Scope of services
Each scope below is a separate line on a quote, with its own written procedure, its own acceptance criteria and its own quoted work window. Nothing is bundled into an unnamed “deep clean”.
Construction and fit-out
Three pages carry the construction side, because it is the work that decides when racks can go into a room. Each one answers a different question.
Base build to handover, with cleaning running alongside your trades rather than after them. The pre-fit-out deep clean starts 24 to 48 hours before the first racks roll in. Join it at whatever phase your building is in now.
Wrapped and idled air handlers, a sealed plenum, entry hygiene at every door, filtration, and the particle checks that measure it. Our crew can also take an air quality test through the job and hand you the series.
Most data hall cleaning moves dust from one surface to another. Four rules from our written procedures decide whether it leaves the room instead: floors are never swept, cleaner goes on the cloth, work runs top-down, and cloths are changed every three to six feet.
What the classification covers, the particle limits, the three occupancy states, and why there is no such thing as an ISO 14644-1 certified cleaning company. We measure a hall against it; the standard classifies a space, not a contractor.
Scope
On a construction program these are sequenced into the five phases. On an operating hall you buy them one at a time. Open any of them for the full task list and the acceptance criteria the finished work has to meet.
Surface level only. Buy this scope when dust is showing on the tile field, when a rack roll-in has left scuff and tire marks, or when the floor has never had a documented baseline clean.
This SOP covers the surface only. It does not include lifting raised floor tiles or cleaning the subfloor. That is a separate scope with a separate method and a separate price. See subfloor plenum cleaning below.
Below the tile line. This is what people mean by “under-floor cleaning”, “plenum decontamination” or “tile pulls”. It is not in a routine floor care bid and we quote it separately. It is slower, it is more invasive, and it needs the hall’s agreement on how many tiles may be open at once.
If you want under-floor work, name it in the SOW or the quote. A bid that says “raised floor cleaning” and nothing else means the tile tops, not the plenum.
Cable tray, ladder rack, Unistrut and the supporting steel above the aisle. This is where a dust audit usually fails first. It is the hardest surface in the hall to reach and the easiest one to leave out of a janitorial contract.
Panels, doors and framing. This is the scope most often damaged by the wrong cleaner. Acrylic scratches, hazes and holds a static charge, and a scratched aisle panel is a visible defect for the life of the hall.
| Material | Product |
|---|---|
| Acrylic, PETG, polycarbonate | Brillianize plastic cleaner, applied to the cloth |
| Aluminum framing, powder-coated steel | ACL Staticide 6001, applied to the cloth |
| PVC and vinyl strip curtains | Plastic-safe cleaners only |
| Light dust and sensitive areas | Clean water on microfiber |
The outside of the cabinet, and nothing else. If a vendor offers to clean inside your racks, stop the conversation there.
Related surfaces get the same treatment. PDU cabinet exteriors, and wall-mounted fire alarm, security and monitoring enclosures: external surfaces only. Fan walls and cooling units: outer surfaces only, with no cleaner on vents or intakes. Floor grommets: top surface only. Conduit: wipe-down only.
A rotational program across a campus or a multi-hall site. One hall at a time, cable tray down to floor, repeating on a set cycle until the contract term ends. This is how you buy the surface scopes above across a year instead of as one-off events.
The objection that decides this purchase is not price. It is whether it is safe to let a cleaning crew into a live hall. This section is our answer, and it is the same answer we give in a bid. The four controls that run across every scope are under dust removal. What follows here is the product selection, the safety position, and what actually happens on a visit.
| Surface or scope | Products and equipment |
|---|---|
| Aisle containment: panels, doors, framework in acrylic, PETG, aluminum, powder-coated steel | ACL Staticide 2003, Brillianize, 3M Novec, HEPA vacuum, microfiber cloths, ladders |
| Overhead: busways, cable trays, supports, rack tops, door frames, ladder-accessible only | ACL Staticide 2003, Novec 8100, Kimwipes, HEPA vacuum, microfiber cloths, ladders |
| Raised floor: vinyl, epoxy and perforated tiles, tile undersides, pedestals, stringers, subfloor plenum | ACL Staticide 2003, 409 Anti-Static, Brillianize, Magic Eraser, HEPA vacuum, microfiber cloths, tile pullers, cones and tape |
| Slab floor: sealed concrete and epoxy-coated floors | Diversey Stride, 3M Neutral Cleaner, Simple Green ESD-Safe, walk-behind scrubber, microfiber mop |
| Painted and coated metal, general | ACL Staticide 6001, applied to the cloth |
| Acrylic and plastic, general | Brillianize, applied to the cloth |
| Light dust, sensitive areas and water-only requests | Clean water on microfiber |
We confirm the work zone is clear and safe, that nobody is working beneath an overhead area, and that signage and barriers are up. Tools and materials are gathered before the work starts, not fetched mid-task.
Overhead first, then containment, then walls, then floors. Any other order means cleaning the floor twice.
Each section gets checked with a flashlight at a shallow angle before anyone calls it finished, and re-wiped where dust still shows.
A supervisor checks the work against the acceptance criteria for that scope. You sign off on every visit. If your site bans photography, our records are checklists and sign-off sheets.
Hall count, surfaces in scope, what phase the building is in, your access constraints, your change window, and the date you need racks in the room. That is enough to price against, and enough to tell you straight whether the date is reachable.
