Industry Code: 89701
This industry includes businesses that perform janitorial services. The type of operations classified here will contract to various businesses, building owners, institutions, etc., to provide a scheduled or specified cleaning service.
This industry also describes businesses, employers, companies or organizations that provide domestic cleaning services to homeowners.
Operation Details:
Janitorial activities may consist of washing, waxing and polishing floors, washing walls and windows, dusting, vacuuming, etc. This would include cleaning restaurant equipment. It is recognized that some janitorial businesses will sell cleaning products, equipment and supplies over the counter and forms part of this industry.
Employers may use vehicles such as vans to carry cleaning supplies and equipment, floor polishing machines, pails, and have offices and phones. They may employ cleaning staff, labourers, sales and administrative staff.
Residential work may extend into vacuuming, washing windows, walls and dishes, tidying up, and general domestic housekeeping activities. Services may be a one-time service such as after a house party or before or after a move, or on a regularly scheduled weekly or monthly frequency for homeowners.
Also included in this industry are businesses which provide house-sitting services: feeding pets, watering plants, taking in mail, etc.
Businesses may provide their knowledge and expertise for a variety of services that assist seniors with moving from their homes to assisted living facilities, apartments and/or other living arrangements. Services may include but are not limited to: helping clients with downsizing, home organization, packing/unpacking, move coordination, estate services, home staging, cleaning/minor maintenance and sale of previous property. Such businesses should be classified in this industry.
If the main focus of a business is to strictly provide support and assistance to clients for a move (i.e. contracting the moving company) then the operations may be better classified in Industry 50714 - General Trucking.
Underwriting Considerations:
Companies that steam clean carpets and/or upholstery for businesses or home owners are included in this industry. This industry may also include the exterior washing of ground floor windows.
This industry includes dusting, vacuuming, washing and general clean-up work following interior construction and renovation work. Homebuilders may contract these types of services to conduct a thorough cleaning of the interior of the home, condominium, etc., to remove all dust, dirt, etc., and to restore the home to a condition of cleanliness.
If comprehensive construction site clean-up and garbage removal services are provided, the appropriate classification is in Industry 50714 - General Trucking. This type of business is generally contracted to pick up and dispose of scraps relating to shingles, wood, siding, etc. that may be discarded on the job site.
If building maintenance work is performed such as repairing/replacing doorjambs, broken windows, etc., the business should be assigned Industry 40401 - Construction Trade Services.
Activities in this industry are similar to those under Industry 87300 - Domestic Help - Homeowners Only. However, under Industry 87300, the homeowner is the direct employer of workers and exempt by the General Regulations.
Cleaning services provided in conjunction with medical and/or personal care services are classified under Industry 82704 - Home Support Services.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Carpet Cleaning
Janitorial Services
Window Cleaning (Main Floor Only), Interior/Exterior
Upholstery Cleaning
Rugs, Rental and Cleaning
House-sitting Services
Cleaning Service
Nannies Hired by Agency
Senior Move/Relocation Services
Rate Group History:
High rise window cleaning was placed in this rate group in 1992.
This rate group was established in 1995 to consolidate similar cleaning services and activities.
Industry 87301, Maid Services was consolidated into this industry on January 1, 2011.
This industry includes businesses that perform janitorial services. The type of operations classified here will contract to various businesses, building owners, institutions, etc., to provide a scheduled or specified cleaning service.
This industry also describes businesses, employers, companies or organizations that provide domestic cleaning services to homeowners.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Carpet Cleaning
Janitorial Services
Window Cleaning (Main Floor Only), Interior/Exterior
Upholstery Cleaning
Rugs, Rental and Cleaning
House-sitting Services
Cleaning Service
Nannies Hired by Agency
Senior Move/Relocation Services
Operation Details:
Janitorial activities may consist of washing, waxing and polishing floors, washing walls and windows, dusting, vacuuming, etc. This would include cleaning restaurant equipment. It is recognized that some janitorial businesses will sell cleaning products, equipment and supplies over the counter and forms part of this industry.
Employers may use vehicles such as vans to carry cleaning supplies and equipment, floor polishing machines, pails, and have offices and phones. They may employ cleaning staff, labourers, sales and administrative staff.
Residential work may extend into vacuuming, washing windows, walls and dishes, tidying up, and general domestic housekeeping activities. Services may be a one-time service such as after a house party or before or after a move, or on a regularly scheduled weekly or monthly frequency for homeowners.
Also included in this industry are businesses which provide house-sitting services: feeding pets, watering plants, taking in mail, etc.
Businesses may provide their knowledge and expertise for a variety of services that assist seniors with moving from their homes to assisted living facilities, apartments and/or other living arrangements. Services may include but are not limited to: helping clients with downsizing, home organization, packing/unpacking, move coordination, estate services, home staging, cleaning/minor maintenance and sale of previous property. Such businesses should be classified in this industry.
If the main focus of a business is to strictly provide support and assistance to clients for a move (i.e. contracting the moving company) then the operations may be better classified in Industry 50714 - General Trucking.
Underwriting Considerations:
Companies that steam clean carpets and/or upholstery for businesses or home owners are included in this industry. This industry may also include the exterior washing of ground floor windows.
This industry includes dusting, vacuuming, washing and general clean-up work following interior construction and renovation work. Homebuilders may contract these types of services to conduct a thorough cleaning of the interior of the home, condominium, etc., to remove all dust, dirt, etc., and to restore the home to a condition of cleanliness.
If comprehensive construction site clean-up and garbage removal services are provided, the appropriate classification is in Industry 50714 - General Trucking. This type of business is generally contracted to pick up and dispose of scraps relating to shingles, wood, siding, etc. that may be discarded on the job site.
If building maintenance work is performed such as repairing/replacing doorjambs, broken windows, etc., the business should be assigned Industry 40401 - Construction Trade Services.
Activities in this industry are similar to those under Industry 87300 - Domestic Help - Homeowners Only. However, under Industry 87300, the homeowner is the direct employer of workers and exempt by the General Regulations.
Cleaning services provided in conjunction with medical and/or personal care services are classified under Industry 82704 - Home Support Services.
Rate Group History:
High rise window cleaning was placed in this rate group in 1992.
This rate group was established in 1995 to consolidate similar cleaning services and activities.
Industry 87301, Maid Services was consolidated into this industry on January 1, 2011.