Commercial Cleaning in Dublin 2 & Docklands
We clean offices, co-working floors and showrooms right across Dublin 2 and the Docklands, from Barrow Street to Lower Baggot Street. Daytime, evening or overnight schedules built around your building’s access hours. Free site survey first, so the price we quote is the price you pay.
Contract Cleaning
Commercial Cleaning Services in Dublin 2
Premier Contract Cleaning provides scheduled commercial cleaning for businesses across Dublin 2 and the Docklands. Offices, showrooms, serviced workspaces and the shared areas that come with them. Everything runs to a written specification agreed before the first clean, with set frequencies, named tasks and a supervisor who checks the work. No guesswork, and no vague line item called “general cleaning”.
What we cover
- Daily and weekly office cleaning
- Washrooms, sanitation and consumables
- Kitchens, canteens and breakout areas
- Reception and front-of-house presentation
- Meeting room turnaround between bookings
- Hard floor care and carpet cleaning
- Internal glass, partitions and desk screens
- Waste segregation and bin management
- Periodic deep cleans and post-fit-out cleans
How it runs
- Fixed schedule agreed in writing before we start
- Same named team on your building, not a rota of strangers
- Supervisor checks and photo-backed reporting
- One point of contact, direct to the contract manager
That fourth point about the same named team matters more than it sounds. Staff turnover is the single biggest complaint in this industry, and a team that already knows your floor plan does not need re-teaching every month.
Not sure what frequency you actually need? Book a free site survey and we will tell you at the survey, before any money is discussed. You can also browse all commercial cleaning services in Dublin or our dedicated office cleaning in Dublin page.
Who We Clean For in Dublin 2 and the Docklands
Tech and software offices.
Around Barrow Street, Grand Canal Dock and Hanover Quay. Open-plan floors, hot desks, heavy breakout kitchen use and staff still working at eight in the evening. The clean has to fit around people, not the other way around.
Professional services.
Law firms, accountancy practices and consultancies on Lower Baggot Street, Merrion Square and Fitzwilliam Square. Georgian conversions, client-facing reception, confidential files sitting on desks. Discretion is part of the job description.
Financial and corporate offices.
Grand Canal Square and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. Multi-floor tenants, security passes, out-of-hours access only, and a facilities team that wants to see reporting rather than take your word for it.
Co-working and serviced offices.
Around St Stephen’s Green and Dawson Street. Occupied more or less continuously, so a daytime presence is usually needed and meeting rooms have to turn around fast.
Hotels, showrooms and hospitality-adjacent premises.
Harcourt Street and along the Docklands waterfront. Front of house is the product here, and the window for getting it right is early morning.
The Cleaning Problems Dublin 2 Offices Call Us About
Your cleaners are not turning up consistently
Nine times out of ten the root cause is staff turnover with no cover plan behind it. When one person leaves, the round collapses. We assign a named team to your building and agree a defined cover process in writing, so an absence is a scheduling issue on our side rather than a missed clean on yours.
Areas keep getting missed and nobody tells you
Missed areas are normal. Nobody telling you about them is the actual problem. Without supervision or reporting, the first you hear about it is when a colleague complains. Our supervisors carry out spot checks, reports come back photo-backed, and you have one named contact to raise anything with.
Washrooms run out of consumables mid-week
This is a forecasting failure, not a cleaning failure. Consumables get treated as an afterthought instead of a tracked line. We count usage at the survey, build restocking into the specification, and either include consumables in the contract or supply them at cost.
The clean looks fine until a client walks in
Then you notice the glass smears, the skirting, the lift buttons, the edge of the reception desk, the ring on the boardroom table. Detail points that a general clean skips. We run a front-of-house checklist on client-facing areas so those points are somebody’s named responsibility.
Your building’s access rules make cleaning complicated
Security passes, contractor approval, goods lift booking, sign-in with building management, an out-of-hours window that shifts. Most providers push this back onto the tenant. We handle it as part of mobilisation, because we are in these buildings every week anyway.
The invoice does not match what was actually done
Vague specifications produce arguable invoices. Ours lists areas, tasks, frequencies and standards, all agreed before day one, so the invoice is simply the specification with a date on it.
And if a clean is not right, we come back and redo it at no charge. That is the guarantee, in plain words.
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 2 lives or dies on what happens before the first clean. Here is our process, start to finish.
Changing provider mid-contract? We handle the overlap. From your existing cleaner’s last day to our first day there is no gap in service. If TUPE applies, we work that through with your managing agent rather than leaving it with you.
Cleaning Inside Managed Buildings and Multi-Tenant Offices
Most Dublin 2 and Docklands offices sit inside a managed building, and that changes the job considerably.
Contractor approval comes before cleaning.
Building management companies keep an approved contractor list. Staff details, insurance certificates, method statements, risk assessments and a health and safety statement go in first, and the induction is completed before anyone starts.
Passes and escorted access.
Some buildings issue passes, some escort out-of-hours contractors, some do both. We agree which applies at survey stage rather than discovering it at seven on a Monday evening.
Goods lifts and loading bays get booked, not assumed.
On the quays especially, loading access is tight and time-limited. Equipment deliveries and periodic works are scheduled around those slots.
Out-of-hours windows that do not clash with occupied floors.
Late working is normal here. We sequence floors so vacuuming is not happening beside someone on a call.
Waste segregation on the building’s terms.
Your building has its own waste contractor and its own bin store rules. We match them instead of creating a second system beside them.
Clear-desk zones, document rooms and server rooms.
These get an agreed protocol, in writing, before the team is inducted.
You do not want to be coordinating any of that. We do it.
What Commercial Cleaning Actually Costs in Dublin 2
Price comes down to a handful of things: total floor area and the number of floors, frequency, occupancy and headcount, washroom count, the ratio of hard floor to carpet, the access window (out-of-hours costs more than daytime), whether consumables are included, and whether periodic works like deep cleans, carpets and windows are built into the contract or billed separately.
Then there is the part nobody explains to buyers. Contract cleaning in Ireland is 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 on top. (Rates are reviewed, so check the current position on the Workplace Relations Commission site. Correct as of August 2026.)
What that means for you is simple enough. On top of that labour cost sits PRSI, supervision, materials, equipment and margin. So if one quote lands far below the others, ask the supplier a straight question: how does this rate meet the ERO? A non-compliant supplier’s risk ends up in your building, not theirs.
Our side of it: the survey is free, the quote is written and fixed, and everything in the specification is priced before you sign. No hidden extras. Long-term clients move onto our loyalty and referral programme with progressive discounts.
Why Premier
Why Dublin Businesses Choose Premier Contract Cleaning
Plenty of commercial cleaners in Docklands Dublin will tell you they are professional and reliable. Here is what we can actually put numbers against.
“Most of the Dublin 2 buildings we work in have their own rules before we ever pick up a cloth. Getting that part right is half the job.”
Catalin Fatul, Director, Premier Contract Cleaning
Our Dublin 2 and Docklands Service Area
We cover the whole of Dublin 2 and the Dublin Docklands, D02 and the surrounding city centre.
The Dublin 2 core
Across the Dublin 2 core, around St Stephen’s Green, Dawson Street, Molesworth Street, Lower Baggot Street, Merrion Square, Fitzwilliam Square and Harcourt Street, you get a mix of Georgian office conversions and modern floors sitting side by side. Every one of those buildings has its own access rule, and evening access is limited in a lot of them, so the schedule gets built per building rather than per postcode.
Commercial Cleaning at Grand Canal Dock
Grand Canal Square, Barrow Street, Hanover Quay, Windmill Lane and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay hold the densest office population in the city. Multi-floor tech and financial tenants, security-controlled access, out-of-hours cleaning as the norm rather than the exception, and reporting expectations to match. The Bord Gais Energy Theatre end of the dock brings its own event-driven rhythm for nearby premises.
Getting in matters as much as getting there. Grand Canal Dock DART and the Luas Green Line at Dawson and St Stephen’s Green mean our teams arrive reliably, which sounds minor until you remember that attendance is the number one failure point in this industry. Loading access on the quays is restricted, so heavy periodic works get scheduled against the slots your building actually has.
One clarification, because it catches people out. Docklands here means Dublin’s Docklands, the north and south quays around the Liffey, not Melbourne.
Commercial Cleaning in Dublin 2: Common Questions
It depends on floor area, frequency and access window, and Dublin 2 sits at the higher end of Dublin rates because most work happens out of hours inside managed buildings. We survey the premises free of charge and give you a fixed written quote against a written specification, so the number does not move afterwards.
Yes. We run evening, overnight and early morning schedules across Dublin 2 and the Docklands, and we coordinate the access side with your building management rather than leaving it with you. The exact window is agreed in writing at survey stage and confirmed before the first clean.
Most offices with daily occupancy need five days a week for washrooms, kitchens and bins, with lighter daily attention to desks and glass and deeper cycles for floors and carpets. Headcount, footfall and how much client-facing space you have are what push that up or down.
Yes, equipment comes as standard, including machinery for hard floors and carpets where the specification calls for it. Consumables such as hand towels, soap and tissue are either included in the contract or supplied at cost, and which one suits you is agreed at survey stage.
After the site survey we can usually mobilise once access, passes and building management approval are arranged, and that approval step is normally what sets the date. We give you a firm start date in writing with the quote rather than a vague promise.
We align our start date with your existing provider’s notice period, so there is no gap in service and no week where nobody turns up. If TUPE applies to the incumbent’s staff, we work that through with you and your managing agent. Switching is the part buyers worry about most, and it is routine for us.
Yes, and it is most of what we do in Dublin 2. We handle the managing agent documentation, contractor induction, security passes, goods lift booking and the agreed out-of-hours access window, so your facilities workload does not increase when you change cleaner.
Yes. Showrooms, hotel front-of-house areas and hospitality-adjacent premises around Harcourt Street and the waterfront run on early morning windows, because presentation has to be right before the doors open. Those areas get their own line in the specification rather than sitting inside a general clean.
We come back and redo it, free. Beyond that, the supervision and photo-backed reporting are designed to catch the problem before you have to raise it, which is the part that actually keeps standards steady over a long contract.
Related Services
If you need something more specific than a general contract, these pages go into detail.
Other Areas We Cover
Book a Free Site Survey for Your Dublin 2 or Docklands Office
If your current clean is slipping, or you are pricing a new contract, start with the survey. It is free and there is no obligation attached to it. We walk the floors, agree what actually needs doing and how often, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you. As a commercial cleaning company Dublin Docklands businesses call directly, you deal with the people who run the contract, not a sales desk.
No obligation. We come to you, walk the floors, and put a written specification and fixed price in front of you.
Premier Contract Cleaning
13 The Weir, Mount Argus Mill, Dublin 6W, D6W Y660
086 083 6141
enquiries@premiercontractcleaning.ie
