Contract Cleaners ? A Guide For Businesses. Part 1
Office cleaning in particular is the one area of contract cleaning which is extremely competitive. For cleaning companies bidding for contracts it can be virtually guaranteed that there will be someone out there who is willing to undercut you and put in a price solely to gain the contract. Should businesses simply go for the lowest quote or should they be looking for other things?Sadly many go for the lowest quote and then pay further down the line by having inferior cleaning that they continually have to chase and complain about. Obviously price is important but firms should also be looking for other things. A lot can be found out about a particular cleaning firm by asking a few simple questions.What is your staff turnover?Do you provide verifiable training?Will the cleaning be supervised and how often?Can you provide a full cleaning survey?Are your staff fully trained in appropriate Health and Safety practices? Can this be verified?Can your staff speak and understand English?Will your staff be able to understand written instructions?These are all pertinent questions that are very relevant to how efficiently the company are likely to carry out the clean.
What you need as a company is to be able to forget about the cleaning so your staff can concentrate on what you are good at. You do not want them constantly complaining about the cleaners or the cleaning. In the second part to this article I will explain why those questions are important to you.In my own experience of bidding for contracts only about one firm in ten will even ask one of those questions and none have ever asked two or more and yet as you will see they could be vital to the smooth running of your cleaning. Don't just concentrate on cost consider the wider picture..
David Andrew Smith has been working for many years in the cleaning industry and is the owner of http://www.wesparkle.co.uk, general cleaners and specialists in the cleaning and polishing of natural stoneDomestic Cleaning Advice: Computer Cleaning
The computer you use can get pretty dirty sometimes and that might reduce it's performance and reduce it's life time so here is some advice on how you can clean it up.The computer won't be well cleaned if you'll use alcohol cleaners, you'll need to use a hard surface cleaner, in concentrated solution in warm water.Cleaning the caseYou'll need a cloth that you'll wrung in the solution you chose. Use this cloth to wipe the casing and all the external parts (cabling, keyboard). Make sure you wash the cloth since the soil will be considerable. Excess water shouldn't be used and try not to let water go into the vents of the case. You will be able to clean between the keyboard keys by using damp cloth pushed between the keys with toothpicks.The following actions need to be taken every six months.Cleaning actions that should be taken periodically, every six monthsYou'll need to open the case and remove all the dust from it and from the vents.
You'll need to be very care full while cleaning...
Domestic Cleaning Advice: Computer Cleaning
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Contract Cleaners ? A Guide For Businesses. Part 3
In this third part I will be looking at the remaining questions you should be asking of the commercial cleaning companies tendering for your cleaning contract.Will the cleaning be supervised and how often?If the contract only requires 1 ? 2 cleaners then inspections should be carried out weekly. Once the contract has been up and running for some time and the cleaners have settled into a good routine then it may be possible to visit only monthly. Contact between the supervising individual and you the client is entirely dependant upon your wishes If the clean is going well then the majority of clients do not want to be bothered with even courtesy calls to see if they are satisfied. Decisions on this are entirely up to you the client.If the clean requires 3 or more cleaners then a supervisor should be on site at all times cleaning is taking place. If it is 3 ? 5 cleaners then normally one of the cleaners will be acting as the supervisor.
Numbers in excess of 6 will normally have...
Contract Cleaners ? A Guide For Businesses. Part 3
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The Benefits of Bagless Vacuum Cleaners
What was unthinkable many years ago had suddenly become all the rage in the world of vacuum cleaners. The bag-less vacuum cleaner, once thought of as an impossible dream, has now become a profitable reality.
Although still in its infancy, the bag-less vacuum cleaner is gaining in acceptance around the world.
The current style uses an internal system called Filtered Cyclonic, a descriptive phrase that describes the means of separating the dirt and dust from the incoming air stream. The filtered cyclonic invention uses a directional air pattern to spin the vacuumed dirt inside a cylinder, forcing the heavier and larger particles against the wall of the cylinder where they drop to the bottom of the collection bin.
The faster and faster the dirty air spins, the better the separation with only the smaller, lighter particles remaining in the middle. These leftover particles are then sent through the device by the outgoing air stream, through a filter designed...
The Benefits of Bagless Vacuum Cleaners
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The Neurotic Dogs
When pondering whether my neurosis is learned or genetic, I often turn to the family dogs, Frazier (9) and Jake (4), and see the likelihood of a learned origin. My parents' characteristic anxiety has effectively seeped into both dogs' personas.My mother and father are both card-carrying neurotics with drastically different sensibilities. The former engages in an overt style of panic characterized by covering her eyes when our car seems close to hitting another car that's three hundred yards down the road. The latter is more of a concealer; I would cite one of his quirks in this sentence, but the ensuing disownment would be harsh.Frazier, a beige mix of Bichon and Poodle, arrived in our home when I was in the ninth grade. For the first few months, he struck us as an emotionally balanced individual, but it wasn't long before the wide, glassy eyes and quivering lower lip set in.
Like his human siblings before him, he experienced separation anxiety in the absence of his parents. Unlike...
The Neurotic Dogs
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