| All the talk in the cleaning press at the moment and | | | | Cleaning toilet areas is not a problem. Cleaning kitchen |
| over the past few months has been about the move | | | | areas is a problem as they tend to be in constant |
| to cleaning offices during normal working hours. | | | | use during the day. Doing anything to hard floors is |
| Machine manufacturers are coming up with quiet | | | | also a problem. If there are people using those hard |
| vacuum cleaners, scrubber driers and buffing | | | | floors then while they are being cleaned they have to |
| machines all of which supposedly allow you to carry | | | | be diverted away from those areas which is |
| out the cleaning without disturbing the occupants of | | | | obviously an inconvenience to them and something |
| the premises. | | | | that is not going to be tolerated for long.. Any food |
| For cleaning companies this would make life a lot | | | | deposited in waste disposal units, bins etc will be left |
| more pleasant and cleans easier and cheaper to | | | | overnight with the potential to smell come the |
| manage and the cleaners would be able to work | | | | following day. Also there can be no attempt at |
| more sociable hours. According to some reports in | | | | cleaning work stations whilst someone is at work. |
| the cleaning press companies are falling over | | | | All in all the problems of cleaners trying to do their |
| themselves to switch their cleaning to office hours as | | | | work whilst the occupants of a building are trying to |
| opposed to after they have closed down for the | | | | carry on with their work far outweigh the |
| day. My own experience would not indicate that this | | | | advantages. Cleaning times will be extended and |
| is so. None of our clients have asked to move their | | | | prices will rise. The theory is good and I would love |
| cleaning times or even considered it as a feasible | | | | to be able to get all the cleaning out of the way |
| option when they have been approached about the | | | | come five in the evening but the practicalities will not |
| possibilities of changing the cleaning times. | | | | allow it to happen in many work environments. |
| Vacuuming with ‘silent' vacuums is not a problem. | | | | |