admin Think about cleaning a bathroom with a rag. You wipe a surface down, the rag picks up some of what’s there, and it smears the rest somewhere else. You get maybe half of it. The other half just moved. Mopping does the same thing. In a warehouse break room where three hundred people ate lunch, … Read more
Most commercial cleaning runs on a simple rhythm: the office empties out at five, the crew comes in after, everyone’s gone by morning. A house of worship doesn’t work that way. A synagogue or a church isn’t a nine-to-five, Monday-through-Friday building. Services happen at night and in the afternoon. Worship schedules and community activities include … Read more
Want to guess what it is? I’ll give you a hint: it’s on every single floor and in every single room in the building. It’s not the floors, the windows, or the doorknobs. Give up? The air vents. Walk into a building that isn’t being cleaned well, and I can almost guarantee the air vents … Read more
When I go to an office building for the first time, I can tell in the first thirty seconds whether their cleaning company is doing its job. How is that enough time? Well, when I arrive, I usually end up waiting in the lobby. You don’t go wandering a corporate building on your own, you … Read more
In this business there are two kinds of saves. There’s the emergency, where you happen to be standing in the right place at the right time and you’re the one turning the faucet off before it floods the floor. Those make great stories, like the time I caught a burst pipe at a client warehouse … Read more
Every fall I have the same conversation with facility managers. The flu starts making its way through the office, one person brings it in, and a week later half the floor is out or dragging. Most people treat that like weather, something that just happens. But it doesn’t have to. Just like your employees get … Read more