How to choose a cleaning company and do not regret the choice

On October 31, 2017, in Cleaning industry, by admin
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Cleaning CompanyProfessional cleaning services has become more and more popular within the recent years among banks, factories, schools, restaurants, stores and warehouses. Professional companies perform cleaning of various areas – from tiny apartments or simply carpet cleaning, to cleaning the facades of huge shopping centers or deep cleaning at the restaurant or factory premises.

Inviting the cleaning specialists, we want to get quality services for a reasonable price. To ensure that the expectations are 100% met, you need to know what to look for when choosing a cleaning company and what problems can be hidden behind surprisingly low prices.

Qualification Criteria
What needs to be considered when choosing a company, so as not to waste your money and time? Let’s try to enumerate the main points from which to start.

Presentability Factor
Nowadays cleaning services are offered by many companies. Pay attention first of all to those who have their own office (clean office!), beautifully designed and well-filled web-site, a significant period of work in the market of services.
A well-proven company will always take care of its image and reputation!

Recommendations
Even now, at the modern age of technologies, valuable and worthwhile experts are “passed from hand to hand”, by sharing contacts with friends and relatives. To learn the impressions of a friend about the work of a particular company is always valuable, because he certainly will not deceive!
If this is not possible – read the reviews on the level of services provided on the company’s website.

Equipment
Do not hesitate to clarify with the manager, with the help of what equipment is cleaning performed: household vacuum cleaners are out of place here! Find out which cleaning agents and detergents are used and of which manufacturers, and whether there are certificates on them. A solid company usually buys products from the same suppliers, and uses 2-3 proven brands of “chemical agents”.

Personnel
In a good company, all employees undergo compulsory training: the more extensive is their professional knowledge, the better result will be obtained by the client. At work, cleaners should be given special clothing, all necessary equipment and cleaning agents for various surfaces.

Variety of services
The large company offers a wide range of services – from the daily cleaning to deep cleaning, from dry cleaning to washing facades with the use of industrial climbers, from maintenance of the adjacent territory to cleaning roofs from snow and its subsequent removal. Of course, it is much more profitable to entrust all the necessary work to one company than to several different services.

Prices for the services
From the available offers choose the average cost of services. The understated price should alert you (but not in case when it comes to discounts!), unreasonably high price is often not justified and gets driven up for the brand. Find out how pricing is done, what bonuses are received by a regular customer.

Stages of a cleaning company selection

Step 1. Chose several companies working in your city, focusing on prices, reviews and its reputation. Call the managers asking for an estimate of the costs for the necessary services. Please note that prices vary depending on the size of the room, the level of its pollution and the amount of work ahead!

Step 2. Settle upon 1 or 2 companies interesting for you and arrange a meeting with a specialist – he/she will assess the state of your house or office, recommend the most appropriate type of cleaning and make an estimate. Be sure to find out whether the removal of garbage is performed outside of the territory (especially important for large office buildings, after repairs in an apartment or a country house).

Step 3. If everything suits you, conclude a contract with the cleaning company. Make sure that it contains a paragraph on compensation for damage caused by employees during the cleaning process or because of their lack of professionalism when choosing cleaning products!

Step 4. Assess the appearance and behavior of the workers who arrived, their provision with inventory and cleaning agents. When accepting the performed work, pay attention to the cleanliness of hard-to-reach places and the quality of delicate surfaces cleaning.

When choosing a cleaning company, consider a number of requirements that are important for you. The concept of cleanliness for each person is different, and the cleaning company must have the highest requirements in the first place to their employees and the quality of their work.
The successful choice of a cleaning company is, first of all, a guarantee of cleanliness and safety of your property. Use the knowledge obtained from this article not to waste your money and not to be disappointed in your decision!

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Supermarkets / Retail Stores Cleaning

On August 16, 2017, in Public cleaning, by admin
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cleanness-in-storeA supermarket is, first of all, a huge store of products. It is from the shelves and counters of supermarkets and hypermarkets that food gets to the tables and into the consumers’ refrigerators. What a “food house” should look like, so that, for example, a mother was not afraid to buy fruits in it for her kids?

The main condition is of course cleanliness. The confidence of buyers is easy to win, if everything, what they will touch in a store, will be clean and tidy, especially it regards the shelves, as well as surfaces where the food products are placed. Cleanliness and hygiene must be maintained in a supermarket, the surfaces are simply obliged to sparkle: there should be no extraneous smells, mold, insects.

It is quite difficult to maintain a big premise, which is visited by an uninterrupted stream of people, clean on your own account. To do this, it is necessary to have a full-fledged cleaning service, which will work practically 24 hours a day. However, in this case, it is necessary to recruit employees, whose work should be organized in 3 shifts! And there is a big question of staff turnover and replacement of employees: one can feel ill, one didn’t come to work, and so on. At the same time questions of purchase and proper storage of detergents are added, as well as many other issues, the result of which will be cleanliness in a store. All these nuances are professionally and quickly decided by a specialized cleaning company.

During the day, several employees or a dozen of employees (depending on the size of a store) should be constantly cleaning the premise, as people, coming in from the street, bring dirt and dust on their shoes. Therefore, floors need to be cleaned several times a day.

In addition, you need to consider weather conditions: in snow or rainy weather, cleaning should be more intensive and frequent. Also, in case of unforeseen situations (visitors or employees of the trading floor have broken or scattered something, the promotion has ended and it is necessary to sweep up/wash the floor, etc.), an “on-hand” cleaner is needed, who will promptly collect garbage and wash the contaminated surfaces.

It is unlikely that customers will like the dust on the shelves or the remnants of some products, so every day you need to wipe the surfaces of all the display windows and counters. In addition, all glass and metal surfaces should be polished regularly. Particular attention should be given to the entrance: doors, rugs and steps near the entrance must be clean and safe; a regular replacement of dirt-absorbing carpets at the entrance should be done.

In addition to those premises that are accessible to visitors of the store or shopping center, warehouse, production and technical premises should also be kept clean at the highest level. Therefore, the cleaning should also be done there.

But daily surface cleaning is not enough. It is necessary to carry out a high-quality deep cleaning that will help to prevent odors on the packaging of goods in the warehouse, which will include washing the kitchen, taking care of removing pests and rodents in time, ventilating the premise, washing the ventilation grilles, etc. The recommended frequency of deep cleaning is once per week. During this time, it is possible to eliminate contaminations, sources of goods’ spoilage and foreign odors, in order to ensure the permanent presentable appearance of goods on the shelves. Most common the cleaning in stores and supermarkets is carried out at night, when the store does not work or the number of visitors is minimal.

It is quite important to systematically clean out the trading floors: clean all floor coverings, perform disinfection, remove dirt from hard-to-reach places, wash windows and walls. Deep cleaning, held with a clear periodicity, will not only help to keep the premises and trade halls clean, but will also postpone the time for carrying out repair works, since the surfaces contained in the cleanliness serve much longer and require repair and replacement much less often.

Another type of cleaning services are one-time works, which are usually held at the beginning of the season, or as needed:
- high-altitude work and industrial mountaineering;
- dry cleaning of carpets and linoleum;
- washing of windows, front faces and display windows;
- disinfection, deratization, etc.

In case if the store as just going to be opened, another type of cleaning service, required for the supermarket, is a post-construction cleaning. Post-construction cleaning in a supermarket allows you to bring the walls, windows, ceilings, floors and surfaces of commercial equipment in absolute order, so that there are no traces of building materials and specific smells.

It is at the opening stage of the store that it is important to calculate the need for daily cleaning and deep cleaning, selecting the appropriate cleaning company as a contractor. This will allow you to focus on direct business management, rather than the issues of dirty windows or floors.

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OFFICE CLEANING COMPANIES: new entrants VS incumbent companies

On July 28, 2017, in Cleaning industry, by admin
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office-cleaningWhy are the cleaning companies, whose work on the market of cleaning services is ten years or more, are preferable to the “newcomers”?

Throughout the years of their work they create a team of specialists, acquire the priceless experience, and most importantly – they gain reputation.

Such a cleaning company knows, and which is most importantly – follows the accepted norms and standards for cleaning at sites that have different specifics – factories, offices, living quarters and stores.

Very often such companies have a supply department that buys cleaning accessories, equipment and cleaning chemicals directly from the manufacturer, which is a huge advantage. Thus, consumables are obtained with a minimum mark-up and cleaning costs, respectively, are also reduced. While those who purchase goods through intermediaries put a much higher price tag to their cleaning services.

Qualified managers in the shortest possible time can calculate the cost of cleaning because they know how many cleaners, floor washing machines, brooms, cleaning agents and even toilet paper in the bathrooms it is necessary to estimate for each object.

A thought may appear, that such companies from the beginning of their existence apply the same cleaning methods. But of course it’s not true; there are classical cleaning technologies that are always effective and relevant.

However, the success of  ”long-playing” cleaning companies is a constant increase of  the skill- level of their cleaners, the application in practice of various market innovations combined with competent personnel management.

With many years of successful practice in this field, Pro Quality Office Cleaning Company can offer you affordable prices and excellent cleaning quality, performed by trained skilled professionals.

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MORNING OR EVENING OFFICE CLEANING – what to chose?

On November 11, 2016, in Cleaning industry, by admin
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87-morning-or-evening-cleaningOffice premises are the main place of any company at which the workers and employees spend most of their working time. In these premises in addition to the staff there are a lot of visitors, business partners, which entails additional pollution. For proper organization of the personnel’s productive work, company administration should take care of timely high quality cleaning of the premises. For the office to make a favorable impression on visitors and partners, to be comfortable and cozy, the question remains of daily cleaning.

Some business owners include the cleaners into the staff team, so that they could clean the office up. However, as practice shows, such action is not always expedient. These employees typically have the same working schedule as everyone, so cleaning is carried out during working hours of the whole office staff that interferes and sometimes even stops the production process of the entire office.

To perform cleaning works, the administration should take care of providing the cleaners with high-quality cleaning equipment, protective clothing, and various detergents. These efforts deliver too much trouble, waste time and money for the organization of the cleaning process. To avoid such troubles, you should contact a specialized company that provides professional cleaning services for offices.

First of all, you need to decide on the time of cleaning. Many people like it better when the morning cleaning of offices is held and by the beginning of the working day the office is shining with cleanness and smells fresh. The office team works in a comfortable environment, nothing distracts from the production process.

Evening cleaning of offices is carried out by experts of a cleaning company after the end of the working day, when the premises are already vacated by employees and visitors. All rubbish, dirt and dust that has accumulated over the business day, are removed by means of special agents and equipment. To carry out cleaning works high-quality detergents and cleaning agents are used, which ensure the provision of crystal cleanliness.

Taking care about health and welfare of the office staff, about their comfort, the ecologically-friendly means are used during cleaning. Having sufficient experience in the use of various detergents, cleaning company chooses quality materials with low price. This approach reduces the cost of cleaning works, which significantly saves the customer’s budget.

If the working peculiarity of an office is a work activity during the evening time, the morning is more preferable. In this schedule, the employees usually start working day not very early, which makes it possible to conduct high-quality cleaning activities in the early morning. After such cleaning office meets its employees, customers and visitors with purity and freshness.

For companies, whose working day begins in early morning, evening cleaning of the office is optimal. Workers of the cleaning companies are ready during the evening time to restore the order and prepare the office for the early working morning of the next day. No household trifles will distract the company staff from carrying out their job assignments.

For the successful solution of office problems and achievement of success in business, you must completely devote yourself to production process, without being distracted by such things as office cleaning. Trusting the cleaning in the office to professionals you will reach the productive heights.

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Professional Office Cleaning. What does it mean?

On August 18, 2015, in Cleaning industry, by admin
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78-professional-office-cleaningProfessional, high-quality and inexpensive office cleaning by a cleaning company is a common phenomenon in a modern world. The cleaning process is more and more frequently entrusted to specialized companies. Well, and it’s needless to say that cleaning should be done regularly.
The principle “It’s clean not where people clean up, but where they don’t litter” allows only increasing the interval between bringing an office in order, but in whatever way there comes a time when you need to take up the dusters and carry out this wearisome process. The list of things required for cleaning the premises, especially for deep cleaning, is quite impressive. You will need mops, brooms, buckets, vacuum cleaner, dustpans, sponges and all sorts of cleaning agents.

One of the principal and seemingly inconspicuous problems is dust. It can adversely affect the health of your employees, who breathe it, and some can become allergic to it. For dust control you will need special wet and dry wipes, which should always be in excess. It is also desirable to have antibacterial sprays in stock for more qualitative cleaning of surfaces.

One of the extremely important points is also a proper cleaning of expensive office equipment by applying special suitable means, in order not to damage it and not to lose the information stored on the computers. Therewith, a regular cleanup of the equipment will extend its life. Office cleaning isn’t finished with this, to be more precise – it’s only the first stage of a long and hard work.

Before you start to wash the floors, windows and walls, you need to use a vacuum cleaner. Dry cleaning always precedes the wet cleaning.
Thus, cleaning assumes the possession of various expert skills. To perform this process with a high quality you will need to:

·    know the cleaning procedure;
·    know the types and application of various cleaning agents;
·    cleanup the office equipment carefully but thoroughly in order not to damage it.
In addition you need to possess certain skills to do it quickly and efficiently.

Personnel recruitment for cleaning

Well, you provided yourself with everything required for regular professional cleaning of the office premises in the company. But who will do it? Certainly not office workers. And it is impractical to organize your own cleaning department. Hence there comes a time to search for a cleaning lady who will thoroughly carry out her work. This is also quite a difficult problem, and the search for a reliable employee may drag on. And if you apply to a specialized recruitment agencies for personnel selection, you will have to pay them quite a large amount.

The cleaning lady that you find will come to the office at regular time intervals and will establish order and cleanliness while all the staff members are busy with their work. In order not to distract the manager she can ignore cleaning the workplace and the space around it. It’s obvious that with such a superficial way of cleaning the carpets and decorative components gradually fade, monitors become dull, a thick layer of dust forms in hard to reach places… Eventually even a cosmetic repair may be needed.

But the cleanliness of the office determines the reputation of the company. Clients, visiting your company, usually pay a close attention to the cleanliness and tidiness of the office.

It’s never too late to think about how to maintain the cleanliness of the office. Easier not to puzzle over this question but to entrust the deep office cleaning to the team, specially prepared for this, and the price of such service will be reasonable. Especially that the professionals will have with themselves everything required for a high-quality work. You may conclude a contract for cleaning with varying frequency – from once a day up to once a month (and less often). A good practice is also to do a deep cleaning once per couple of months or more often.

The benefits of cleaning done by specialists are obvious:

·    it takes minimum time;
·    its quality is much higher than if it were done by yourself;
·    it is carried out by a professionally trained staff, who will use the cleaning agents exactly as intended, so you need not be afraid for a damaged table, computer or any other valuable item you have in the office;
·    the price of premises cleaning is not too high, and you will be able to return to the working rhythm in maximum short terms.

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How to Clean Wood Floors in the Office

On March 27, 2015, in Floor Cleaning, by admin
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73-wood-floorCleaning wood floors in your office can be really hard and time-sapping. Our experts recommend several tips that will help to save your time and money.

First of all, no need to purchase expensive cleaners. Regular floor cleaning can be done with the help of apple cider vinegar and warm water.

What you will need:

·    ½ cup of Apple Cider Vinegar

·    Good mop with microfiber cover

·    and a bucket of warm water

First you will need to dust your floors or vacuum them removing all particles. Then add vinegar into the water, dip your mop into the solution and clean your floors.

Please, keep in mind that your wood floors shouldn’t be too wet. Water can destroy and damage your nice wood floors.
Our experts also say that finished wood floors can be cleaned using usual clean water without adding different cleaners, but from time to time you will need to refinish your floors.

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Natural Air-fresheners for Your Office

On May 16, 2014, in Odor removal, by admin
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48-natural-air-freshenersHow can we avoid aerosols that are very harmful to our health? The answer is simple; you need to prepare your own air fresheners.

Make your own air-fresheners by combining equal parts lemon juice and water, pour the mixture into a spray bottle and use it whenever is needed.

You may also use spices that you like to prepare deodorizers. You will need a sauce pan with water. Add all kinds of spices that you like and simmer them together with water.

You may simmer cinnamon, cloves, fresh ginger, and the herbs of your choice.

Mint also works great if simmered with other spices. It adds summer smell to your home.

While preparing these deodorizers, you may also add essential oils that are considered to be your favorite.

The quick way to refresh your room is to place there a cotton ball that is soaked in vanilla extract or in other essential oil.

If you have a small bowl, you may just pour a little bit of vanilla extract in it and enjoy the odor in your home.

House plants are also a great answer.

But keep in mind that not all of them smell nicely.

Here is the list of the plants that are great for every office.

·         The Boston fern (Nephrolepi exalta “Bostoniensis”)

·         florist’s mum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

·         gerbera daisy (Gerbera jamesonii)

·         dwarf date palm (Phoenix roebelenii)

·         areca palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)

·         moth orchid (Phalenopsis)

·         bamboo palm (Chamaedorea)

·         Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema)

·         English ivy (Hedera helix)

·         indoor dracaenas (Dracaena “Janet Craig,” D. marginata, D. massangeana, and D. warnekii)

·         the snake plant or mother-in-law’s tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata laurentii)

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Office Trash: Let’s Manage It!

On October 7, 2013, in Office area, by admin
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20-office-trashOffice is a place where you will find lot’s of papers, documents and other stuff that is not needed. Trash is accumulated in the office with the velocity of light. That’s why this problem should be solved by every employer.

Sometimes it seems that office trash will never go away. There are piles of different papers in every corner of the office; trash cans are always full of papers.

It should be said that office trash is usually represented by paper, cardboards, office stationery and food that was thrown away by the workers.

What you need to understand while taking about office trash is most of it is recyclable. You just need to sort your trash and recycle that can be recycled. Experts say that such trash sorting saves a lot of money.

The firs thing experts recommend doing is checking with your trash removal company whether they charge for recycling removal. Nowadays most of the companies do not charge for removing recycling.

But if you find out that your trash removal company charges you for everything, we recommend changing the company. Just call one of the recycling removal companies. They will provide you with special trash cans for paper, glass, plastic, etc.

You also need to remember that many stores will gladly accept all the recyclable ink toners or other supplies. They will also give you as a gift special discount cards. Search in the internet what are proposed by different companies in your region.

The main thing you need to understand that you must manage your office trash. And it’s not very difficult to do, you just need the desire.

If you don’t have time, the experts from Pro Quality Office Cleaning will gladly help you to cope with this problem and save money on trash.

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Commercial Steam Carpet Cleaning Systems

On September 25, 2013, in Cleaning industry, by admin
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14-commercial-steam-carpet-cleaningFirst of all, it should be said that there is difference between carpet cleaning machines and steam vapor machines. Commercial carpet cleaning machines use not vapor but heated water, and the steam vapor machines use vapor and the amount of water that is used is much smaller.

There are many advantages in using vapor cleaning machines, because they clean quickly, they help to disinfect and sanitize the cleaned surface, and they use very little amount of water, so they are very efficient.

It should be said that there is a great choice of the vapor steam cleaners on the market, of course, some of them can be used at home but most are for the commercial usage.

Experts say that such vapor cleaners are very eco-friendly because they do not use chemical cleaning products. These machines continue to gain popularity because they can disinfect and sanitize the cleaned surfaces.

These vapor cleaners are considered to be hypoallergenic and they can be used by people and in the environments with allergies. They do not require any additional cleaning chemicals that cause allergies; at the same time without chemicals the quality of the air in the room becomes much better.

It should be said that there are several types of steam cleaners, and the difference in them lies in the way the steam is created.

There is dry and hot steam cleaner that boils the water and in such a way steam is created. They are also called dry because a boiler system creates steam that is very low in humidity.

The second type is a vapor cleaner without a boiler; the steam in such a vapor cleaner is not so hot and more humid.

 

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Looking for cleaning services: individuals vs. companies

On August 12, 2013, in Cleaning industry, by admin
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It’s not a secret that most of us perceive cleaning as an annoying process. And when it’s comes time to clean your home you strive to put it aside. You know that the next day everything will be the same and you will have to clean up again and this makes you even more anxious and frustrated. Many people resolve this problem hiring professional cleaning services. In such situation cleaning services are very beneficial. There are a lot of options. You can hire a professional cleaner to come in every day, once a week, or fortnight depending on your needs. They can deep clean your home from top to bottom, or just provide general cleaning and sanitizing of the basics. It’s up to you what should be cleaned, sanitized or removed. You tell what to do (make a list for example) and they meet sll your needs and requirements. It’s really great option for busy people or for those who don’t like or even hate dealing with household chores.

So, if you decide to hire someone to clean your home yo will face the problem whom to hire. Choosing a cleaning provider relying on from mouth to mouth method is not always a good idea. It’s better to do it through a reputable company, instead of say, neightbours, nephews, etc.

One of the main reasons for this is that professional cleaners are covered under workman’s compensation insurance in case anything happens to them while working in your house. Individuals will not have this option. And this may put a dent in your budget.

Reputation is everything for a cleaning company. It works hard to establish a good reputaion to retain and find customers. In addition, professional cleaners are more efficient. They are well trained in every aspect of cleaning, use the best equipment and products. When you hire professional you get better service quality.

It’s dificult to trust individuals you hire through an ad you found in the newspaper or online. A cleaning professional will most likely have years of experience and you can worry less about theft.

Oftentimes people think that hiring independent contractors costs less. But sometimes it’s vise versa. The commercial cleaning companies offer package deals at a discounted rate or lower their prices if you get their services on an ongoing basis.

In most cases when you hire a cleaning company you won’t be paying by the hour. Professional cleaners will clean your home efficiently and in the fastest manner. Individuals oftentimes charge by the hour and take their time to make more money.

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