Commercial Cleaning on Ottawa Street & East Hamilton

Working in East Hamilton

Ottawa Street shops are mostly older storefronts, many deep and narrow with stock right up to the aisles. Crews work carefully around fabric bolts, furniture and displays, and agree with you which areas are off-limits. Dust is a constant in textile shops, so high dusting and frequent floor work are part of most scopes.

Industrial units in East Hamilton are usually smaller than the big Bayfront plants: one or two shifts, a lunchroom, a couple of washrooms, an office and a shop floor. Crews follow the site's safety rules and keep plant grit from spreading into the office.

For owners with both, one scope can cover a storefront and a workshop on different schedules, with the shop cleaned before opening and the workshop after the last shift.

Barton Street East has its own pattern. The shops, restaurants and service businesses along it, and the big shopping centre near Ottawa Street, see steady traffic most of the day, and their entrances and washrooms take the brunt of it. Plaza and strip tenants often ask for a short daily clean of the customer-facing areas and a weekly deeper clean of back rooms and floors. In winter the whole east end deals with salt, slush and the grit that comes with an industrial neighbourhood, so entrance matting and floor work get extra time from November to March. East-end accounts share routes, which keeps travel down and lets the same crew get to know each building.

East Hamilton Shift Note