Scrub if the floor still comes up
If a test patch cleans back to an even finish, the sealer is intact and you need a maintenance cycle, not a project.
Warehouse floor cleaning and scrubbing.
The floor is the biggest single surface on your site and the one an auditor, an insurer and a visiting client all look at first.
- Ride-on and walk-behind scrubbing
- Oil, rubber and traffic-lane recovery
- Stripping, sealing and slip ratings
Melbourne & the western suburbs
Not all industrial floors need the same treatment.
Most warehouse floors in Melbourne's west are sealed or bare concrete, and they fail in predictable ways: black rubber tyre lanes down the main runs, oil soaked into the slab near plant and charging bays, and a dull grey film everywhere else that no amount of extra sweeping shifts.
Each of those needs a different answer. Rubber marking responds to a scrub pass with the right pad and chemistry. Absorbed oil usually needs a degreaser with dwell time, sometimes a high-pressure treatment first. A dull film is often the sealer breaking down, in which case scrubbing harder is money wasted and the floor needs stripping and resealing instead.
That is why we quote floors on a walk-through rather than by the square metre over the phone. Two sites the same size can be a routine maintenance job and a full restoration.
What's included
The scope, in plain terms.
Ride-on and walk-behind scrubbing
Machines sized to your aisles and door heights. Ride-ons for open floorplates and long runs, walk-behinds for racking aisles, mezzanines and tighter units. Run as a maintenance cycle, this is what keeps a floor from ever needing restoration.
Oil, grease and rubber removal
Degreasing around plant, charging bays and workshop areas, and pad work on tyre lanes. Older concrete that has absorbed oil over years will improve rather than reset — we will be straight with you about how far it can come back before you spend anything.
High-pressure recovery
For hardstand, dock aprons, external concrete and internal slabs too far gone for a scrub pass. Often the first step before a floor can be maintained normally again.
Stripping, sealing and polishing
When the existing sealer has broken down, stripping back and resealing restores the finish and makes future cleaning far cheaper. Slip ratings matter here, particularly at dock thresholds and anywhere the floor gets wet.
Line marking and safety zones
Pedestrian walkways, forklift lanes, racking bays and exclusion zones re-marked while the floor is already stripped, which is the cheapest time to do it.
Mezzanine and office floors
Vinyl, sealed timber and tile on mezzanine levels and front-of-house areas, treated appropriately rather than with warehouse equipment.
Worth knowing
When to scrub, and when to reseal.
Reseal if the finish is patchy
A floor that cleans unevenly, or that dulls again within days, usually has a failed sealer. More scrubbing will not fix it and costs more over a year than resealing once.
Recover first, then maintain
Heavily neglected floors need a one-off recovery before any schedule makes sense. Quoting a weekly clean on a floor in that state sets everyone up to fail.
Frequency follows traffic, not calendar
A cross-dock running three shifts needs a different cycle to a slow-moving storage warehouse of the same size. We set frequency from your traffic, not a template.
Common questions
Questions we get asked.
How often should a warehouse floor be scrubbed?
It depends on traffic rather than size. A busy cross-dock or food facility usually needs a machine pass several times a week; a slower storage warehouse may be fine weekly or fortnightly with a periodic deep clean. We recommend a cycle at the walk-through instead of selling a schedule you do not need.
Can you remove old oil stains from concrete?
Usually they improve substantially rather than disappear. Oil that has soaked into unsealed concrete over years has penetrated the slab, and honest degreasing lifts what is in the top layer. If a client needs the floor to look uniform, sealing after the recovery is the realistic path.
Do you re-mark forklift and pedestrian lanes?
Yes, and the cheapest time to do it is while the floor is stripped for resealing, because the surface is already prepared. Doing it as a separate job later costs more for the same result.
Will scrubbing make the floor slippery?
Not when the right pad, chemical and rinse are used, and slip rating is part of the specification when we seal a floor. Wet-floor signage and staged sections keep areas usable while work is in progress.
Where we work
Across Melbourne, strongest in the west.
Industrial floor work across the western and northern industrial estates, including Truganina, Derrimut, Laverton North, Altona North, Brooklyn, Tottenham and Ravenhall.
Need a quote for your site?
Tell us the size and the hours that suit. We walk through, then give you a clear price with nothing hidden — and we call back within 2 hours.