Office Cleaning in Philadelphia

What office cleaning covers

• Desk surfaces and phone handsets wiped, keyboards and screens left alone
• Break room counters, the sink, the microwave and the fridge fronts
• Restrooms cleaned, and the paper, soap and liners put back out
• Desk bins and recycling emptied, and the bags taken outside
• Carpet vacuumed along the walkways, hard floors swept and mopped
• Conference room reset: table wiped down, chairs pushed back in

What is usually not included

• Buying the supplies. Paper, soap and liners are usually bought by the office, and the cleaner puts them out.
• Dishes left in the sink and old food in the break room fridge. Both are usually left to the staff.
• Carpet shampooing, and stripping and waxing hard floors. That runs on its own schedule and is quoted apart from the regular visit.

When to book office cleaning

Book this for a workplace on a regular contract, usually outside working hours. Frequency and hours are agreed with the cleaner directly.

How long it takes

The visit normally happens after the last person has left for the day. An office cleaned several nights a week gets a shorter visit each night than the same office cleaned once a week: the trash and the restrooms are usually on every visit either way.

What makes the price go up

• How many nights a week someone comes in, and whether weekends are in it
• The number of restrooms. Each one is a full stop on the route, not a wipe on the way past
• How many desks are packed onto the floor. The vacuum has to get around every chair
• Whether the break room gets used for lunch every day or is just a coffee counter

What to ask before you book

• Do we buy the paper towels and the toilet paper, or do you bring them?
• What do you do with a desk covered in paper? Do you wipe around it or skip it?
• Is the carpet cleaning part of this, or is that a separate job later on?

What office cleaning looks like in Philadelphia

Philadelphia is a rowhouse city: narrow, deep homes sharing walls, two or three floors up a tight staircase, a front door opening straight onto the sidewalk and a basement below. Winters are cold, the radiators run, and salt from the sidewalks comes in on shoes. Summers are humid, and the middle of the house gets little daylight.

The front door opens on the sidewalk, so street grit lands in the first room and stair treads take the worst of winter. A vacuum gets carried up narrow stairs instead of rolling room to room. Radiators collect dust down between the columns, and the dim middle rooms need a light brought in.