Common Janitorial Services Policies
There are janitorial services that work primarily in residential areas, some work primarily in commercial structures, and some work only in medical facilities.
Before you can employ janitorial services you have to know the difference in the company policies.
Janitorial services will be divided into categories of: • Residential cleaning by janitorial services will include cleaning inside single family dwellings, condominium complexes, and apartment complexes.
The services may be hired by each individual resident in multiple dwelling structures.
If the building owner wants to hire a service to keep the common areas clean they will likely have to hire a commercial cleaning service.
The service contract with one of these companies may include general cleaning, window washing, floor care, carpet cleaning, and laundry services.
•Commercial services will clean office buildings, they clean the common areas shared by residents in condominium complexes and apartment buildings, and they also clean stores, shops, and retail establishments and schools.
These service contracts usually include floor care, surface dusting, and trash removal, the cleaning of lavatories, carpet cleaning, and window cleaning.
•Medical services are specialized to clean Dr.
offices and exam rooms, laboratories, hospitals, clinics, dental offices, and physical therapy centers.
These service contracts usually include window cleaning, floor care, dusting of blinds and surfaces.
It may include disinfecting exam areas, and waiting rooms, and the care of plants, or aquariums in the offices.
•Recreational facility services clean concert halls, some of them clean public swimming facilities, movie theaters, meeting halls, and community centers.
These service contracts usually cover the clean-up that would be required after an event.
This would include bathroom facility cleaning, picking up trash and cleaning seating areas, and emptying trash receptacles.
•New construction services only clean newly constructed buildings that have yet to be occupied.
These services remove all of the sawdust left behind by the carpenters.
They get all of the stickers and fingerprints off of all glass surfaces.
They remove trash that is left behind by the workers, and prepare the area for habitation.
Whenever you hire a company to clean for you the contract that you agree upon will be negotiable.
That means that you can create a custom package of duties that the company will perform, and you establish how often the duties will be performed.
You will agree with the company representative on the terms of your contract, and on how long the contract is good for.