How to Clean your Business After Construction or Remodeling
When you think about commercial cleaning, post-construction or remodel cleaning might not come to mind. But many businesses go through periods of construction and remodeling, and a professional cleaning crew is just the right team to come in after a dusty, messy job to make your business sparkle again. Let’s talk about how to clean your business after construction or remodeling. How to Clean your Business After Construction or Remodeling It will be incredibly messy and dirty after a large project like construction of a new space, or remodeling your existing business. Cleaning in this type of situation will involve a lot of sweeping, wiping, and vacuuming. There will be a film of dust and grime on just about everything in your work environment. Everything will need to be tackled from top to bottom. To begin, all the flat surfaces of your workplace will be wiped down with a soapy…
Cleaning During A Viral Outbreak
Cleaning during a viral outbreak is not a task to be taken lightly. While cleaning, in general, is meant to keep your business and work environment orderly and germ-free, cleaning takes on a new meaning during a viral outbreak. When a virus is going around and difficult to contain, stepping up the disinfection process should be considered. A viral outbreak could be anything from a tough case of the flu in a school or child care facility, a norovirus outbreak in a hospital or health care facility, or an outbreak as we’ve experienced with the COVID-19 virus. Viral outbreaks happen, but there are measures you can take in your workplace to help disinfect your environment and reduce the spread of illnesses. Let’s take a closer look at how to clean during a viral outbreak. How to Clean During a Viral Outbreak What Should You Clean During a Viral Outbreak? Maybe…
5 Benefits of Hiring a Professional Cleaning Service
Hiring a professional commercial cleaning service can bring so many benefits to your workspace, team, and business day. Hiring a cleaning team to regularly clean your office or workplace will ease the demand on you and your staff to keep everything clean and disinfected. Bringing in that cleaning team saves you time and energy where you can spend it elsewhere in your business. 5 Benefits to Hiring a Professional Cleaning Service Hiring a Professional Cleaning Team Saves Time Having a professional, experienced cleaning team come through your office, retail, or other types of work environments on a regular basis will save a tremendous amount of time for yourself and your employees. While your staff can certainly clean your location, they probably won’t have the time or knowledge to do the work well and in a timely fashion. Having your staff clean your work areas on top of doing their main…
Cleaning to Prevent the Spread of Contagions
Simply stated, contagions are viruses and germs that can be spread to others, either directly or indirectly, that cause illness. Keeping contagions at bay is one of the benefits of thorough and regular cleanings in your office or workplace. Keeping customers and staff safe and well not only keeps life moving smoothly, but it also keeps business progressing without illness or time off. Taking the time to clean and disinfect your work and office space can actually save you time in the long run. Cleaning to Prevent the Spread of Contagions Cleaning on a regular basis is one of the best ways to avoid the spread of germs and disease in your office space. Using disinfectants, sanitizers, and following the directions of the product bottles will properly eliminate contagions, germs, and dirt. We should note that while dirt can be removed and cleaned with mild cleansers and soaps, more…
Workplace Floor Safety
Floor safety in your workplace is important whether or not you have a large amount of traffic going through your business every day. Keeping a clean, dry, and debris-free floor will go a long way to keep your work area a safe space to occupy. Let’s review some of the ways you can keep your work floors in good shape and safeguarded from slips, falls, and other workplace injuries. Workplace Floor Safety Tips Floor Moisture One of the biggest hazards in the workplace is floor moisture. Moisture on floors can come from a variety of places: spilled drinks, outdoor weather tracked inside, oily substances, and leaks. This type of floor safety issue can often be avoided with a few easy steps. Have a workplace review of your floors on a regular basis. Make note of areas of concern and then take proper procedures to correct them. If the problem cannot…
How to Clean Grout at your Business
When the grout lines in your tile start to get dirty and grungy, it’s time to clean them up. Dirty grout can give off the appearance that your business’ space is dated or not well cared for. There are a number of options you can try to get your grout lines in good shape again. If you tend to head right for the bleach, there might be some other options to consider that can clean them just as well. After you have mopped the tile floor of your lobby, showroom, or restrooms, you’re ready to start scrubbing the grout lines. You’ll need a few tools like rags, a sponge, a toothbrush, water, a kneeling pad, gloves, and a mask for this grout cleaning job. How to Clean Grout at your Business Baking Soda – This is a great option to try. It’s gentle on humans, and tough on your grime…
How to Clean a Grocery Store
In a place where there is a lot of human traffic, plus a considerable amount of hand and surface contact mixed in with sensitive items like food, drinks, and consumables, a grocery store needs to be cleaned thoroughly and regularly. Customers expect a clean and organized shopping environment when they come to pick up their groceries. They want to see dust- and spot-free surfaces, not smell any unpleasant odors, and walk on dry, debris-free floors. This mix of cleaning needs brings us to the detailed areas where cleaning a grocery store should be focused in order to provide your customers what they expect. Grocery Store Cleaning Checklist 1. Glass doors and windows. Glass doors and windows on the front of your store, and in the freezer and refrigerated food display cases should be cleaned and disinfected on a regular basis throughout the day. The handles and areas that are handled…
What is the Difference between Common Cleaning Agents?
Times like these make us question different cleaning agents that we have in our cleaning cabinet. We wonder how well they do the work we need them to do. Will they be safe for the surfaces I am using them on? Are they strong enough to do the job right? Or are they mild enough to be gentle on delicate areas? We are going to break down a handful of cleaning agents you are probably familiar with, but maybe didn’t know their capabilities. Understanding more about their proper usage will help you to know which agents are best for your cleaning job. Differences between Common Cleaning Agents Common Cleaning Agents We all are accustomed to using soaps and detergents in our daily lives. Soaps are gentle to clean our hands but tough enough to decontaminate if used long enough and properly. Soap will dissolve oils and dirt, making soap a…
What is Fogging Disinfecting?
Disinfecting and cleaning of contaminants is an ongoing sanitizing regime for many businesses. There are a variety of disinfecting processes that can be implemented to regularly stay on top of areas, workspaces, and businesses that need routine decontamination and a serious reduction in germs. These businesses often fall into the food preparation and serving businesses, pharmaceutical trades, fitness centers and gyms, hospitals, and health care facilities, as well as any other spaces that cannot be closed, like vital infrastructure facilities, or spaces that have recently been introduced to viruses or other health-related contaminants. What is Fogging Disinfecting? Chemical fogging disinfection is the process in which a disinfecting aerosol is introduced to a workspace to kill bacteria, viruses, and other illness-causing germs. It’s a process that will encourage chemicals onto all spaces and surfaces like tabletops and shelving, but it will also tackle hard to reach and hard to clean…
Things To Clean Daily In Your Office Space
Office and work environments can be busy and see a lot of traffic, or be quiet with just a few clients and staff passing through on a daily basis. Either way, an office space should be cleaned on a daily basis when it comes to areas that are touched or used often. As we know, germs can linger on surfaces that are used or worked in. So, it’s important to have a routine to address your office cleaning every day. Even if it’s for lightly-used spaces, keeping your office space free of germs and clean goes a long way to prevent illness and provide a friendly environment for customers to appreciate. What to Clean Daily in your Office Bathrooms are often at the top of a cleaning list, and rightly so. Bathrooms are used frequently and can harbor many germs and bacteria. If your restrooms don’t see a lot of…
