Strata Cleaning Scope of Works — Free Template

Strata Cleaning Scope of Works — a Template Your Committee Can Actually Use

In our experience, most strata cleaning disagreements aren’t really about the cleaning — they’re about a scope that was never written down. If “the cleaner doesn’t do the fire stairs” has ever come up at your building, this page is for you. Below is a working scope-of-works template you’re very welcome to copy, adapt to your building, and attach to your next cleaning contract — whoever you choose to work with.

What a good scope of works contains

1. Areas — every common area by name, floor by floor. If it isn’t listed, it isn’t cleaned: lobbies, lifts, corridors (by level), fire stairs, car park, bin and compactor rooms, amenities, external paths, loading dock.
2. Tasks per area — what “cleaned” means in each spot: vacuumed, mopped, dusted, glass polished, sanitised, swept, scrubbed.
3. Frequency per task — daily, x-per-week, weekly, monthly or quarterly. This is the column that sets the price, and the one most quotes leave vague.
4. Periodic works — carpet steam cleaning, pressure cleaning, high glass and light-fitting cleans, each with its own frequency, and either priced in or clearly excluded.
5. Exclusions — private lots, balconies, anything above safe reach height, biohazards, graffiti: named up front, so there are no surprises mid-contract.
6. Standards and evidence — how quality is checked, by whom, how often, and what report your committee receives.
7. Consumables — who supplies bin liners, hand soap and paper. It’s small money, but it’s a constant argument when it’s left unsaid.

The template

Download a copy of the Scope of Works Template in word document format or as a convenient PDF.

• Download the template — Word
• Download the template — PDF

Three things we often see in scopes

• “General clean of all common areas” — with no areas named, it’s very hard for anyone to say whether the invoice was earned. Naming the areas protects both sides.
• No frequency column — two quotes for “lobby mopping” can’t be compared until you know one means daily and the other means weekly.
• Periodic works as verbal extras — the carpet steam clean that was “included” is the classic year-one disappointment. Write it in, with a month against it.

How we can help

Every Tru Brite contract runs on a written scope just like this one, audited monthly by our QA manager, with the results shared with your committee. If you’d like us to price your building against your existing scope — or draft one for you after a site walk — we’d be very happy to do either.