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Cleaning Company Uniforms Auckland, Security and Couriers
Most of these businesses buy their gear a few garments at a time, from whoever answered the phone that week. Two years on there are three versions of the logo at three sizes, and the file the first lot came from is on somebody’s old laptop. We keep your setup on record, so the tenth order matches the first.
Decorated in Glenfield, couriered to you — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
Before you ask
- Who this page is for
- Any business we do not have a dedicated page for — cleaners, security, couriers, retail, churches, clubs, events, real estate
- Who we deal with
- The business, not the individual — two-person rounds through to franchises. One person orders and everybody matches
- Minimum order
- None. Two polos is a real order, and larger runs price better per unit
- Reorders
- Your setup, placement and thread codes kept on record — a reorder of the same gear skips setup
What we supply
The gear these businesses actually order
Blank garments from New Zealand wholesalers, decorated here and couriered to you. It is the same short list whether you came looking for security uniforms that Auckland firms reorder as staff turn over, retail staff uniforms that Auckland shops put on a weekend team, or real estate uniforms that Auckland agencies want to look consistent at an open home. Aprons, bags, work shirts and singlets are all decorated too — if the garment you want is not here, ask.
Two methods, and which one you get depends on the garment rather than on what we would rather run:
Why this mix is different
Your staff are standing in somebody else’s building
There is no single trade on this page, so there is no single wash, no single hazard and no shared set of rules. What these businesses do have in common is where their staff stand and how the gear gets bought — and both of those change what a good uniform has to do.
The uniform is the proof they belong there
A cleaner is in an office after everyone has gone. A courier is at a stranger’s door. A guard is in a lobby and an agent is in somebody’s house. In all four the uniform is read first and read fast, often from behind or across a carpark, by a person deciding whether this is fine. That is an argument for a bigger logo than you think you want, in a colour that actually separates from the garment, and usually on the back as well as the chest.
Nobody here has a uniform budget or a person who owns it
There is no procurement desk on a cleaning round, in a church office or at a six-van courier run, so the gear arrives two or three garments at a time, months apart. That is the worst case for consistency: no single order is ever big enough to be worth stopping and checking against the last one. Your setup does not move between them.
One logo across garments with nothing in common
A single order here can be polos for the regulars, tees for a weekend crew, a couple of hi-vis vests and a cap. One stitch file runs across the flat garments at the same logo size, so the polos and the jackets share it. Caps stitch differently and need their own, and a much larger logo for a back panel does too, because it is not just the same stitching enlarged. We will tell you which of those applies before you pay for it.
The logo file is usually the hold-up, not the garments
A lot of these logos were drawn once, years ago, by somebody who has since left, and what survives is a JPEG off a website or a signwriter’s proof. That is usually workable — we can redraw from a clear image, and embroidery simplifies fine detail anyway because thread has a minimum size it can hold. What slows an order down is finding that out at the end. Send whatever you have with the first email and we will tell you straight away whether it will work.
Two ways to start
One logo, whatever your team happens to wear
Send through what your staff wear now and roughly how many. You will get a price per garment with the branding in it, usually the same business day.
Or call 021 082 12843 — Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm.
What happens next
- 1. You send rough numbers and what the team does.
- 2. We come back with garment options and a price per garment, decoration included, usually the same business day.
- 3. Once you go ahead, we confirm logo size and placement in writing before anything is decorated.
How it works
Three steps to a team that matches
Nothing goes into production until somebody has approved the placement in writing.
Step 1
Tell us what the team wears
Garments, rough numbers and a size spread if you have one. A photo of what you are wearing now beats a description, and it tells us where the old logo sat and how big it was.
Step 2
You get a price per garment
Garment options with the decoration included in the price, per size run. If a cheaper blank would do the same job we will say so, and if the garment you asked for is wrong for how it will be worn we will say that too.
Step 3
We confirm placement, then decorate
Logo size and position confirmed in writing — including where it sits relative to any retroreflective banding on a hi-vis garment — and only then does anything get stitched or pressed. Your setup is kept for the next order.
Embroidery pricing is an estimate until the artwork is digitised, because the stitch count sets the price and nobody knows it exactly beforehand. There is a one-off setup if we have not already set your logo up at that size. One setup covers your garments at the same logo size, so polos, jackets and hoodies share it; caps stitch differently and need their own, and a much larger logo on a back panel does too, because it is not just the same stitching enlarged. A reorder of the same gear never pays it again.
Managed supply
Reordering when the person who ordered has left
On most of this site the person who reorders is the person who ordered. Here they usually are not — the volunteer, the office manager or the supervisor who set the uniform up has moved on, and whoever picked it up has no idea what was bought.
You do not have to know what you ordered
The garment, the logo size, the position and the thread colours are on record against your name. A new person can email us with a headcount and nothing else and still get the same gear as the first order.
Thread and garment codes on record
The exact blank and the exact thread colours, kept on record. That is what stops a top-up coming back in a slightly different navy a year later, which is the failure everybody notices and nobody can prove.
One or fifty, same process
A single polo for one new starter runs the same way as the original order and goes out by courier. Small orders carry a handling charge, shown on the quote, because the setup work is the same either way.
What we are not: we do not make name badges, lanyards, ID cards, magnets or signage. Those come up in nearly every conversation on this page — a security firm, an event crew and a real estate agency all want them — and they are a different trade with different machines, so we would rather point you elsewhere than do them badly. We do not sell PPE either: boots, gloves, eye protection and the certified garments themselves are somebody else’s business. We will not tell you what your client, your site or your insurer requires, and we will not tell you what decorating does to a certified garment’s status — we are a decorator, not a certifier, and we have not seen a test result either way. There is no online ordering portal and no login; a reorder is an email or a phone call, which is faster at the size of order most of these businesses place. And there is nowhere to visit — the workshop takes no walk-ins and everything leaves by courier, Auckland included.
Questions
What these businesses ask before they order
If yours is not here, ask when you request a quote and you will get a straight answer.
Our industry is not on your list at all. Is this the right page?
Yes — that is exactly what this page is for. Nine sectors have their own page because they ask for very specific things: hospitality, healthcare, trades, corporate, schools, sports clubs, beauty, fitness and automotive. Everything else lands here, and everything else is most of our enquiries. If you are a business with staff and a logo, none of the nine fits, and you are wondering whether we deal with your kind of work, the answer is yes. The one thing this page is not for is an individual after a single personalised item for themselves — a different job with different expectations, and there is a separate page for it under Custom Clothing.
Some of our staff wear hi-vis. Does branding it affect the garment?
We cannot tell you that, and we would rather say so than guess. A high-visibility garment follows AS/NZS 4602.1:2011, which sets how much retroreflective banding it carries and where that banding sits — that is a property of the garment as it was made. What decorating does to it is a separate question, and we have not seen a test result either way. We are a decorator, not a certifier. What we do is place the logo clear of the banding rather than across it, and confirm the position with you in writing first. Get the rest in writing from whoever supplies the garment, before you order rather than after, because the answer may decide which garment you buy. Tell us what it says and we will work to it.
Should our logo be embroidered or printed?
For anything worn regularly — polos, jackets, hoodies, work shirts — embroidered. It is thread through the fabric, so there is nothing to lift or crack, and it outlasts the garment. Printing earns its place when the artwork is full-colour or fine enough that thread would lose it, when you want a large panel across a back, or when the garment is too light to stitch without puckering, which covers most tees and hi-vis vests. We stitch in-house on our own machines and we press in-house on our own heat press; the transfers themselves are printed by a trusted partner, which is the one step in the process that is not ours. Caps are the exception and it is a machine limit rather than a preference: pressing a curved, seamed crown needs a cap press and we do not have one yet, so caps are embroidered.
Can you put staff names or roles on the garments?
Yes. Names are usually stitched on a polo or a shirt and pressed on a tee, and each one is its own decoration, quoted per garment, because a name is new artwork every time — so they suit a settled team rather than a crew that changes weekly. Roles are the cheaper answer and often the more useful one: Cleaner, Security, Delivery or Volunteer costs the same on every garment because it is the same file every time, and it does not go stale when somebody leaves. Ask for both at the quote stage rather than after the first order, because it changes which garment we would put you in. Badges, lanyards and ID cards we do not make at all.
How long does an order take?
Roughly 5 to 21 working days from the moment you approve the artwork. A straightforward reorder of gear we already hold a file for sits at the short end; a first order with a new logo, or a garment we have to bring in, or a mix of stitched and pressed work, sits nearer the long end. If you have a date — an event, an open home, a new contract starting — tell us at the quote stage and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable rather than finding out halfway through.
Is there a minimum order?
No. Two polos for a two-person cleaning round is a real order and we will do it. Very small orders carry a handling charge, which is shown on the quote, because the setup work is the same for two garments as it is for fifty. Larger runs price better per unit, and a reorder of gear we already hold the file for skips the setup entirely — which is why the second order is usually the one that surprises people.
Can we supply our own garments?
Yes. Plenty of these businesses already buy their polos or hi-vis somewhere they are happy with and only need the branding done, and that is fine — send them to us and we will decorate them. Two things worth knowing: we will want to test-stitch or test-press one before we run the batch, because we have not handled that blank before, and if a garment is coated, laminated or certified we will ask you to check with its supplier first, for the reason in the second question above.
Can we drop gear off or pick it up?
No — there is no shop to visit and we do not take walk-ins. The workshop is not set up for visitors. Everything comes and goes by courier, Auckland included, and customer-supplied garments are couriered in the same way. It keeps the turnaround predictable, because nothing is ever waiting on somebody being free to meet you.
Send us the logo and the headcount
Usually same-business-day replies, Mon–Fri. Two polos is a real order.