Building Janitorial Maintenance
While nobody wants to take out the trash, clean a bathroom or vacuum a rug, every business needs someone to do these things. A building janitorial maintenance service provider can do the dirty work for you, cleaning and maintaining the facilities of any size or type of business.
The basics
Building janitorial maintenance providers deliver an array of services. The most common day-to-day janitorial duties include:
- Disposing trash
- Vacuuming and mopping common walkways
- Sweeping debris
- Cleaning interior windows
- Cleaning and dusting desktops
- Maintaining bathrooms (e.g. mopping floors, scrubbing the sinks and stalls, replenishing consumables)
Janitorial and Building Maintenance Services
A janitorial and building maintenance company will perform any number of these services depending on your business needs. If you have a small company with only 25 employees, you may only need a building janitorial maintenance provider to takeout the trash 2-3 times a week and an occasional vacuuming. Larger companies, or businesses that frequently invite clients into their offices, may choose a daily cleaning where the building janitorial maintenance provider takes care of everything.
Some businesses value a clean, professional appearance so much that they may choose multiple cleanings per day including day porters cleaning throughout the workday and the standard cleanup crew working at night. Not all building janitorial maintenance providers are capable of providing this type of support.
Most janitorial and building maintenance providers will be able to clean any type of commercial facility. However, certain industries - especially healthcare - have specialized cleaning requirements. If relevant, make sure the cleaning company is well trained on how to clean your environment (e.g. biohazardous materials such as bodily fluids) before awarding any contracts.
Special services
In addition to basic day-to-day cleaning, many building janitorial maintenance providers can support special tasks. Special services run the gamut from the labor intensive like stripping and waxing tile floors to those that prolong the life of expensive office furniture.
Special services may take several hours and even days, depending on the size and complexity of the project. They include:
- Cleaning exterior windows
- Carpet extraction
- Stripping and refinishing VCT floors
- Deep Cleaning of Ceramics
- High dusting
- Pressure washing outside of building
You may need to set up these services well in advance to give the building janitorial maintenance providers enough time to get the job done without disrupting work areas or employees. Also, some building janitorial maintenance providers require that you have a contract for regular cleaning services before they will perform these special services. If you only want a one-time special, you may have to shop around for a cleaning services vendor that will take the job.



