Areas we cover · W1D, W1F
Commercial Cleaning in Soho
Soho trades around the clock: edit suites running late, restaurants turning tables until midnight, theatres emptying at eleven. Cleaning has to fit into the gaps, in buildings that were never designed for it. We clean media offices, studios, restaurants, bars and retail across W1D and W1F, in the early-morning and overnight windows Soho actually has.
Soho’s commercial stock is a grid of narrow streets between Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, mostly Georgian terraces and later infill, with a smaller cluster of modern blocks. The occupiers define the area: film, television and post-production on Wardour Street and Dean Street, advertising and design agencies, music and talent companies, and a dense layer of restaurants, bars, cafes and independent retail around Old Compton Street, Berwick Street and Carnaby. Theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue and the edge of Chinatown add late audiences.
The media buildings are the interesting ones. Edit suites, grading rooms, dubbing theatres and server rooms are full of sensitive equipment and often run overnight on a deadline. Cleaning them means working around live sessions, using the right methods near screens and desks, and never unplugging anything. Client areas and kitchens are cleaned to a hospitality standard because clients spend long days in them.
Hospitality sets a different clock. Restaurants and bars close late and open early, so kitchen and front-of-house cleaning happens between roughly midnight and seven. Kitchen deep cleans, extract canopy cleaning and floor treatments are booked for closed days. Access is the main constraint: the streets are narrow, some are pedestrianised in the evening, parking is scarce and loading windows are short. Equipment has to be walked in and stored inside.
Retail on Carnaby Street and Regent Street’s Soho side is cleaned before opening. Transport is comprehensive: Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square surround the district, and the Elizabeth line has made early-morning staffing straightforward. Neighbouring Mayfair and Covent Garden share Soho’s hours but not its building stock, which is why each has its own page.
Who we clean in Soho
Cleaning for the way W1D, W1F works.
Post-production and studios
Overnight and early-morning cleaning around live sessions, with screen-safe methods and nothing touched that is powered on.
Read more →Agencies and creative offices
Daily cleaning of open-plan floors, client suites and the well-used kitchens that agency life runs on.
Read more →Restaurants and bars
Front-of-house and kitchen cleaning after close, with periodic kitchen deep cleans on dark days.
Read more →Theatres and venues
Post-show cleaning of foyers, bars and auditoria in the short window before the next house.
Read more →Independent retail
Pre-opening cleaning for shops on Carnaby Street, Berwick Street and the side streets.
Read more →Washrooms in busy buildings
High-frequency washroom service for buildings with a constant flow of staff, clients and visitors.
Read more →Getting it done in Soho
Access, hours and building rules.
- Live sessions. Edit and dubbing suites can run all night. Cleaning is sequenced around the booking sheet and a room in use is left alone.
- Narrow streets and short loading windows. Vehicles cannot wait outside a Soho building. Consumables are delivered in bulk to an internal store and machinery lives on site.
- Late closing. Bars and restaurants close after midnight, so their cleaning window starts then. Shifts are built to the venue’s hours, not a standard evening.
- Old buildings, tight stairs. Most premises are converted terraces with no goods lift. Equipment is sized to the staircase and floors are protected while it moves.
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Soho questions
Questions from businesses in W1D, W1F.
Can you clean a post-production house while a session is running?
Yes, by working around it. The team follows the booking sheet, cleans rooms that are free, and leaves any suite in use until it clears. Nothing powered on is touched, screens are cleaned with approved materials only, and cables are never moved. Client areas are done to a hospitality standard because clients live in them for days.
What time do you clean Soho restaurants and bars?
After close and before open, which in Soho usually means starting after midnight and finishing by six or seven. Kitchen deep cleans, canopy and extract cleaning and floor treatments are booked for closed days so nothing runs into service.
How do you get equipment into a Soho building with no parking?
We plan for it. Machinery is delivered once and stored inside, consumables come in bulk to an internal cupboard at a booked time, and the team arrives on foot from the surrounding stations. Nothing depends on a van waiting outside on Dean Street.
If we switch cleaning company in Soho, do our current cleaners transfer under TUPE?
Almost certainly. Bringing in a new contractor to do identical work at the same Wardour Street building counts as a service provision change under the 2006 TUPE Regulations, so the cleaners assigned to your premises move to the incoming contractor on their existing pay and terms. Your outgoing contractor must supply their employee information at least twenty-eight days before the transfer. The exception is staff who spend most of their time on other sites. We raise TUPE at the first meeting, request the staff list before quoting and price on the real hours, because a bid that ignores the transfer is not a real bid.
How often does a Soho restaurant kitchen extract need a TR19 clean, and what does the insurer want?
The interval depends on cooking hours. BESA’s TR19 Grease specification sets three months for heavy use of twelve to sixteen hours a day, six months for six to twelve hours, and twelve months for light use. A restaurant on Old Compton Street serving lunch and dinner seven days a week is nearly always in the heaviest band. Insurers ask for a post-clean verification report with photographs from matching positions, grease thickness readings and a signed certificate covering the whole run to the fan, not just the canopy. We book the work on a closed day so nothing runs into service.
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