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Top 3 Reasons Property Management Companies Need a Dedicated Commercial Cleaning Company

If you’re a Baltimore area property manager of an apartment building, multiple rental properties, or office and retail spaces, you have a lot on your plate. You shouldn’t have to worry about whether your properties are clean and well-kept. The easiest way to ensure your properties are always ready for viewing or to keep tenants happy is to partner with a trusted commercial cleaning company.

Not convinced? Keep reading to learn the reasons why you need dedicated property management cleaning services.

Reason #1: You need property management cleaning services you can depend on.

If you’ve hired an individual to clean your properties, you’ve probably had to deal with the headache of scheduling a replacement when they’re sick, have a family emergency, or want to take a vacation. You’ve also had to deal with the headaches of payroll and workers’ compensation insurance. Outsourcing to a dedicated commercial cleaning company makes sense financially and allows you to focus on other aspects of property management, such as marketing to new tenants.

We have a large staff of trained cleaning technicians and provide daytime and nighttime cleaning, day porter services, and specialty cleaning when you need it. We’re there whenever you need us. We handle the scheduling headaches and take care of all the necessary training and insurance.

Related Reading: Top Reasons to Outsource Your Commercial Cleaning

Reason #2: You need one commercial cleaning company that can service all of your buildings in Baltimore and Harford counties.

Don’t waste time and money working with multiple vendors when it comes to cleaning multiple properties in Baltimore County and Harford County. ServiceMaster Clean PBM provides commercial cleaning services in every corner of the two counties, from urban buildings to rural locations. By working with one commercial cleaning company, you get standardized services for all of your properties, with one main point of contact. You’ll get one monthly invoice rather than dozens.

Reason #3: You need a commercial cleaning company that’s on-call for special projects.

By having an established relationship with a trusted commercial cleaning company, you have a partner you can call on for special projects. Maybe you need quick turnover cleaning services because a tenant left the place a disaster. Just call us, and we’ll get things into shape so you can quickly sign a new rental agreement. We’re also available for post-construction cleaning, student housing deep cleaning, and more.

And there’s no need to call around to find additional companies for carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, floor cleaning, stripping, and refinishing because we do all of those things too!

Simplify your job and contact us today.

<h2>Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On<h2>

Whether you manage one building or hundreds of units, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for property management cleaning services.

We offer:

·       Day porter services

·       Recurring cleaning

·       Project-based cleaning

·       Janitorial services

·       Disinfection services

·       Specialty commercial cleaning

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations and come up with a plan tailored to your properties and tenants. We serve property management companies in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Tips to Keep Your Building Clean and Healthy this Cold and Flu Season

 If businesses learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that illness spreads quickly if you don’t take some precautions. Use what you learned during the worst of the pandemic to help keep your workplace healthy and safe as we enter cold and flu season. And remember, COVID is still very much present in some communities.

Tip #1: Clean and Disinfect Regularly

Ask your commercial cleaning company or janitorial staff to increase cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces such as sink faucets, toilet faucets, doorknobs, light switches, elevator buttons, etc.

Provide disinfecting wipes for employees to wipe down phones, keyboards, door handles and other objects after they use them. Provide hand sanitizer throughout your building for the use of employees and visitors.

And, if you purchased air purifiers during the worst of the pandemic, plug them in again during cold and flu season.

Tip #2: Set Up a Free Vaccine Clinic

If you have a larger office or company, consider setting up a free vaccine clinic at your work site. Partner with a local pharmacy such as Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc. Vaccines are completely covered by insurance, and by setting up the clinic onsite, you make it easy for employees to get whichever vaccines are appropriate for them. These include:

·       Flu vaccine

·       COVID-19 vaccines and boosters

·       Pneumococcal vaccines

·       Shingles vaccines

And make it clear to employees that getting any vaccine is voluntary, and is not required as a condition of employment. However, by increasing the percentage of your employees who are vaccinated, you can lessen the chance of severe illness.

Tip #3: Remind Employees and Customers to Stay Home When They’re Sick

This is a big one. If your company doesn’t offer paid time off, you’ll have employees coming to work sick. That means they spread their illness to other employees, and potentially to customers. Consider offering paid sick time if you don’t already. Anyone with a fever should stay home. It means they have an active infection, and need to rest to let their body fight it off.

If you run a medical facility, continue all of the screening questions before a patient/client is allowed to enter your premises.

In Conclusion

No workplace can totally prevent employees from getting colds, the flu, or COVID. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of an outbreak that forces you to shut down your business or hire temporary staff.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning and disinfecting services.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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How Often Should You Schedule Office Cleaning Services?

If the majority of the employees in your office or your building have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, you may have scaled back on your office cleaning services. Why clean if no one’s there, right? But now as the Baltimore area and the rest of the country slowly start moving back to the office, even if only as part of a hybrid work situation, building managers and facilities managers need to reevaluate their commercial cleaning and janitorial services.

We’ve put together some tips and questions to ask yourself as you think about scheduling your office cleaning. In general, most offices should schedule office cleaning anywhere from 3 to 7 days a week, with periodic deep cleaning. To help you make a more precise decision, read through these questions and our comments. This can help you nail down an office cleaning schedule that’s right for you.

1.    How Big Is Your Office or Business?

By this, we mean how many employees do you have in the office on a given day? The more employees you have and the more clients you have coming in, the more often you need to clean. That’s just because more people = more mess.

2.    Do All Areas Need to Be Cleaned?

In a word, yes. Employee restrooms and breakrooms should be cleaned and disinfected daily. All kinds of germs, bacteria and other microbes love to multiply in these spaces, so you need to keep on top of it. Some restrooms may need to be cleaned more than once a day if you have multiple employees and clients using one restroom.

And then depending again on how busy your office is and how many people are moving in and out, you may be able to set up a daily or weekly schedule for other office cleaning such as vacuuming, mopping floors, etc. We can start you out on a weekly schedule if you would prefer, and then move you to a daily office cleaning schedule if you find that would work better.

3.    How Often Do I Need Commercial Carpet Cleaning?

There is no set schedule for commercial carpet cleaning. How often you have us do it depends on the amount of foot traffic you have. Heavily-trafficked areas such as lobbies and hallways will need to be cleaned more often. Once a month or once every quarter would be a reasonable place to start. Less-trafficked areas such as corner offices may only need carpet cleaning once a year, other than spot cleaning.

4.    Do We Need Antimicrobial Services?

We think so. Consider Antimicrobial Services as an added layer of protection. If we’ve learned anything through this pandemic, it’s that we need to make every effort to give our clients a superior level of cleaning and disinfecting. That’s why we started offering our antimicrobial services. This advanced shield technology, when applied to surfaces,  kills Coronavirus and other microbes on contact and provides up to 90 days of preventive protection.

That saves you money because we don’t have to disinfect as often, and it can help reduce sick time due to the spread of cold and flu viruses as well as Coronavirus.

We hope reading through this gives you a better idea of how often you should schedule office cleaning services. Remember, a clean office boosts employee morale and gives a good first impression to clients. And by adding the antimicrobial services, you show your employees you care about everyone’s health.

If you need healthcare facility or medical office cleaning services, those are on a different schedule altogether – daily and sometimes multiple cleanings a day are needed to comply with regulations.

Get a FREE Quote on Office Cleaning and Antimicrobial Services

At ServiceMaster Clean PBM of Baltimore, we understand that no two businesses have the exact same needs, and we tailor your office cleaning services and commercial cleaning services to your location, how many employees you have in the office, and your specific requirements.

When you contact us for a FREE office cleaning quote, if you use the contact form we’ll ask you some basic questions, and if you call us, we’ll also ask some basic questions. Then we’ll schedule an on-site visit so we can give you a precise quote for our services. We serve clients in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County. We will be happy to provide you with references.

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Use This Office Cleaning Checklist to Get the Clean You Deserve

As an office manager or building manager, your reputation is on the line when it comes to how clean (or not) your facilities are. Developing an office cleaning checklist for your commercial cleaning company to follow will help ensure your offices are a clean and attractive place for clients to visit and your employees to work.

Bathroom/Restroom Cleaning Checklist

If you’ve ever been in a public bathroom and been grossed out, you know how important it is to have clean and well-stocked restrooms. Have your commercial cleaning services staff do each of these things each time they clean:

·       Empty the trash, including sanitary napkin receptacles.

·       Wipe/disinfect and replace liners.

·       Restock toilet paper, paper towels, and hand soap.

·       Clean and sanitize toilet bowls and urinals. Polish chrome.

·       Clean and sanitize both sides of toilet seats.

·       Clean and sanitize bathroom stall walls and doors.

·       Clean and disinfect sinks.

·       Clean and polish mirrors.

·       Clean and sanitize counters and baby changing station (if applicable).

·       Sweep dust and debris from floors, and then mop and rinse bathroom floors with disinfectant.

·       Sanitize light switches, door handles, air dryers, and paper towel dispensers.

·       Replace burned out light bulbs.

·       Alert facilities to any plumbing or electrical issues.

Related reading: How Often Should You Schedule Office Cleaning Services?

Break Room/Kitchen Cleaning Checklist

While you can hope for your employees to clean up their own spills, don’t count on it. Here’s a checklist to give to your commercial cleaning staff:

·       Clear counters and floor of trash and food debris and put in trash.

·       Empty coffee grounds from coffee makers into the trash.

·       Empty trash and replace liners. Wipe down trash containers.

·       Empty the recycling bins. Wipe down bins.

·       Clean and disinfect countertops, tables, chairs, and exterior of appliances.

·       Clean and disinfect sinks and polish faucets.

·       Spot clean cabinets.

·       Spot clean walls near trash bins.

·       Dry mop or sweep hard surface floors to remove debris.

·       Damp mop hard surface floors.

·       Vacuum carpet (if applicable).

·       On Fridays, clean and disinfect the microwave.

·       On Fridays, remove old food from the refrigerator, clean and disinfect the interior.

Reception Area/Waiting Room Cleaning Checklist

If you have a reception area or medical office waiting room, it’s important to pay close attention to the cleanliness of that area for the comfort and safety of your clients. Here’s your cleaning checklist for these areas:

·       Remove all debris and empty trash. Replace liners.

·       Sanitize outside of trash receptacles.

·       Dust the desk, tables, wooden chair arms.

·       Dust windowsills, wall art, and artificial plants.

·       Clean and sanitize welcome desk counter area.

·       Clean and sanitize hard surface areas such as plastic chairs and children’s play area.

·       Dust mop hard surface floors and then damp mop with disinfectant.

·       Spot clean carpet stains.

·       Vacuum carpeting and upholstered furniture.

·       Clean glass partitions and doors.

·       Sanitize high-touch areas including door handles, light switches, and water cooler.

·       Replenish cups at water cooler.

Office/Cubicle Cleaning Checklist

Keeping the area where your employees work clean and tidy is good for morale but also good for preventing illness. Here’s your office cleaning checklist:

·       Empty trash and recycling. Replace liners.

·       Dust desks, computer screens, filing cabinets, tables chair legs, and windowsills.

·       Dust air vents and baseboards.

·       Vacuum carpeting.

·       Wipe and sanitize cleared desk areas and tables. Remove any coffee rings.

·       Sanitize high-touch areas such as light switches, doorknobs, and phones.

·       Spot clean interior windows.

Your janitorial services or commercial cleaning staff should complete this checklist every time they perform office cleaning. You will also want to schedule project-based cleaning when it is convenient for you, such as commercial carpet cleaning, hard surface floor cleaning and sealing, etc.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning services.

We offer:

·       Recurring cleaning

·       One-time cleaning

·       Project-based cleaning

·       Janitorial services

·       Disinfection services

·       Other specialty commercial cleaning

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, review your office cleaning checklist, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Top 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Commercial Cleaning

Whether you’re a restaurant owner, a facilities manager, or a member of an administrative team looking to cut costs and increase profit margins, this blog is for you. If you currently hire employees to comprise your own janitorial staff, or you have employees you hired for one job add cleaning duties to their day, there’s a better way.

Today we’re going to discuss the top reasons it makes business sense to outsource your commercial cleaning to a company that specializes in the area.

Reason 1: You Save Money

This is probably the biggest reason to hire a company to provide commercial cleaning services. If you examine your budget, take a look at how much you spend monthly on:

·       Employee wages and benefits for cleaning staff

·       Workers’ compensation insurance for those staff members

·       Payroll expenses

·       Cleaning supplies

·       Training time

When you add all of those expenses together, you may find it’s more cost-effective to outsource your cleaning and janitorial services. This can be especially true for school districts, universities, and senior living complexes.

Reason 2: You Save Time

Saving time and money. Sounds good, right? By outsourcing your commercial cleaning services, you save time. There’s no need to post job listings and weed through job candidates. There’s also no need to train employees in proper cleaning and disinfecting procedures. When you outsource to a commercial cleaning company like ServiceMaster Clean PBM of Baltimore, we handle the screening and hiring of employees and ensure that every member of our staff receives paid training in cleaning best practices.

This gives you more time to focus on running your business or attend to more pressing matters.

Reason 3: You Save Yourself Headaches

As a building manager or store manager, think about how many times a closing shift employee has called in sick or needed to go home early. This put you in the position of trying to find someone to replace them at the last minute. What a headache. With a company like ours, we take on the responsibility of finding substitute staff if for some reason your regular commercial cleaning staff is unable to work that day.

Reason 4: You Get a Superior Level of Clean

If you have employees that add cleaning to the end of their regular job, they may not be doing as thorough a job. They may cut corners on cleaning and disinfecting in order to go do something else after work. This can be especially important in the restaurant business or daycare business.

When you have to pass unannounced inspections, you need to be sure your kitchen and the rest of your facility are clean and sanitized. Because failing an inspection can mean hefty fines and bad publicity. And if you fail due to a major violation, it can mean you have to close down your business until you remedy the situation.

When you outsource your commercial cleaning, you get trained staff who take less time to do more. And you never have to worry about cleaning supplies inadvertently left next to the food prep area or within reach of small children.

Reason 5: You Boost Employee Morale

This goes along with the previous idea. The top reason employees try to avoid the closing shift? Because you add cleaning the place to their job duties. They just want to go home. Boost employee morale and make it easier to fill the closing shift by outsourcing your commercial cleaning.

In addition, regular cleaning provided by a commercial cleaning company shows your employees you care about their working environment and health. That can increase employee retention and productivity.

Reason 6: You Make a Good Impression

We list this reason last, but perhaps we should have listed it first. Your business depends on the goodwill of your customers, your patrons, your residents, your congregants – you name it. If your facility is dirty, smells bad, or even has restrooms with overflowing trash bins, you turn away business. Someone might even leave you a negative review.

By greeting all who come through your doors with a clean and shining building, you make a great impression. You show you care about the details and care about their business.

Schedule a FREE Commercial Cleaning Consultation

If you’re interested in saving time and money, as well as boosting employee morale, it’s time to explore outsourcing your cleaning needs to a professional commercial cleaning company. ServiceMaster Clean PBM has decades of experience providing a superior level of cleaning to schools and universities, churches, restaurants, senior living complexes, office buildings, medical facilities, financial institutions, retail spaces, and industrial locations throughout Baltimore and Harford counties.

Schedule an on-site consultation by filling out the Get a Quote form, or calling (410) 618-4527. We’ll meet with you to discuss what you want to be cleaned, how often you want us to clean, and what time of day you want your commercial cleaning done. We can arrange a one-time deep cleaning or ongoing cleaning – whatever you need.

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Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Commercial Facility

Spring is in the air. The cold gray days of winter are behind us, which means it’s time to think about spring cleaning. Once an idea only for homeowners to open the windows and do a deep clean after a long winter, spring cleaning is a great idea for commercial facilities as well.

We’ve pulled together some spring cleaning tips to help you make your commercial building or office space look its best.

Tip #1: Hire a Professional Commercial Cleaning Company

For the deep clean your facility needs and deserves, call in the professionals. If you already have a commercial cleaning company, work with them to schedule the deep cleaning when it is most convenient for your employees and customers. This could be overnight or on a weekend.

Tip #2: Deep Clean Hard Surface Flooring and Carpeting<

Winter foot traffic can be hard on your flooring. People are tracking in salt, grit, and grime from slushy parking lots and sidewalks. Arrange for commercial carpet cleaning and floor cleaning. Reseal hard surface floors as necessary to protect them and keep them looking their best. Add the stain guard to your carpet cleaning services.

Tip #3: Schedule Upholstery Cleaning

If you have upholstered furniture in your lobby, waiting room, or office, schedule upholstery cleaning. Upholstered furniture should be cleaned once a year, and spot cleaned as necessary. This can include the cushions from church pews as well. Dingy, stained furniture and cushions send the wrong message to your customers and congregants.

By cleaning, brightening, and decluttering a space, you make it more welcoming for employees and customers/congregants/clients alike.

Tip #4: Clean the Windows Inside and Out

Let the light shine in and schedule commercial window cleaning, inside and out. Your commercial cleaning company can clean all of the windows on the outside, and likely the ground floor windows on the outside. For multi-story buildings, you may need to hire a commercial window-washing company to do the outside windows that are higher up.

Pressure Wash the Sidewalks, Steps, and Ramps Outside

Some commercial cleaning companies will do the needed pressure washing outside, but you may need to call a company specializing in pressure washing. Your walkways and ramps may look pretty grimy after the winter. Pressure washing can brighten your building’s exterior to give a good first impression.

Schedule Regular Commercial Cleaning

Finally, to help maintain the clean look and feel of your commercial space, schedule regular commercial cleaning. Depending on what your facility is and how many people use it each day, you may want to schedule daily or weekly cleaning.

Schedule a FREE Commercial Cleaning Consultation

If you’re not satisfied with your current janitorial services, or your employees just aren’t doing the job right, it’s time to seek the help of a professional commercial cleaning company. ServiceMaster Clean PBM has decades of experience providing a superior level of cleaning to churches, office buildings, medical facilities, financial institutions, retail spaces, and industrial locations throughout Baltimore and Harford counties.

Schedule an on-site consultation by filling out the Get a Quote form, or calling (410) 618-4527. We’ll meet with you to discuss what you want to be cleaned, how often you want us to clean, and what time of day you want your commercial cleaning done. We can arrange a one-time deep cleaning or ongoing cleaning – whatever you need.

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Tips to Keep Your Building Clean and Healthy this Cold and Flu Season

If businesses learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that illness spreads quickly if you don’t take some precautions. Use what you learned during the worst of the pandemic to help keep your workplace healthy and safe as we enter cold and flu season. And remember, COVID is still very much present in some communities.

Tip #1: Clean and Disinfect Regularly

Ask your commercial cleaning company or janitorial staff to increase cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces such as sink faucets, toilet faucets, doorknobs, light switches, elevator buttons, etc.

Provide disinfecting wipes for employees to wipe down phones, keyboards, door handles and other objects after they use them. Provide hand sanitizer throughout your building for the use of employees and visitors.

And, if you purchased air purifiers during the worst of the pandemic, plug them in again during cold and flu season.

Tip #2: Set Up a Free Vaccine Clinic

If you have a larger office or company, consider setting up a free vaccine clinic at your work site. Partner with a local pharmacy such as Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc. Vaccines are completely covered by insurance, and by setting up the clinic onsite, you make it easy for employees to get whichever vaccines are appropriate for them. These include:

·       Flu vaccine

·       COVID-19 vaccines and boosters

·       Pneumococcal vaccines

·       Shingles vaccines

And make it clear to employees that getting any vaccine is voluntary, and is not required as a condition of employment. However, by increasing the percentage of your employees who are vaccinated, you can lessen the chance of severe illness.

Tip #3: Remind Employees and Customers to Stay Home When They’re Sick

This is a big one. If your company doesn’t offer paid time off, you’ll have employees coming to work sick. That means they spread their illness to other employees, and potentially to customers. Consider offering paid sick time if you don’t already. Anyone with a fever should stay home. It means they have an active infection, and need to rest to let their body fight it off.

If you run a medical facility, continue all of the screening questions before a patient/client is allowed to enter your premises.

In Conclusion

No workplace can totally prevent employees from getting colds, the flu, or COVID. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of an outbreak that forces you to shut down your business or hire temporary staff.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning and disinfecting services.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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How Often Should You Schedule Office Cleaning Services?

If the majority of the employees in your office or your building have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, you may have scaled back on your office cleaning services. Why clean if no one’s there, right? But now as the Baltimore area and the rest of the country slowly start moving back to the office, even if only as part of a hybrid work situation, building managers and facilities managers need to reevaluate their commercial cleaning and janitorial services.

We’ve put together some tips and questions to ask yourself as you think about scheduling your office cleaning. In general, most offices should schedule office cleaning anywhere from 3 to 7 days a week, with periodic deep cleaning. To help you make a more precise decision, read through these questions and our comments. This can help you nail down an office cleaning schedule that’s right for you.

1.    How Big Is Your Office or Business?

By this, we mean how many employees do you have in the office on a given day? The more employees you have and the more clients you have coming in, the more often you need to clean. That’s just because more people = more mess.

2.    Do All Areas Need to Be Cleaned?

In a word, yes. Employee restrooms and breakrooms should be cleaned and disinfected daily. All kinds of germs, bacteria and other microbes love to multiply in these spaces, so you need to keep on top of it. Some restrooms may need to be cleaned more than once a day if you have multiple employees and clients using one restroom.

And then depending again on how busy your office is and how many people are moving in and out, you may be able to set up a daily or weekly schedule for other office cleaning such as vacuuming, mopping floors, etc. We can start you out on a weekly schedule if you would prefer, and then move you to a daily office cleaning schedule if you find that would work better.

3.    How Often Do I Need Commercial Carpet Cleaning?

There is no set schedule for commercial carpet cleaning. How often you have us do it depends on the amount of foot traffic you have. Heavily-trafficked areas such as lobbies and hallways will need to be cleaned more often. Once a month or once every quarter would be a reasonable place to start. Less-trafficked areas such as corner offices may only need carpet cleaning once a year, other than spot cleaning.

4.    Do We Need Antimicrobial Services?

We think so. Consider Antimicrobial Services as an added layer of protection. If we’ve learned anything through this pandemic, it’s that we need to make every effort to give our clients a superior level of cleaning and disinfecting. That’s why we started offering our antimicrobial services. This advanced shield technology, when applied to surfaces,  kills Coronavirus and other microbes on contact and provides up to 90 days of preventive protection.

That saves you money because we don’t have to disinfect as often, and it can help reduce sick time due to the spread of cold and flu viruses as well as Coronavirus.

We hope reading through this gives you a better idea of how often you should schedule office cleaning services. Remember, a clean office boosts employee morale and gives a good first impression to clients. And by adding the antimicrobial services, you show your employees you care about everyone’s health.

If you need healthcare facility or medical office cleaning services, those are on a different schedule altogether – daily and sometimes multiple cleanings a day are needed to comply with regulations.

Get a FREE Quote on Office Cleaning and Antimicrobial Services

At ServiceMaster Clean PBM of Baltimore, we understand that no two businesses have the exact same needs, and we tailor your office cleaning services and commercial cleaning services to your location, how many employees you have in the office, and your specific requirements.

When you contact us for a FREE office cleaning quote, if you use the contact form we’ll ask you some basic questions, and if you call us, we’ll also ask some basic questions. Then we’ll schedule an on-site visit so we can give you a precise quote for our services. We serve clients in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County. We will be happy to provide you with references.

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Tips to Keep Your Building Clean and Healthy this Cold and Flu Season

If businesses learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that illness spreads quickly if you don’t take some precautions. Use what you learned during the worst of the pandemic to help keep your workplace healthy and safe as we enter cold and flu season. And remember, COVID is still very much present in some communities.

Tip #1: Clean and Disinfect Regularly

Ask your commercial cleaning company or janitorial staff to increase cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces such as sink faucets, toilet faucets, doorknobs, light switches, elevator buttons, etc.

Provide disinfecting wipes for employees to wipe down phones, keyboards, door handles and other objects after they use them. Provide hand sanitizer throughout your building for the use of employees and visitors.

And, if you purchased air purifiers during the worst of the pandemic, plug them in again during cold and flu season.

Tip #2: Set Up a Free Vaccine Clinic

If you have a larger office or company, consider setting up a free vaccine clinic at your work site. Partner with a local pharmacy such as Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc. Vaccines are completely covered by insurance, and by setting up the clinic onsite, you make it easy for employees to get whichever vaccines are appropriate for them. These include:

·       Flu vaccine

·       COVID-19 vaccines and boosters

·       Pneumococcal vaccines

·       Shingles vaccines

And make it clear to employees that getting any vaccine is voluntary, and is not required as a condition of employment. However, by increasing the percentage of your employees who are vaccinated, you can lessen the chance of severe illness.

Tip #3: Remind Employees and Customers to Stay Home When They’re Sick

This is a big one. If your company doesn’t offer paid time off, you’ll have employees coming to work sick. That means they spread their illness to other employees, and potentially to customers. Consider offering paid sick time if you don’t already. Anyone with a fever should stay home. It means they have an active infection, and need to rest to let their body fight it off.

If you run a medical facility, continue all of the screening questions before a patient/client is allowed to enter your premises.

In Conclusion

No workplace can totally prevent employees from getting colds, the flu, or COVID. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of an outbreak that forces you to shut down your business or hire temporary staff.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning and disinfecting services.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Use This Office Cleaning Checklist to Get the Clean You Deserve

As an office manager or building manager, your reputation is on the line when it comes to how clean (or not) your facilities are. Developing an office cleaning checklist for your commercial cleaning company to follow will help ensure your offices are a clean and attractive place for clients to visit and your employees to work.

Bathroom/Restroom Cleaning Checklist

If you’ve ever been in a public bathroom and been grossed out, you know how important it is to have clean and well-stocked restrooms. Have your commercial cleaning services staff do each of these things each time they clean:

·       Empty the trash, including sanitary napkin receptacles.

·       Wipe/disinfect and replace liners.

·       Restock toilet paper, paper towels, and hand soap.

·       Clean and sanitize toilet bowls and urinals. Polish chrome.

·       Clean and sanitize both sides of toilet seats.

·       Clean and sanitize bathroom stall walls and doors.

·       Clean and disinfect sinks.

·       Clean and polish mirrors.

·       Clean and sanitize counters and baby changing station (if applicable).

·       Sweep dust and debris from floors, and then mop and rinse bathroom floors with disinfectant.

·       Sanitize light switches, door handles, air dryers, and paper towel dispensers.

·       Replace burned out light bulbs.

·       Alert facilities to any plumbing or electrical issues.

Related reading: How Often Should You Schedule Office Cleaning Services?

Break Room/Kitchen Cleaning Checklist

While you can hope for your employees to clean up their own spills, don’t count on it. Here’s a checklist to give to your commercial cleaning staff:

·       Clear counters and floor of trash and food debris and put in trash.

·       Empty coffee grounds from coffee makers into the trash.

·       Empty trash and replace liners. Wipe down trash containers.

·       Empty the recycling bins. Wipe down bins.

·       Clean and disinfect countertops, tables, chairs, and exterior of appliances.

·       Clean and disinfect sinks and polish faucets.

·       Spot clean cabinets.

·       Spot clean walls near trash bins.

·       Dry mop or sweep hard surface floors to remove debris.

·       Damp mop hard surface floors.

·       Vacuum carpet (if applicable).

·       On Fridays, clean and disinfect the microwave.

·       On Fridays, remove old food from the refrigerator, clean and disinfect the interior.

Reception Area/Waiting Room Cleaning Checklist

If you have a reception area or medical office waiting room, it’s important to pay close attention to the cleanliness of that area for the comfort and safety of your clients. Here’s your cleaning checklist for these areas:

·       Remove all debris and empty trash. Replace liners.

·       Sanitize outside of trash receptacles.

·       Dust the desk, tables, wooden chair arms.

·       Dust windowsills, wall art, and artificial plants.

·       Clean and sanitize welcome desk counter area.

·       Clean and sanitize hard surface areas such as plastic chairs and children’s play area.

·       Dust mop hard surface floors and then damp mop with disinfectant.

·       Spot clean carpet stains.

·       Vacuum carpeting and upholstered furniture.

·       Clean glass partitions and doors.

·       Sanitize high-touch areas including door handles, light switches, and water cooler.

·       Replenish cups at water cooler.

Office/Cubicle Cleaning Checklist

Keeping the area where your employees work clean and tidy is good for morale but also good for preventing illness. Here’s your office cleaning checklist:

·       Empty trash and recycling. Replace liners.

·       Dust desks, computer screens, filing cabinets, tables chair legs, and windowsills.

·       Dust air vents and baseboards.

·       Vacuum carpeting.

·       Wipe and sanitize cleared desk areas and tables. Remove any coffee rings.

·       Sanitize high-touch areas such as light switches, doorknobs, and phones.

·       Spot clean interior windows.

Your janitorial services or commercial cleaning staff should complete this checklist every time they perform office cleaning. You will also want to schedule project-based cleaning when it is convenient for you, such as commercial carpet cleaning, hard surface floor cleaning and sealing, etc.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning services.

We offer:

·       Recurring cleaning

·       One-time cleaning

·       Project-based cleaning

·       Janitorial services

·       Disinfection services

·       Other specialty commercial cleaning

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, review your office cleaning checklist, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Reduce Sick Days with Professional Commercial Cleaning

Cold and flu season in Maryland is in full swing. Just take a look at this the Maryland Influenza dashboard for some sobering numbers. This year’s flu outbreak started early, and became widespread quickly. It has also led to the highest hospitalization rate in 10 years. For most office managers and facility managers, the numbers can be a bit daunting.

How can you prevent an outbreak from decimating your workforce? You might be surprised to learn that regular commercial cleaning and disinfecting can help you reduce the number of sick days your employees need. Keep reading to learn more.

Understand How Cold and Flu Viruses Spread

One of the major reasons the flu virus manages to affect so many people in the Fall and Winter is that our proximity to one another increases as we spend more time indoors because it’s cold outside.  If you manage an office or lead a school, the situation can be bleak.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people can spread the flu via droplets produced by sneezing and coughing, or by touching surfaces that contain the flu virus. People with the flu are infections one day before they show symptoms, and up to a week after becoming sick.

In an office, warehouse, or school, people are constantly within close proximity to one another, share many of the same office appliances, use the same bathrooms, touch the same doorknobs, elevator buttons, stair railings, etc. In the height of flu season, such a scenario can be a recipe for disaster. But you can avert disaster by working with your commercial cleaning company.

How Professional Commercial Cleaning Services Can Help

Professional commercial cleaning and janitorial services from ServiceMaster Clean PBM provide your business or school with quality cleaning services that go beyond vacuuming, mopping and dusting, emptying the trash, etc. We also include disinfecting and sanitizing of common office and school “touchpoints,” or surfaces most often subject to human contact.

These can include:

·       Doorknobs or door exit bars

·       Telephones

·       Elevator buttons

·       Stair rails

·       Drinking fountain handles/push bars

·       Faucets

·       Desks

·       Refrigerator handles

·       Microwave buttons

·       Light switches

·       Copy machines

·       Bathroom stalls and fixtures

·       Common areas

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Your ServiceMaster Clean PBM staff are careful to avoid cross contamination, making sure that all office equipment, high-touch surfaces, and appliances are completely cleared of any lingering virus droplets or bacteria before the conclusion of each cleaning.

With our help, and with the cooperation of your employees or students, everyone who comes through your doors will be confident they can use keyboards, telephones, and other appliances without getting sick.

Other Steps You Can Take to Prevent the Spread of Illness

Beyond keeping your facility clean and disinfected, there are other measures you can take to help keep people healthy.

Encourage Employees to Get the Flu Vaccine

It’s not too late to get the flu vaccine, and reports show this year’s vaccine targets the current strains very well. While someone may still get the flu, the vaccine will help it be a milder case, and prevent hospitalization.

Vaccines are free with insurance at local pharmacies, grocery stores, and doctor’s offices. And if your facility is hit hard by people calling in sick with the flu this year, consider sponsoring a flu vaccine clinic next fall, with incentives for getting the vaccine.

Send Sick Employees Home, or Encourage Them to Stay Home

Reinforce that employees should stay home if they have a fever, cough, or other symptoms of the flu. If they come to work and are obviously in ill health, send them home. They need to take care of their health, and you need to protect the rest of the employees and customers.

Remind People of Basic Hygiene

Consider posting brochures or signs reminding people to cover a cough or sneeze, and to wash hands frequently with soap and water. Provide hand sanitizer for employees to keep in their offices or on their desks.

Don’t let a flu outbreak affect your bottom line. Take precautions to protect your employees and reduce sick days. It’s worth it.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning company Baltimore and disinfecting services.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Review Your Commercial Cleaning Contract Now

As an office manager or facilities manager, it’s part of your job to make sure your offices and facilities are clean and sanitary. If you haven’t already, take time before the end of the year to review your commercial cleaning contract. Are you not convinced you’re getting what you’re paying for? Does the commercial cleaning company doing the work leave something to be desired?

It may be time to fire your commercial cleaning company. But don’t be hasty. Ask yourself some questions and weigh the answers.

1.    Do their rates keep going up with no increased service?

This might not actually be a bad thing, in today’s economy. Companies are finding they need to raise hourly wages to attract and retain quality employees. If your commercial cleaning company has notified you of a rate increase, ask why before you decide to shop around. Sometimes quality service is worth paying a bit more.

2.    Are there “people problems”?

Does it seem like you have a different person coming in each time to clean? This can be a problem if they don’t follow the specific checklist you have for cleaning your facility. Did you find out the company has been paying employees “under the table”? Do they have inadequate employee screening?

Companies that cut corners in their hiring don’t get, or keep, quality employees. And that means you don’t get the clean you deserve, because employees who don’t feel valued aren’t inclined to put in their best effort.

3.    Are they unprofessional and inconsistent?

Is everything getting cleaned every time? Or do you find that trash cans didn’t get emptied or floors didn’t get cleaned? Or did they leave a door unlocked? You need professionals who take their job seriously and provide a consistent, high level of cleaning and disinfecting every time. And leaving a door unlocked is reason for immediate termination.

4.    Are they unresponsive?

This one is truly a deal breaker. If your cleaning company representative or staff member (or both!) don’t respond to notes, emails, phone calls, or worst of all, face-to-face complaints, it’s time to find a new provider. Or if they respond and say “we’ll take care of it” but never do, it’s time to move on.

Finding a New Commercial Cleaning Company

Finding a new commercial cleaning company that you can trust to do the job right doesn’t have to be hard. Get references and read the reviews of the companies you’re considering before you reach out to get a quote.

Read through their websites to see what you can learn about their company processes, including employee training. Consider looking at their current job listings to see what they pay, what sort of requirements they have for the job (screenings), and if they offer paid training.

Come up with a list of questions to ask each company so that you can compare their quotes most accurately. Once you’ve met with a representative from each company, decide who you want to work with.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning and disinfecting services.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Use Holiday Downtime to Schedule a Deep Cleaning for Your Facility

If yours is like most businesses, your foot traffic in your building decreases dramatically during the days surrounding Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. You have employees taking much-needed time off, and unless you’re in retail, you may not have as many clients or patients coming through your doors.

As a facility manager, property manager, or office manager, it’s your job to keep your offices or building looking their best. But that can be hard to do with heavy occupancy. That’s why the holiday break periods are a great time to schedule a deep cleaning for your facility.

Let’s look at some of the things you’ll want to include.

Commercial Carpet Cleaning

Depending on the last time you had your carpets cleaned, you may want to schedule commercial carpet cleaning during the holiday break. This is also a good time to ask your commercial cleaning company if they provide mats you can put at entry doors to protect your carpeting from the salt, snow, and slush people will begin to track in during the winter.

Upholstery Cleaning

If you have a waiting room or offices where clients or patients sit, the upholstery will need periodic cleaning. No one wants to sit on a stained chair or couch, and it speaks badly of your business. Scheduling upholstery cleaning during holiday downtime ensures the least disruption.

Deep Clean the Restrooms

When was the last time your restrooms received a deep clean? Not the daily clean the toilets and wipe down the sinks clean. We mean the deep clean the tile, grout, stalls, walls, and exhaust fans. The best time to do the deep clean is when no one needs to use the restroom.

Deep Clean the Kitchen or Break Room

Your janitorial service cleans the kitchen or breakroom on a regular basis. But that may not include cleaning the microwave(s) and clearing out the refrigerators. The holiday break is an excellent time to schedule this. They can remove all the baked-on goo in the microwaves, and dump everything except water and unopened sodas from the refrigerators and give the inside a good cleaning and disinfecting.

The last thing anyone wants to find when they come back from a holiday break is some science experiment in the fridge.

Let the Light Shine

Now is also a good time for cleaning those hard-to-reach lighting fixtures. Your commercial cleaning team may need to use ladders to reach some fixtures. Point out which fixtures are dusty or grimy. Cleaning them can change a dim warehouse floor to a brightly-lit area. The team can use this opportunity to replace any burned-out bulbs as well.

Cleaning the inside of your windows can let more natural light in. Do you have windows high up in a cavernous warehouse that haven’t been cleaned since they were installed? Arrange to clean them now, during holiday downtime. Your employees will notice the difference when they return.

Get a FREE Quote for Baltimore Commercial Cleaning Services

If you are looking to schedule a deep cleaning of your Baltimore area building or facility, we can help. We have decades of experience cleaning and sanitizing commercial facilities of all kinds, from warehouses to medical facilities to office buildings. We do deep cleaning as a one-time project, or as a service to our existing customers.

We are now booking deep-clean appointments for the holiday break periods. Because deep cleaning can take longer and require more employees, spots are limited, so call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started. We serve clients in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

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Tips to Keep Your Building Clean and Healthy this Cold and Flu Season

If businesses learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that illness spreads quickly if you don’t take some precautions. Use what you learned during the worst of the pandemic to help keep your workplace healthy and safe as we enter cold and flu season. And remember, COVID is still very much present in some communities.

Tip #1: Clean and Disinfect Regularly

Ask your commercial cleaning company or janitorial staff to increase cleaning and disinfecting of frequently touched surfaces such as sink faucets, toilet faucets, doorknobs, light switches, elevator buttons, etc.

Provide disinfecting wipes for employees to wipe down phones, keyboards, door handles and other objects after they use them. Provide hand sanitizer throughout your building for the use of employees and visitors.

And, if you purchased air purifiers during the worst of the pandemic, plug them in again during cold and flu season.

Tip #2: Set Up a Free Vaccine Clinic

If you have a larger office or company, consider setting up a free vaccine clinic at your work site. Partner with a local pharmacy such as Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, etc. Vaccines are completely covered by insurance, and by setting up the clinic onsite, you make it easy for employees to get whichever vaccines are appropriate for them. These include:

·       Flu vaccine

·       COVID-19 vaccines and boosters

·       Pneumococcal vaccines

·       Shingles vaccines

And make it clear to employees that getting any vaccine is voluntary, and is not required as a condition of employment. However, by increasing the percentage of your employees who are vaccinated, you can lessen the chance of severe illness.

Tip #3: Remind Employees and Customers to Stay Home When They’re Sick

This is a big one. If your company doesn’t offer paid time off, you’ll have employees coming to work sick. That means they spread their illness to other employees, and potentially to customers. Consider offering paid sick time if you don’t already. Anyone with a fever should stay home. It means they have an active infection, and need to rest to let their body fight it off.

If you run a medical facility, continue all of the screening questions before a patient/client is allowed to enter your premises.

In Conclusion

No workplace can totally prevent employees from getting colds, the flu, or COVID. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of an outbreak that forces you to shut down your business or hire temporary staff.

Get a FREE Quote for Commercial Cleaning Services You Can Count On

Whether you’re an office manager, facilities manager, or HR manager looking to keep your employees healthy and your business running smoothly, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for commercial cleaning and disinfecting services.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your facility. We serve commercial clients of all kinds in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Commercial Cleaning Tips for Autumn

Whether you’re a building owner, property manager, facilities manager, or business owner, you know that keeping your building(s) clean is of utmost importance to your tenants and prospective customers. While regular janitorial services can keep the bathrooms clean and the carpets vacuumed, deep cleaning of other areas should be done at least twice a year.

Your commercial cleaning company should be suggesting that you do a deep spring clean and another in the autumn. If they haven’t mentioned it, you may want to take time to review your overall cleaning plan and schedule some extra project cleaning.

We’ve pulled together some tips to help ensure your building, your tenants, employees, and prospective customers benefit.

1.    Vacuum Low and High

With regular vacuuming, the focus is on your carpeting. Fall is a great time to use vacuum cleaner attachments and vacuum up high, as well. Cobwebs can easily form in corners that don’t get much attention. Fall is also the time that spiders like to move inside and build a home. Ask your commercial cleaning company to notify you if they see an infiltration of bugs or insects. You can then notify your pest control company.

2.    Dust High and Hard to Reach Areas

Ceiling fans, hanging lights, and other fixtures collect a lot of dust. But these high fixtures may not be included in your regular commercial cleaning plan. Dust them at least every spring and every fall.

3.    Deep Clean Hard Surface Floors

Tile floors, concrete floors, vinyl floors, and hardwood floors could all use deep cleaning and sealing in the fall. This serves a two-fold purpose: You get rid of all of the dirt and grime tracked in since last spring, and by sealing the floors, you protect them from the salt and other deicers that will most certainly be tracked in this winter.

4.    Clean the Windows Inside and Out

Pollen, dirt, and grime may be covering the outside of your windows, while ordinary dust and residue coat the inside. Cleaning your windows in the fall helps you make the most of the dwindling natural light that comes with fall and winter. Clean the windowsills as well. If the windows open, clean the tracks, too.

5.    Deep Clean the Restrooms

Regular toilet cleaning, cleaning of the sinks and mirrors, and mopping the floor will keep your restrooms in acceptable condition. You should also schedule a deep clean in autumn, which can involve tile and grout cleaning, scrubbing the floor behind toilets, wiping down and disinfecting the walls, and cleaning the drains.

6.    Deep Clean the Kitchen or Breakroom

If your building or office has a kitchen or breakroom, it deserves a deep clean, too. Your commercial cleaning company takes care of the floors and counters. But does anyone clean the microwave? Give it a deep clean now, and schedule the same to be done monthly. Emphasize to your employees to clean it if something they’re reheating or cooking splatters.

Now is a good time to deep clean the cupboards and refrigerator, too. Dispose of anything that has reached its expiration date. Remove everything from the refrigerator and clean and sanitize the shelves and drawers, along with the door seals.

7.    Change HVAC and Air Filters

Your facilities maintenance team should be changing your HVAC filters regularly. As your building switches over from running the AC to heating, it’s especially important to ensure that you have new filters in place. And if you have air purifiers or air cleaners, remove and clean or replace those filters as applicable.

8.    Organize an Office Cleaning Day for Your Employees

If you run an office or office building, schedule a cleaning day for your employees. No, this is not about them cleaning the bathroom or break room. This is about them reducing clutter and helping organize the office. Provide extra trashcans they can use to dispose of old reports, food wrappers, and anything that’s not needed anymore.

Provide disinfecting wipes they can use to wipe down their desk and get to that coffee spill they forgot about. They should also wipe down their phone, computer, keyboard, and filing cabinets.

Get a FREE Quote for Baltimore Commercial Cleaning Services

If you’re looking for a new commercial cleaning team for your Baltimore area building or facility, we can help. We have decades of experience cleaning and sanitizing commercial facilities of all kinds, from churches to schools to medical facilities and office buildings.

We develop a cleaning plan tailored to your needs, to include daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly commercial cleaning tasks. We can clean day or night, depending on your schedule.  We serve clients in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Is Your Janitorial Services Team Making the Grade?

With school starting, now is a good time as a principal, facilities manager, or even school board member, to take a close look at how clean your educational facilities are. Do you like what you see? Sparkling bathrooms? Shiny floors? Your janitorial services team gets an A+.

If your trash bins are overflowing and there never seems to be enough toilet paper or paper towels in the bathrooms, or the light fixtures in the library STILL don’t have new light bulbs, your team may be heading towards a failing grade.

What to Do If Your Current Team Is Not Meeting Your Expectations

If your current janitorial services team is not meeting your expectations, you have several options. What you choose to do will depend on the size of the problem and how long it’s been going on.

In-House Team

With an in-house team, these people are your employees. You can give a performance review to one or more individuals. You can give them a chance to improve. If it’s a situation where you have already given a second chance, you may decide it’s time to look for a replacement for the one employee.

If, however, the team as a whole isn’t meeting expectations, you may decide to outsource, and save yourself some HR headaches as well as improve your bottom line. Keep reading to learn more.

Consider Outsourcing Your Janitorial Services

There are several reasons to outsource your janitorial services. These include cost effectiveness, flexibility, expertise, and more. Let’s take a look.

Cost Effectiveness

If you currently have a janitorial staff who are employees of your educational facility, you may be paying more than you should. With a commercial cleaning company, you can achieve economy of scale. Instead of hiring a separate janitorial staff for each school building, you hire one company. You pay a flat rate instead of an hourly rate for each janitor.

And by outsourcing, you don’t have to pay for workers’ compensation insurance for each employee. A commercial janitorial services provider will cover that insurance, as well as liability insurance. In addition, you don’t have to purchase cleaning supplies, equipment, or pay for training. We take care of all of those costs.

Enhanced Flexibility

By outsourcing your janitorial services, you get a larger workforce at your fingertips. Do you need someone to do specialty cleaning for a big event? No problem. You also don’t have to worry about scheduling a replacement when your regular janitor gets sick or needs to take time off. A commercial provider handles all of the scheduling.

We tailor our cleaning schedule to your needs. That can include daytime cleaning as well as after-hours cleaning. And for colleges and universities, where the learning never stops, we work weekends too!

Expertise

How hard can it be to clean a toilet or mop a floor, you say. Cleaning and sanitizing your facility to keep it looking its best as well as preventing the spread of contagious diseases takes specialized training. You need a janitorial services team that says up to date with the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting.

All of our employees undergo location-specific training to ensure your students, faculty, and staff benefit from the highest standard of clean.  

Get a FREE Quote for School or University Janitorial Services

Whether you’re a school board member looking at ways to cut costs or you’re a facilities manager for a community college or university, we would welcome the chance to give you a free quote for janitorial services.  We’ve been in the commercial cleaning business for decades, and can offer you references within the field of education.

At our onsite visit, we’ll go over your needs and expectations, and come up with a plan tailored to your educational facility. We serve public and private primary and secondary schools, as well as higher education campuses in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Harford County.

Call 410-618-4527 or fill out the Get a Quote form to get started.

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Encapsulation Cleaning: Why It’s Best for Commercial Carpet Cleaning

Whether you own your commercial building or you’re the facilities manager, you know that your carpeted flooring takes a beating. It’s also one of the first things people see when they enter your building. A dirty and dingy carpet can give the wrong first impression. That’s why it’s important to schedule regular commercial carpet cleaning. It will remove dirt, stains, allergens, and more.

The team here at ServiceMaster Clean PBM Baltimore wants to help you keep every aspect of your facility clean and looking its best. That’s why we suggest the encapsulation cleaning method for use between major cleanings. It’s especially useful for high-traffic areas.

What Is Encapsulation Cleaning?

Carpet encapsulation cleaning, also known as “encap” or “encapping” is a low moisture carpet maintenance method that keeps your carpeting looking pristine between deep cleanings. During encapsulation carpet cleaning, we apply a specially formulated detergent and brush it into the carpet using a counter-rotating brush machine. Using this machine complies with most carpet warranties.

The solution then surrounds (encapsulates) each soil particle in the carpet fibers and crystallizes them. This method works on dust and dirt particles as well as sticky particles left over from a spilled soda. This encapsulation prevents soils from attracting more soil particles.  Once the soil particles are encapsulated, we can easily remove them by regular vacuuming.

While there are different carpet encapsulation cleaning methods, they all involve quick dry times - generally 30 minutes or less. This minimal dry time means less inconvenience for you, your employees, or your customers.  

The Encapsulation Cleaning Process

There are just a few steps involved in the encapsulation method of commercial carpet cleaning.

1.     Vacuuming

If we already provide your regular commercial cleaning or janitorial services, we know that our crews do regular vacuuming. This picks any loose, dry soil, which is necessary to prepare the carpet for the encapsulation cleaning process. If we do not already provide commercial cleaning services, we will pre-vacuum before starting encapsulation cleaning of your carpets.

2. Spot Pre-Treatment

We will pre-treat significant spots and stains. While pre-treating isn't always necessary, carpets with significant spots will require   We will spray down the spot and allow the encapsulation solution to soak into the carpet for several minutes. We may also use a special tool to agitate stubborn spots before running the carpet encapsulation machine.

Benefits of Encapsulation Carpet Cleaning

Encapsulation cleaning has several benefits, including:

·       Encapsulation cleaning can help keep your carpets looking cleaner longer between deep cleanings.

·       Carpet encapsulation can extend the life of your commercial carpet.

·       Carpets are dry in under 30 minutes in most cases.

Dirty, stained or worn-out carpeting can negatively impact your customers' opinion of your business. But you can improve the look of your carpeting and make it last longer by being proactive. Encapsulation cleaning is something we can add into your regular commercial cleaning contract, if we already provide you with services.

When to Schedule Commercial Carpet Cleaning

Since encapsulation cleaning is such a low-moisture carpet cleaning method, you can schedule it any time.

Full commercial carpet cleaning with extraction cleaning is one of our specialty cleaning services. You can schedule regular carpet cleaning or cleaning before or after special events – whatever your facility needs. A lot of our clients choose to have the carpets cleaned overnight, or on the weekends when no one is working. Summer is also a great time for carpet cleaning for schools on summer break.

Get a FREE Commercial Carpet Cleaning Estimate

If we already provide your commercialcleaning services, getting an estimate for commercial carpet cleaning is as simple as calling our office or speaking with your cleaning crew. We already know the size and layout of your facility.

If this is the first time you’ve contacted ServiceMaster Clean PBM of Baltimore, we’ll need to schedule an on-site consultation where we can assess your commercial carpet cleaning needs. We’ll develop a customized plan based on stain removal, carpeting type, and more. We may also take the time to assess your general commercial cleaning needs.

ServiceMaster Clean PBM has decades of experience providing a superior level of clean to office buildings, medical facilities, schools, and industrial locations throughout Baltimore and Harford counties. Schedule an on-site consultation by filling out the Get a Quote form, or call (410) 618-4527. We look forward to working with you.