Industrial cleaning across Guildford
Guildford is better known for its offices and the Surrey Research Park than for heavy industry, but it has a solid core of industrial estates. They hold warehouses, distribution units, workshops, depots and trade counters, many in older buildings that need regular deep cleaning to stay safe and presentable.
Locus Services cleans factories, warehouses and industrial units across Guildford and the rest of Surrey. We can work 24/7, around your shifts or a planned shutdown, with risk assessments and method statements written for your site.
Industrial cleaning: our work
Guildford’s industrial estates
Guildford Borough Council’s Employment Land Assessment (2026) describes Slyfield Industrial Estate as the borough’s largest concentration of industrial and warehousing space, with logistics, distribution, manufacturing and service businesses. The council protects it and several other estates as Strategic Employment Sites. We can work on any of them:
| Estate | What is there | What we often clean |
|---|---|---|
| Slyfield Industrial Estate | The borough’s largest industrial and warehousing site: logistics, distribution, manufacturing and trade units | Racking tops, high-level steelwork, floors, yards and gutters |
| Woodbridge Meadows and Midleton Road Industrial Estate | Industrial, storage and distribution units | Units cleaned between tenants or before an inspection |
| Guildford Industrial Estate, Deacon Field | Storage, warehouse and distribution buildings on the edge of town | High-level dust, roof lights and loading bays |
| Burnt Common, Henley Business Park (Normandy) and Lysons Avenue (Ash Vale) | Smaller industrial and business sites around the borough | Floors, cladding and roofline work |
Older units, mixed tenants, tight access
Many of Guildford’s industrial buildings have been in use for decades and have changed hands several times. Dust builds up on steelwork, racking and lighting, gutters and roof lights get neglected, and cladding weathers. On busy estates like Slyfield, yards and loading bays are shared and access is tight, so we plan deliveries of access equipment and work zones with you and your neighbours in mind.
We clean from the top down, starting at roof level, so dust doesn’t fall onto surfaces we’ve already cleaned. If pigeons have moved into the roof, we can clear the guano and fit proofing on the same visit.
What an industrial clean covers
- High-level surfaces: roof steelwork, ducting, lighting and racking tops, cleaned from MEWPs. See high level cleaning.
- Warehouses and factories: whole-site deep cleans, planned in phases. See warehouse and factory cleaning.
- Floors: scrubbing and degreasing, plus factory floor painting and walkway markings.
- Cladding and yards: pressure washing of cladding, canopies, yards and loading bays.
- Pits, tanks and voids: confined space cleaning by crews trained for the work.
- Roofline: gutter cleaning and skylight cleaning.
- Bird fouling: safe, disinfected clearance of pigeon guano, with proofing to keep the birds out.
Between tenants, before audits, around production
A lot of our industrial work in Surrey is tied to a date: a unit changing hands, a lease ending, an audit or an insurer’s visit. Tell us the date when you call and we’ll plan back from it. For occupied sites, we split the building into zones and work at the quietest times, often at night or over a weekend, so deliveries and production carry on. You get photos and a work report at the end.
How an industrial clean works
- Free site survey: we walk the site with you and look at access, hazards, operations 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 areas in the right PPE, 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).
For other premises in the town, see our commercial cleaning in Guildford page, or read more about our industrial cleaning service.