Office Cleaning Window Trick

With the toilets gleaming behind you, and your window cleaner in hand, you are now off to clean the office windows.

As I mentioned in my previous article about commercial cleaning, window cleaner is just as useful for cleaning stainless steel as it is for cleaning the office windows. Have a look around the office: what can you see made of stainless steel? It’s possible the bins are made of stainless steel, maybe the company logo, maybe around the high-traffic areas on the doors there is a stainless steel strip.

Before you clean the office’s stainless steel, get the windows done.

One thing to note: don’t lean out of a window to try to clean it. Your job is the inside glass – not the outside.
Many office spaces have individual offices blocked off with glass walls. These glass walls pick up dust and muck: dust kicked up from an uncleaned carpet ; finger prints; heck, maybe even oily forehead prints left by someone in a moment of desperation! As the office cleaner your job is to remove that moment of desperation!

Another little note: if you see a lot of dust at ground level you should suggest to the office manager that the company would benefit from having the carpets professionally cleaned, because the carpet is no longer functioning effectively in its ‘air cleaning’ job.
There are a couple of ways to clean office windows. You could use the window cleaning spray, or you could use water with a little washing-up liquid wiped on with a wet cloth. Be careful if you use a window spray, because it can damage wood.
Either way spray or wipe from the top down. If there are scratches in the glass polish with a tiny bit of toothpaste. Back in the old days we were told to use newspaper to polish glass to a shine, but as papers are now printed using inkjet printers the paper is different and leaves a film. A useful alternative is coffee filters.
When you have cleaned the windows look at them from a range of angles to check for streaks then polish that area again to remove it.
With your windows done you can now move on to the stainless steel. Although window cleaner can damage wood, it gets rid of greasy fingerprints very well indeed. For particularly stubborn fingerprints, a dab of oil rubbed on will get rid of them before you buff up the stainless steel with the window cleaner. Now fly like a magpie and polish all that shiny stuff.

*Dusting

When you’re office cleaning you are trusted with access to people’s hard work, work that they are quite often in the middle of when they leave for the day. Diligent though you may be, you should not move pieces of paper in order to clean. Clean around the work: lift the keyboard, dust the monitor, wipe under and around the in-tray, but try your hardest to not touch the work itself. As you leave each desk pull the chair out so when you clean the office floor it’s easy to get under the desk.

*Cleaning the Floor

Whether you’re vacuuming or mopping the office floor clean the edges and corners first, then, as you did when you were cleaning the toilets, work towards the door. When mopping work in either a figure-of-8 with a tradition mop or leading with the dirty edge with a straight mop across the whole floor.
As you finish under each desk push the chair back in and put the bin back on the floor (remember you put it on the desk when you were emptying the bins). Again as you reach the door clean the door handle and turn out the light as you leave.

• Empty the bins

• Wipe around the papers

• Clean the windows/bathrooms

• Mop the floors

• Vacuum

• Office

• Pick up rubbish from floor before empyting the bin.

• Put bin back in place and push chair to deskOR leave bin on desk and pull chair back to vaccum

• Don’t remove anything unless it says it’s rubbish if it’s in a box