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
A mop, vacuum cleaner and brush are not enough. You need to make sure that you have all the equipment that you are going to need for the job. Old cloths, dusters, floor cleaner (or a dry foam carpet solution if you don't have the easy to clean tiled floors), possibly a toilet brush and refuse bags. While we are on the topic of the toilet, don't forget the air freshener and disinfectant wipes. Make sure you have some rubber gloves as well since the cleaning fluids can turn nasty if you work with them too long.
Step 2 : Know what needs to be done
Get the windows open! Let some fresh air and sunlight into the room! This alone will give you a better idea of the task you are up against. Look for anything that needs additional attentions such as stains or grease marks. Start at one end of the room and decide how long it is going to take you to finish. Your cleaning equipment should be close by but not in a place that it gets in the way.
Step 3: Get rid of the rubbish.
Start by emptying out the rubbish bins and throwing away papers, soda cans, food packets etc and make separate bags available for recyclable and other rubbish. This simple task will make the rest of the job at hand look a lot more manageable.
Step 4: Empty out the stationery and office 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
Now that you have a reasonably empty space (all you should have left is some of the larger furniture) you can start dusting the entire office. Start with the higher areas such as tall bookcases and light shades otherwise the dust that you remove from these will float down to the surfaces you have already cleaned.
Step six: Vacuum anything and 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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Cleaning contractors can often take you to the cleaners! Make sure that your daily office cleaning is done by somebody you can trust. Crystal Clean Solutions. (www.crystalcleansolutions.co.uk)
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