Office Cleaning: Dealing With The Task Of Office Cleaning

Productivity is greatly increased when one is working in a clean and tidy office. Proper and regular cleaning of your workplace is extremely important. This post is meant to help you to become more effective at your day to day tasks by simply putting a bit of care into cleaning your working environment. Crystal Clean Solutions have been around since 1997 and have many companies who have given written testimony to the effectiveness of our cleaning services.

Step 1 : Prepare yourself

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 3: Get rid of the rubbish.

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.

Step four: Move the stationery and equipment

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

Step 5: Dust the whole office

Since your area should be pretty empty at this stage with the exception of some of the larger furniture you can now start to dust all surfaces in the office. Make sure that you start by dusting the high areas first (book shelves, light fittings etc) otherwise the dust from these will settle on the surfaces you have already cleaned.

Step 6: Vacuum clean everything your eye can see.

Since your floor is relatively clear, try to move some of the larger furniture around so that you can get into those dark corners. Since all the dust from the previous step should now be on the floor, get out the vacuum cleaner and suck up everything! Every chair, blind, curtain, desk and piece of carpet should be vacuumed properly. Vacuum any empty cupboards, drawers etc as well and once this is all done, move all the furniture back into it original positions before you proceed to the next step.

Step 7: Point and shoot

Now is the time to get out your furniture or disinfectant spray formula and clean all the furniture, office working areas, window sills etc. Depending on the spray you are using you may sometimes have to wait between 10 and 15 minutes before you can wipe the spray off. Once this is done, start carrying back all the pieces of office equipment that you removed earlier making a point of cleaning them as you bring them back. Don’t spray computer monitors with furniture polish! That will be a mistake that you won’t forget.

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