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General Cleaning Tips for Carpets

October 10th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

Office carpets can become the dirtiest area of the entire building. Tracked in dirt, mud, and leaves can be easily picked up on it, dirt and dust from the wheels of chairs and the underside of furniture can get trapped and overall, it becomes a bit of an eye sore.

Regularly spot cleaning any stains and spills as soon as they happen is the easiest way to keep your carpet looking better for the time being. Vacuuming at least twice a week is a must to keep dirt and dust from collecting.

It is smart to have a cleaning service come in and really shampoo and steam clean your carpet to make sure it is as clean as possible. It depends on how big your business is and how much traffic it has, but you’ll want to do this every 2 weeks to a month depending.

Your carpet needs to be taken care of to avoid employees getting sick or having allergic reactions to something within the fibers. Sometimes there are microscopic bacteria and dirt that can still get us feeling pretty bad, even if we can’t see them. So be on top of cleaning with a proper cleaning service, as well as putting in some of your own effort!

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Office Cleaning Checklists: Kitchen/Break Room

October 4th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

Maintaining the office break room and kitchen area are some of the most important things you can do. You want your employees to stay healthy and eat food in a clean environment. Ingesting bacteria is one of the quickest ways to get sick, so constant cleaning of the kitchen and break room area is important. It is also important that the chemicals used are safe so that they, too, don’t make people sick. Here’s a brief run down of what should be done:

  1. All dishes should be washed if a common sink is shared. This should really be done by employees as they use them.  Another way to avoid a pileup is to use disposable plates and utensils.
  2. The sink should be cleaned and disinfected. The sponge used to clean the sink and counters should be replaced every week or so.
  3. The microwave should be wiped down, inside and out. Bacteria can fester and thrive inside, contaminating any other food that goes in.
  4. The fridge should be cleaned out at least once a month. Employees should be notified of the tossing of food in case they want to save anything. It should be disinfected entirely and defrosted.

These sort of tasks can be performed to expert degree by an office cleaning service like Royal Cleaning Service. You can be sure to always have a clean kitchen.

Office Cleaning Checklists: Daily Cleaning

September 27th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

Whether your office cleaning company takes on every bit of work in their own hands, or you supplement them by having your employees do some smaller cleaning jobs in the in between, cleaning checklists can be a huge help in organizing the workload. Of course the type of cleaning involved as well as the rooms being cleaned all are taken into account with checklists. For daily cleaning of the work space, this is what should be expected:

  1. Emptying of any trash receptacles and replacing their bags.
  2. Dusting all surfaces, from desks to chairs, computers, and other surfaces.
  3. Vacuuming of floors, especially carpet.
  4. Mopping of hard floors with disinfectant.
  5. Wiping down all internal glass and windows.
  6. Spot cleaning walls, if needed.
  7. Cleaning fingerprints and disinfecting light switches, door knobs and other areas likely to be touched often.

All of these things are pretty standard when it comes to daily general cleaning. Keeping on top of them means a clean, organized, habitable work place. Beyond just the daily work though, there is also weekly cleaning tasks as well as other cleaning that needs to be done in shared kitchenette and bathroom spaces. Those we will go over in the next couple of blog posts!

 

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Cleaning Tips for Computers

September 27th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

Cleaning computers in the work place can be hard compared to at home. The first reason is just because you have so many, but another reason is because there are so many little parts, it can be very time consuming. It’s important to keep it as clean as possible though, in order to keep it running well.

Don’t forget peripherals when cleaning. That means the keyboard, mouse and speakers. The keyboard can be wiped down with ease but it is also good to turn it upside down to bang out the extra crumbs and dirt that get between the keys. These can keep it from working properly. A q-tip with Windex or cleaning solution can get the dirt out on the sides of keys.

Mice really just need a good wipe down, unless you are working with an old model that uses a tracking ball. You can easily remove this ball to clean the inside with yet another q-tip.

The outside of your computer may need cleaning, but so does the inside. Opening it up with a small screwdriver (there are kits made just for this) and using an air canister is the safest way to get dust out without damaging valuable, fragile parts.

All of this can be done by a cleaning service as well,to help you save time.

New York Office Cleaning Has to Meet Expectations

September 12th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

New York City can be a very demanding place. Everything has to be done to a high standard. What is good to one place is just mediocre here. And with so many people, cleaning is especially important because it has to be quick and efficient to cover for all the many people that will be in and out of a building.

Think about how many people live in New York currently; in the city alone its about 8.2 million people.  Then consider those people, split up among various jobs and offices. And then offices in buildings with multiple floors and other companies. That is a lot of traffic moving in and out of a single place.  And because of that, it means a lot of dirt, grime, fingerprints, bacteria and other things that can dragged around by people.

New York office cleaning should be efficient but quick, cover all the bases but be done with the right detail and meet the expectations of those receiving it.  New Yorker’s can be high maintenance and aren’t afraid to admit it.  That’s why Royal Cleaning Service knows how to meet those high expectations and even surpass them, even in a very busy city like this.

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Outdoor Office Cleaning and Landscaping

September 5th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

When you consider cleaning services for the office, are you just considering the interior? While having the interiors looking their best is important, the way a building looks on the outside is also of equal value. You have to consider the exterior and the landscaping around your building and how it amounts to not only aesthetics, but safety.

  1. Cleaning windows is part of the outdoor care of a building. Whether it’s the windows that people see as they are coming in the front door (which are susceptible to fingerprints) or the ones up on the 10th floor, they need to be properly cleaned to preserve their clear view.
  2. Landscaping is important. It’s not just about making the outside flora look great but it is also about cleaning up areas that couple be a potential hazard. That means cutting overgrown bushes and trees, and getting rid of any plants that could pose a hazard.
  3. Fixing broken concrete and steps outside is important too.  You don’t want people slipping because of a cracked step that could easily be filled in. Bigger problems will need a bigger company to be called in, but smaller projects can be done with ease and a smaller group of people.

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Janitorial Services For Post Summer Cleanup

August 29th, 2012 | Posted by TimD in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

If you own and operate large buildings in New York City’s five boroughs you are probably pretty savvy about running things from afar. Chances are you take some time in your summer for yourself. Maybe a few weeks down in Florida or a couple of those steamy months on the Jersey shore. Things can sometimes run themselves and that is great.

When you return though, you know what to expect. Messy hallways and a slight rundown quality that just seems to occur naturally without sturdy top down management in your buildings.

Luckily it does not have to be your job to go through each of your properties and do some serious cleaning. Royal Cleaning Service can provide the sort of post summer clean up that your spaces need to look their shining shimmering best. Janitorial cleaning can be a great way to set yourself back up to have more easily maintainable messes.

Running a building is hard, running several is obviously several times harder. If you notice your lack of involvement over the summer has left your properties at something less than ideal conditions now is the time to bring in a professional janitorial service and set things up in a better way.

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End of Summer Office Cleaning

August 20th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

Now is the time to make sure the office is really, thoroughly cleaned. As fall hits in just a month’s time and the temperatures drop, people tend to be a bit more prone to sickness. It’s not that the cold causes sickness, but it does lower the immune system, which in turn means those germs on the desk are more likely to affect your employees than earlier in the warmer months. Now is the time to consider office cleaning and bringing a service in to make sure this gets done thoroughly.

It may be wise to have a cleaning service come in on a weekend to really clean everything while no one is there working. That way, they can take their time to thoroughly clean each work space without interrupting employees or feeling rushed because of those working around them.  It’s important that they not only dust and mop, but disinfect as much as they can. Everything gets touched every day and all of that bacteria needs to be killed.

Keeping your employees healthy means them taking less sick days and productivity going up. It also means a happier work environment.

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Building Maintenance and Buying Supplies

August 14th, 2012 | Posted by ChristineM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

When you hire building maintenance, you need to think about where your supplies are coming from. They can be provided by the company themselves, but you might want to have your own on hand.  Especially if you have maintenance coming in regularly and they need to cover a lot of ground. There are a lot of different cleaning supplies needed for different surfaces and tasks, making it much easier to have a supply closet of your own.

As you start to consider what to buy, it may be smartest to contact your company or talk to your maintenance man or woman directly and ask them what they need. They can create a list that you can revisit anytime you need to restock on low supplies. You can figure out how best to fit the purchases in to your budget. It should be a monthly excursion, checking over what is missing and having them purchased and ready for maintenance to use.

So work out what seems best for your company and see what you need the most. Keeping tabs on your supplies means have a sufficiently clean office at all times.

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Cleaning Service Solves Unnecessary Conflicts

August 6th, 2012 | Posted by DolanM in cleaning service - (0 Comments)

It happens every year; the office refrigerator fills up with all sorts of oddities. What is that black bag in the corner? How long has that milk been there? What is that smell? And it looks like something is leaking. And then come the emails, inevitable as the weather: “We have to clean this fridge.” Once that email goes out, next will be one or more of the following three things: total silence, a brief argument about who is responsible, or quiet resentment.

Frankly, none of this is good for your business. In the first place, if this cleaning happens during work hours, doing so is probably not on most employees’ job description. It’s inefficient. Second, your employees deserve their free time. It’s when they see friends and family, and it’s when they recharge their energy to get work done for the company. It’s not when they clean the office fridge begrudgingly.

So, why not avoid the whole problem by hiring New York office cleaning. These trained professionals can do a lot more than just clean the fridge or inside of the microwave. They shampoo and steam rugs, they vacuum can clean windows, they wash furniture and refill soap dispensers, not to mention almost innumerable additional types of cleaning service.

Let the professionals take care of what they do best: cleaning service. That way you can let your employees do what they do best.

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