High Bay and Racking Cleaning Arndell Park
The newer sheds built through Arndell Park 2148 and out towards Doonside run twelve to fifteen metres to the underside of the roof, with selective racking most of the way up. Everything that gets airborne on the floor eventually lands on a beam, a cable tray or a sprinkler head. Pro Clean Corp removes it with EWP-ticketed crews and HEPA vacuum extraction rather than blowing it back over your stock. Call 1300 494 983 to book a high-level cycle.
What sits above head height in a warehouse
High-level cleaning is quoted by element, not by floor area, because a building with open web trusses and a full sprinkler grid takes far longer than a portal frame shed with a clear roof. These are the elements we price.
Racking beams and uprights
Beam top surfaces, upright frames, bracing and the footplates. Beam faces are wiped so location labels stay scannable.
Structural steel and purlins
Portal frames, purlins, bracing rods and roof-level ledges where dust accumulates thickest and eventually drops in clumps.
Sprinkler pipework and heads
Pipe runs dusted along the top surface, heads brushed clean without loading them. Fire panel isolation arranged with your contractor first.
High bay light fittings
Housings and lenses cleaned. A dusty high bay lens loses a surprising amount of output, so this often pays for itself in lux level alone.
Cable trays and services
Electrical trays, conduit runs, compressed air lines and ducting supports, all of which collect dust that later falls onto the pick face.
Mezzanines and platforms
Mezzanine decks, handrails, stair stringers and the underside of the deck, plus the edge protection kick plates.
How a high-level shift is run
Pre-start and permit
Working at height permit raised, EWP pre-start inspection logged, exclusion zone barricaded at ground level below the platform.
Ground crew and spotter
A second crew member stays at ground level for the whole shift as spotter and rescue backup. No operator works a lift alone.
Stock protection
Pallets left in the aisle are sheeted before work starts so anything dislodged lands on plastic, not on saleable product.
Vacuum first, wipe second
Bulk dust is vacuumed off the element, then surfaces that need it are wiped. Reversing that order just makes mud on the steel.
Floor pass afterwards
The aisle floor is swept and scrubbed once the lift moves on, so the shift finishes with the area completely handed back.
Photo record
Before and after photos per aisle, plus a note of any damaged racking, missing beam clips or corroded steel we spot from the platform.
The racking damage notes are worth having. Crews on a platform see beam clips, twisted uprights and pallet overhang that nobody spots from a forklift seat, and it goes straight into your report.
High bay and racking cleaning questions
How do you reach racking that is twelve metres high?
With an elevated work platform, operated by a crew member holding a current high risk work licence for boom or scissor lift as the machine requires. We either bring a lift in or use yours if the site keeps one. Nobody climbs racking, stands on a pallet lifted by a forklift, or works from the top plate of an order picker. Where the aisle is too narrow for a lift we use telescopic vacuum poles from ground level, which reach roughly nine metres.
Do you vacuum the dust or blow it down?
We vacuum it, using HEPA-filtered units at the platform. Blowing dust down from a twelve metre beam looks fast and costs you a second clean, because it settles across the entire pick face and on top of every carton in the building. On food, pharmaceutical and electronics sites blow-down is not acceptable at all. The only time we use compressed air is on structural steel in an empty building during a shutdown.
Will you go near sprinkler heads, smoke detectors and light fittings?
Yes, carefully. Dust-laden sprinkler heads and detectors are a genuine fire compliance issue and a common finding in annual inspections. We dust around heads with a soft brush attachment and never load a head sideways or hang anything from a pipe. Your fire panel should be isolated to test mode during the work, and we ask you to arrange that with your fire contractor before the shift so a detector head does not trip the brigade.
How often should racking and high-level dusting be done?
For a general goods warehouse in Arndell Park, twice a year is usually enough for structural steel and roof-level dusting, with the top two beam levels and the pick-face uprights done quarterly. Sites handling flour, plastic granulate, timber, textiles or paper generate far more airborne dust and typically need a quarterly full cycle. Food premises are usually driven by their audit schedule rather than by our recommendation.
Does the racking need to be empty before you start?
Not necessarily. Beam faces, upright frames, bracing and the top of stored cartons can be cleaned with stock in place, working aisle by aisle behind a barricade. What does need clearing is the top beam level if you want the beam top surfaces themselves done. Most Arndell Park sites we work with clear one or two aisles at a time during a low-stock week rather than emptying the whole building.
Can this be done overnight so the day shift is not affected?
Overnight and weekend work is how most of these jobs run. An empty aisle is faster and safer for everyone, and there is no argument over lift access with the reach truck drivers. We tend to book high-level work as a block of three to five consecutive nights so the crew keeps momentum and the lift is only mobilised once.
Pairs well with
The same high-level crews travel to our warehouse cleaning teams across Sydney, so a multi-site dusting program can be run in one mobilisation.
Quoted per aisle, per element, per night
Tell us the roof height, the number of aisles and whether a lift is available on site, and we can give an indicative figure the same day. Email hello@procleancorp.com.au.