Cleaning The Office? Deal With It!
Simple things like keeping your office clean and tidy greatly increases the productivity of your staff. Nobody can work effectively in clutter and regular (and proper) cleaning of your workplace is critical to your profits. This article should help point you in the right direction in starting an office cleaning project and make sure that your messy office becomes a place you can be proud of. Crystal Clean Solutions was established in 1997 and as such can give plenty of testimonies from company owners as to how our services have benefitted their businesses.
Step One : Be ready
You need to make sure that you have enough equipment before you get started. Imagine your cleaning cupboard at home and this should give you an indication, after all your office is simply a big home. A mop, brush and vacuum cleaner should be the beginning followed by dusters, cloths, floor cleaning solution (or a dry carpet cleaning solution if you have carpets instead of tiled floors) and maybe a toilet brush. Speaking about the toilet brush don’t forget the disinfectant spray and maybe some air freshener. The health and safety people would probably lock me up if I failed to mention that you should get some rubber gloves as well.
Step Two : Assess the work to be performed.
Start by letting some sunshine and fresh air into the room. Get the windows open! Once you do this you will notice that the job doesn’t seem to be as bad. Look at the job you are facing and see if there is anything that requires special attention (grease marks, stains on the floors or furniture). Set yourself a goal in terms of how long you will take to finish the job and then start at one end of the room. Make sure that your cleaning equipment is close by but not in the way.
Step Two: Get rid of the garbage.
First get rid of all the food wrappers, papers and general office rubbish and empty the bins. Separate the recyclable from the other rubbish and place them into separate bags. This would already have made the office cleaner and the job will seem less daunting.
Phase Four: Move the office equipment and stationery
You need to make sure that all surfaces are clear before you can start cleaning properly. Disconnect lights, printers, calculators, computers and the like. If possible move all of this out to a separate room so that you have more space. Any small furniture such as bins, chairs etc should be moved out of the way and don’t forget to take out anything that might be cluttering up the area like pens, books, stationery etc
Phase Five: Start by dusting the office
Your office should be looking rather empty by now except possibly for a few bits of larger furniture. Wipe down all the surfaces and make sure they are free of dust. Remember to dust the high places first since you don’t want furniture you have already dusted getting dirty again.
Phase Six: Vacuum EVERYTHING!
The office area should now be clear so, if you can, try to move some of the larger furniture around so that you can get to those hard to reach places. You have already dusted and most of this will (hopefully) now be on the floor. Vacuum everything! Every piece of floor, every chair, curtain, blinds etc. Any empty drawers or cupboards can get vacuumed as well and once this is all done put all the furniture back into its original places before you continue with the next step.
Step 7: Point and shoot
Everything should now be dust free so take your furniture spray or disinfectant spray and spray all the window sills, furniture and office working areas. Some spray products require you to wait a short while before wiping off the surfaces. Now you can clean all the individual bits of office equipment (computers, lights etc) properly before carrying it back into the office. A little bit of spray and a cloth should be all you need. Be careful with computer monitors that you don’t use a furniture polish on them (you get special monitor cleaner). Finally scent the air with your air freshener and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.
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