Warehouse cleaning across Leicester
Leicester sits on the edge of the logistics ‘golden triangle’, the area between the M1, the M6 and the M69, and Leicestershire holds around a quarter of the region’s large warehouse floorspace. 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 buildings across Leicester and Leicestershire. 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
Leicestershire’s warehouse areas
The Warehousing and Logistics in Leicester and Leicestershire study (April 2021), commissioned by the county’s councils, including Leicester City Council, found just over 2.3 million square metres of large warehouse floorspace across 100 buildings in the county in 2019. We can work on sites across the city and the county, including:
| Area | What the study says | What we often clean |
|---|---|---|
| Leicester city, including Leicester Distribution Park | Nine large warehouses in the city in 2019, with some land for new building at Leicester Distribution Park | Racking tops, docks, floors and roof lights |
| Enderby, on the south-west edge of the city | Listed in the county’s supply of land for new large warehouses | Handover cleans, high-level dust, floors and docks |
| Magna Park, Lutterworth | The largest contributor to the county’s future warehouse supply | High racking, roof steelwork, roof lights and docks |
| North West Leicestershire, including East Midlands Gateway, Bardon and Kegworth | With Harborough, around 65% of the county’s large warehouse floorspace | Docks, floors, cladding and gutters |
New sheds and older stock
The study found that around 15% of the county’s large warehouse stock was built before 1990, and around 20% in the 1990s. Older buildings often have roof spaces, ledges and gutters that have collected dust and debris for years. Newer sheds bring their own work: tall racking, long runs of roof lights and busy docks, cleaned from MEWPs and planned with your site team at the survey.
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 new building handover, a lease ending, 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 factories and industrial units, see industrial cleaning in Leicester. For other premises in the city, see our commercial cleaning in Leicester page. Nearby, we also cover warehouse cleaning in Coventry.