You can’t get away from the need to clean. Making sure your business has a clean and crisp presentation for customers and ensuring employees have a comfortable working environment is essential. The issue is that many businesses perceive outsourced high-level internal cleaning and building façade cleaning to be costs – but we explain why investing in commercial cleaning always pays off.
Where are those savings made?
Many cleaning companies are quick to offer their super-low prices, but things are rarely as they seem. Firstly, many cleaning companies attract customers by offering low prices for what amounts to a bare-bones cleaning package. As you begin adding essential parts of the service, the cost quickly begins to rise.
Also, ask yourself where a cleaning business is making those savings to pass on to you. Often they do so by not hiring properly trained employees, or using sub-standard cleaning equipment and supplies. Ultimately you’ll be saving money, but the final result will never be satisfactory.
Investment over cost
Changing your outlook on outsourced cleaning services to being an investment rather than a cost ultimately assures you of a better quality service. What’s the difference? A cost is something that gives you nothing in return, it’s just something you have to pay.
When you think about it, outsourced cleaning is definitely an investment – what you get in return is a clean, presentable, and professional-looking space in which to conduct business.
What are you investing in?
Paying a little bit more for outsourced cleaning means you’re getting access to better quality cleaning products to be used in your facility. More reliable and efficient equipment will also be used. Similarly, employees will have more experience and operate in a more professional manner.
Ongoing training is important – but it isn’t free. Cleaning companies offering low-cost services get around this by simply not bothering to train. However when you invest a little more, you’re getting access to the benefits of that training – both in more efficient cleaning and being able to better use updated cleaning technology.
Ultimately the proof is in the pudding – namely when you invest a little more into outsourced cleaning, you’ll get a better quality end result. It’s an investment that always provides safe returns.
Investing in commercial cleaning – where to find out more
In the main, our focus is on providing high quality, scheduled commercial window cleaning services. We hold many prestigious window cleaning contracts on large buildings, while at the same time providing an invaluable window cleaning service to our SME and retail clients across London and the South East. In addition to this, we work closely with many facilities and management companies, who require expertise and high-quality window cleaning services provided at the market rate. We also provide other support services that go hand-in-hand with window cleaning i.e gutter clearance, cladding/façade/signage cleaning and pressure washing. Furthermore, we have dedicated out of hours carpet cleaning teams and high-level internal dust control teams.
To find out more about our commercial cleaning services, please visit our services web page.
If you’d like to request a site survey for the inspection or cleaning of gutters at your commercial property, please fill in our online form to request this.