Switching To Day-Time Cleaning
All the talk in the cleaning press at the moment and over the
past few months has been about the move to cleaning offices
during normal working hours. Machine manufacturers are coming up
with quiet vacuum cleaners, scrubber driers and buffing machines
all of which supposedly allow you to carry out the cleaning
without disturbing the occupants of the premises.
For cleaning companies this would make life a lot more pleasant
and cleans easier and cheaper to manage and the cleaners would
be able to work more sociable hours. According to some reports
in the cleaning press companies are falling over themselves to
switch their cleaning to office hours as opposed to after they
have closed down for the day. My own experience would not
indicate that this is so. None of our clients have asked to move
their cleaning times or even considered it as a feasible option
when they have been approached about the possibilities of
changing the cleaning times.
Vacuuming with 'silent' vacuums is not a problem. Cleaning
toilet areas is not a problem. Cleaning kitchen areas is a
problem as they tend to be in constant use during the day. Doing
anything to hard floors is also a problem. If there are people
using those hard floors then while they are being cleaned they
have to be diverted away from those areas which is obviously an
inconvenience to them and something that is not going to be
tolerated for long.. Any food deposited in waste disposal units,
bins etc will be left overnight with the potential to smell come
the following day. Also there can be no attempt at cleaning work
stations whilst someone is at work.
All in all the problems of cleaners trying to do their work
whilst the occupants of a building are trying to carry on with
their work far outweigh the advantages. Cleaning times will be
extended and prices will rise. The theory is good and I would
love to be able to get all the cleaning out of the way come five
in the evening but the practicalities will not allow it to
happen in many work environments.