Industrial and Warehouse Cleaning in Peterborough

Plants, warehouses, and loading docks cleaned around your shifts instead of through them.

Industrial cleaning for Peterborough plants and warehouses

In an industrial building, clean is not a cosmetic question. Dust near machinery, residue on a floor, and debris in a walkway turn into slips, into housekeeping findings on an audit, and into equipment that wears faster than it should.

We clean manufacturing plants, processing facilities, machine and fabrication shops, warehouses, and distribution centres through Peterborough and the Kawarthas towns we serve, including Lindsay, Havelock, and Norwood. Programs cover one building or several, on whatever rotation the operation can carry.

Everything starts with a walkthrough of the real floor, during a real shift, so the scope is written against how the place actually runs.

Typical tasks in an industrial program

Production floors swept and scrubbed, spills and residue dealt with
Floors and surfaces around machinery cleaned, including access points and workstations
Warehouse aisles and racking faces swept, dust and packaging debris cleared
Loading docks, receiving bays, and dock levellers cleaned of tracked-in soil and tire marks
Concrete floors swept and scrubbed, sealed or unfinished
Employee washrooms and change rooms cleaned, sanitized, and restocked
Lunchrooms, breakrooms, and vending areas cleaned
Plant offices, meeting rooms, and quality labs cleaned
Entrances, corridors, stairs, and mezzanine walkways kept clear
High-touch points disinfected: handles, push plates, switches, railings, keypads, shared tooling areas
High dusting of beams, ledges, pipes, and light fixtures on rotation
Bins, recycling, and cardboard handled the way the plant sorts it
Exterior entrances, pads, and dock aprons pressure washed on a set cycle

Uptime comes first

Forklifts keep moving, lines stay up, and inventory turns over whether the cleaning is convenient or not. So the program is built backwards from your operation: shift changes, running equipment, receiving windows, maintenance shutdowns, and the hours when a given area is genuinely available.

That also means the schedule is allowed to be uneven. A production aisle might need attention every shift while a mezzanine office gets a weekly visit and the high dusting waits for a shutdown week. Written down, it stops being a guess.

Site access and safety requirements shape the plan as much as the tasks do. Where an area can only be worked a certain way, or at a certain time, that belongs in the written scope.

Why ServiceMaster Clean of Peterborough

No subcontractorsEvery clean is done by our own trained, vetted, in-house teams.

Insured and bondedFull general liability insurance, WSIB coverage, and bonded staff.

Vetted, identifiable crewsOur people pass police background checks and wear uniforms and ID badges on site.

24/7 emergency responseA burst line, a spill, a mess before a morning audit. We answer around the clock, 365 days a year.

Everything suppliedProfessional equipment and disinfectants come with the program, with nothing for you to store.

Scales with youOne plant or fifteen locations, on the same standard.

What an industrial quote is built on

Industrial buildings price differently than offices because the space inside them does different work. Cleanable square footage gets split by area: finished office space, employee facilities, production floor, and warehouse or unfinished space each carry their own rate of effort. Loading docks, exterior pads, and parking areas are priced as their own items, and condition matters as much as size. Our commercial cleaning pricing guide explains each factor, and the walkthrough that produces the number is free.

Related services and industries

Concrete and hard floor careScrubbing, sealing, finish maintenance Pressure washing and exterior cleaningDocks, pads, building exteriors Janitorial programs for plantsEmployee spaces, offices, washrooms Post-construction cleaningAfter a line, a bay, or a build Retail and commercial plazasStores, plazas, entrances, parking Offices and corporate spacePlant offices, boardrooms, reception

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you work around our production schedule?

That is the starting point of the scope. Shift changes, running lines, receiving hours, maintenance shutdowns, and site access rules all go into the schedule before anything else, because a cleaning plan that ignores them will not survive its first week.

Do you clean production equipment?

Our work is the building and the environment around the equipment: floors, walls, guarding, platforms, racking faces, and the surfaces people touch. Anything that belongs to your maintenance program stays with your maintenance program, and we write the line between the two into the scope.

Can you handle warehouse floors that size?

Yes. Large hard floors are the work we are set up for, with professional equipment sized to the square footage and finish maintenance where the floor is coated. Concrete, sealed or unfinished, is priced differently than finished office flooring.

What about one-time work before an audit or a shutdown?

One-time projects and deep cleans are part of what we do, and so is emergency response. Whether it is a high dusting pass before an inspection, a post-construction clean after a line is installed, or a mess at two in the morning, our emergency line answers around the clock, 365 days a year.

How do you price industrial cleaning?

By the areas that actually get cleaned. Production floor, warehouse, loading docks, employee spaces, and offices each carry different work, and so do condition, headcount, hours, and frequency. Our page on how commercial cleaning pricing works lays out the factors.

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