Can you clean fabric vertical blinds? The thought of such a task may appear an extremely daunting one, but the reality is that this doesn't need to be the case.
The purpose of this short article is to give you some tips and guidance on the best and easiest way to clean vertical fabric blinds.
For daily cleaning, the easiest way is to use a brush attachment on a vacuum cleaner, and gently vacuum from top to bottom of each blind, to catch all dust.
For deeper periodic cleaning, the following is a simple five step process to keep your blinds looking great all year long. It is likely you will need to complete this process every 6-12 months.
Before we can start the cleaning process, we need to remove the blinds from the holding rail. Carefully unclip or remove in the correct manor dependant on how they are attached. Be careful when stretching up.
Once you have removed the blinds, be sure to dust your rail with a damp cloth to make them nice and clean when you hang them back up later.
Fill a large bucket, sink, or even the bath if easier with warm water - do not use hot water, just warm. Some blinds have glue attachments, and hot water could perish this.
Very carefully and gently, scrub the vertical blinds with a soft sponge or cloth from top to bottom, ensuring you cover all areas of the blind to fully clean.
Do not soak the blinds - this could result in shrinkage to the blinds.
If you hang the vertical blinds when wet, this may result in them stretching. You should never tumble dry them either, as this will damage them for sure!
Lay them on a flat surface to dry. If you have some water spots, gently wipe away with a dry cloth, or use a hair dryer on the lowest setting for very short periods.
Once the blinds are fully dried, you can hang them back on their rail, and your work is complete!
Green Fox Cleaning are a commercial cleaning company that complete cleaning for businesses of all sizes, and in all sectors. Click here to learn more about us, and how we can help improve the appearance of your business with ours.
Lacquered brass door handles can look simply stunning when looked after correctly. The fact is that sadly most people don't know the best way for cleaning them, and as such they rarely look at their best.
The purpose of this article is to teach you the best way for cleaning lacquered brass door handles, to keep them looking at their very best.
A short read of this article could save you a lot of time and stress in the future.
It is a little known fact that most brass produced now is lacquered. Being lacquered in production, the brass should not be polished as you may first think, but instead actually be cleaned.
Brass that has been lacquered has a clear layer and dully of the appearance will only occur if a crack appears on the surface. The thin clear layer in the short term protects the brass finish from exposure to the atmosphere and will ensure it displays the bright shine. If however this thin layer is not cleaned and protected, it will not last as expected.
When it comes to cleaning lacquered brass door handles, or any other lacquered brass, your best friend will be washing up liquid and warm water. Warm soapy water is going to be key in this cleaning process.
Like many other cleaning processes, use a soft cloth and wring it out so it is only damp when cleaning the brass, and never wet. After you have cleaned the brush, get a seperate clean, dry soft cloth or towel and dry fully to prevent the risk of rusting or other marking.
On a regular basis you will want to simply dust the brass with a soft cloth such as a microfibre cloth, but will rarely need to wash it.
If you do need to wipe a mark or other debris off your brass, you should only use lukewarm water and washing up liquid. The occasional use of a good quality wax polish will also help to seal and chips and scratches in the lacquer itself and is well worth doing. In exposed and external situations, more regular waxing is advised to keep it clean and protect it against the elements.
"It may be natural for many of us to think Brasso is the best option for our lacquered brass, however this couldn't be further from the truth. Brasso is abrasive and will remove the clear protective film. Brasso is only for unlacquered brass."
Green Fox Cleaning accredited trainer
At some point down the line, it is likely that the lacquer will deteriorate and will be beyond requiring a simple wash or dust to keep it looking great.
If this happens with your lacquered brass, it is suggested that the lacquer is removed using a lacquer remover and then polished back to its original finish using a good quality brass cleaner. You can then return to your normal maintenance and cleaning process.
We hope you have found this article on cleaning lacquered brass door handles useful, and that it will make the task a lot more straightforward for you.
Green Fox Cleaning are a commercial cleaning that can not only keep your brass door handles looking great, but the rest of your workplace also. Click here to learn more about us, and how we can help improve the appearance of your business with ours.
Medical practices such as doctors surgeries in England fall under the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) ongoing compliance monitoring system. Part of this compliance monitoring process relates to cleanliness and infection control within your practice.
A waiting room full of potentially ill people obviously carries a high risk area for bacteria and viruses to spread. This is without even considering the consultation rooms where patients come and go throughout the day. As a result, it’s clear that a professional and reliable cleaning service is essential to keep your doctors surgery hygienic and safe.
This is essential to ensure that staff, patients and other visitors are being kept as safe as possible when visiting.
Click here to learn more about the full CQC requirement with regard to doctors surgery cleaning.
"Yet again the staff at Green Fox Cleaning have immediately responded to our request for help with a situation and have dealt with it promptly and efficiently. We are very grateful and very pleased that we made the switch to you."
Doctors Surgery Practice Manager
Doctors Surgery Cleaning requires skill and knowlege to be done correctly and well, every time.
The easiest way to ensure your practice is cleaned to the highest standard every day is to engage the services of a cleaning company experienced in the healthcare cleaning cleaning.
There are many benefits to outsourcing your doctors surgery cleaning to a commercial cleaning company - click here to learn more about the benefits of outsourcing your cleaning.
If you decide to keep your doctors surgert cleaning in-house, it is essential that you have a detailed cleaning schedule. This will ensure that those responsible for the cleaning of the practice know exactly what is expected of them, and makes the expectations very clear from the outset.
The schedule should detail all rooms and areas of your surgery, and every single cleaning task to be completed in that area. The schedule should also detail the frequency of the cleaning - e.g sanitise all desks daily, or high dust weekly, for example.
In the healthcare cleaning sector, nothing short of perfection will do. Daily sanitisation throughout the practice is essential to keep staff and visitor safe, with many visiting when their immune system is already low.
Selection of the correct cleaning products and equipment is key, and cleaning should be completed in a thorough and methodical way, following the cleaning specification.
Areas that could easily be missed such as light switches, door handles and other high touch points require extra attention.
Floors should be cleaned thoroughly using a suitable disinfectant, desks and chairs cleaned daily, and bins emptied daily also. When you think of all the tasks that require cleaning and different frequencies, a cleaning schedule for your practice is likely to run over many pages if done correctly.
Patient and staff toilets require extra attention to ensure full sanitisation and safety for all visitors when undertaking surgery cleaning.
Every part of cleaning a doctors surgery should be consider the measures needed to minimise any risk of cross contamination. Click here to learn what cross contamination is, and how to avoid it when cleaning.
Colour coding is in its most simple form, the use of different coloured cloths, mops and buckets to prevent the spreading of germs. Industry standard colours are common, and normally as follows:
Colour coding is essential to keep all areas of your practice as safe as possible. If you have a cleaning company currently, have a look in your cleaning cupboard. Are all four coloured options present, or are they cutting corners and pinching the pennies with just a couple of colours? If this is the case, it is certainly time to look for a new cleaning contractor.
Click here to learn ten great questions to ask when deciding on a new cleaning company for your doctors surgery cleaning - spending time making the right choice next time will save you a lot of time and aggravation in the long term!
"I must say to you that I have been so impressed with the service you have offered since the very first day you came to see us – just thought I’d let you know that!"
Practice manager, Doctors Surgery, Emsworth
Good infection prevention (including cleanliness) in doctors surgery cleaning as advise by the CQC is essential to ensure that people who use health and social care services receive safe and effective care. Effective prevention and control of infection must be part of everyday practice and be applied consistently by everyone.
Full guidance from the CQC around infection control in general practices can be found by clicking here. Two examples of the guidance given include the need for clinical rooms to avoid the use of carpet, and bins in all clinical areas should have a foot pedal operation.
At Green Fox Cleaning, infection control is our top priority and our team have many years of experience in knowing exactly how a doctors surgery should be cleaned to ensure high levels of cleanliness throughout the building, day after day, clean after clean.
Out of hours audits and inspections ensure that a high standard of cleanliness is consistently maintained.
We hope you have found this article on doctors surgery cleaning and the high expectations of surgery cleaning useful. Selecting a good cleaning company will save you time and money in the long run!
Many GP surgeries require an out of hours cleaning service. At Green Fox Cleaning we operate 24/7 and we can be flexible and clean at a time that suits you, the staff and your patients.
At Green Fox Cleaning, our exceptional cleaning standards from our highly trained cleaning operatives ensure the surgery is thoroughly cleaned and we also offer carpet cleaning and window cleaning to be able to provide a full and extensive service as needed.
Our cleaning operatives are local to your premises, dedicated to your venue to ensure personal pride is taken, and trained by our in-house British Institute of Cleaning Science Team.
To find out more about our work in the healthcare setting and how we can help improve the appearance of your medical premises, click here to learn more.
You can learn more about the history of general practice from Wikipedia by clicking here.
The technology used in commercial cleaning moves at a rapid pace as companies seek to improve their cleaning efficiency and service level delivered to clients.
The actual level of technology used at each site will vary depending on the size of the contract to a large degree - for example large automated floor cleaners costing £30,000 each will not be seen at many standard office cleaning sites, but are more likely to feature in large airport setups where huge areas of space require cleaning in the quickest possible time.
In most commercial cleaning settings, the traditional mop and bucket is still very much a regular site. The balance between cost and efficiency is often hard to beat, but the risk of dirty mop heads being left in cleaning cupboards can be a concern. This is resulting in disposable mop heads being used more often, especially in healthcare cleaning settings.
Scrubber dryer machines for cleaning of hard floor areas have traditionally been large and bulky, taking up a lot of space.
Advances in technology have resulted in machine sizes reducing, and cordless cleaning options being available. These machines allow deeper cleaning of floors, and can reduce cleaning times considerably.
The below image shows a modern floor scrubber dryer being used by a Green Fox Cleaning employee at a veterinary practice that is cleaned on a daily basis by us. Cordless with good run time and quick battery changes allow this machine to run for hours at a time, with one battery used whilst the other charges in the same time.
A common complaint by clients generally is that their cleaning company staff are skipping time. Technology is now available to track staff, ensuring full cleaning lengths are completed every visit. Technology used in commercial cleaning to ensure agreed times are honoured should be common place with a good commercial cleaning company.
Advanced tracking systems allow a cleaning company to know the exact time their staff got to a client location, how long they spent there and their work performance there.
GPS time tracking involves the use of software and mobile applications specifically built for that purpose.
At Green Fox Cleaning, our bespoke advanced system allows accurate live time monitoring round the clock, live time by an on-call manager.
Green cleaning is to do with the use of environmentally safe products, techniques, etc, in commercial cleaning. Though it is not completely new in the industry. It is one of the best innovations so far in the industry and continues to develop day by day. Learn more about green cleaning by clicking here.
Modern commercial cleaning equipment like electrostatic sprayers help in saving time when undertaking a disinfection service in response to viral or other outbreaks. In terms of technology used in commercial cleaning, this is a great advance. You can learn more about electrostatic technology and cleaning by clicking here.
A good commercial cleaning company should only be offering this service if they have full understanding of the correct products to use in the application, and how this treatment works as part of a two step process.
Social media is more and more prevalent, and being used more by businesses in all sector to promote their services. This is no different in the commercial cleaning sector and is commonly used to promote services. Advances on various social media platforms allow more detailed targeting by businesses.
Social media is also used by some companies to recruit additional staff as well as targeting customers. In terms of technology used in commercial cleaning, social media has a very wide range of uses.
At Green Fox Cleaning, we invest in the best technology used in commercial cleaning to deliver the best possible service to our clients. Click here to learn more about us, and how we can help improve the appearance of your business with ours.
Laminate flooring is more and more common in workplaces in a wide variety of sectors now.
The purpose of this short blog is to share with you how to stop office chairs damaging laminate floors, and keep your flooring looking great and free of damage.
A big cause of damage to laminate flooring in the workplace environment is that of office chair wheels moving across them. Whether the wheel becomes slightly damaged and drags its rough edge over your flooring or it a piece of sharp debris gets lodged under the wheel, these are both quick ways to ruin the appearance of your flooring.
Quite often it is the wheels supplied with the office chairs that cause the damage, as they aren't really suitable for use on laminate floors. One option open to you is to replace them with more specialist wheels suitable for use on laminate floors.
One great thing about these wheels is that they were made and designed for sensitive floors such as laminate flooring. They are made from rubber rather than plastic, which means they won’t leave any marks on your expensive floors the way that plastic wheels can.
In addition to this they glide nicely over laminate floor - they don’t make any sound or noise when moving the chair while working unlike standard plastic wheels.
What are the other benefits of these specialist caster wheels?
The best example of these wheels we have found can be viewed by clicking here - please note we are not affiliated in any way with this product - it is based on the massive number of positive reviews and price balance. Please note that these ones are not compatible with IKEA chairs, and you would need to check suitability before making a decision.
This is a simple solution to stop office chairs damage laminate floors by changing the wheels. There is another option to stop the problem where office chairs damage laminate floors, detailed below.
The second option to stop office chairs damage laminate floors is to invest in mats to be placed on the floor. These are normally clear plastic mats which stop the wheels damaging the floor.
There are different styles available - some will have no slip grips underneath to prevent sliding. These are normally more expensive than those without, but well worth paying for in our opinion if choosing this option to stop office chairs damage laminate floors.
Which option you choose to stop office chairs damage laminate floors will largely be a personal preference. If it was us, the office wheels are a more elegant solution without the need for mats everywhere, but both will solve the problem for you.
Green Fox Cleaning are a commercial cleaning company that provide cleaning services in all sectors. Click here to learn more about how we can help improve the appearance of your business with ours.
As a studio or production company, you’ll know that a film or television set is where a lot of different elements come together: props, makeup, wardrobe, visual effects, and catering, to name a few. Film and TV set cleaning needs knowledge of the sector, and skill to meet the high expectations of production companies.
As you would expect, when large numbers of of actors and crew members are gathered in one place, keeping everything safe and clean can be a real challenge.
In a time where shooting can last from early morning until late at night, and production needs to stay on schedule, no one seems to have the time, energy or often skill and correct products to clean the set.
With recording times scheduled down to the minute, delays as a result of slow cleaning or incomplete cleaning is simply not an option and selecting the right cleaning company requires careful consideration.
Since COVID and the extra challenges, processes and compliances this has introduced, it is essential more than even to select the right company for your film production cleaning requirements.
As part of our service at Green Fox Cleaning, we will identify frequently touched surfaces such as door handles, light switches, desks, water coolers etc and ensure these are fully sanitised throughout the day, to keep everyone involved in the production safe.
We have worked with various production companies and provided both daily cleaning sanitisation services, as well as deeper cleans before and after filming as required, with every schedule bespoke to the clients individual needs.
Imagine that your characters are a wealthy family, but there are dirty floors and wall stains in the background. Or a couple having a romantic moment on a beach littered with rubbish.What about confetti dropping from the ceiling during a scene or a messy murder scene? At the end of a take you’ll need all that cleaned up. Working strictly on- schedule, our experienced cleaning teams will ensure that surfaces and floors are spotless and free from litter so that the set is ready for the first or next take.
Whether you’re filming in a stately mansion, a studio, or a white-sandy beach, a clean environment really adds to the overall look and feel of a scene. The selection of the right film and TV set cleaning company is therefore essential.
When the cameras stop rolling, our crew will spring into life and put your set back in tip-top shape, ready for the next take or scene as needed.
This includes quick on-the-spot cleaning during scene changes, as well as deeper cleaning after filing has finished for the day.
At Green Fox Cleaning, our goal is to create a safe and healthy environment for your cast and crew, while helping to ensure your film set is a well-oiled machine.
Our work with the BBC1 hit show The Repair Shop bought us praise from all involved, including the set manager and production manager. You can learn more about our work in the film production cleaning sector and television filming sector by clicking here. In summary, we had dedicated teams on site for ten hours of filming every day, plus deep cleans every night by other teams.
"I would like to pass on a huge thanks from me and the entire Repair Shop team for all your hard work keeping us clean and safe!"
Production Manager - Ricochet. A Warner Bros Company.
Film and TV set cleaning with Green Fox Cleaning will allow you to focus on your production, and not the cleaning. Learn more about our work in this sector by clicking here.
When it comes to dental practices and dental practice cleaning, nothing short of perfect will do. Much the same as doctor surgery and other healthcare cleaning processes, it is essential that strict processes and protocols are followed and adhered to. Do you really know how to clean a dental practice?
A comprehensive cleaning policy with a clear schedule of works will greatly influence the standards of your dental practice and ensure that your staff, patients and other visitors are kept as safe, healthy and happy as possible.
A dental practice which doesn’t maintain high standards of cleanliness will certainly lose patients, risks passing on infections and could fail inspection from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). For this reason, it is of paramount importance that cleaning practices are thorough, well organised and consistently upheld.
Poor cleaning standards and poor personal hygiene standards at dental practices can in the worst case scenarios end up in closures of practices, staff suspensions / dismissals and negative press reports about your dental practice. This makes it more important than ever to understand how to clean a dental practice correctly.
High levels of dental practice cleanliness are a key factor in reducing the risk of infection transmission and presenting a great impression to your staff and visitors of how seriously you take the subject.
The following points are some tips that should help make this process of how to clean a dental practice more efficient, both during opening hours and cleaning at the end of the day also.
When considering how to clean a dental practice properly, colour coding is essential at all premises when cleaning, and especially so in dental practice cleaning and other healthcare settings.
Whilst colour coding may vary slightly on occasions, the accepted industry norm is as follows and dedicated which colour mops, buckets and cloths should be used in different areas of the dental practice, to minimise the risk of cross contamination.
Hopefully this article has improved your understanding and confidence with how to clean a dental practice.
If you would like to find out more about the work by Green Fox Cleaning in this sector and read testimonials from real life clients, click here to learn more. We work with both local independent practices, and nationally recognised groups.
Nurseries need to be kept free from germs, bacteria and viruses. They also need to look great visually to encourage parents to place their children at your premises rather than a competitor.
Below are some great tips that should make your daily childrens nursery cleaning more organised, bringing great results.
Babies and toddlers spend most of their time on the floor at nurseries, which means regular and thorough childrens nursery cleaning is essential.
This is especially true of carpets, which can quickly become a reservoir for dust mites and mold, and can hide a multitude of sins if dark in colour.
If your childrens nursery is carpeted, vacuum daily using a vacuum that has a HEPA filter. These specially designed vacuum filters trap dust particles and other allergens, preventing them from being redistributed into the air.
If the floor has hard floor and for toilets, ensure a good quality floor cleaning product is used, and mixed to the correct dilution rate to prevent your nursery getting sticky floors. Click here to learn more about other causes of sticky floors, and how to avoid it.
Colour coded buckets and mops are also essential to prevent the risk of cross contamination in childrens nursery premises. Click here to read another blog about cross contamination and how to prevent it.
Less clutter makes for quicker childrens nursery cleaning, and in turn reduces your cleaning costs. By simply asking your staff in each class to place all toys away at the end of the day, this will speed up the cleaning of your premises, and ensure the floor can be cleaned thoroughly, every single time.
Eco friendly cleaning products are not only better for the environment and work towards sustained green cleaning practices, they are always a smart choice when it comes to childrens nursery cleaning. They are better for staff and babies, with the risk of reactions associated with more harsh cleaning chemicals being removed. They also show the parents using your nursery that you care about the environment and want to make a difference.
Whilst it is true that your staff will be sanitising throughout the day, a thorough disinfection every night during your nursery cleaning process is essential. You should use a suitable sanitising product to clean all areas, making sure not to forget some high touch points to include the following:
There are of course many other areas that will need sanitising during your childrens nursery cleaning routine, but the above are the ones that we see missed the most often.
At Green Fox Cleaning we work closely with both independent and chains of childrens nurseries to deliver unrivalled, local daily childrens nursery cleaning services,
To successfully deliver our commitment, we provide a detailed and clearly managed cleaning service, using only eco-friendly cleaning products.
We are committed to making sure that the babies and toddlers in your care stay healthy, and your premises looks great, clean after clean.
Our cleaners are dedicated to each nursery they clean to ensure personal pride is taken, and are highly vetted to ensure full safeguarding is given.
We operate an advanced GPS tracking system with all employees which is monitored round the clock by an on-call manager, meaning you never have the risk of a missed clean and not being able to open.
To find out more about our work in nursery cleaning and other educational premises, click here. To get in touch and request a free, no obligation quote for cleaning of your nursery, simply click here.
The term "nursery" is often used to cover a wide range of group settings for early years childcare in a variety of settings. There are differences between settings, in terms of the services they provide and their visual appearance and setup, but all nursery settings offer professional, registered childcare for children under 5.
Nursery schools, maintained nurseries and pre-schools alike tend to cater for children aged between 3 and 5 years, offering early education in the couple of years before they begin "big school". Many of these settings are purpose-built and are sometimes part of the larger school building as almost part of a feeder setup, allowing the children to develop and grow in a familiar environment..
Day nurseries tend to provide childcare for children from the ages of six weeks to 5 years. Opening hours vary but an average day nursery is likely to open between 7am and 8am Monday to Friday, to accommodate working parents and typically close between 6pm and 7pm. This means that nursery staff will often work shifts. Most day nurseries will close at the weekend.
Nursery schools and day nurseries are run by a mixture of private businesses, local authorities, voluntary or community groups, schools, colleges or employers. Settings can range in size from the very small with just 15 or so children in the nursery to large, with up to 150 children in the setting and a large team of staff keeping everything running smoothly and safely.
In England, nurseries work within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework.
Playgroups and pre-schools offer care and education to children aged 2 to 5 years, with sessions lasting typically from two to four hours. These operate during term time only in most cases, tend to be smaller settings and may have morning and afternoon sessions.
Nurseries tend to be organised around the ages of children, and will often be split into rooms for different aged children.
Each room will have a lead staff member, and the staff team will tend to remain with the same children to keep a friendly face present and hep them relax.
The nursery management team must ensure that each room in the nursery has the right number of qualified staff as detailed by current regulations, and this is dependant on both the age of the children, and the number of children. The ratios all nurseries must work to are outlined in the regulation frameworks.
Nursery cleaning by Green Fox Cleaning is always a safe bet.
Knowing how to clean offices and office washrooms correctly is not as simple as you may think. Sure, it is easy for anyone to spray a bit of product and give a quick wipe round, but do you know how to effectively clean your office washroom?
Cleaning toilets is the job that most people dislike. Following these tips should make things a little more straightforward and feel like less of a chore:
To start with, flush the toilet. Whilst the toilet is flushing and water is running, take the toilet brush and reduce the water level in the toilet by pumping the brush up and down to push the water around the bend. This will expose the china under the waterline.
After you have done this, pour your chosen toilet cleaner around the rim of the toilet bowl and use the toilet brush to scrub the inside, not forgetting under the rim itself.
If you are using a commercial toilet cleaner with a limescale remover in it then leave the chemical to work for around minutes, or however long is the advised contact time on the bottle. If you are using a normal domestic cleaner bought from a supermarket, you will need to check the contact times on the bottle and should follow this guidance.
Contact time: this is the time stated by the manufacturer on how long the chemical is required to be left on the surface in order to kill the required amounts of bacteria. This can normally vary between 30 seconds and 15 minutes and can be found on the bottle of any product bought off the shelf.
"Always clean from the cleanest point first and finish at the most dirty point. Have different cloths for sink areas and toilets. This will reduce levels of cross contamination."
Green Fox Cleaning accredited training team on how to clean office washrooms correctly
Always clean from directly inside to clean properly. This means cleaning the toilet cistern first, including the handle which is a key and high touch point, and then the toilet lid itself.
After this, clean the toilet seat (both top and bottom) by using an antibacterial spray and finally the bowl itself making sure to clean the outside of the bowl and right down to the floor including any pipes behind.
How to clean office washrooms correctly doesn't have to be daunting - you now know how to clean your toilets!
TOP TIP - After cleaning a toilet, put the seat down and sit on it. Look around and make sure everything at eye level is clean. You may notice things you would otherwise have missed, and it's what other toilet users will see.
Green Fox Cleaning accredited training team on how to clean office washrooms correctly
It is essential to know and understand how to properly clean a washroom sink, as this is where you wash away any bacteria from your washroom visit.
You want to start with a wet cloth, and wipe the sink down to remove and dust and obvious grime. Don't forget the plughole for any trapped hair or other bits.
After this you want to rinse the sink. It sounds obvious, but, if you don’t do so it will be hard for your washroom cleaning product to work as it will be tackling any leftover debris that wasn't removed during your initial wipe down.
Spray the sink with your chosen cleaner, including the drain and taps and thoroughly wipe and work this into all areas. Important - ensure that your chosen cleaning product is safe for use on stainless steel such as taps.
Rinse the sink down, any metal areas such as drains and taps are prone to watermarks so make sure you dry these with a dry cloth to prevent water marks being left.
If there is a build-up of limescale around your taps or plughole, you can use a bit of your toilet cleaner if it has limescale remover in it if it is safe to be used on stainless steel.
How to clean office washrooms correctly - you now know to to clean your sinks.
Once you know how to clean office washrooms correctly, you will understand the floor is the last part to clean. Think about it logically - if you do this first you will be walking over and marking it whilst trying to do other areas.
To start with, you want to complete an initial sweep or vacuum of the floor to remove any debris or rubbish that may already be on the floor.
After your initial sweep or vacuum, you will then need to mix your floor cleaner per the dilution instructions in a bucket and get to work with a clean mop. Be careful not to use too much product, or else you could end up with sticky floors. Learn more about the causes of sticky floors by clicking here.
"Don’t forget to pay special attention to behind toilets and sinks, as well as under urinals. These areas are often forgotten about and dirt can quickly build up. "
Green Fox Cleaning accredited training team on how to clean office washrooms properly
After you have mopped the floor, make sure you place a wet floor sign or a warning until the floor is dry to prevent the risk of any injuries.
Cleaning mirrors properly is a key bit of how to clean office washrooms. You can clean everything else perfectly, but if you leave a streaky mirror, that is all people will notice!
Selection of a good glass cleaning product and a suitable cloth is key. Microfibre cloths are like magnets for dirt; using a microfibre cloth will help to attract – and keep – stubborn particles of dust and grime. When cleaning mirrors, microfibre cloths will also help wick moisture away from the mirror's surface; this plays a huge role in preventing streaks.
Start at the top, and work side to side, down the mirror. Overlap your wipes to ensure the whole surface is covered fully.
How to clean office washrooms is a straightforward process when done correctly. If you would like to learn more about how Green Fox Cleaning can help clean your workplace, click here to get in touch.
Commercial cleaning is predominantly a serious busy, and rightly so.
We thought it would be fun to share some fun commercial cleaning facts that you may not have known before reading this article.
According to data collected in 2020 by the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Denmark is currently ranked as the cleanest country in the world.
This is based on a number of factors compared to other countries, including air quality, health and waste management.
It is possibly not a surprise that illness is contracted within a workplace environment, but 98% is shockingly high. Having said that, with 15% of men and 7% of ladies admitting not washing their hands at work after using the toilet, this perhaps isn't such a shock after all! A good commercial cleaning company should keep your office or any other workplace safe.
The sad truth is that many companies are happy to win contracts, but forget to look after their clients once they sign on the dotted line. If you are experiencing such a problem, there is great guidance for the correct process for changing your cleaning provider available by clicking here.
Never heard of contact time? You’re probably not the only one. Essentially, it’s the amount of time a cleaning agent—a spray or a wipe, whatever you use, needs to be in contact with a surface in order to kill the bacteria, viruses, and other germs that may be present.
If you’re not waiting long enough, your efforts almost certainly aren't killing potentially illness-causing cells.
If you’re spraying and wiping as you go to clean quickly, without waiting the prescribed contact time, you’re really just doing a surface clean by wiping up dirt, debris, and other particles—not the bits that can really make you ill.
You can find contact times for cleaning products in the small print of any cleaning product bottle - you know, the bit no-one tends to read!
This will of course vary dependant on the type of cleaning being completed, the weight and health of the individual cleaning, but it can be a great way to keep fit!
Since 2013, turnover from the commercial cleaning sector has increased by 28%, which is higher than the turnover for the whole economy, which has increased by 14%.
Green cleaning in the most simple of explanations means cleaning in a way that’s not just safe for people and safe for the environment, but that’s also sustainable in the long term. It is one of the commercial cleaning facts that has a real benefit to understanding.
You can learn more about what green cleaning is by clicking here.
Terry "Turbo" Burrows set the Guinness World Record of 9.14 seconds in Blackpool in 2009, and still holds this record 11 years on! Most commercial cleaning facts go out of date year by year - not this one!
Contenders have to clean three 1.143m high windows and the sill - crucially, no smears can be left. You can see the video of this record by clicking here.
Of this total, migrant workers make up 37% of the English cleaning workforce. Two facts for the price of one!
It's not a pleasant though but probably not surprising. Regular cleaning services by a good commercial cleaning company will help keep you safe at work!
We hope you have enjoyed reading these 10 commercial cleaning facts.
If you would like to discuss your cleaning requirements for your workplace whatever the sector, click here to learn more about us and get in touch.
