A warehouse runs on visibility, traction and dust control. All three are cleaning problems.
Forklift traffic kicks up dust that lands on stock, racking and lighting. Tyre marks turn aisles dark within weeks. Dock zones accumulate residue from every trailer that backs in. None of it shows up in your WMS, but all of it slows your operation down.
We clean DCs, 3PL sites, cold storage, container yards and small warehouses across Melbourne's south-east, west and northern industrial belts. Crews work around forklift movements, scissor-lift work zones and pick-and-pack waves, not against them.
The outcome is a slab that reads white-line clear, racking that doesn't dust your inbound stock, and a dock apron that doesn't track soil back into the building on every trailer.
What's included.
Warehouse scopes are built around floor area, forklift volume, dock turnover and rack height. The standard inclusions below get tuned to your site.
Slab floor sweep & scrub
- Ride-on mechanical sweeping of pick faces and main aisles
- Scrub-dry of high-traffic walkways and pedestrian zones
- Spot treatment of tyre marks, hydraulic spills and pallet glue
- Line marking visibility check and walkway clarity
- Spotter / hi-vis coordination with forklift operators
Loading dock & yard areas
- Dock plate, leveller and edge cleaning
- Container apron sweep, debris removal
- Strap, shrink-wrap and packaging waste capture
- Pressure-wash schedule for dock walls and bollards
- Drain and trade-waste pit clearing
Racking & high-level dust-down
- Top-of-rack and beam dust-down, scoped and delivered with a trusted access contractor where EWP or boom is needed
- Light fitting clean for lumen recovery
- HVAC vent, ducting and conduit dust removal
- Roof bracing and sprinkler-head dusting
- Mezzanine, pick-tower and stairwell deep clean
Office, amenity & welfare
- Site office, dispatch and admin areas
- Lunch room, change rooms and toilet block
- Driver lounge / visitor reception
- Consumables restock and bin management
- High-touch points: time-clocks, gate keypads, door hardware
Sized to your slab. Not a square-metre flat rate.
Warehouse pricing depends on floor area, forklift volume, rack height and how much of the scope is mechanical versus manual. We scope it on a walkthrough and quote a fixed monthly fee with the scope itemised.
Floor area & rack height
Total slab area, rack height, and the mechanical-versus-manual split across pick faces, aisles and dock zones.
Forklift volume & frequency
Forklift and dock turnover, high-level dust-down cadence, and whether the site needs daily, several-times-weekly or periodic attention.
A fixed, itemised fee
One monthly figure, scope itemised line by line, consumables transparent, no surprise levies. Quoted after a free site visit.
Warehouse cleaning, six questions answered.
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Do you bring your own ride-on sweeper and scrubber?
How do you work around forklift traffic?
Can you do racking and high-level cleaning?
What about cold storage and freezer warehouses?
Can you handle pressure-washing for the dock apron and exterior?
How quickly can you start a warehouse contract?
Melbourne warehouse cleaning, in depth.
How do you handle high-level racking and beam dust-down in a Melbourne warehouse?
Carefully, and honestly about who does what. The routine slab, dock and amenity cleaning is handled in-house by our own police-checked crews with our own ride-on sweepers and scrubbers. For high-level work, the racking tops, beams, ducting and roof bracing that need an elevated work platform or boom, we scope the job and bring in a trusted access contractor we engage and manage, so it stays one program with one point of contact and one invoice. That keeps the height work with operators set up for it, while we stay accountable for the result and the schedule. A typical high-level dust-down runs quarterly or biannually, coordinated with your operations team to bay-isolate aisles, drape or clear stock where needed, and work around pick-and-pack waves. The cadence and access method are scoped on the site walk, so you get a real plan rather than a guess.
How do you clean a working Melbourne warehouse without disrupting forklift operations?
By scheduling around the floor rather than stopping it. Most warehouse cleaning runs in a night window or before open, when forklift traffic is lightest, and where a site runs long hours we work in zones so mechanical sweeping never blocks a live aisle. Crews wear hi-vis to your site standard, complete your induction, and coordinate exclusion zones with the shift supervisor before each clean. Ride-on sweepers and scrubber-dryers cover the large slab areas quickly, walk-behind machines handle pedestrian zones, and tyre marks, hydraulic spills and pallet glue are spot-treated as they appear. For distribution centres with two-shift cover, we agree rolling windows with your site lead so the program fits the operation, not the other way around. It is all set at the free site visit and documented, and the same crew returns each visit so they already know your layout, your dispatch rhythm and your safety system.
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