The buildings here
This corridor is almost entirely modern distribution and light industrial: tilt-up concrete buildings from 100,000 to over one million square feet, with a small glazed office front, sealed or polished concrete slab, dozens of dock doors and large surface trailer courts. Office fronts carry carpet tile and VCT break rooms sized for two or three shifts rather than for the square footage.
A corridor built for freight
Plainfield and the land around Indianapolis International Airport hold one of the largest concentrations of distribution space in the Midwest. Ronald Reagan Parkway, Airtech Parkway, Perry Road, Stafford Road and the parks feeding off US 40 are lined with tilt-up buildings running from 100,000 square feet up past a million, each with a trailer court, a long dock wall and a comparatively tiny office front.
That ratio is the whole problem with pricing these buildings. A 400,000 square foot facility might have 6,000 square feet of office and twelve restroom fixtures. Quote the entire footprint at an office rate and the number is absurd. Quote it at a warehouse rate and the office front and restrooms are underfunded from day one. So we zone it and price each zone on its own terms.
What actually takes the labor
Restrooms and break rooms, by a wide margin. A building with 200 associates across two shifts puts more traffic through its restroom block than a 40,000 square foot office does, and the fixtures were usually specified against building code rather than against how the site ended up operating. High capacity dispensers, a nightly clean and a mid-shift porter pass are the standard answer. Break rooms need daily table, counter, microwave and sink attention plus a posted refrigerator clear-out, because a shared fridge in a three-shift building is nobody’s job until it becomes everybody’s problem.
The slab and the dock apron
Sealed and polished concrete takes a neutral cleaner and an autoscrubber sized to your aisles. Tire marks from pallet jacks and forklifts lift with the right pad rather than stronger chemical. The dock apron and the first stretch of slab inside the doors get a tighter cycle than the rest of the floor, because that is where road grit, rain and winter salt land. Painted pedestrian walkways alongside forklift lanes also get scrubbed more often, partly because they soil fastest and partly because they are the first thing an auditor looks at.
Above head height
Dust in a distribution building collects on racking tops, beam flanges, conduit runs and light fittings and stays there for years. An annual or twice yearly high level clean with a lift handles it, scheduled with the aisles below closed. Sprinkler heads are left alone.
Documentation you can hand to a customer
Zone scopes, signed task sheets per visit, restroom check logs and dated records of periodic work. We keep it as routine and give it to you, because on an audit day the record matters as much as the condition of the building.
What matters locally
Shift patterns rather than evenings
Buildings here run two or three shifts and some run continuously. Cleaning is scheduled into shift gaps or quiet windows, and restroom and break room service usually has to happen mid-shift, which is written into the route rather than left to chance.
Road grit and salt arrive by trailer
Trailer wheels bring the outside onto the dock apron all year and ice melt from December through March. The first twenty feet of slab inside the dock doors takes the worst of it and needs a tighter scrubbing cycle than the rest of the floor.
Restrooms are sized optimistically
A six fixture restroom block serving two shifts carries the load of a much larger office. High capacity dispensers and a mid-shift porter run usually cost less than the complaints and the emergency restock calls.
Customer audits put housekeeping on the form
Buildings serving retail and third party logistics customers get audited, and housekeeping is a line item. A written zone scope, signed task sheets and dated records of slab scrubbing and high level dusting are what you produce on the day.
Jobs we do most often in Plainfield and the airport
- Zoned janitorial for a distribution building off Ronald Reagan Parkway
- Mid-shift porter run covering restrooms and the break room
- Ride-on autoscrubbing of aisles, walkways and the dock apron
- Annual high level dusting on racking tops, beams and light fittings
- Office front cleaning for a logistics headquarters near Airtech Parkway