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About Our Strata Cleaning Company

Strata Cleaning Melbourne is a strata cleaning company working solely for owners corporations, body corporates and strata managers. Our crews look after shared spaces in apartment buildings, townhouse schemes and mixed-use sites across metropolitan Melbourne, with insured, checked crews and a photo report after every visit.

Strata only
Same crew each week
Photo report every visit

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Melbourne strata cleaning crew trolley set up in an apartment lobby before a weekly clean — OCfluent in committee terms
**Checked**crews on every site
**Insured**for common property

If you are deciding whether to trust us with your building's keys, this page is for you. It explains who we are, why we clean only strata schemes, how crews are checked and assigned, what insurance sits behind the work and how we communicate with committees. For the services themselves and the areas we cover, visit strata cleaning Melbourne.

01Who we are

Who is Strata Cleaning Melbourne?

We are a Melbourne strata cleaning company with a simple focus: the common property of residential, commercial and mixed-use schemes. Our crews clean lobbies, lifts, stairs, corridors, bin rooms and carparks each week, and handle the gutters, glass, carpets and hard surfaces that schemes need a few times a year.

The way we work answers a frustration familiar to many committees: contractors who treated a strata building as just another office, sent a different person every week and could not say what they had done. Everything about how we work, from the photo reports to the fixed crews, is built to fix those problems.

Our clients are owners corporation committees, professional strata and owners corporation managers, and the building managers who keep large sites running. Some schemes are four townhouses sharing a driveway; others are towers with a concierge desk and three basement levels. The way we work is the same for both: a written scope, the same crew each week, a report after every visit and one invoice a month.

ABNABN registered

A registered Australian business, invoicing owners corporations directly.

PLPublic liability

Insured for work on common property; certificate sent with every quote.

WCWorkCover

Registered with WorkSafe Victoria for every person on our crews.

PCPolice checks

A current national police check for everyone who holds your keys.

02Why strata only

Why do we clean only strata schemes?

Because strata work has its own rules, and doing it well means knowing them. Committees approve contracts, levies pay for them, residents live on site while we work, and every decision passes through an owners corporation. A specialist fits into that system; a general cleaner has to learn it on your building.

Office cleaners are used to empty buildings at night and a single client who decides everything. Strata is the opposite. We work around quiet hours and bin nights, answer to a committee that meets a few times a year, and report in a way a volunteer treasurer can table at a meeting. Those habits take time to build and are the main reason committees switch to us.

The focus also sets limits. Apartment interiors sit outside a scheme contract, licensed trade work goes to licensed trades, and we decline jobs that need specialist access we cannot provide safely. Saying no to those keeps our attention on the work committees actually hire us for.

Focusing on one kind of building also keeps our checklists sharp. We know where lift tracks collect grit, which fire stairs get missed and why bin rooms smell in January, because we see the same problems across many schemes every week.

Clean fire stairs in a Melbourne apartment scheme, the kind of area a strata specialist checks every visit

Strata work versus office work

Who decidesA committee, not one client
Who is thereResidents, all day
Who paysEvery owner, through levies
What proves itPhotos after each visit

03People

How are our crews checked and assigned?

Every crew member has a current national police check and an on-site induction before working alone. Each crew covers a cluster of nearby buildings, which means your building sees the same faces week after week, and a named supervisor who knows the site checks their work and covers leave with inducted relief staff.

Example: one area, four weeks

SchemeWk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4
Walk-up, HawthornAAAA
Mid-rise, CamberwellAAB*A
Townhouses, KewAAAA

In the example, crew A covers three nearby schemes every week. When a crew member is on leave, relief crew B, who has already been inducted at that building, steps in for the week. Residents see familiar faces, and the checklist does not get relearned every month.

Training is practical and site-based. A new starter spends their first weeks paired with one of our longer-serving cleaners before taking a round of their own, learning how we handle wet floors around residents, which products suit stone, timber and stainless steel, and how to photograph an area so the report is actually useful.

Consistency is not only about comfort. A cleaner who knows the building notices when something changes: a new crack in the render, a bin room door that no longer closes, a resident's bike chained to the fire stair rail. That knowledge is what turns a cleaning visit into a useful set of eyes for the manager.

04Cover

What insurance and compliance sit behind our work?

Public liability insurance for work on common property, WorkCover for our people, safe work method statements for any job at height and safety data sheets for every product we use. Committees receive our certificate of currency when we quote, and a fresh one whenever the policy rolls over, without having to ask.

WorkCover is the workplace injury insurance run by WorkSafe Victoria, and our registration matters to an owners corporation because it protects our workers if they are hurt on your property, rather than leaving the question to the scheme's own policy. Height work, such as gutters on a double-storey townhouse row, is planned in writing before anyone goes up.

We keep a signed register of every key and fob issued to us, never label keys with a building address, and return everything at the end of a contract against the same register. Where a building has an asbestos register or specific site rules, we follow them and ask for them at induction.

Source: WorkSafe Victoria, WorkCover insurance. Checked September 2026.

05The language

How do we speak the committee's language?

We use the same terms as your plan of subdivision and your manager, write quotes in a layout a committee can approve in one resolution, and time them around the AGM. That fluency saves committee time and avoids the misunderstandings that come from a cleaner calling everything "the complex".

Owners corporation: The legal body that engages us and pays the invoice. Older paperwork may say body corporate.
Common property: Everything on the plan that is not a lot. The areas we clean.
Lot liability: Each lot's share of owners corporation costs, which decides how our invoice is split among owners.
Maintenance plan and fund: Where periodic jobs like gutters and carpets often sit in larger schemes.
Ordinary and special resolutions: How a committee or general meeting approves a contract or an unusual cost.
Manager: The professional who often holds delegated authority to instruct us day to day.

If you look after a whole book of buildings, there is a separate section for strata and owners corporation managers describing how we onboard them.

06Next

How do you start working with us?

Tell us about the building and when the committee meets. We inspect the site with a committee member or the manager, then send a written scope and fixed price with our insurance attached. If it suits, the first visit is booked for the day after your current contract ends.

We are happy to meet the committee in person, at a meeting or on site, if that helps members decide. Most questions are about the same few things: who will be cleaning, what happens when someone is sick, and how problems are reported. We would rather answer them face to face than leave them to a brochure.

There is no obligation in asking. Many committees get our quote to benchmark their current contractor and stay where they are, which is a perfectly good outcome. If you do move across, the first month is supervised closely so you can judge the difference for yourself.

Ready when you are. Send a few details and get a quote written for your committee.

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07Trust questions

What do committees check before trusting us?

Three questions worth asking any cleaner who will hold your keys.

Are crews police-checked?

Yes. Everyone who works on your site, including relief staff, has a current national police check before they start. Because our cleaners carry keys and fobs to people's homes, we treat the check as a minimum, alongside a supervised induction at each building.

Are you insured for common property?

Yes. We hold public liability insurance that covers our work in common areas such as lobbies, stairs, carparks and grounds, plus WorkCover for our staff. You will see the certificate of currency attached to our quote, and we resend it automatically each time the policy is renewed.

Do the same cleaners come each week?

Yes, as far as leave and illness allow. Crews are assigned to a small group of nearby schemes, so the same people clean your building week after week. When someone is away, a relief cleaner who has already been inducted at your site covers the visit.