How to find commercial cleaning jobs?
Short answerFind commercial cleaning jobs by contacting small offices, property managers and medical or fitness spaces directly, walking each site to scope it, and sending a written proposal within a day. Start with buildings near your other jobs, because short drives protect your margin.
The explanation
Commercial buyers are not scrolling a directory. They are usually a property manager, an office manager or an owner who is tired of a cleaner who stopped showing up. Reach them with a short email, a call, or a visit during business hours, and ask who handles cleaning.
Offer a walkthrough. Look at floor types, restrooms, trash volume, hours the building is empty and how often cleaning is needed. A scoped checklist lets you quote a weekly or monthly price and shows the buyer you are organized.
Send the written proposal fast, with the scope, frequency, start date and a trial period. Then follow up once a week for two weeks. Many deals are won by whoever answered first and sounded reliable. A scheduled monthly check in call with the office manager catches small problems before they become a reason to switch.
What to watch for
- Bidding a building without first walking through it.
- Quoting by the hour with no scope, which invites scope creep.
- Taking a building far from your other routes.
In residential cleaning (maid service)
Commercial cleaning usually happens after hours on a fixed weekly rhythm, which fills slow weekday evenings and can balance residential work done in daylight. All residential cleaning (maid service) scheduling questions.
How Apex does it
Rolling out
The screen and the rules are built and tested. Saving real customer data is not connected yet. Status as of 2026-10-07; the badge shows the least-built feature involved.
Apex is designed to capture leads from a website form, track them through pipeline stages and send quotes from a builder. Lead capture is built and the pipeline view is rolling out per its badge.
- LD06Lead capture from website form(Built, rolling out)
- LD07Lead pipeline / kanban stages(Rolling out)
- ES01Estimates / quotes builder(Rolling out)
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