Winter can pose a number of challenges for commercial property owners and maintenance crews, especially with regard to keeping floors and other areas clean. As the snow falls, road salt, sand, dirt, and a host of other debris can get tracked in on a regular basis.
If the commercial property sees an incredible amount of foot traffic on a daily basis this can make it even more challenging to keep it clean. When all of this debris from outside gets tracked in on the bottom of people’s shoes, those floors can become damaged.
Put together a regular floor cleaning plan.
This should include more regular cleaning, even small area cleaning throughout the day to help remove salt, mud, snow, ice, and anything else that tends to get tracked in.
Pay extra special attention to the entry areas.
You may also want to consider increasing the schedule for buffing and burnishing, washing, stripping, and sealing for your floors.
Consider more detailed carpet cleaning as well.
There may be carpets throughout a number of office areas in the building and as such, even though a lot of the snow, ice, salt, and sand gets knocked off as people walk through the building, they’re also going to be tracking in stuff onto those carpets. Increase the number of vacuuming and carpet cleaning schedules you have currently in place.
Keep the windows clean.
It might not seem to be a major concern for the floors in your commercial building, but focusing on ensuring that the windows are clean can allow more sunlight to penetrate into the building, which can help heat it up, thus reducing your utility bills.
Also, clean windows can help you and your maintenance crew work more efficiently and effectively during the day at keeping those floor space is clean.
Snow collecting on the windows can cause stains and for ground floor windows and glass doors, plows, snowblowers, and even people leaning against them can increase the amount of stains and marks that appear on those windows.