Custodial Services unit can provide any level of service that your faculty or department requires. To inquire about supplementary custodial services please contact Joseph Sanguedolce (Manager, Custodial Services) at 416-736-5856 or email sjoseph@yorku.ca to arrange a meeting to discuss your requirements, and to receive a quotation for services.
The following services are available at the cost of supplying the service and may be initiated by a Facilities Services - Service Request.
For services over and above the posted frequency levels please submit a Facilities Services - Service Request.
- Interior glass cleaning
- Exterior glass cleaning
- High frequency carpet maintenance
- Shampoo upholstered furniture
- Special events assistance / table & chair set-ups
- Restricted area cleaning
- Office / Space clean out
- Wall washing (to max height of 3m)
- After hours and Weekend Custodial Services support
Requests for special cleaning service requirements and/or weekend cleaning services (i.e. office/space clean out), a submission of a Facilities Service request is required at a minimum of 10-business days prior to the completion date. For urgent services (i.e. less than 10-business days or same day service), please contact the Facilities Work Control Centre and request to connect with a Custodial representative.
Our Rates
Facilities Services, Custodial Services recovers costs of all additional services through an hourly charge to the requesting faculty/department through the submission of a Facilities Services, Service Request. The following hourly rates have been established for Custodial Services for the current fiscal year, 2024 - 2025:
| Custodial Services during normal operating hours | Mon-Fri 7:30am-4pm, $37.16/hour |
| Custodial Services after hours and weekends | $55.74/hour |
| Custodial Services on Statutory Holidays | $74.32/hour |
These hourly rates represent wages and benefits incurred by Custodial Services and are adjusted as required to reflect changes in the internal costs for the delivery of services and products /supplies used. Should the service being covered by Custodial Services necessitates the supply of an extraordinary amount of washroom consumables and/or other supplies, they will be charged back to the Service Request.
Overtime rates apply to all services provided outside a normal defined shift or on an emergency basis after regular shift hours. Efforts are made to notify the client in advance of emergency overtime requirements.
Please note, an emergency call-ins outside the normal shift hours is subject to a 3-hour minimal charge. Based on the emergency, additional staff may be called in.