How many metres per hour can a professional cleaner attend to?

Question

How much "general office cleaning" can be done per hour (in metres)

How much "hard floor cleaning" can be done per hour (in metres)

How much "toilet deep cleaning" can be done per hour (in metres)

Any help you could offer woudl be great as I am looking at getting some cleaners in to where I work?

Thanks
stgindigo (From UK)

Answer 1

You are focusing on the wrong thing here - although a lot of businesses award Cleaning Contracts based on Price, by far the more vital thing is Honesty & Reliability.

A difference of a few hundred ££'s per year is more than balanced by the number of laptops, cameras, mobile phones and calculators that go missing as a result of untrustworthy staff or clearners leaving doors (especially rear doors) propped open and unattended.

Contact at least 3 Cleaning Companies that operate in your area and ask them to produce a detailed Quote - tell them they canm come in to measure up (if they are interested thay will send some-one in to evaluate the task - make sure yopu point out all the Toilets etc.)

Ask them to give all the figures used in calculating their tender price. Insist give you figures for Staff Turnover, average length of existing Contracts and the names of at least 3 existing Customers who will provide References.

Evaluate the Quotations and be sure to take up references - you might also ask to see the cleaners at work.

When you write the Contract have an 'Honesty' break-clause = make sure the Cleaning Company is made aware that they will be held responsible for the honesty of their staff and that their Contrtact will be terminated if anything goes missing.

If 'stuff' starts to go missing clamp down immediatly .. - at my last place it started with a Mice going missing - them desktop Calculators and finally whole Laptops and LCD screens. Der Management responded by asking Line Managers to lock away their staff's Laptops and screens every night - then the docking stations started to go missing ...

Eventually Der Management checked the outside security tapes are saw a Cleaner moving docking stations etc. from black rubbish bags to the back of his car ...

At another place the Cleaners had a habbit of propping open the rear doors next to the dustbins outside Goods Inwards. This was in a town center and anyone walking past the back-ally could (and did) look in. One day we had a delivery from Dell - 15 brand new PC's. stacked in Goods Inwards ... but not after the Cleaners had been...