for every product, £5m public liability and £10m employers' liability certificates, right-to-work checks and DBS where the site requires it.
No. 30 days' rolling notice either way, no automatic renewal, no exit fee, and your rate held for twelve months from the start date.
Yes. We mobilise in around ten working days, handle TUPE where an incumbent team transfers, and run a supervisor-led first clean so the standard is set from night one across City of London.
Sources: ONS UK Business Counts — local units by industry and employment size band, 2024 (Nomis NM_141_1); ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, 2022 (Nomis NM_189_1). Business and employment figures describe the whole borough, the smallest geography ONS publishes both series for. Resident population is ONS Census 2021. Source: ONS Census 2021, borough totals via Nomis (table TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003). Figures describe the whole borough, the smallest area ONS publishes every one of these tables for.
Start an office cleaning contract in City of London
Written specification, fixed monthly figure, a scored audit every 4 weeks and 30 days' rolling notice. Call 020 3633 4555 or book a site survey online.