RESIDENTIAL BUILDING EXAMPLE

Apartment common areas are a janitorial contract.

This example prices lobby, corridors, laundry rooms, elevator cabs and a trash room for a 24-unit building on a five-day schedule. Unit turnovers are not in this number. Demonstration inputs only.

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WORKED EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE INPUTS

24-unit building · common areas

Illustrative apartment common-area contract: lobby, corridors, two laundry rooms and elevator cabs. Unit interiors are a separate scope. Demonstration inputs only.

Task	Qty	Minutes	Frequency
Lobby, mail area and entry glass	1	25	Each visit
Corridor vacuum and spot mop	3	18	Each visit
Laundry room clean	2	12	Each visit
Elevator cab wipe-down	2	6	Each visit
Stairwell detail	1	35	Weekly
Trash room and chute area	1	15	Each visit

Result	Amount
Visits in an average month	20.00
Paid person-hours	53.19
Loaded hourly labor cost	$25.20
Labor	$1,340.50
Supplies, equipment and overhead	$340.00
Complete entered cost	$1,680.50
Target price at 25% margin	$2,240.67

Replace every input. SweepTally does not supply local market prices.

Property managers: split the bid

Ask for common areas as one scope and make-ready units as another. A blended “per door” fee hides whether corridors are nightly and whether move-outs are extra. Use how to hire a cleaning company when you send the RFP.

Contractors: elevators and trash rooms are not optional dusting

Cabs, buttons, chute rooms and stairwells are high-touch and high-complaint. If they are in the walkthrough, they are in the takeoff. Takeoff’s apartment type is built for this intake; you still enter the counts.

Common questions

Does this include apartment interiors?

No. Model unit interiors as house-style jobs or one-time move-outs.

How many visits should a building have?

Whatever the RFP states. This example uses 20 visits as a weekday illustration, not a standard.

Can residents hire SweepTally to clean their unit?

SweepTally is not the cleaner. Residents can [find a participating company](/find-a-cleaner) and send a request for apartment work.

Take off an apartment building Send a building RFP

Apartment common areas are a janitorial contract.

24-unit building · common areas

Property managers: split the bid

Contractors: elevators and trash rooms are not optional dusting

Common questions

Residential cleaning, estimated like a real job.

A weekly house cleaning estimate, with drive time.

Commercial cleaning, priced from the work.

A cleaning bid template both sides can use.