UK SIC 2007 81222: Specialised cleaning services

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 81.22 and NACE Rev. 2.1 81.22. ISIC Rev. 4: 8129.

UK SIC 2007 code 81222 is "Specialised cleaning services". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 81.22, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Other building and industrial cleaning activities". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the matching class is 81.22, "Other building and industrial cleaning activities".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	81222	Specialised cleaning services
NACE Rev. 2	81.22	Other building and industrial cleaning activities
NACE Rev. 2.1	81.22	Other building and industrial cleaning activities
ISIC Rev. 4	8129

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - exterior cleaning of buildings of all types, including offices, factories, shops, institutions and other business and professional premises and multiunit residential buildings - specialised cleaning activities for buildings such as window cleaning, chimney cleaning and cleaning of fireplaces, stoves, furnaces, incinerators, boilers, ventilation ducts and exhaust units - cleaning of industrial machinery - other building and industrial cleaning activities, n.e.c.

What it excludes

This class excludes: - steam cleaning and blasting and similar activities for building exteriors, see 43.99

Other UK SIC codes in the same NACE class

81221 Window cleaning services · 81223 Furnace and chimney cleaning services · 81229 Other building and industrial cleaning activities

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.