Body Corporate Cleaning
Sydney.

Strata title was pioneered in NSW in 1961, and other states adopted similar schemes over the following decades, each writing their own legislation and choosing their own terms. Queensland's Body Corporate and Community Management Act and Victoria's Owners Corporations Act both use "body corporate" or a close variant. NSW's Strata Schemes Management Act uses "owners corporation" instead — a purely legislative naming difference, not a different structure.

The practical effect for a Sydney building owner or tenant is that any search using the interstate term will still find NSW cleaning providers, because most Sydney contractors — us included — know both terms are searched for the same service. What matters is that the entity described, and the cleaning work it commissions, is functionally identical regardless of which state's word you grew up using.

Under NSW strata law, the owners corporation is responsible for maintaining and repairing common property — everything outside individual lot boundaries. That typically includes building structure, external walls, roofs, and all shared amenity: lobbies, corridors, stairwells, lifts, driveways, car parks, gardens and any pools, gyms or shared terraces the scheme provides.

It does not extend inside an individual lot — a unit owner's own apartment, including its internal walls and fixtures, is the owner's responsibility to clean and maintain, not the owners corporation's. This split is the same reason a strata building can have both an owners-corporation-funded common area cleaning contract and, separately, individual owners or tenants arranging their own cleaners for inside their units.

For most schemes, the strata committee — elected by owners at the AGM — has authority to appoint contractors for routine matters like cleaning within budget limits set by the scheme's by-laws or the Strata Schemes Management Act's default rules. Larger or more expensive contracts sometimes require a general meeting resolution, particularly if the amount exceeds a threshold set in the by-laws.

We provide written quotes formatted for committee review, including scope, frequency and price, and can present alongside a strata manager if the committee wants that for a general meeting. A clear written scope also protects the committee later, since it becomes the reference point if an owner queries what the cleaning contract actually covers.

Frequency depends heavily on building size and traffic. A small block of six to ten units with a single lobby and stairwell might need a weekly visit. A larger complex with a lift, multiple stairwells, basement parking and shared amenities usually needs several visits a week, with daily attention to the lobby and lift if traffic warrants it.

Scheduling around resident routines matters more in a residential strata building than in a commercial one — cleaning is usually scoped for weekday daytime hours when most residents are out, rather than after-hours work that would disturb people at home.

Whether your paperwork calls it body corporate cleaning or owners corporation cleaning, the process is the same: we walk the common property with a committee member or the strata manager, scope exactly what's included — lobby, lifts, stairwells, car park, bin room, amenities — and provide a written quote the committee can review and put to a vote if required.

Sydney Clean Group is based at 77 Garfield Street, Wentworthville NSW 2145 and services strata schemes across Greater Sydney. Call 02 9139 8401 to arrange a site walk with your committee or strata manager.