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Choosing a janitorial company
What to ask each bidder, which documents to confirm and when to walk away.
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Straightforward guides for keeping a building clean.
Plain answers for the people who look after a building, from hiring a cleaning company and pricing the work to restroom routines, floor care and harvest season.
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Resources
Hiring and pricing a cleaning company.
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Writing a cleaning scope of work
Put every room and task on paper so any crew, and any bidder, works from the same list.
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What drives janitorial cost
Rates, worked examples and how to read a cleaning quote.
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Cleaning quality inspections
Walk through a supervisor’s check of your building and learn to read the findings.
Read the guideWhat gets cleaned, and when.
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What office cleaning includes
Reception, desks, kitchens, restrooms and floors, room by room.
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Small office cleaning plan
Keep a compact office fresh without paying for a big-building routine.
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Day porter or nightly janitorial?
What each one covers, and when a building needs both.
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Restroom upkeep by traffic level
How many visits, refills and midday checks a restroom needs as the crowds grow.
Read the guideFloors and the busy seasons.
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When floors need refinishing or extraction
The signs to watch for on tile, concrete and carpet.
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Winery cleaning through harvest
Tasting rooms, events, restrooms and floors across the wine year.
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More guides
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Bid comparison checklist
Three proposals on the desk and no two laid out alike? Use this sheet to line them up on scope, hours, supplies, supervision, insurance and the start, so you compare the same service.
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Cost calculator
Pick a service, enter your square footage, the kind of building and how many nights you want cleaned, and this janitorial price calculator gives an estimated range before anyone visits. A free walkthrough turns that estimate into an exact price.
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Cleaning frequency chart
Restrooms, breakrooms, desks, floors and glass don’t share one schedule. This chart sets a starting rhythm for each area at three traffic levels, then shows how to tune it to your own building.
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Frequency planner
Pick your building type and how busy it runs, and the cleaning frequency planner sorts every routine task by how often it is done, from twice a day down to once a year. See at a glance what belongs on the nightly round and what goes on the calendar.
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Scope builder
Choose your kind of facility and how busy it gets, and this cleaning scope of work builder drafts a room-by-room task list with a frequency on every line. Trim it to fit, print it or save a PDF, and bring it to a free walkthrough.
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Restroom cleaning checklist
The fixture, floor, touch-point and restocking tasks a business restroom needs, grouped by how often they come round, with a free sheet to print and carry on your next check.
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Office cleaning checklist
Every office task, filed under the cadence it belongs to. Print the sheet, carry it through your suite and see at a glance which jobs come round each night and which wait for the season.
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Encapsulation or extraction
Hot-water extraction flushes soil out of the pile, while encapsulation locks it into dry crystals for the vacuum to collect. Here is how each one works, how long drying takes and where each belongs.
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In-house or contracted cleaning
A custodian on your payroll and a contracted janitorial crew both get the building cleaned. They differ in who recruits, who covers absences, who buys the supplies and who checks the work.
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First 30 days checklist
From the walkthrough and the key handoff to the review at the end of week four, here is what to settle, check and write down while a new janitorial crew learns your building.
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Supply estimator
Tell the restroom supply estimator what kind of building you run, how many people are inside each day, how many visitors come through and how many days you are open, and it shows a monthly range of tissue rolls, hand towels, soap refills and can liners.
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Strip or scrub and recoat
Both methods bring a dull vinyl tile floor back to life, but one removes every layer of finish and the other renews only the top. Here is how they differ and when each one belongs on the calendar.
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Steady care,
visit after visit.
Calm, dependable janitorial work that you stop having to think about.
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A plan written for your building
Rooms, tasks and frequencies are set down before the first visit, so the crew cleans your space rather than a generic list.
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Work that gets checked
Supervisors come back to look at the results and follow up on anything you point out.
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People you can hand keys to
Background-checked cleaners who treat your building and your keys with care.