Nanaimo
Island Commercial Cleaning services offices, clinics, dealership showrooms and strata common areas across Nanaimo, the largest commercial market on Vancouver Island's east coast. Schedules run nightly, 3 times a week or weekly. The city holds roughly 6,500 licensed businesses, and 86% employ fewer than 20 people.
The widest building mix in the corridor
Nanaimo carries more building types than anywhere else on this coast. Downtown holds the Old City Quarter, the Arts District and the Waterfront District, each with professional suites above street-level retail. Woodgrove Centre, Country Club Centre, Port Place and Nanaimo North Town Centre bring in retail-adjacent offices and service counters. Duke Point and Boxwood hold light industrial and warehouse space, and Bowen Road is the city's dealership row, with a second cluster along Island Highway North. A scope written for a showroom does not transfer to a warehouse mezzanine, and neither transfers to a dental suite.
The buildings, and the businesses in them
City licensing data puts about 6,500 businesses in Nanaimo, with 86% employing fewer than 20 people, 9% between 20 and 49, and only 5% above that. The practical consequence is that the person sourcing cleaning is usually the office manager or the owner rather than a facilities team, and the quote has to be readable by someone who has other work to do. A task list by area and frequency does that. A single monthly figure does not. Healthcare and social assistance made up 10.7% of the city's business licences in 2023, which is why clinic and dental work is a standing part of the mix here.
Winter grit and entry matting
The municipal winter maintenance policy uses salt in crystal and brine form together with sand, and plowing begins once accumulated snow passes five centimetres. Treated roads are not expected to be left bare — compacted snow and ice are acceptable outcomes. All of that material ends up on footwear and then on the first six metres of floor inside every entrance. Entry matting and traffic-lane frequency belong on a winter schedule and a summer one, rather than a single figure that is wrong half the year.
Access in a shared building
Many downtown suites sit above street-level retail with a shared lobby, a shared stairwell and an alarm the landlord holds. The cleaning arrangement for the tenanted space is separate from the one covering the common areas, and the two are often held by different contractors. We record which doors, fobs and codes belong to which agreement before the first visit, so a building is never half-cleaned on a Monday morning.
Cleaning services
- Office CleaningNightly, three-times-weekly and weekly office cleaning to a written scope. Washrooms, kitchens, traffic lanes and consumable restocking.
- Medical and Dental CleaningCleaning for dental offices, medical clinics, private practice, childcare and private schools. Fixture-by-fixture washrooms and low-scent products.
- Strata Common AreasLobbies, corridors, elevators, stairwells, amenity rooms and parkades, scoped and quoted so a council can budget it.
- Floor and Carpet CareCarpet extraction, interim encapsulation, hard floor scrubbing, VCT strip and wax, and post-construction cleans staged rough, final and touch-up.
Book a walkthrough
Send the building type, rough square footage and how often it needs cleaning. A walkthrough gets booked around the hours the building already keeps, and the quote follows the written scope it produces.
Text or call (778) 909-4311