Industrial cleaning across Chelmsford’s employment areas
Chelmsford has been an industrial town for a long time. In the late 1890s, Marconi set up its first wireless factory here, in a former silk mill on Hall Street, and it moved to its New Street works in 1912. Today, the work is spread across a number of estates, and the city council’s employment map shows how widely.
We clean factories, warehouses and production sites across the city and the rest of Essex. We can work 24/7, around your shifts or a planned shutdown, with risk assessments and method statements for every job.
Industrial cleaning: before and after
Where we work in Chelmsford
| Area | Sites | What we often clean |
|---|---|---|
| West and south-west | Westway, Widford Industrial Estate, Waterhouse Business Park | Older factory units, trade premises, floors and roof steelwork |
| Around the city | Dukes Park, Bilton Road | Production areas, service yards and loading bays |
| East | Hedgerows in Springfield, Waltham Road in Boreham, Springfield Business Park by the A12 | Warehouses and distribution buildings, high-level areas and racking |
Older units and newer sheds tend to need different things. In an older factory, it’s often years of dust and residue on steelwork and machinery surrounds. In a newer warehouse, it’s usually keeping racking tops, floors and loading areas clean, so stock, equipment and staff aren’t affected.
What an industrial clean covers
- High-level surfaces: roof steelwork, ducting, lighting and racking tops, cleaned from MEWPs. See high level cleaning.
- Floors: scrubbing and degreasing, plus floor painting if you want walkways and work areas marked out again.
- Machinery and production areas: cleaning around equipment, agreed in advance with your own team.
- Tanks, pits and voids: confined space cleaning by crews trained for the work.
- Roof and drainage: gutter cleaning and skylight cleaning, so leaks and dull roof lights don’t undo the work inside.
- Bird fouling: our page on pigeon guano removal in Chelmsford explains how we clear it.
Planning around production
Most sites can’t stop for a clean, so the first job is working out how to fit it in. We’ll look at your shift patterns, deliveries, machinery and stock during the survey, then agree a plan with your site team.
That often means splitting the building into zones and moving through them one at a time, while the rest of the site keeps running. Dirty or dusty work can be done at night or at weekends. If you have a planned shutdown coming up, tell us in good time, as it’s often the best chance to reach the areas you can’t normally get to.
We’ll also agree how to protect machinery, stock and any sensitive equipment, and how the waste will be taken away. As a registered waste carrier, we can take it off site, with the paperwork for your records.
Beyond the city
Our crews also work across the rest of Essex, including Braintree, Witham, Maldon, Basildon and Brentwood. If you also need specialist cleaning work elsewhere on site, or more general commercial cleaning advice, see our commercial cleaning page for Chelmsford and our national industrial cleaning services page.
How an industrial clean works
- Free site survey: we walk the site with you and look at access, hazards, production and timings.
- RAMS and planning: you get a written quote, risk assessments and method statements, plus a plan for each zone.
- The clean: our crews work through the agreed zones, in the right PPE and with access equipment where it’s needed.
- Sign-off: we walk the site with you, and you get photos, a work report and any waste paperwork.
Accredited, insured and documented
Locus is SafeContractor-accredited, Constructionline Silver and a BICSc corporate member, and our operatives hold IPAF and CSCS cards. We’re registered with the Environment Agency as a waste carrier (CBDU320327).