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Keeping Restrooms Clean Is A Dirty Job But Someone's Got To Do It!

The restroom facilities are always the toughest cleaning task to tackle in any home or office space. When considering janitorial services for public restrooms in an office building, the restroom is the reason many companies choose to hire a cleaning company to handle the job. If you have a company cleaning your office, the restroom is the best way to tell if they are doing a quality job or not. Take a closer look for yourself.

One surefire way to know if the bathroom facilities are being cleaned appropriately is by the smell when you walk in the door. Even if the restroom looks clean, a foul odor will tell you that it is not completely clean or sanitized. Some cleaning companies offer an air freshener service which keeps the office smelling nice. If it is being used to cover odor in the restrooms then the restrooms are not truly clean. A bathroom that is cleaned properly in all areas will have a clean odor and will not necessarily need any type of air freshener.

The reason for odor issues in most restrooms usually comes down to improper cleaning of restroom surfaces. The soil on floors, walls and fixtures mixes with urine and bacteria soon forms. Special disinfectant products even those with odor-counteractants should be used on all surfaces. If this is done thoroughly on all surfaces, then bad smells should not exist. The walls, baseboards, and underside of urinals are often the most commonly missed areas.

If no odor exists, can you be sure that you restroom is being properly cleaned? One way to test the work that your janitorial service is doing is to look carefully at urinals in men's restrooms. By bending over to look on the underside of the urinal, you will see if they are being completely cleaned. If a brown stain exists underneath, then you know that more work needs to be done. Likely 90% of public urinals have this issue due to not being completely cleaned. This is one of the main reasons that foul odors often exist in men's rooms.

It is important to use proper tools and the right kind of chemicals when cleaning public restroom their home restrooms this way, and a professional service should provide much more. These facilities must be properly maintained due to the larger number of people using them to keep a sanitary and healthy environment for everyone. Professional grade cleaners should be used in public restrooms in order to maintain the surfaces properly.

If you want to get to the nuts and bolts of how a cleaning company works, find out how they train their employees. If they are sending cleaners to your building that have not been properly trained, you will likely never get the clean you are paying for. Make sure that all cleaning staff is properly instructed down to the smallest detail of how to keep your office properly cleaned.

If you are currently paying a commercial cleaning service company for your office building be sure that you are keeping a close eye on the quality of service they are providing. In business you want to get what you pay for so spending some time keeping up with how they are doing is well worth your while.

by: Jed Totus




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