How We Deep Cleaned 100 Plus FIU Dorm Rooms
The Prime Cleaner deep cleaned 100+ FIU dorm rooms through a university contract — full deep cleaning at 3 hours per room. Recurring engagement through 2025.
When Florida International University needed a cleaning company to deep clean over 100 dorm rooms during the summer turnover period, The Prime Cleaner won the contract. Not a quick surface clean between residents. Full deep cleaning of every room at three hours per room. That’s over 300 hours of cleaning across 100 plus units, performed before residents returned for the new academic year. The scope, the timeline, and the consistency required across that many identical rooms made this one of our most operationally demanding projects. We delivered, and FIU brought us back again in 2025 for the same engagement.
What University Dorm Cleaning Actually Requires
Most people hear “dorm cleaning” and think quick wipe-down between students. The FIU contract was nothing like that. Each room received a full deep clean equivalent to what we’d provide for a residential client booking our deep cleaning service.
Three hours per room means our team cleaned every surface, every fixture, and every built-in feature in each unit. Bathrooms got full sanitization including grout scrubbing, toilet cleaning inside and out, shower and sink attention, and floor mopping. Living spaces got thorough dusting, surface cleaning, and floor treatment. Kitchenette areas in applicable units got inside-appliance cleaning. Windows, sills, and blinds were cleaned. Closet interiors were wiped. Light fixtures and ceiling fans were addressed.
The standard was simple: every room needed to be move-in ready. Not “acceptable,” not “good enough.” Ready for a student to walk in and feel like nobody had ever lived there before. When you’re cleaning at three hours per room rather than thirty minutes, you can actually achieve that standard.
Scaling Quality Across 100 Plus Rooms
The operational challenge of 100 plus rooms isn’t the cleaning itself. Room by room, it’s the same work we do in residential deep cleaning. The challenge is maintaining consistent quality across every single room when the same tasks are repeated over and over.
This is where our systematic process becomes essential. Every room follows the same sequence. Start in the bathroom, work through the living area, finish with floors. The same checklist, the same products, the same equipment, the same standard. Room 1 gets the same treatment as room 50 and room 100.
We rotated team members between tasks to prevent the fatigue-driven quality decline that happens when someone scrubs their fiftieth toilet in a row. Fresh eyes and fresh energy on critical tasks like bathrooms and kitchenettes kept quality consistent throughout the engagement.
Our supervisory structure for the FIU project included walk-through inspections of completed rooms to catch any inconsistencies before the project was marked complete. If a room didn’t meet standard, it got reworked before the team moved on. This quality layer is the difference between cleaning 100 rooms and cleaning 100 rooms well.
The Government Contract Process
The FIU engagement came through the university’s procurement process as a government contract. This means formal bidding, specific deliverables, defined timelines, and accountability standards that casual cleaning arrangements don’t require.
Winning a government contract requires demonstrating capability at scale, providing proof of insurance and business legitimacy, and meeting pricing requirements that balance quality with institutional budgets. At The Prime Cleaner, our track record of over 9,000 cleanings, our business insurance and LLC status, and our proven ability to handle large-scale projects made us a strong candidate.
The fact that FIU renewed the contract for 2025 is the most meaningful validation. Government institutions don’t bring back contractors who underperformed. The renewal means we met every deliverable, maintained quality across every room, and completed the project on schedule.
What Dorm Cleaning Taught Us About Scale
The FIU project reinforced principles we apply to every job, residential or commercial. Consistency comes from systems, not effort. When you’re cleaning 100 rooms, enthusiasm alone doesn’t maintain quality. A repeatable process does. Supervision matters. Even experienced teams benefit from quality checks, especially over extended multi-day engagements. And equipment makes a difference at scale. Our HEPA Prolux Tritan vacuums performed across hundreds of hours of continuous use, capturing the fine dust and allergens that standard vacuums leave behind.
These lessons translate directly to our residential work. The systems that keep quality consistent across 100 dorm rooms are the same systems that keep quality consistent across 9,000 residential cleanings. Scale tests your process, and our process passed the test.
Frequently Asked Questions About Large-Scale Cleaning
Can you handle cleaning for other universities or institutions? Yes. Our FIU experience demonstrates our capability for institutional-scale cleaning. We’re equipped to handle university housing, corporate office turnover, building-wide projects, and any engagement requiring consistent quality across dozens or hundreds of units.
How long did the FIU project take? Over 300 hours of total cleaning time across 100 plus rooms at three hours per room, managed over the summer turnover period before residents returned.
Is the quality the same as residential deep cleaning? Identical. Each dorm room received the same three-hour deep cleaning scope we’d provide to a residential client. The standard was move-in ready for every room.
Do you do regular cleaning for commercial clients? Yes. Beyond project-based work like FIU, we provide recurring and one-time cleaning for commercial spaces throughout Miami.
Book Large-Scale Cleaning With The Prime Cleaner
Whether you need 1 room cleaned or 100 plus, The Prime Cleaner delivers consistent quality at any scale. Our FIU engagement proves we can maintain standards across institutional-scale projects. Government contract ready. Fully insured. Background-checked teams. Call us at (305) 575 - 2776 or book online at theprimecleaner.com.
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