Trying to determine whether you are going to keep your commercial floor maintenance in-house or outsource it to a different company can certainly be a complicated matter. It depends on the size of your company, the budget you have, and how particular you are when it comes to maintaining the quality of the commercial floor surface.
The importance of clean commercial floors.
Whether you operate a warehouse, retail store, office space, hospital, or some other facility, it is absolutely essential to keep commercial floor areas clean at all times. Even a warehouse can become a hazard for employees and others who happen to be walking through the facility if they are not cleaned properly. A thin layer of dust and dirt can become slick in many conditions.
Having your own maintenance department be responsible for keeping those commercial floors clean may require extra training and equipment. If your company does not have any commercial floor cleaning equipment, it might seem more practical to outsource this job to a professional commercial floor cleaning company. However, if you’re looking to save money over many years, investing in the right type of commercial floor cleaning equipment and providing proper training to all of your maintenance personnel will do just that.
The investment up front in getting the right equipment and proper training is going to be greater than if you hired a service to come in and clean your commercial floors daily or even weekly. You may simply rely on sweeping on a daily basis and have the commercial floor cleaning company come in once a week, but that’s not going to do anything to help protect your floor surfaces or keep people as safe as possible.
The best option is to get all of the commercial floor cleaning equipment you need, the highest quality, and build a maintenance department that can handle the daily workload of keeping those floor surfaces clean, polished, and safe for everyone. Not only will this help keep everyone safer, it will also increase longevity of those floor surfaces.