Cleaning Company Website Design
Website design for Ontario cleaning companies — office and commercial janitorial, industrial, post-construction, condo common areas and residential. A cleaning company sells two different things through one phone number and hires continuously while doing it, so the site has three routes through it, not one. Below is the order I build those pages in, the two parts of the Employment Standards Act that decide what two of them have to say, and the property work I have actually done.
Steps 5 and 6 are the two that sit on a statute, and the two most likely to be skipped when a site is planned around services alone.
What should a cleaning company website include?
The building types you clean, a page for each service line, an example scope of work, a page explaining what happens when a building changes contractors, the documents a buyer asks for, a separate path and a real price for residential work, and a careers page written to Ontario’s job posting rules.
The order above is deliberate. Building types come first because that is the first filter a property manager applies — someone responsible for a medical building does not read past a site that only shows offices. The scope example comes before the residential path because it is the page a commercial buyer reads in full rather than skims.
| Page | Who reads it | What makes it work |
|---|---|---|
| Home | Everyone, briefly | The building types, the service area, and two clearly separate routes |
| Commercial & office | Property and facility managers | Shift windows, supervision, how a problem gets reported at night |
| Building types | The manager of one kind of building | One page each for industrial, medical, retail and condo work |
| Scope of work | Anyone comparing two quotes | A real nightly, weekly and monthly list, including exclusions |
| Taking over a building | A manager thinking about switching | The changeover rules in plain sentences |
| Documents | Procurement, before signing | Coverage, insurance, safety data, screening — and how to ask for them |
| Residential | Homeowners, in the evening | A starting price, an inclusions list, a booking path |
| Careers | Cleaners, constantly | Pay, shift, area, and a posting that meets Part III.1 |
Which Ontario rules shape a cleaning company’s website?
Two parts of one statute. The Employment Standards Act, 2000 names cleaning in its definition of building services, which makes replacing a cleaning contractor a regulated event under Part XIX. The same Act’s Part III.1, in force on 1 January 2026, governs publicly advertised job postings — which is what a careers page is.
Cleaning is a building service
“Building services” means services for a building with respect to food, security and cleaning, plus prescribed services — parking and concession services intended only for the building, and property management intended only for the building.
A changeover carries obligations
The incoming provider owes termination and severance to the outgoing provider’s staff at that building whom it does not hire, with four exceptions that mostly turn on 13 weeks of work there. A bidder may request prescribed information from the owner first.
The careers page is a posting
At 25 or more employees: pay or a range no wider than $50,000, whether the vacancy is real, any AI screening disclosed, no Canadian-experience requirement, a reply to interviewees within 45 days, and three-year retention of the posting and its form.
Neither of these is a reason to put legal text on a website. They are the reason two pages exist that would otherwise be left out, and the reason the careers form has to store what it receives instead of only emailing it.
Sources: Employment Standards Act, 2000 (s. 1 (1), Part III.1, s. 15 (7.1), Part XIX), O. Reg. 287/01 and O. Reg. 476/24, read on e-Laws 18 September 2026. A summary written to plan a website, not legal advice.
What property and home services work have I done?
I have not built a website for a janitorial contractor, and I would rather say that than imply otherwise. The closest work is a seven-service home maintenance company in Oakville — window cleaning, gutters, property cleaning and seasonal work — whose site another team designed and built, and which I develop now.
Another team designed and built that site. My role is ongoing development. The first thing I found was a menu built from buttons calling a router instead of links: every service page was reachable by a person and unreachable by a crawler, because there was no <a href> to follow. Nine destinations were in that state.
The second piece of relevant work is a handyman services site in Toronto, which I designed and hand-coded from an empty folder — the residential half of the same problem, where the job is a scannable service menu and a contact path that finishes on a phone.
Read the home services case study and the handyman case study, or see website maintenance & support for what an inherited site costs to put right.
Cleaning company web design by city
Each city page is written from that city’s own records — who the buildings belong to, where they are, and how many cleaning companies are already listed there.
What does a cleaning company website cost?
A build of this scope is $899 to $2,999 one time and goes live in 5 to 7 days once content is ready. The number of building-type pages, a separate residential path with prices, and a careers page with a retained application form are what move it within that range. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.
If you already have a site, the free website audit shows what a property manager cannot find on it. For the listing that appears beside it in a local search, see Google Maps setup.
Common questions
What should a cleaning company website include?+
The building types you clean, a page for each service line, an example scope of work, a page explaining what happens when a building changes contractors, the documents a buyer asks for, a separate path and a real price for residential work, and a careers page written to Ontario’s job posting rules.
Should commercial and residential cleaning share one website?+
They can share a domain, but not a path. A building manager is deciding whether to put you on a bid list and wants scope, hours and documents; a homeowner wants a price and a booking. One page written for both ends up answering neither, so the cleanest structure is two clearly separated routes from the home page.
Is cleaning a building service under Ontario law?+
Yes. Section 1 (1) of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 defines building services as services for a building with respect to food, security and cleaning, plus prescribed services. O. Reg. 287/01 adds parking and concession services intended only for the building, and property management services intended only for the building.
What does Part XIX mean for a cleaning contractor taking over a building?+
Under section 75, the incoming provider must comply with the termination and severance rules for the outgoing provider’s employees at that building whom it does not employ, and is deemed to have been their employer for that purpose. Four categories are excluded by section 2 of O. Reg. 287/01, three of them turning on 13 weeks of work at that building.
Does a careers page count as a job posting under the ESA?+
For an employer with 25 or more employees, yes. O. Reg. 476/24 defines a publicly advertised job posting as an external posting advertised to the general public in any manner, with narrow exceptions for general recruitment campaigns, help wanted signs, internal-only postings and work performed outside Ontario.
How much does a cleaning company website cost?+
A build of this scope is $899 to $2,999 one time and goes live in 5 to 7 days once content is ready. The number of building-type pages, a separate residential path with prices, and a careers page with a retained application form are what move it within that range.
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