How We Clean an O Riordan Street Warehouse in Alexandria 2015
This page sets out how we recover and then hold a third-party logistics unit off O Riordan Street, Alexandria NSW 2015 — the kind that fails a landlord inspection on housekeeping findings after a year or two without a real cleaning program. It describes the recovery project, the ongoing scope that should replace it, and how both are priced. It is our method rather than a named client story.
The site and the usual findings
Sealed concrete slab, six-metre selective racking down both sides, a dock with a leveller, a mezzanine office over the front, a crib room and shared amenities. One or two pick shifts a day, and typically a cleaner attending twice weekly for bins and bathrooms and nothing else. What an inspection then raises:
- Heavy rubber transfer and embedded grit through the main travel aisles, with line marking no longer legible in the worst runs
- A dust load on upper rack beams, sprinkler pipework and high-bay light fittings, which landlords flag as both a housekeeping and a fire-services concern
- A dock leveller pit holding pooled water, shrink wrap and pallet debris
The recovery project
Quoted as a fixed one-off, typically across two weeknights and a weekend day. Nights one and two: a ride-on machine scrub of the full slab in overlapping passes with a red pad and neutral detergent, with the operator relocating stock aisle by aisle so nothing is scrubbed around. Line marking is mapped first and no stripper goes near it. The weekend day: a scissor-lift high-level pass over rack beams, pipework and light fittings, top-down, followed by a second floor pass to pick up everything that has come down, then the dock and leveller pit cleaned out, degreased and left dry. Every stage is photographed before and after for the landlord file.
The ongoing program that should replace the old contract
- Nightly, after the last shift: amenities, crib room, mezzanine office, dock approach and bin bay
- Weekly: machine floor pass across travel aisles and the dock apron
- Monthly: full-slab machine pass, roller-door tracks and leveller pit
- Quarterly: high-level dusting of beams, pipework and light fittings with a dated photo set
- Ongoing: LDPE pallet wrap and strapping separated from cardboard and fed to the baler rather than bypassed
- Crews inducted to the site traffic-management plan, in high-visibility PPE, working behind cones where operations overlapped
The program is quoted as a fixed monthly figure inside our Alexandria warehouse band, with machine floor work quoted per square metre and the periodic lines listed separately so they stay visible on the invoice.
Why it is structured this way
A re-inspection asks for evidence, which is why every stage of the project clean is photographed and why the quarterly high-level cycle produces a dated photo set — the same material an internal WHS audit wants. The uncomfortable arithmetic is that a recovery clean costs a multiple of a month of ongoing service to undo a condition that accrued purely because nothing above head height was ever scheduled. Periodic work inside a fixed monthly figure is always cheaper than periodic work bought after an inspection.
Related reading
Method detail is on our warehouse cleaning in Alexandria page, and production sites are covered under industrial cleaning. The mezzanine office scope follows our Alexandria office cleaning standard. Our other Alexandria write-up covers Bourke Road creative studios, pricing context is on the rates page, and terms are on the FAQ.
Warehouse cleaning — FAQs
What kind of site is this written for?
Third-party logistics units off O Riordan Street, Alexandria 2015 — sealed concrete slab, six-metre selective racking, a dock with a leveller, a mezzanine office over the front, a crib room and a shared amenities block, running one or two pick shifts a day.
What do landlord inspections pick up on these units?
Almost always the same three things. Rubber transfer and embedded grit across the main travel aisles, a dust load on upper rack beams and sprinkler pipework, and a dock leveller pit holding pooled water and debris. None of it is structural. All of it is housekeeping that has been deferred for a year or more.
What does recovery involve?
A one-off project clean first: a machine scrub of the full slab across consecutive nights with racking partially cleared, a scissor-lift high-level pass over beams, pipework and light fittings, and a full dock and leveller-pit clean-out. Then an ongoing program built to stop it recurring.
How are the project and the ongoing program priced?
The recovery project is quoted as a fixed one-off across a set number of nights and a weekend day, after a walkthrough. The ongoing program is a fixed monthly figure covering nightly amenities and mezzanine, a weekly machine floor pass and a quarterly high-level cycle. Both sit inside our Alexandria warehouse band, with machine floor work quoted per square metre.
What evidence does the operator end up with?
Every stage of the project clean is photographed before and after for the landlord file, and the quarterly high-level cycle produces a dated photo set. That is the material a landlord re-inspection and an internal WHS audit both ask for.
Can the project clean be avoided?
Usually, yes, and that is the point of the page. A recovery clean costs a multiple of a month of ongoing service to undo a condition that accrued because nothing above head height was ever scheduled. Periodic work built into a fixed monthly figure is materially cheaper than periodic work bought after an inspection.
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