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Office Cleaning in Lewisham
We hold office cleaning contracts right across Lewisham, from SME suites, practices and clinics above the high street down to two-visit-a-week suites above a parade. Every one runs on the same published specification, the same guaranteed cover and the same 30-day rolling notice.
- £1m public liability
- Basic DBS-checked teams
- Since 2019
- 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
- 12 areas covered, each with its own page
The service, locally
Office cleaning across Lewisham South London
The borough holds 10,820 local business units employing 72,000 people, with health and social care (19.3%), education (17.2%) and retail and wholesale (14.1%) leading the mix, and 90.1% of businesses employing fewer than ten people. That is why our Lewisham 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 small office suites above retail, dental and medical practices, solicitors and accountants, salons, clinics and studios in single-storey or first-floor units with no lift and no dedicated bin store. A single street door with your own key, no concierge and no goods lift — the practical issues are stairs, bin day and where the van sits for twenty minutes. Steep hills at Honor Oak and Forest Hill, narrow terraced streets and expanding CPZs across SE4 and SE14. London Borough of Lewisham 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: SME suites, practices and clinics above the high street. Access out of hours: A single street door with your own key, no concierge and no goods lift — the practical issues are stairs, bin day and where the van sits for twenty minutes.
- Areas covered
- 12Areas covered
- Local business units
- 10,820Local business units
- Jobs in borough
- 72,000Jobs in borough
- Per visit from
- £42Per visit from
Contract estimate
Price your Lewisham office contract in under a minute
Contract estimate
Price an office cleaning contract in Lewisham
£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 Lewisham from survey to first audit
- Site survey and specification
- Fixed written quote
- Mobilisation and compliance
- First clean with a supervisor
- Audits, reporting and account review
What happens at each step is written up in full on the London office cleaning hub.
Contract rates
Office cleaning prices in Lewisham per visit and per month
| Office size | Desks | Per visit | Monthly at 3×/week | Time on site | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small suite or studio | Up to 10 desks | £42 | £546 | 1 cleaner | |
| Single-floor SME office | 11–25 desks | £68 | £884 | 1–2 cleaners | |
| Multi-room commercial floor | 26–50 desks | £118 | £1534 | 2 cleaners | |
| Whole floor or headquarters | 51–100 desks | £195 | £2535 | 2–4 cleaners | |
| Multi-floor or multi-site contract | 100+ desks | £340 | £4420 | 4+ cleaners |
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.
The published specification
Every task, every zone with the frequency in writing
| Zone | Task | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Workstations | Desks, touch points and screens | Every visit |
| Workstations | Bins emptied, relined and segregated | Every visit |
| Workstations | Under-desk vacuuming and cable trays | Weekly |
| Reception and client areas | Reception desk, seating and entrance glass | Every visit |
| Reception and client areas | Meeting rooms reset | Every visit |
| Washrooms | Full washroom service and restock | Every visit |
The wording behind each line — what counts as done, and the tasks the contract deliberately excludes — is published in full on the London office cleaning specification. It is identical on every Lewisham contract.
Why Hello Services
What an office cleaning contract in Lewisham actually gets you
Short visits that actually finish the list
A 90-minute Bellingham and Downham visit is scoped to be finishable in 90 minutes on SE6 jobs. We would rather quote an honest two hours than pretend an hour covers a practice with two washrooms around Bellingham (Southeastern), with 31% one-person households here.
Consumables handled without being asked
Soap, paper and liners are checked every visit and topped up from our stock before they run out — no more standing orders you forgot to place in this 32% flats neighbourhood — and 45% owner-occupation locally, with 22% of SE6 homes being privately rented.
Issues answered in 4 working hours
One named account manager, a direct number and 020 3633 4555 behind it across SE6. Raise something at 09:00 and you have an answer and a corrective action the same working day — not a ticket number on this side of Lewisham, with 33% social-rented stock nearby.
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 on SE6 jobs — and 31% one-person households here, with 32% of homes here being flats. It is the evidence trail your landlord, auditor or head office asks for on this side of Lewisham.
30-day rolling notice
No twelve-month lock-in, no automatic renewal and no exit fee in Bellingham and Downham. Rates are held for twelve months from the start date on this side of Lewisham, with 3,351 households on this patch, and the contract continues because it works rather than because you signed something.
Compliance pack before the first shift
For SE6 bookings, site-specific RAMS, COSHH data sheets for every product, £1m public liability and £10m employers' liability certificates, right-to-work checks and DBS where the site needs it — issued as a pack, not chased out of us in this 32% flats neighbourhood — and 31% one-person households here, with 32% of homes here being flats. It works the same way on every Bellingham and Downham (SE6) booking.
Add-ons and local costs
What can change the price in Lewisham and what never does
| Add-on | From | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consumables managed end to end | Included | included |
| Compliance pack: RAMS, COSHH, insurance | Included | included |
| Day porter or housekeeper hours | £16 | per hour |
| Washroom hygiene and sanitary disposal | £9 | per unit / month |
| Carpet hot-water extraction | £2.4 | per m² |
| Hard floor scrub, buff or re-seal | £2.9 | per m² |
| Internal and reachable external glazing | £95 | per visit |
| Kitchen and canteen deep clean | £165 | per visit |
| Touch-point sanitisation programme | £28 | per visit |
| Recycling and waste stream management | £45 | per month |
| Out-of-hours or weekend scheduling | Included | included |
| Guaranteed sickness and holiday cover | Included | included |
- Access and out-of-hours entry
- A single street door with your own key, no concierge and no goods lift — the practical issues are stairs, bin day and where the van sits for twenty minutes. We build that into the schedule rather than charging for the time it takes.
- Parking, permits and charging zones
- Wide estate roads with kerbside parking and level access — easy for a Luton. Lewisham sits outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ. Permits, suspensions and ULEZ are inside your monthly figure — never added later.
- Building type
- Small office suites above retail, dental and medical practices, solicitors and accountants, salons, clinics and studios in single-storey or first-floor units with no lift and no dedicated bin store. That decides the specification weighting, not a generic price per square foot.
- Who signs it off
- Owners, practice managers and office administrators buying two or three visits a week on a short, plain-English agreement. We quote in the format your finance team needs, with a purchase-order reference where required.
- Local business density
- 10,820 local business units in Lewisham, 90.1% 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 Lewisham offices
The waiting area and the front door glass
The first two metres of a practice or small office are the whole impression. Door glass, handles, seating and the reception counter are cleaned before anything else on the list.
Stairs, handrails and the shared street door
Above-shop suites share a stairwell with whoever else is in the building. Where it is yours to clean, treads, nosings and the handrail are done weekly rather than pushed to the bottom of the list.
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.
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.
Coverage
Office cleaning around Lewisham
Lewisham (SE4) sits in Lewisham — our crews cover the whole SE4 district and the streets bordering it.
Areas we clean offices in across Lewisham
- Office cleaning in Bellingham and DownhamBellingham (Southeastern)SE6
- Office cleaning in BrockleyBrockley (Overground)SE4
- Office cleaning in CatfordCatford (Southeastern)SE6
- Office cleaning in DeptfordDeptford (Southeastern)SE8
- Office cleaning in Forest HillForest Hill (Overground)SE23
- Office cleaning in Grove ParkGrove Park (Southeastern)SE12
- Office cleaning in Hither GreenHither Green (Southeastern)SE13
- Office cleaning in Honor OakHonor Oak Park (Overground)SE23
- Office cleaning in LeeLee (Southeastern)SE12
- Office cleaning in LewishamLewisham (DLR, Southeastern)SE13
- Office cleaning in New CrossNew Cross (Overground, Southeastern)SE14
- Office cleaning in SydenhamSydenham (Overground)SE26
Related services
Other cleaning we run in Lewisham for the same buildings
Appliance cleaning
Fridges, dishwashers and coffee machines in Bellingham and Downham staff kitchens cleaned on the contract rather than left to the team.
Regular domestic cleaning
Directors' flats, serviced apartments and live-work units around SE6 on the same weekly rhythm as the office.
Hoarder clean-up
Overloaded storage rooms, archives and back offices near Bellingham and Downham cleared discreetly before the contract clean starts.
Pre-sale cleaning
Marketing a SE6 building or a director's property? The presentation clean that makes the listing photography work.
After builders cleaning
Fitting out or refurbishing a SE6 floor? The post-construction clean that hands it back at occupancy standard before your contract starts.
Carpet cleaning
Periodic extraction for Bellingham and Downham office carpet, run out of hours so the floor is dry for the morning.
Jet washing
Entrances, service yards and bin stores around Bellingham and Downham — the part of the building your visitors walk over before they reach reception.
End of tenancy cleaning
Handing a SE6 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 Bellingham and Downham workplace before a contract starts, an inspection, or a return-to-office date.
About the borough
Lewisham in context
Deptford's market and Victorian New Cross, hill villages at Blackheath and Forest Hill, and Catford's high street. Kentish villages absorbed by railways from the 1840s; Deptford's naval dockyard and Deptford Creek shaped its industrial edge.
Lewisham holds 10,820 local business units employing 72,000 people, with 90.1% 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.
Small office suites above retail, dental and medical practices, solicitors and accountants, salons, clinics and studios in single-storey or first-floor units with no lift and no dedicated bin store. Short, well-priced visits that genuinely finish the list, washroom consumables handled without being asked, and one point of contact who answers the phone.
Access sets the schedule. Steep hills at Honor Oak and Forest Hill, narrow terraced streets and expanding CPZs across SE4 and SE14. London Borough of Lewisham permits and suspensions are arranged and paid for by us, and any cost sits inside the quoted monthly figure.
- Postcode families
- SE4, SE6, SE8, SE12, SE13, SE14, SE23, SE26
- Areas with their own page
- 12
- Council
- London Borough of Lewisham
- Dominant commercial stock
- SME suites above the high street
- Who signs the contract
- Owners, practice managers and office administrators buying two or three visits a week on a short, plain-English agreement.
- Charging zones
- ULEZ only
Questions
Lewisham 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 Lewisham, with consumables, cover, travel and parking already included. Every quote is written, fixed for twelve months and issued with the full specification attached.
All 12 areas listed on this page, each with its own page covering the local building stock, access reality and business mix. Between them they hold 10,820 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. Steep hills at Honor Oak and Forest Hill, narrow terraced streets and expanding CPZs across SE4 and SE14. 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, £1m 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 Lewisham.
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 Lewisham
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.
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