What you should know about cleaning schools

Posted by Klaris Chua-Pineda on October 1st, 2019

The best educational spaces are organised, fully equipped with learning tools, and safe. As an educator, you are not only responsible for teaching students their lessons, but you are also responsible for their safety. Professional commercial cleaners understand the impact of cleanliness on student safety. This knowledge defines their choice and approach to providing cleaning solutions to schools.

Commercial school cleaning provides detailed, large scale cleaning solutions which can't be
provided by ordinary cleaners. These services are provided to educational facilities such as early childhood learning centres, daycare centres, pre-schools, and kindergartens. It also covers primary schools, secondary schools, universities, and colleges.

Educational cleaning services may include (but are not limited to):

• Sweeping of all floors especially harder to reach areas like cabinets, desks,
  boards, and special equipment
• Removal of cobwebs in floor corners, walls, and ceilings
• Extensive mopping of floors using industrial microfiber mop pads
• Scrubbing of floors using special machines and brushes
• Cleaning of windows using a microfibre cloth, squeegees, etc.
• Thorough cleaning of toilets and bathrooms
• Scouring sinks, toilets, and tiles
• Scrubbing hard to reach places and blind spots like tap heads, doorknobs, and flush handles
• Dusting cabinets, baseboards, and door panels

There is more to school cleaning than just wiping away dust, emptying trash bins and making floors shiny. Not everything that looks clean is safe. Undesirable infections such as flu or measles can spread faster in schools than in other public places.

Which is why school owners should be encouraged to ensure that their spaces are safe for students. Professional cleaners would easily define safety as the absence of both dirt and disease-causing microbes. This explains their thoroughness and attention to detail when it comes to cleaning.