Exterior & lot cleaning
Commercial Exterior and Lot Cleaning in Lexington and Richmond, KY
Central Property Services washes and clears the outside of occupied commercial buildings in Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County) — building faces and storefronts, entries and sidewalks, drive lanes and parking surfaces, dumpster pads and enclosures, and the lot debris nobody has a line item for. This page is written for the person who has to put that on a work order, so the scope, the acceptance standard and the exclusions are all here before you call.
Who this is for
Facilities maintenance managers, commercial property managers, and owner-operators of occupied commercial buildings in Madison and Fayette County, Kentucky. Offices, banks, medical and professional suites, retail centres, and the lots and walks that serve them.
Not homeowners. We do not wash houses, decks, driveways, fences or any residential property, and we do not quote it. That is a different trade with different buyers, and there are companies in both counties who do it well. If that is what you need, we are the wrong number, and it is cheaper for both of us to know that now.
Commercial exterior cleaning: what we wash, and what done looks like
The second column is the scope. The third is the acceptance standard — what you should be able to see on the walkthrough. It is written before the work so the walkthrough is an inspection rather than an argument.
| Surface | What the wash covers | What “done” looks like |
|---|---|---|
| Building faces and storefronts | Washing the elevation from grade up to the working height we agree in the scope, including entry surrounds, columns and canopy underside where reachable from the ground. | Uniform across the whole elevation, corner to corner. A clean panel beside a dirty one is not done, and a working height that stops mid-wall is written into the quote rather than discovered afterwards. |
| Entries, sidewalks and concrete | Walks, entry aprons, exterior stairs and rails, and the concrete a tenant crosses between the car and the door. | Even appearance across the full slab with the joint lines and edges taken back too. Deep-set staining — oil, rust, tyre marks, years of shoe traffic — commonly lightens rather than disappears, and where we expect that we say so on the quote. |
| Drive lanes and parking surfaces | Hard-surface washing of the drive lanes, entrance approach and the parking areas named in the scope, worked in sections so the lot stays usable. | The sections in the scope done to the same standard as each other, with the boundary between a washed and unwashed area falling on a joint or a stripe rather than in the middle of a bay. |
| Dumpster pads and enclosures | The pad, the apron in front of it, and the inside faces of the enclosure walls and gates. | Pad and apron washed through, residue and grease film lifted, enclosure walls even. This is the surface a scope usually forgets and a tenant complaint usually names. |
| Lot debris and policing | Walking the lot and the landscape edges, collecting and hauling loose debris, and clearing what has blown into corners, kerb lines and the enclosure surround. | A lot that reads as maintained on the walk from the car, with everything collected hauled off site rather than moved to a corner of it. |
| Lot striping | Re-striping bays, directional markings and hatching, scheduled to follow a wash so you are not painting over film. | Layout to the plan you approve. Where an accessible route or its markings are in scope, the layout is agreed in writing first — we will not reposition an accessible space on a verbal. |
What this scope does not touch
Roof surfaces and roof systems. Residential property of any kind. HVAC, electrical and plumbing. Interior cleaning and janitorial. Landscaping, mowing, tree work and irrigation. Sealcoating and asphalt paving. Window cleaning above the ground floor. Paint and coating of the elevation itself — washing a surface is not refinishing it.
Anything outside the scope is quoted in writing as a separate change order, or referred to the trade that holds it. It is never absorbed silently and never billed by surprise.
What we do not take on
Stated plainly, before you spend a call finding out
- Residential property. No houses, decks, driveways, patios or fences. Commercial buildings and the lots that serve them, only.
- HVAC, electrical and plumbing. We do not advertise, sell or take responsibility for these trades in any lane.
- Restoration. No water extraction, no drying, no mould, no fire remediation. We hold no restoration certification and do not imply one.
- Sealcoating, paving and asphalt repair. Striping is a marking scope, not a surfacing one.
- Anything above the ground floor by rope or lift unless it is written into the scope and agreed in advance, because it changes the access plan and the site plan together.
Where the wash stops and the roof starts
Buyers ask this on the walkthrough, so here it is in writing. Gutters, downspouts, flashings, joint sealants and wall transitions are ours — that work sits on the gutters, sealants and exterior repair page.
We do not wash, treat or work on roof surfaces or roof systems. Those belong to a separate company at centralroofrepair.com, and you will be pointed there rather than quoted for work this company does not take. No page on this site sells a roof.
Before we quote: the site questions
Every competitor page in this market ends at “get a quote.” These are the seven things that actually decide whether a wash on an occupied site goes smoothly, and each one changes the scope rather than the price alone. Answer what you can in the request and the quote comes back usable the first time.
- The access window. When can we be on the lot, and does the building need the work outside tenant hours? Tell us what the building requires and we will tell you plainly whether we can meet it — we would rather decline a window than miss one.
- The water source. Is there a working exterior hookup, whose meter is it on, and is it live year-round? A site with no usable water changes the whole approach.
- Where the wash water goes. Which drains serve the area, where do they discharge, and what does your stormwater permit or your municipality require of a contractor on your lot? We do not publish a containment capability. We ask this per site, and whatever the answer requires is written into the scope before it is priced.
- Path closures. Which pedestrian routes and entries can close, for how long, and what the alternate route is. Accessible routes get named specifically.
- Tenant notice. How much notice your tenants need, who issues it, and whether vehicles have to be moved off a section of the lot.
- Trash pickup day. What day the dumpster is pulled, so the enclosure is empty when we arrive instead of full. This one question saves a return visit more often than any other on the list.
- Badge, escort and gate rules. Who lets us on, what sign-in the property requires, and gate or lock codes if the lot is secured.
Getting a wash approved
Exterior cleaning is planned, budgeted work. It almost never fails because the price was wrong; it fails because the request arrived in a shape the buyer could not move. These are the questions we ask so the quote lands coded to the right line the first time.
- Who is authorized to approve this, and what is their title?
- Is there a PO or work-order number now, or is one issued after approval?
- Is there a not-to-exceed figure the quote should be written against?
- Is this operating money or capital money?
- Above your own approval limit, how many written bids do you need?
- Do you want it invoiced as one line, or broken out by area or by building?
We do not publish approval thresholds, typical figures or ranges, and there is no rate card on this site. Every portfolio sets its own limits in its management agreement, and the only figures that matter on your property are yours. Tell us what they are and the quote gets written to them.
If it is not this year’s money, say so. For a portfolio on a calendar fiscal year the window to influence next year’s maintenance line usually falls in late summer into autumn — but ask your own fiscal year and your own submission deadline rather than assuming ours. We would rather walk the property, write findings you can paste into next year’s request, and be there when it funds.
One visit, one work order
A wash, a re-stripe and a debris sweep are three requests, three approvals and three invoices at most properties. Here they are one scope, scheduled in the right order — striping follows the wash, not the other way round — with one contact and one paper trail.
Winter is deliberately a separate decision, not a line on this quote. Snow and ice is bought on a seasonal arrangement agreed before the season rather than on a work order you raise the week you need it, so it has its own page and its own conversation: commercial snow and ice removal.
Related work
Commercial snow and ice removal
The winter arrangement for the same lot — decided and signed before the season rather than negotiated during it.
Gutters, sealants and exterior repair
Gutter cleaning and repair, joint sealants, siding and brick patching — the outside work that keeps water out of the wall.
Emergency and make-safe response
When the building is open, unsecured or unsafe right now. Securing and making safe only — the repair that follows gets scoped separately.
Interior repairs and build-out
Partitions, drywall, doors, trim and finish work in buildings that stay occupied while the work runs.
Vendor paperwork — W-9, insurance certificates, credentialing and work-order intake — is on the approved vendor page.
Request an assessment
Tell us the property, the surfaces and the access window
Send what the property is, which surfaces you want covered, when we can be on the lot, who is authorized to approve it, and a PO or work-order number if one exists. You get a written scope with the acceptance standard and the exclusions attached — not a sales call.
Serving Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County).