Got a look at a small, multi-tenant medical building yesterday. The building manager is shopping (slowly) for a new service (we provide commercial janitorial service in Phoenix AZ), given the gosh-awful appearance of the common areas: grubby ceramic lobbies, badly soiled and spotted carpet in the halls, filthy stair rails, etc. I won't even begin on the restrooms.
The building manager has noticed that he's having trouble leasing space in the building, and is beginning (slowly) to wonder if the decidedly unsanitary appearance of the building might have something to do with it, being a medical building and all...
Happened to run into the current janitor in the building; she's cleaning it during office hours. Consider the safety issues of damp-mopping ceramic lobbies with patients walking through them. Further, she's damp-mopping with a string mop, so the floor stays wet as long as possible (microfiber lays down less solution, and picks up much more of what it laid down). Not using "wet floor" signs, to better surprise the unwary.
Consider the carpet - vacuuming down the long hallways, one's chord strung out behind, to trip the patients. At least, she's not trying to shampoo during the daytime, as badly needed as the shampooing is.
And, to add insult to injury, cleaning in the daytime allows one's competition (me) to check out procedures and equipment, and have fun doing it. I see a $99.00 upright vacuum, with no chance of HEPA filtration. Feather duster, in preference to microfiber dust wipes, to better leave the dust in the building. Scouring powder, not a soft-scrub, for the sinks (hard on the sinks, and on the folks breathing in the powder). No carpet spotter.
It's not a job, it's an adventure.
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My firm, CBN Building Maintenance, provides commercial cleaning services in Phoenix AZ and the wider metro area. We've been in business since 1974; hold the BBB's A-plus rating; and have long been in the forefront of the industry in environmentally sensitive cleaning for health, safety and security. Our program can generally improve Indoor Air Quality, in the size range of most allergens, by a factor of 50%, as reflected in our ongoing IAQ sampling.
I can see some places being cleaned during the day, but not a medical building.
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Posted by: RJ | 10/11/2010 at 07:44 PM
Just a lot of issues over and above the usual. Thanks for the note.
Posted by: Bob | 10/12/2010 at 09:31 AM