How We Run a Brookvale Warehouse Make-Good

The situation these units present

Years of joinery work leave a unit coated: fine timber dust on every beam, ledge and light fitting, resin and glue spotting on the slab, forklift tyre marks at the roller door, and a mezzanine office nobody has detailed since fit-out. Make-good clauses on these estates typically require return to "broom-clean plus original condition, fair wear excepted", and estate agents inspect with a torch. The window between defit completion and handover is usually days, not weeks, which is what shapes the sequence below.

How we scope it — two days, three cleaners

• Day one, top down: high dusting of beams, purlins, lights and racking bolt-plates with HEPA-filtered vacuums before any floor work
• Roller doors and tracks degreased; cobwebs cleared from eaves and dock canopy
• Day two: slab auto-scrubbed twice — degreaser pass, then rinse pass; resin spots hand-scraped, tyre marks treated
• Mezzanine office: carpet extraction, internal glass, kitchenette degrease, bathroom descale and disinfection with TGA-approved product
• Photographic completion report keyed to the agent's checklist, delivered same day

What the tenant gets in writing

A fixed itemised quote before any work starts, built against the agent's own make-good checklist rather than a generic commercial clean, and invoiced at the quote. A job of this size runs roughly 38 crew-hours in the one-off rate band of $40 to $50 per hour. On completion the tenant receives a photographic report keyed line by line to that checklist, so the handover conversation is evidence-led. Cleaners are police-checked and directly employed, and $20 million public liability cover applies with the certificate of currency supplied on request. We do not guarantee a bond release — that is the agent's determination.

Takeaways for trade tenants

Book the clean after defit, not before — trades undo cleaning. Get the agent's checklist early and hand it to your cleaner; a make-good against the actual checklist beats a "commercial clean" every time. And in dusty trades, budget for the top-down sequence: floor-first cleans in a joinery or workshop unit fail inspection on the first torch pass across a beam. Full detail on our approach is at warehouse cleaning Dee Why and end of lease cleaning Dee Why; local coverage at commercial cleaning Brookvale; rates on the rates page. Browse all case studies.