Top 10 Benefits of Commercial Cleaning Services

Benefits of commercial cleaning services for the people inside (1 to 4)

1. Healthier shared spaces. Professional crews clean and then disinfect restrooms, door hardware, elevator buttons, break room surfaces and shared equipment on a set schedule, using registered products at the right contact time. That reduces germs on the surfaces many people touch, which an occasional wipe-down by staff rarely achieves.

2. Cleaner indoor air. Regular dusting of ledges, vents and fixtures and vacuums with HEPA filtration keep fine dust from settling and being stirred back into the air, which people with allergies or asthma notice first.

3. Fewer slips and trips. Trained crews keep walkways dry and clear, manage entrance mats, mark wet floors and maintain floor finishes so they stay safe underfoot rather than slick or worn.

4. Staff time back for real work. When employees no longer empty bins, scrub kitchens or chase supplies, that time returns to the work they were hired for, and nobody resents being handed the cleaning rota.

Commercial cleaning advantages for the building (5 to 7)

5. Longer life for floors, carpet and finishes. Grit grinds carpet fibers and floor finish every day it is left in place. Scheduled vacuuming, burnishing, extraction and refinishing keep those surfaces in service longer and push replacement further into the future.

6. A better first impression. Prospective tenants, clients, patients and job candidates form a view of the business in the lobby, the restroom and the conference room. A building that is consistently clean supports leasing, sales and recruiting without anyone having to mention it.

7. Specialist equipment and periodic work without owning it. Auto scrubbers, burnishers, carpet extractors, pressure washers and HEPA vacuums are expensive to buy and maintain. A cleaning company brings them, along with people trained to use them, as part of the program.

Benefits for the people who manage the building (8 to 10)

8. Coverage through absences and turnover. When an in-house cleaner is sick, on vacation or leaves, the work stops. A cleaning company carries relief staff and is responsible for filling the shift, so the building is cleaned either way.

9. Documented quality and compliance. Professional programs record inspections, corrective actions and service logs. Those records help with tenant disputes, insurer and Cal/OSHA questions, customer audits, controlled environments and organics sorting under California's SB 1383.

10. One accountable contact and a flexible scope. Instead of managing people, supplies and equipment, you manage one relationship with one supervisor. The scope can grow with a new floor, shrink when occupancy drops, or shift between day and night service as the building changes.

How to check you are getting these benefits

A list of benefits is only useful if you can see them in your own building. Each of the ten can be checked with something you already have or can ask for, and a quarterly review with your vendor is the natural place to do it.

• Health and air: complaints about restrooms, odors and dust, tracked month to month
• Safety: slip incidents or near misses near entrances and kitchens
• Staff time: whether employees are still doing cleaning tasks informally
• Finishes: the condition of carpet traffic lanes and floor gloss at each periodic visit
• Coverage: any night in the quarter when the building was not cleaned
• Quality: inspection scores and how quickly corrective actions were closed
• Contact: whether you can name the supervisor responsible for your account

What EBS brings to a cleaning program

EBS Maintenance has more than 25 years of commercial cleaning experience and a team of over 100 employees who are trained, vetted, uniformed and background-checked. Programs include floor, carpet, glass and pressure washing capacity, backup staffing and field supervision, eHub inspections with corrective-action tracking, and day, evening, overnight or weekend schedules. Teams are dispatched from the Corona office across Southern California; call (949) 375-3305 to arrange a walkthrough.