Warehouse cleaning across Crawley
Crawley sits next to Gatwick Airport and the M23, and its warehouses serve distribution, trade and retail businesses across Sussex and Surrey. Busy buildings collect dust on racking and steelwork, grime on floors and docks, and debris in gutters and roof lights, and a dirty warehouse is harder to keep safe, compliant and presentable.
Locus Services cleans warehouses and distribution units across Crawley and the rest of West Sussex. We can work 24/7, around your picking, deliveries and shift patterns, with risk assessments and method statements written for your site.
Warehouse cleaning: our work
Crawley’s warehouse areas
The Crawley Borough Local Plan 2023 to 2040 describes Manor Royal as the region’s premier business destination. It says demand for warehouse space near Gatwick is strong, and that much of it has been met by redeveloping office and industrial buildings at Manor Royal. The plan also protects several other main employment areas around the town. We can work on any of them:
| Area | What is there | What we often clean |
|---|---|---|
| Manor Royal | The borough’s main business district, north of the town towards Gatwick: offices, industrial units and a growing number of warehouses | High racking, roof steelwork, docks, floors and roof lights |
| Three Bridges Corridor | Includes Denvale Trade Park, Spindle Way, Stephenson Way and Hazelwick Avenue: trade, industrial and small business units | Units cleaned between tenants, floors and gutters |
| Lowfield Heath | An employment area at the northern edge of the borough, close to Gatwick Airport | High-level dust, cladding and yards |
| Tilgate Forest, Maidenbower and Broadfield business parks | Smaller business and industrial sites around the south and east of the town | Floors, cladding and roofline work |
Busy sites near the airport
Warehouses near Gatwick often run around the clock, with tight delivery slots and strict site security. Some of Manor Royal’s warehouses are new buildings on redeveloped sites; others are older units, with roof spaces, ledges and gutters that have collected dust and debris for years. We look at the building at the survey and plan the clean to suit it.
We clean from the top down, starting at roof level, so dust doesn’t fall onto stock or surfaces we’ve already cleaned. Where stock stays in place, we sheet it or work aisle by aisle.
What a warehouse clean covers
- Racking and high level: racking tops, beams, ducting and lighting, cleaned from MEWPs. See high level cleaning.
- Whole-building deep cleans: one-off or on contract, planned in phases. See warehouse and factory cleaning.
- Floors: scrubbing and degreasing, plus floor painting and new walkway and bay markings.
- Chilled and frozen areas: cold store cleaning, planned around your stock.
- Roofline: gutter cleaning before leaks reach stock, and skylight cleaning to bring back daylight.
- Bird fouling: safe, disinfected clearance of pigeon guano from docks and roof spaces, with proofing to keep the birds out.
Planned around your operation
Warehouses rarely close, so we work around you. We split the building into zones, close off one area at a time and work at the quietest times, often at night or over a weekend, so picking and deliveries carry on. If you have a deadline, such as a lease ending, a new tenant, an audit or a customer visit, tell us when you call and we’ll plan back from it. You get photos and a work report at the end.
How a warehouse clean works
- Free site survey: we walk the site with you and look at access, racking, stock, hazards 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 MEWPs where they’re 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 Crawley page. For bird problems, see pigeon guano removal in Sussex, or read more about our warehouse and factory cleaning service.