Commercial Cleaning in Ottawa
Recurring commercial cleaning for Ottawa offices, clinics, and retail.
Commercial cleaning is recurring, scheduled cleaning of a workplace: washrooms, kitchens, floors, reception, and every surface people touch, carried out after hours so the business is never interrupted. We clean workplaces of most kinds across Ottawa and Gatineau, including professional offices, retail units, dental and medical offices, warehouses, and managed common areas, nightly, weekly, or as a one-off.
Every scope starts with a walkthrough.
What we handle.
We clean commercial space across Ottawa and Gatineau on a schedule you set: offices, retail units, dental and medical clinics, warehouses, and the common areas of managed buildings. Crews work after hours, and the scope is written down so the same work happens every visit. Clinics are a specialism rather than the whole of it.
Ottawa Site Restoration does commercial cleaning across Ottawa and Gatineau: offices, retail units, dental and medical offices, warehouses and the common areas of managed buildings. Crews work after hours to a written scope agreed at a walkthrough, and because junk removal is our core service we can also haul the old desks, broken equipment and end-of-lease leftovers a cleaning contract leaves behind.
That matters in Ottawa because an Ottawa business is on the City's Yellow Bag Program for Small Businesses or a private hauler, not household collection.
- Nightly, weekly, or one-off, across Ottawa and Gatineau
- Washrooms, kitchens, reception, and common areas every visit
- Offices, retail, clinics, warehouses, and managed common areas
- After-hours crews, so your workday is never interrupted
Everything the job covers.
Offices and professional space
Desks, reception, meeting rooms, kitchens, and washrooms. Bins emptied, floors done, glass and high-touch surfaces wiped every visit, to a written checklist rather than to whoever is on shift that night.
In Ottawa a business does not set garbage out like a household: the City's Yellow Bag Program for Small Businesses puts it on a two-week cycle in pre-purchased yellow bags, so we keep paper, cardboard and general waste in their own streams as the bins are emptied.
Retail and customer-facing units
Entrances, glass, sales floors, fitting rooms, and customer washrooms, cleaned before you open or after you close. In winter the entrance is most of the job, because that is where the salt lands. Salt tracked in from November through April dulls hard floors and blooms white on carpet when it is not rinsed out, so the entrance gets more time than the sales floor.
Dental and medical office cleaning
Ontario dentists work to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario's Standard of Practice on Infection Prevention and Control in the Dental Office. The clinical reprocessing inside that standard stays with your team. We take the general cleaning around it, in a dental office or a medical office alike: waiting room, reception, washrooms, floors, and staff room.
Warehouses, industrial units, and back of house
Concrete floors, loading bays, racking aisles, staff washrooms, and lunch rooms. Different surfaces and different machines from an office, and usually a different hour, because the window is between shifts.
Managed buildings and common areas
Lobbies, corridors, stairwells, elevators, and shared washrooms for property managers, on a fixed schedule with one point of contact for every site. Under Ontario Regulation 103/94 an office building or retail complex of 10,000 square metres or more in a municipality of 5,000 people or more has to run a source separation program.
That duty sits with the building owner, and the crew keeps fine paper, cardboard, glass and cans apart as it collects them from common areas.
One-off, post-tenancy, and deep cleans
Move-ins, move-outs, end of lease, and the annual clean a weekly schedule never reaches. Carpet steam extraction and post-construction cleaning run off the same crew, so a handover does not need three contractors.
Start to finish.
Walk the space
We walk the site with you and count what actually drives the work: the floor area cleaned rather than the area on the lease, the floor types, how many washrooms and kitchens, how many entrances, and what your own staff already handle. A price given over the phone without that walk is a guess.
Write the scope down
Every task, and how often each one happens: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly. A scope on paper is what makes the fiftieth visit look like the first, and what you hold us to when it does not. Our guide to choosing a commercial cleaning company in Ottawa lists eight questions to put to any bidder, us included.
Set the hours
Nightly, a few nights a week, or weekly, at whatever hour suits the building. Most commercial work runs after close, but where a site is easier in daylight, a clinic that shuts at lunch or a warehouse between shifts, we fit the crew to that.
Clean to the checklist, and report the exceptions
The crew works the agreed list. Anything that needs your decision, a stain that will not lift, a broken fitting, a consumable running out, comes back to you rather than being quietly skipped.
Review and adjust
Tell us what is being missed or over-serviced and we change the scope. A schedule nobody revisits stops matching the building inside a year.
In Ottawa, the bins are the part that catches people out
Two local rules shape this job, and neither is about mopping. The first is waste.
A business is not on the same footing as a household here: the City of Ottawa runs a Yellow Bag Program for Small Businesses, and ottawa.ca states that a business has to apply, be approved, and then set garbage out every two weeks in pre-purchased City yellow bags, bought in advance from a Client Service Centre or one of the listed retailers.
Two weeks is a long time when a cleaner empties your bins five nights a week, and anything the program does not cover is yours to move. The second rule is provincial.
Under Ontario Regulation 103/94, an office building or retail complex of at least 10,000 square metres in a municipality of 5,000 people or more has to run a source separation program, and ontario.ca lists what must be separated: fine paper, corrugated cardboard, newsprint, glass bottles and jars, and aluminum and steel cans.
Compliance sits with the building owner, not the cleaner, but a night crew that tips the paper bin into the general waste undoes the program. So we keep the streams apart as we collect them. Then there is winter, when salt tracked in from November through April dulls hard floors and blooms white on carpet, so entrances need more attention than the rest of the building.
What drives the price.
Commercial cleaning is priced on a schedule, not on a single job, and we give you a fixed monthly figure after the walkthrough rather than a rate over the phone. What moves the number: the floor area actually cleaned, how many washrooms and kitchens are in scope, how many nights a week we attend, the floor types, the number of entrances, and whether consumables are on us or on you.
Clinical and food-handling areas take longer per square metre than open office space, and a building with three washrooms on one floor is not the same job as three floors with one washroom each. Waste can be its own line, because commercial garbage does not go out with a household's collection. Call (613) 852-4059 to book the walkthrough.
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Yes, and that is how most of our commercial work runs. We clean in the evening or overnight so your staff and customers never see it happen and nobody is working around a mop. If your space is easier in daylight, a clinic that closes at lunch or a warehouse with a gap between shifts, we fit the crew to that instead.
It tracks headcount and traffic, not floor area. A small office with a handful of people and no public visitors can run well on one visit a week, while a busy reception, a shared kitchen, or public washrooms usually need attention every day they are used. Ottawa winters push the frequency up between November and April, because salt at the entrance is a daily problem rather than a weekly one.
Whatever the written scope lists, with how often each task happens. Every visit usually covers the bins, the floors, the washrooms and kitchens, and the glass and surfaces people touch. Less frequent lines pick up what a nightly pass skips, such as carpet steam extraction or the once-a-year deep clean.
From November to April the entrance gets more time, because that is where the road salt lands. Paper, soap and bin liners can go on the list too if you want us to supply them, and we write it with you at the walkthrough.
A home is cleaned around the people living in it, and a workplace around its opening hours. Commercial work usually happens after close, to a written scope the contract holds the cleaner to. The waste rules differ as well. An Ottawa household puts three garbage items at the curb every two weeks, while a business applies to the City's Yellow Bag Program for Small Businesses or pays a private hauler.
And under Ontario Regulation 103/94, an Ottawa office building or retail complex of 10,000 square metres or more has to run a source separation program for its recycling.
Yes, and it is the part most cleaning contracts leave out. Junk removal is our core service, so alongside a schedule we can haul what a bin was never going to take: old desks and chairs, broken equipment, filing purges, and end-of-lease leftovers.
It matters here because the City's Yellow Bag Program for small businesses is a two-week cycle you have to register for, and anything outside it is yours to move.
Yes, both, and clinics are one of our specialisms even though they are not all we do. The boundary matters and it is the same in either kind of practice: clinical instrument reprocessing and operatory disinfection fall under the practice's own infection prevention and control obligations and stay with your team. What we take is everything around that work, and we follow your written protocol rather than substituting our own.
Either arrangement works. Some clients want consumables included so restocking is never their problem, others already buy through a supplier and just want the cleaning. We settle it at the walkthrough, because it changes the monthly figure and it should be in writing before you sign off on a quote.
Yes. Move-ins, move-outs, end-of-lease cleans, and the annual clean a weekly schedule never reaches are all one-off work, and you are not required to take a recurring contract to book one. If you want the space kept that way afterwards we can turn it into a schedule, but that is your call.
Cleaning of a workplace rather than a home, done on a schedule to a written scope. Offices, retail units, dental and medical offices, warehouses and the shared areas of managed buildings all qualify, whether the visits are nightly, weekly or a one-off deep clean.
What sets it apart is the after-hours crew, the checklist that makes the fiftieth visit match the first, and the waste rules: an Ottawa business is on the City's Yellow Bag Program for Small Businesses or a private hauler, not household collection.
Where these facts come from
The provincial regulation behind the source separation section above. It fixes the floor area that triggers a program and lists the materials that have to be kept apart, and the duty to run one sits with the building owner rather than with a cleaning crew.
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