Commercial Exterior Cleaning for High-Visibility Properties
A proposal for every property, priced from the aerial before anyone walks in.

What’s included
- Full site assessment from the aerial, with every surface mapped and sized
- Before-and-after photographs of every visit, dated, kept on your record
- Recurring service agreements at a held per-visit rate
- Net-30 invoicing, with your purchase-order number on every invoice
- A certificate of completion per visit: the signed invoice with the pairs on it
Commercial rates
| Surface | First clean | On a plan |
|---|---|---|
| Drive-thru pad | $149.00 | $75.00 |
| Dumpster pad | $149.00 | $89.00 |
| Entry apron — small | $79.00 | $45.00 |
| Entry apron — large | $149.00 | $85.00 |
| Entry apron — extended (ramp, steps or rails) | $175.00 | $99.00 |
| Parking lots, walkways and building faces | Quoted per site from the area we map | |
Per pad or apron, each visit. The plan rate applies on a service agreement of quarterly or more often; a maintenance visit is never less than $149.00. Sales tax is added at the county’s rate. The full list, with the add-ons, is on the commercial price page.
For facilities managers
- Request online: a work order or a proposal, from this page
- A photo report every visit, dated and kept on your record
- Invoices that fit your not-to-exceed, with your purchase-order number on them
- We work in Corrigo
Ways to connect
- Tap to callCall (234) 410-9200
- Proposal enquiriesinfo@surfaceworksprowash.com
Get a proposal for your site
Tell us the site and what needs cleaning. Matthew looks at it from above, writes the surface list and sends a proposal, usually within a day.
Read more about each commercial service
Commercial Exterior Cleaning
Exterior cleaning for customer-facing walls, columns, entrances, facades, approaches, and other high-visibility commercial surfaces.
Commercial Concrete Cleaning
Cleaning for applicable high-traffic commercial concrete, including approaches, sidewalks, common areas, and durable hard surfaces.
Restaurant Exterior Cleaning
Exterior cleaning for restaurant entryways, customer approaches, drive-thru areas, service-side concrete, and visible outdoor surfaces.
Drive-Thru Pad Cleaning
Focused cleaning for drive-thru lanes, ordering areas, payment windows, curbs, and concrete affected by tire traffic, spills, grime, and weather.
Storefront & Entryway Cleaning
Cleaning for storefront approaches, entry pads, sidewalks, doors, curb lines, and adjacent customer-facing hard surfaces.
Parking Area Cleaning
Targeted cleaning for applicable parking-area concrete, curb lines, accessible pedestrian areas, and vehicle-affected hard surfaces.
Sidewalk, Curb & Pedestrian Zone Cleaning
Cleaning for retail-center sidewalks, curbs, pedestrian paths, crosswalk approaches, breezeways, and common-use exterior concrete.
Gas Station Exterior Cleaning
Customer-facing exterior cleaning for convenience-store approaches, forecourt-adjacent concrete, curbs, walkways, columns, and building-facing surfaces.
Pump Island Cleaning
Focused cleaning for pump islands, dispenser surrounds, bollards, curb edges, and durable forecourt concrete affected by vehicle traffic and outdoor exposure.
Gas Station Canopy & Storefront Cleaning
Cleaning for accessible canopy-facing surfaces, columns, storefront walls, entry approaches, and convenience-store exterior presentation areas.
Dumpster Pad Cleaning
Targeted cleaning for dumpster pads, enclosure walls, gates, and surrounding service concrete where residue and debris can accumulate.
Loading Dock & Service Area Cleaning
Cleaning for loading-dock aprons, service entrances, roll-up-door approaches, delivery areas, and durable concrete affected by commercial operations.
Retail Center & Shopping Plaza Cleaning
Common-area exterior cleaning for shopping plazas, strip centers, retail storefronts, sidewalks, breezeways, entry pads, and curbside pedestrian zones.
Property Management Maintenance
Coordinated exterior cleaning for managed properties that need dependable care across multiple buildings, entries, service areas, and common spaces.
Recurring Commercial Cleaning
Scheduled exterior care for commercial properties that need customer-facing surfaces to remain cleaner and more consistent over time.
Post-Construction Cleaning
Exterior cleanup for finished hard surfaces affected by construction dust, tracked soil, dirt, and applicable jobsite residue.
Rust Removal
Targeted treatment for applicable rust staining on concrete, masonry, exterior fixtures, and other compatible hard surfaces.
Oil Stain Treatment
Focused treatment for applicable oil and vehicle-fluid staining on concrete and other compatible hard surfaces.
Industrial Surface Cleaning
Custom exterior cleaning for applicable industrial concrete, service areas, equipment zones, work yards, and operational hard surfaces.
Equipment Cleaning
Exterior cleaning for applicable equipment, trailers, machinery surfaces, and jobsite assets affected by routine dirt, grime, and operational buildup.
Fleet Washing
Exterior fleet washing for work vehicles, vans, trucks, trailers, and business assets that represent your company on the road and at the jobsite.
Read more about how we work on commercial sites
What we clean, and how it is scoped
A commercial scope is a list of surfaces and an interval. Writing it down that way is the whole point: it turns exterior cleaning from something that gets noticed when a customer complains into a line you can budget, and it means nobody has to re-argue what is included every quarter.
- Food service. Drive-thru lanes, service doors, dumpster pads and sidewalk seating — the surfaces a health inspection and a customer both look at. These hold on a monthly or quarterly interval rather than an annual one, because the soiling is operational and it returns with normal trade.
- Fuel and convenience. Forecourts, pump islands, canopies and approach aprons. Hot water matters here in a way it does not on a house: grease and fuel residue do not respond to cold pressure.
- Retail and multi-tenant. Storefronts, walkways, entries and the parking areas between them, usually cleaned as one pass across several units so the drive is amortised over the whole strip.
- Property management and HOA. A defined surface list per property on a defined interval, invoiced on an agreed schedule rather than job by job, with certificates of insurance provided on request.
- Post-construction and fleet. Final cleans before handover, and on-site equipment and vehicle washing where containment allows it.
Wash water, and why it decides who can bid
On a house, rinse water soaks into a lawn. On a commercial lot it runs across pavement toward a storm drain, and what it carries with it — detergent, grease, fuel residue, sediment — is the part that matters. Storm drains generally discharge to surface water without treatment, which is why wash water on commercial flatwork is a containment question before it is a cleaning question.
Before a commercial job starts we review drainage, nearby inlets, access, operating hours, containment needs and wastewater recovery, and we plan the work around them. In practice that means berms or mats over inlets, recovery and disposal to sanitary rather than storm where that is the right answer, and scheduling around trading hours so the lot is available. It is the reason a grease-laden drive-thru pad is a different proposition from a sidewalk.
This describes how we work. It is not a certification, and compliance with local and state requirements remains a shared responsibility appropriate to the property and the project — your facility may hold permits or discharge agreements that change the right approach, and we would rather be told about them than work around them.
Approved-vendor work
We hold approved-vendor status in a national restaurant group’s facilities network, which means a general manager can raise a work order directly rather than running a bid process. Those orders reach us through Corrigo, the invoice is written to fit the not-to-exceed on the order, and every visit closes with a dated photo report on your record.
How to get a number
Dumpster pads, drive-thru pads and entry aprons carry a published price each. A whole site is quoted per site: the surfaces, the access, the hours and the containment set the figure.
Send the property and what bothers you most about it. We map it from above, write the surface list, and quote the one-time clean and the recurring interval side by side so you can compare them before deciding which you want.
Common Questions
Do you provide commercial cleaning?
Yes. Commercial services include restaurant exteriors, drive-thru pads, storefronts, entryways, sidewalks, parking-area concrete, gas-station forecourts, pump islands, dumpster pads, loading areas, industrial surfaces, fleets, equipment, and recurring property-care programs.
Do you clean dumpster pads?
Yes. Dumpster pads and enclosures are handled with a scope-specific plan that starts with removing loose debris, assessing drainage and containment, applying appropriate treatment to buildup, and cleaning the pad and enclosure surfaces in controlled sections with wastewater recovery where required.
Can you clean the buildup around a restaurant’s service door and drive-thru?
Yes. Service-side concrete, dumpster pads, back-door approaches, and drive-thru lanes carry food-service residue and vehicle traffic buildup, and each gets pre-treated for that specific type of soil before cleaning. Work is scheduled around your operating hours and done in sections so lanes and doors stay usable, with containment and wastewater recovery planned around drains. Most restaurant accounts end up on a recurring schedule, because that buildup returns with normal operations.
Can you work overnight or before we open?
Yes. Commercial exterior work is scheduled around your operations, which often means early morning, after close, or overnight for drive-thrus, storefronts, gas stations, and retail plazas. We are reachable 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM every day to set that up, and the work zone is planned so customer and pedestrian access stays safe while we clean in sections. Tell us your slowest window plus any delivery or lane restrictions and we build the schedule around them.
I manage several properties. Can exterior cleaning be handled as one program?
Yes. For managed portfolios we document service zones, priorities, access instructions, operating restrictions, and recommended frequency so the plan is repeatable across buildings and visits instead of re-explained every time. Entries, walkways, breezeways, dumpster pads, and service areas are usually the recurring items, with heavier work scheduled seasonally. Recurring accounts are invoiced on an agreed schedule, and certificates of insurance are provided on request.
I run a restaurant in Canton with sidewalk seating. How often should the concrete be cleaned?
For a patio and sidewalk frontage in a DORA footprint, a recurring interval beats one-off cleaning almost every time. A restaurant with frontage is judged on how its concrete looks before anyone reads the menu — grease traffic, spills and organic growth come back on a predictable cycle, so cleaning on a schedule holds appearance instead of chasing it. Whipple Avenue and Cleveland Avenue N are dense enough that we can route several accounts together, which is what makes an interval affordable. We will quote both a one-time clean and a recurring interval so you can compare them.
I manage a plaza off Lincoln Way. Which surfaces should we be cleaning first?
Entry pads, patio slabs and dumpster areas, in roughly that order. Lincoln Way is the spine of the business district from SR 21 out to Wales Road, and the plazas hanging off it are where the recurring concrete work lives. With nearly 200 restaurant and fast-food locations in the city, those three surfaces get dirty fastest and get noticed first — an entry pad is the first thing a customer stands on and a dumpster pad is the thing an inspector looks at. Downtown is a separate consideration, because the city publishes design guidelines for its historic commercial district, so storefront work there is judged against a written appearance standard.
Our building is on the Route 62 corridor. Is a maintenance interval worth it?
Yes, if the building has a drive-thru pad, service doors or a dumpster enclosure. Those surfaces need an interval rather than an annual scramble, because grease and traffic staining rebuild steadily and a once-a-year clean spends most of the year looking overdue. The Route 62 corridor from Canton through Louisville to Alliance is retail-lined, which means we can route several accounts on the same trip and price the interval accordingly. Downtown Main Street is the other category: entryways, sidewalk frontage and awning-shaded concrete that reads dingy long before an owner notices, since shade hides the drift. How commercial work is scoped.
Can you clean a retail property without closing it to customers?
Yes, and on Edison Street NW that is the only way it gets done. The Experience Hartville campus is the largest concrete and entry-canopy footprint in the village — a 305,000 square foot hardware store, an indoor marketplace across three acres with an outdoor market running to twelve, plus a restaurant, bakery and 20,000 square feet of shops. Work like that runs in sections, early or after close, with surfaces returned to use before doors open. The Antique and Thrift Trail links another twenty-plus storefronts around town, most of which are small enough to finish before the first customer arrives.
How often does a restaurant entry and sidewalk need cleaning?
On a busy corridor, quarterly at minimum — grease carried out on shoes bonds to concrete and darkens it long before anyone identifies why the entry looks dull. West Market Street is the retail and restaurant spine along Northwest Akron's southern edge, with grocers, cafes and markets whose entries carry all-day foot traffic. Merriman Valley packs twenty-plus restaurants into a compact stretch. Montrose and Ghent runs the highest volume in the metro, and at that level of traffic a canopy, pad and walkway will show a season of wear in about a quarter.
More questions answered on the full FAQ page.
