Things To Look For In A Great Cleaning Service For Your School

Large public buildings, such as schools, rely on professional cleaning services in order to maintain the building and help with it’s up keep. It is unrealistic to expect one cleaner to do this for the whole school and so in most cases a team is hired from a professional, outsourced company.

Although, not the most important aspect of any school, its cleanliness will ultimately decide whether people want to send their children there and there are obviously many issues related to hygiene and safety when dealing with children. However, it may not be wise to just hire the first cleaning company you come across to take care of your school’s sanitation. Here are a few things it’s a good idea to consider.

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CRB Checks

As when hiring anyone who could possibly come into contact with the children, it is important that you ensure that they have been CRB checked in advance. Not all companies will do this with their employees and so when choosing a company to clean your school, it is best to ask whether this is the case or not. It will be a much smoother exchange if the company has experience in cleaning schools as this will mean that all of their staff have already had the relevant checks.

Discrete

As with any cleaning company, you would rather see evidence of them being there (in the form of clean toilets and vacuumed hallways) than have to constantly walk around them when travelling around the building. The best cleaning services will be in and out without you even knowing too much about it, whilst leaving everything spick and span behind them.

Flexibility

Obviously you don’t really want the cleaners to be in the school whilst the children are and so any professional cleaning company you hire, like this one in Bristol for example, will need to be able to work the hours that you stipulate. As long as they are flexible enough to carry out their work either before or after the school day, you can ensure they will deliver a great service with minimum disruption to your staff or students.

Highly Recommended

One of the best ways to know whether a certain cleaning services will be appropriate for your school is to see if they come highly recommended or not. You can find this out by asking if they have any references from similar establishments they have worked for in the past, as well as checking their credibility with national industry authorities such as the British Institute of Cleaning Science.

Environmentally Friendly

In recent years, there has been much more emphasis placed on looking after the environment in our day to day lives. Therefore you may want to consider whether the company you are looking to hire holds this moral obligation too. The cleaning chemicals that they use should be as green as possible and, of course, extremely safe to use within an environment that will be filled with hundreds of children on a daily basis. Green cleaning products are being used more and more these days but it’s still best to be sure.

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By Chris Mayhew

Chris Mayhew remembers the cleaners at his school being very discrete and doing a great job. He would recommend Creese Cleaning Contractors to anyone looking for the perfect cleaning company for their Bristol based school.