Commercial Cleaning in Dublin 1 & the IFSC
Contract cleaning for offices across Dublin 1 and the IFSC, from North Wall Quay to Abbey Street. Out-of-hours schedules, a named team on your floors, and the documentation your building management company asks for before anyone gets a pass. Free site survey before you commit to anything.
Contract Cleaning
Commercial Cleaning Services in Dublin 1
Most of what we do in Dublin 1 happens when the building is empty, inside offices where access is controlled and somebody has to approve the contractor before the contractor approves anything else. That is the normal working environment here, not an exception we accommodate. Every contract runs to a written specification with named areas, named tasks and set frequencies, agreed before the first shift.
What we cover
- Daily and nightly office cleaning
- Washrooms, sanitation and consumables
- Kitchens, canteens and breakout areas
- Reception and front-of-house presentation
- Meeting rooms and boardrooms reset between bookings
- Desk, screen and high-touch point cleaning
- Hard floor care and carpet cleaning
- Internal glass, partitions and desk screens
- Waste segregation, including confidential waste routes
- Periodic deep cleans and post-fit-out cleans
How it runs
- Fixed schedule agreed in writing before we start
- Same named team on your floors, inducted on your building’s rules
- Sign-in records, supervisor checks and photo-backed reporting
- One point of contact, direct to the contract manager
The sign-in record is the part facilities managers tend to notice first. If a compliance or facilities review ever asks who was on the floor and what they did, there is an answer on file.
Not sure what frequency your floors need? We will tell you at the free survey. You can also see office cleaning in Dublin or all commercial cleaning services in Dublin.
Who We Clean For in Dublin 1 and the IFSC
Financial services and fund administration.
Along Mayor Street, North Wall Quay and Custom House Quay. Multi-floor tenants, controlled access, out-of-hours only, and an expectation that the cleaning contract produces a paper trail like every other supplier arrangement.
Bank back-office and operations floors.
Around George’s Dock and Harbourmaster Place. Large open floors, secure zones inside them, clear desk policies in force, and confidential waste that has its own route out of the building.
Fintech and technology offices.
Spencer Dock and Excise Walk. People still working at nine in the evening, meeting rooms and breakout areas in constant use, and screens on every desk that need the right cloth and the right product.
Co-working and serviced offices.
Around the CHQ Building and Commons Street. Occupied continuously, so some daytime presence is needed and meeting rooms have to turn around between bookings without anyone noticing it happened.
Legal and professional services.
Along Custom House Quay and the quays generally. Client-facing reception, document areas, and discretion that is assumed rather than requested.
Older north inner-city offices and mixed-use buildings.
Abbey Street, Talbot Street, Amiens Street and Store Street. Smaller floor plates, period buildings, shared entrances and on-street access constraints. Different budgets, different needs, and we cover them the same way.
The Cleaning Problems Dublin 1 Offices Call Us About
Your cleaners cannot get in, or get turned away at the door
Passes expire, staff change without notice, and the new person is not on the building’s approved contractor list. Then nobody cleans and nobody tells you until morning. We treat access and clearance as part of mobilisation, with staff details submitted in advance and passes arranged before the first shift rather than during it.
A different face turns up every week
Turnover costs more in a controlled-access building than anywhere else, because every new person means a new approval, a new pass and a new induction. We assign a named team and agree a defined cover process, and the cover person goes through the same clearance route rather than being sent in as a substitute.
Cleaning clashes with people still working
Late working is normal in this district, and vacuum noise beside someone on a client call is a real complaint, not a minor one. We agree the window, sequence floors so the loud work happens where the building is empty, and use low-noise equipment where it makes a difference.
Nobody can tell you who was on site or what got done
No sign-in record, no task sheet, nothing to show a facilities or compliance review. That is uncomfortable when someone asks. We keep sign-in records and task sheets, and reports come back photo-backed, so the answer exists before the question does.
Confidential areas are handled carelessly
Papers moved, secure zones entered without a protocol, confidential waste dropped into a general bin because nobody explained the difference. We agree the protocol for secure floors at survey stage, brief the team on it, and keep confidential waste in its own route.
The invoice does not match what was actually agreed
A vague specification produces an arguable invoice every single month. Ours sets out areas, tasks, frequencies and standards before day one, so the invoice is the specification with a date on it.
And if a clean is not right, we come back and redo it at no charge.
Sound familiar? Book a free site survey and we will put a written specification in front of you. [ Book a Free Site Survey ] or call 086 083 6141.
Our Process
How Contract Cleaning Works With Premier
Contract cleaning in Dublin 1 has one extra layer compared with the rest of the city, and it sits at step three.
Clearance and passes in an IFSC building take time, and we tell you the timeline at the start rather than at the end. A supplier promising to start tomorrow either does not know your building’s rules or does not intend to follow them.
Changing provider mid-contract? We align our start date with your existing provider’s notice period, so there is no gap. Clearance gets completed inside the overlap period rather than after it. If TUPE applies, we work it through with your building management or HR team.
Security, Vetting and Working on Confidential Floors
In the IFSC a cleaning contract is an access decision before it is a cleaning decision. We treat it that way.
Building management approval comes first.
Your building keeps an approved contractor list, and staff details go in ahead of time. Insurance certificates, method statements and our safety statement go to the managing agent, and the contractor induction is completed before day one, not during week one.
Access control and passes.
Security passes, fob access, escorted access where the building requires it, and an agreed sign-in and sign-out procedure. Whatever the building’s rule is, we work to it rather than asking for an exception.
A record of who was on site.
Sign-in logs and task sheets, kept as a matter of course. When a compliance review, an internal audit or a facilities handover asks the question, there is something to look at. Almost nobody in this market offers that, and it costs us nothing to do properly.
Confidential and secure areas.
Clear desk zones, document rooms and server rooms are handled to a protocol agreed at survey stage. Confidential waste stays in the confidential waste route. It does not end up in a general bin because somebody was not told.
Discretion as a working standard.
Teams are briefed that what is on a desk or a screen stays on that desk. Papers are not moved, screens are not touched, and areas that are out of bounds at certain hours stay out of bounds.
Documentation you can forward.
Everything we supply to your building management, you can also forward to your own compliance or risk function without having to ask us to reformat it.
What Commercial Cleaning Costs in Dublin 1 and the IFSC
Price is driven by floor area and the number of floors, frequency, occupancy and headcount, washroom count, the ratio of hard floor to carpet, the access window, whether consumables are included, and whether periodic works are built into the contract or billed on top.
The access window deserves its own line, because in this district it usually is one. Almost all IFSC work happens out of hours, and that is more expensive than a daytime clean. Daytime is cheaper, but in these buildings it is rarely on offer. A quote that has not been built around the out-of-hours reality gets revised upward later. Ours prices the access window explicitly rather than burying it in a footnote.
Contract cleaning in Ireland is also covered by a legally binding Employment Regulation Order made under the Workplace Relations Commission. From 1 January 2026 the sector minimum is 14.80 euro per hour for workers aged 20 and over, with sick pay provisions, an unsocial hours premium for work between midnight and 6am, and overtime rules. (Rates are reviewed, so confirm the current position with the Workplace Relations Commission. Correct as of August 2026.)
That midnight premium is not a technicality here. It applies to a good number of IFSC schedules, and a quote that has not included it is either non-compliant or about to change. So if one number lands well below the rest, ask how the rate meets the ERO including unsocial hours. The risk of a non-compliant supplier ends up in your building, not theirs.
Our side: free survey, fixed written quote, the access window priced as its own line, no hidden extras, and a loyalty and referral programme with progressive discounts for long-term clients.
Why Premier
Why Dublin 1 Businesses Choose Premier Contract Cleaning
If you are shortlisting a commercial cleaning company IFSC facilities teams can put in front of an approver, the useful question is which claims come with something behind them.
As commercial cleaners Dublin 1 businesses take on for multi-year contracts, the thing we get asked to prove most often is consistency. That is what the named team, the sign-in records and the reporting are for.
“In the IFSC the hardest part is never the cleaning. It is getting the right people cleared, on the right floor, at the right hour, every single week.”
Catalin Fatul, Director, Premier Contract Cleaning
Our Dublin 1 and IFSC Service Area
We cover the whole of Dublin 1, D01, from the financial district out through the north inner city.
Commercial Cleaning Services in the IFSC
The International Financial Services Centre runs across Mayor Street Lower and Upper, North Wall Quay, Custom House Quay, George’s Dock, Harbourmaster Place, Excise Walk, Spencer Dock, the CHQ Building and Commons Street. Purpose-built blocks, multi-floor tenants, controlled access at every entrance, out-of-hours cleaning as the default, and building management approval before anyone gets through the barrier. The Custom House itself sits at the western end as the landmark most people navigate by, with the Samuel Beckett Bridge marking the other side of the river.
The rest of Dublin 1
The rest of Dublin 1 works differently. Abbey Street, Talbot Street, Amiens Street, Store Street and the north inner-city office blocks around them have smaller floor plates, older buildings, shared entrances and on-street loading constraints, and often a more budget-aware buyer with no in-house facilities function at all. We work in both, and the specification looks quite different in each.
Getting the team there reliably is half of it. Connolly Station and the Luas Red Line at Mayor Square, George’s Dock and Busaras mean staff arrive on time on public transport, and in city centre contract cleaning staff transport reliability translates directly into attendance reliability, which is the number one failure point in this industry.
One point of geography worth clearing up: the IFSC sits on the north side of Dublin’s docklands, inside Dublin 1.
Commercial Cleaning in Dublin 1: Common Questions
It depends on floor area, frequency and access window, and Dublin 1 sits at the higher end of Dublin rates because almost all IFSC work happens out of hours. We survey the premises free of charge and issue a fixed written quote against a written specification, with the access window priced as its own line.
Yes. We run evening, overnight and early morning windows across Dublin 1 and the IFSC, agreed in writing and matched to your building’s own access rules rather than to our preference. The exact window is confirmed at survey stage and does not change without you agreeing it first.
Yes, as standard and before day one. We supply insurance certificates, method statements, risk assessments and our health and safety statement directly to your managing agent or building management company, along with staff details for the approved contractor list.
After the survey, mobilisation depends almost entirely on how quickly clearance and passes come through your building management, which is usually the longest step. We give you a realistic date rather than a promise we cannot keep, and we start the paperwork the day the contract is agreed.
The same named team, inducted on your floor plan and your building’s rules before their first shift. When someone is on leave, cover comes from a defined list who go through the same building approval route, so you are not introducing an unknown person to a controlled-access floor.
Yes, equipment comes as standard, including low-noise vacuums where out-of-hours work sits alongside occupied floors. Consumables such as hand towels, soap and tissue are either included in the contract or supplied at cost, agreed at survey stage rather than added later.
We align our start date with your existing provider’s notice period, so there is no gap in service. Clearance and passes are completed during the overlap rather than after it, which is what usually goes wrong when facilities teams change cleaner. If TUPE applies, we work it through with you.
We agree a protocol for secure zones at survey stage and brief the team on it before day one. Papers are not moved, screens are not touched, and confidential waste stays in its own route rather than going into a general bin. Document rooms and server rooms are handled to whatever rule your firm sets.
We come back and redo it, free. Alongside that, the sign-in records, supervisor spot checks and photo-backed reporting are there to catch a slip before it becomes something you have to raise, which is what keeps a long contract steady.
Related Services
Other Areas We Cover
Book a Free Site Survey for Your Dublin 1 or IFSC Office
If your current contract is slipping, or you are running a supplier review and need a provider who can get through your building’s approval process without you managing it, start with the survey. It is free, there is no obligation, and it usually answers more questions than a proposal document does.
No obligation. We come to you, walk the floors, and put a written specification and fixed price in front of you, along with the documentation your building management will want to see.
Premier Contract Cleaning
13 The Weir, Mount Argus Mill, Dublin 6W, D6W Y660
086 083 6141
enquiries@premiercontractcleaning.ie
