Cleaning The Office? Deal With It!
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
Before you start on any office cleaning task, make sure that you have all the cleaning equipment that you are going to need. To start with get a vacuum cleaner, a mop and a brush. Follow this up with a duster, old cleaning cloths, some gloves (health and safety will moan otherwise), floor cleaner (or dry foam carpet solution if you have carpets instead of tiles), some disinfectant spray, a toilet brush and maybe some air freshener. Most of all, bring your energy (a couple of red bulls work for me).
Step Two : Assess the work to be performed.
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.
Phase Three: Throw out the rubbish
Emptying the bins and getting rid of papers, food packaging and general office rubbish is the first place that you should start. Place recyclable and general rubbish into separate bags so that you don’t have to do this later. After this simple step you will already see the improvement and the job will at least start looking easier.
Step 4: Empty out the stationery and office equipment
Everything needs to get out of the way before you can clean properly. This means unplugging computers, lights, printers etc and preferably moving them out of the room. Smaller furniture such as chairs, rubbish bins etc must be moved out of the way and articles which normally clutter the desktop such as books, pens, calculators and other stationery should be removed as well.
Phase Five: Start by dusting the 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 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 seven: Lay on the magical spray
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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