Office Cleaning Tips for Everyone’s Peace of Mind

Do you often struggle to keep your workplace clean and tidy during work hours? Office cleaning is not everyone’s cup of tea, though we can’t stress enough the importance of keeping your workplace clean for the safety and productivity of your staff. So, how do you achieve and maintain a sparkling office? Start by hiring a professional office cleaning company like CLEANA.

Well, cleaning an office is easy; the hard part is keeping the office in the same condition throughout the day. With many people coming in and out of the office and your employees working around 8-10 hours in the same place, there is only so much you can control when it comes to cleaning. Yes, you can get professional office cleaners from Clean Group to deep clean your premises first thing in the morning, even before your employees start arriving, but how do you maintain high cleanliness levels in your office throughout the day? Here’s the answer.

Follow these simple but effective tips to keep your commercial property spotless:

1. Hire Professional Cleaners for Daily Cleaning

The first step to maintaining round-the-clock cleanliness in your office is to get your premises professionally cleaned by an expert cleaning team or company. This can be done first thing in the morning or after office hours in the evening and should be done at least once a day if possible.

Getting your office cleaned daily by professionals will ensure your floors are always sparkling and there is little dust on your windows, doors and walls, which is essential to make a great impression on your office visitors and to ensure the safety of your workers. A thorough cleaning once in the morning will ensure that your premises are ready for most challenges for the next few hours, if not the entire day.

2. Keep an All-Purpose-Cleaner Accessible

Where there are people, mess is inevitable. Though you can get your premises cleaned by professionals daily, you may still not be able to stop your employees from cluttering. If an employee has spilled coffee on the floor or on their desk, it needs to be handled immediately to prevent accidents or staining. This is where an all-purpose cleaner can help. By keeping these basic cleaning solutions handy, you can make sure that any spots and spills are taken care of as soon as they occur. Even if you have no dedicated cleaning staff on payroll, your employees can handle such minor incidents on their own. This will help keep your offices pristine during work hours and avoid accidents.

3. Go for an Eco-Friendly, Homemade Cleaner

You do not even have to buy a store-based cleaning solution or spend on any expensive product, as you can easily make an all-purpose cleaner at home with one ingredient. On top of that, it will be friendly to the environment and safe for your people, unlike most store-based cleaners that contain heavy chemicals.

To prepare the cleaning solution, just mix 3-4 tablespoons of baking powder into one lire warm milk. Voila! The homemade cleaner is ready. You can store the solution in a bottle and use it to wipe down surfaces, floors, appliances, touchpoints and all other hard surfaces. This also works as a brilliant natural disinfectant to reduce or kill germs on many surfaces.

4. Keep the Kitchen and Dishwasher Clean

When cleaning your office, make sure to not skip your kitchens, especially the dishwasher and the kitchen sink, as they can soon become a breeding ground for bacteria if not cleaned properly and regularly. Ideally, the office kitchens and any food preparation and disposal areas should be cleaned daily. 

Ask your employees to clean their tables after and avoid cluttering when eating in the dining room/area. Once a week or so, get your cleaners to deep clean the kitchens, including all appliances and electronics. Wash and disinfect the sink daily and make sure to not leave any dirty dishes in it for a long period. 

If you are planning to leave the office closed for a few days during holidays or a long weekend, make sure to clean the kitchen properly, attend to any unwashed dishes and not leave any open food items in the refrigerator.

If you are not planning to do the dishes right away, consider soaking them in warm water in the sink to let food residue, or they’ll dry and harden and be difficult to remove by the time you decide to clean.

5. Keep Sweaty Smells Away from Your Office

When your employees spend hours working at their desks and inside the office, their clothes, especially socks, may start smelling if they are not being cleaned daily. This can degrade the quality of the air and make your office environment difficult for work. To avoid this, you need to make sure that employees are wearing fresh clothes daily. 

In addition, you can consider using air fresheners to keep the air inside the office fresh and safe to breathe. One way to deal with smells coming out of your socks, sneakers and clothing is to sprinkle baking powder on them, which will soak the odour out of your clothes in just a few hours.

6. Use Liners for Dustbins, Ovens, Gas Stoves, Etc.

Liners are protective films that can be used to cover the surface or put at the bottom of appliances such as the microwave oven to protect the surface and make it easy to clean them. Liners are available for all kinds of surfaces and are also used in garbage bins to prevent the bins from getting dirty. 

Instead of cleaning the garbage bin every time you remove the garbage, you can simply replace the liner, which is both easy and free of mess. There are many areas where you can use liners in an office, in the toilets, etc. 

Other than that, you can consider placing mats in areas with moisture, such as near the sink and washbasins and water dispensers to restrict any spilled water from fanning to other areas and causing a bigger mess.

7. Get Rid of Waste, Every Day

Make sure that all the garbage bins across your property are being emptied daily. This can be done by your professional cleaners coming for a routine clean every morning. If you do not have cleaners cleaning the office daily, you still need to make sure that there is someone to do this. 

The waste will start smelling and accumulate germs that can put your staff at risk. To avoid that, always use liners in garbage bins and get them replaced at least once daily. Keep dry and wet waste separate.

Pro tip: Put a piece of lemon in your wet bins to keep the odour away. Wash as well as disinfect/sanitise daily.

8. Cleaning Markers Off the Floors and Walls

Markers or stains on the office floors and walls are a clear sign of negligence and may leave a bad impression on your visitors. Not only should your office walls, windows and floors be always shining but they also need to be free of any bad markings and stains. There are a few things you can try to take stains off the floors and walls, including using stain removers available in the market. 

Make sure to read and follow the manufacturer’s instructions and always buy and use the right cleaning product. Avoid using toxic chemicals for cleaning, as they might damage your floors and put your health at risk.

9. Cleaning Dust and Pet Hair Off the Couch

If you have pets in the office, there is a good chance that your fabric couches will be accumulating pet hair and might often have been treated with pet urine. In that case, you need to be as quick as possible to quick these things away. 

To remove pet hair from your sofa, you can use a vacuum cleaner or just one of our pro ticks to clean the sofa. Urine should be easy to remove, but the smell can stay for a long time if you are not cleaning it regularly. Besides that, you should consider cleaning your office sofa at least once every week, including vacuuming and deep cleaning to keep it free from dust, dirt and germs.

Prop tip: Use a wet rubber glove to get pet hair off the couch.

10. Keep Dusting and Wiping Surfaces

While your cleaners get the entire office clean every day in the morning, they might miss some surfaces or unapproachable areas such as corners or behind the couch. Moreover, the place will start getting dusty over the hours and might not remain as clean as you’d like before the next visit of your cleaners. 

To deal with this, get your office help to clean any dirt or dust they might notice anywhere on the property, especially in the reception area. They can use a handheld vacuum to clean away these areas and keep them free from dust. 

As for the unapproachable areas on your property, their cleaning can be covered in the weekly or monthly deep office cleaning. If possible, ask your cleaners to come on a weekend to do the job.

11. Cleaning the Glass

Glass is both a part of the attraction in the office and a kind of protection from outside factors such as dust, dirt and wind. It is crucial to keep your office glass, windows and doors well-maintained to retain a strong and positive appearance of your business. Since your glass doors and windows will be the first thing a visitor to your office will notice, make sure to keep them sparkling at all times. Though, it is easier said than done. Glass gets dirtier easily and frequently than other areas of the office and should be cleaned again and again.

If you are looking to hire a professional office cleaning company for routine/deep cleaning of your commercial premises in Sydney, contact us today!