Arena & Event Turnover

Post-event cleaning for arenas, coliseums and convention floors, plus the crew that changes the floor over: rink to court, dirt to hardwood, overnight and back on schedule.

What it is

There is no "we'll get it tomorrow". The turnover is planned to the hour, staffed to the attendance, and finished before the next load-in truck backs up to the dock.

We have done this work for the region's largest arenas and university venues for years, and it is where our crew size and our low turnover show most clearly. A post-event clean needs dozens of people who know the building: where the compactor is, which concourse restrooms take the half-time surge, how the seating bowl is worked in sections so nobody crosses a cleaned row.

The second half of the work is floor conversion, and it is labor the venue's own staff cannot always field on the night: pulling and stacking the hockey boards and laying the basketball floor over the ice deck; bringing a rodeo's dirt in over three days and getting it out in one night so a basketball game tips off on that floor the following evening; convention-floor changeovers between shows. It is heavy, timed, crew-intensive work, scheduled with the venue's operations team down to the truck.

What's included

Post-event clean

• Seating bowl worked in sections: trash and food waste picked, cups and bottles sorted to recycling, seats wiped where soiled, spills mopped, aisles and stairs swept and washed
• Concourses: trash pulled, floors swept and machine-scrubbed, concession fronts and drink rails wiped, sticky floors degreased
• Restrooms: every fixture cleaned and disinfected, floors scrubbed, walls and partitions washed, restocked for the morning — the load a restroom takes in one intermission is a week of an office
• Suites, clubs and premium areas cleaned to a hospitality standard: tables, bars, upholstery spot-cleaned, glass
• Back of house: locker rooms, tunnels, dock, loading areas and dressing rooms turned for the next act
• Exterior plaza and entries swept, bins emptied, glass doors cleaned for the morning

Floor conversions and event labor

• Rink to court and back: boards and glass pulled or set, insulated deck laid over the ice, basketball floor sections laid and locked, goals and tables set, then reversed after the game
• Dirt events: dirt brought in and taken out, arena floor protected and then cleaned and disinfected back to a playable surface
• Chairs, staging, barricade and tables set and struck to the event's floor plan
• Convention and trade-show changeovers: aisle carpet up, floor scrubbed, booth debris cleared between shows

During the event

• Porters on concourses and in restrooms from doors-open to last-out — see day porter event coverage: intermission restroom surges staffed, spills cleared as they happen, trash pulled before it overflows
• A supervisor on the radio with the venue's operations desk

A turnover, hour by hour

How often is not the question for event work; the calendar decides that. The question a venue asks is whether the building can be ready in the window it has, and the honest answer comes from the timeline.

What decides crew size

• Attendance and event type. A concert crowd leaves more on the floor per person than a hockey crowd; a family show leaves the most. We size from your ticket count and the event category, not from square footage.
• The window. Eleven hours to a morning event is comfortable. Four hours to a doubleheader is a different crew size at a different rate, and we tell you which before the season starts.
• The conversion. A rink-to-court is its own crew running in parallel; it does not come out of the cleaning crew.

What to expect

• Venue walk. With your operations team: the bowl and its sections, concourse and restroom counts, compactor and dock, back of house, the event calendar and its worst turnaround.
• Written scope and proposal. Per event type: crew size, start and finish times, what is included, and either a per-event price or a season rate card by attendance band. Conversion labor priced separately per changeover.
• The season. A standing crew lead who knows the building; crews sized to each event from the calendar; a supervisor on the radio during the event and the turnover. The building is signed off before doors.
• Ongoing. Event-by-event notes to your operations desk: what was found, what was damaged, what needs the venue's attention before the next show.