Your Office Spring Cleaning Checklist

All Melbourne businesses get busy thought the year. At these busy times mess builds and grime and dirt collects. The first thing you need to understand is it’s not your fault. Even if you’re a business owner who is highly organised (which I’m sure you are) you won’t be able to get to everything.

What’s more, you can’t control everything and everyone around you. Your staff and even sometimes your customers will create mess without you knowing.

But I already have a cleaning company

Yes, this may be true but there are a couple of things you need to consider.

There are a lot of cleaning companies out there but they’re definitely not all the same. Some, just don’t apply a high enough standard to their work. They seem content in doing the minimum possible.
Even with a great cleaning company dirt, grime and mess will inevitably build up. This is the whole pretence for a spring clean.
Finally, out of respect for you and your employees, cleaners try not to move around personal belongings. Often staff will leave their things on and around their desk and this makes it quite hard for cleaners to do their job properly. This is actually, an excellent virtue as respect for personal belongings should be the highest priority.

What is the best time to get my office cleaned?

It really depends on your business and the industry you are in. You should consider when your peak times are and when you have the least activity.

For most businesses, this is around the Christmas period when employees go home for the holidays.

Do I need to prepare a spring clean?

Yes! Whether it’s going to be you or a professional commercial cleaning company, you must do a pre-clean declutter.

Here are a few things to look out for:

Clear out everything on the desks
Clear out from under the tables and desks
Clear out kitchen refrigerator
Organise cabinets and draws
Remove excess chairs

It helps to get you staff involved in this process. They will be the best people who can get rid of all that excess stuff!

Office Cleaning Checklist

After you have gotten your office organised you can move onto a deep clean of the office. Below we have listed a complete office spring cleaning checklist to help simplify the process.

Office and Desks

Wipe down and sanitize office desks
Wipe down and sanitize keyboards and monitors
Wipe down and sanitize outside of draws and cabinets
Vacuum underneath desks

Bathrooms

Clean and sanitize toilet seats and bowls, urinals and cisterns
Clean and sanitize basins, taps and pipe work
Replenish toilet roll holders
Empty rubbish bins, wipe clean, disinfect and replace bin liners
Clean and sanitize bathroom floors
Replenish hand towels and hand soap in all accessible toilets
Clean and sanitize mirrors
Clean and sanitize , dispensers, vanities, tables and baby change tables, benches and seats
Wipe clean all tiled surfaces remove splash marks on floor

Kitchen

Cleaning all kitchen surfaces
Cleaning inside/outside of cupboard, microwave, fridge and dishwasher
Wiping all light switches, door frames, washing machine, skirting boards
Wipe window sills, frames and window edges
Vacuum and mop floor.
Empty rubbish bins, wipe clean, disinfect and replace bin liners

General Areas

Dust partitions, frames and furniture
Dust and clean tops of mirrors
Spot clean doors and light switches
Wash and disinfect hard floors
Vacuum and steam clean carpets
Remove all spider webs internally throughout building
Remove all spider webs and externally at front entrance
Vacuum and dust vents, window ledges and window sills

Office Cleaning Melbourne – Elm Cleaning

Whether you are a small or medium-sized business, regular office cleaning is an essential part of to the way you represent your business. A beautifully cleaned environment shows off both your professionalism and your attention to detail to your customers.

We are Elm Cleaning and we specialise in cleaning Melbourne businesses. So if you are interested in having your workplace cleaned by a professional team of cleaners we would be happy to help.We can guarantee our commercial cleaners who visit are not only top notch professionals but will also respect your working environment.

PS:

We take great care to ensure personal items are kept personal. This is why all our employees go through an in-depth screening check which includes a National Police Check.