Commercial Move-Out & Make-Ready Cleaning for Tenant Turnovers
Every day a unit sits dirty is a day it can't be shown. Make-ready cleans are a race against vacancy carry — and Purity Pro runs them on a fast, scheduled turnaround.
Full clean, floor care, glass, and detail work bring suites and units from moved-out to showing-ready. Portfolio clients get priority scheduling when vacancy seasons hit.
What's included
The empty-unit clean a nightly crew can never reach: inside cabinets, behind built-ins, blind corners.
Details Floor care matched to the surfaceVCT, tile, terrazzo or carpet, each treated the way its finish actually needs.
Details Glass, frames and sillsInterior glass and partitions cleaned to photograph, not merely to pass.
Details Restroom and kitchenette sanitisingFixtures, grout lines and cabinetry brought back to a standard a prospect will open and inspect.
Details Adhesive, anchor holes and signage shadowsThe residue the outgoing tenant leaves behind on walls, glass and floors.
Details Punch-pass before the showingA final walk against the written scope so the unit is right the first time it is shown.
DetailsWhy it matters
Showing-ready in days shrinks vacancy carry directly.
Clean enough to photograph — because it will be.
Standing clients jump the queue during turnover season.
- Full-suite cleaning top to bottom
- Floor care matched to the surface
- Windows, glass, and fixture detail
- Restroom and kitchenette sanitization
- Fast, scheduled turnaround windows
A make-ready is a reset, not a maintenance visit
The unit is empty, so everything a nightly crew works around is finally reachable. Inside cabinets and drawers. Behind built-ins and under where the desks were. Blind corners, blinds, HVAC diffuser faces, the tops of door frames, adhesive and anchor-hole residue, the ghost of the last tenant's signage.
It is scoped once, priced once and documented once. That is why a make-ready is quoted as a project rather than folded into a recurring rate — and why the walkthrough matters more here than on any other job we do.
Commercial cleaning is quoted on labour, not on floor area alone — which is why two units of identical square footage can turn at very different prices.
ISSA — commercial cleaning ratesHow long a turnover takes, by unit type
The honest driver is access, not size. Tell us the showing date and we work backward from it; if the timeline cannot be met properly, you hear that at quoting rather than the morning of.
Typical windows once we have keys and the unit is empty. Heavier condition adds a day.
| Unit type | Typical window | What usually drives it longer |
|---|---|---|
| Small suite or single office | 1 day | Carpet drying time; heavy adhesive on glass |
| Full office floor | 2–3 days | Hard-floor refinishing; volume of built-ins |
| Retail or restaurant space | 3–5 days | Grease load, floor drains, equipment shadows |
| Medical or dental suite | 2–4 days | Regulated waste removed first; casework detail |
| Residential unit | 1–2 days | Appliance interiors, cabinet interiors, balcony glass |
| Post-construction handover | By phase | Punch-list cycles — see the phased programme |
Every make-ready ships with a photo record. Timestamped before-and-after images with itemised condition notes and the written scope, in a form you can attach directly to a deposit disposition or a tenant-improvement reconciliation. For most turnovers, that file is the point.
Residential turnovers, and who actually pays
Yes, we take residential move-outs and move-ins. Most of our work is commercial, but we run residential turnovers regularly — usually for realtors and property managers who need a unit showing-ready on a date that cannot move. We have run exactly that arrangement with a real estate partner: they call, we turn the unit, the listing photographs the way it should. Same crews, same documentation, same standard as a commercial suite.
On who pays: it depends on the lease, and it is worth checking before you book. Broadly, the departing tenant's obligation is set by the surrender clause, the incoming tenant's improvements often come out of a TI allowance, and anything beyond either usually falls to ownership. We will quote it whichever way the lease lands, and we will quote it in writing.
Tenant turnovers across Miami-Dade & Broward
We turn units throughout South Florida — office and flex space in Doral and Miami, professional suites in Coral Gables and Aventura, warehouse and retail in Hialeah, plus Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines and Hollywood.
Common questions
How fast can a make-ready be turned?
Standard suites typically turn within days of access; larger or heavily-used spaces get an honest timeline at quoting. Deadlines drive scheduling — tell us the showing date and we work backward.
What if the previous tenant left it rough?
That escalates to our Purity Restore division — deep-clean and rescue work is their specialty, and we hand it off internally so you still make one call.
What's the difference between commercial move-out cleaning and a standard office clean?
A move-out is a reset, not a maintenance visit. The suite is empty, so everything a nightly crew works around is finally reachable — inside cabinets and drawers, behind built-ins, blind corners, blinds, HVAC diffuser faces, adhesive and anchor-hole residue, signage shadows. It is scoped once, priced once, and documented.
Do you do residential move-out and move-in cleaning?
Yes. Most of our work is commercial, but we take residential move-outs and move-ins as well — usually through realtors and property managers who need a unit turned to showing-ready on a date they cannot move. We have run exactly that arrangement with a real estate partner before: they call, we turn the unit, the listing photographs the way it should. Same crews, same documentation, same standard as a commercial suite.
Do you provide before-and-after documentation for the security deposit file?
Yes — a timestamped photo set with itemised condition notes and the written scope, in a form you can attach to a deposit disposition or a tenant-improvement reconciliation. For commercial turnovers that record is usually the point.
Who pays for the make-ready — the outgoing tenant, the incoming tenant, or ownership?
It depends entirely on the lease, and it is worth checking before you book. Broadly: the departing tenant's obligation is set by the surrender clause, the incoming tenant's improvements often come out of a TI allowance, and anything beyond either usually falls to ownership. We will quote it whichever way the lease lands.
Related reading: what to expect from a walkthrough · what belongs in a cleaning contract · the phases of a post-construction clean
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