Tips For Cleaning Offices and Washroom Toilets Hygienically

As local Birmingham cleaners, we realise the importance of keeping toilet and washroom areas clean and hygienic.

This also applies to other public-use areas in the leisure industry and is even more critical amid COVID-related concerns about cleanliness and the need to alleviate people’s fears.

Among the essential principles, we find that the cost of cleaning and replenishing consumables is minimised.

However, factors often play an increasing role, for example, the importance of sustainability and using recycled materials.

Four key cleaning tips to note

Getting into the nitty-gritty of keeping offices, toilets and washrooms clean, here are four top tips:

1. Keep consumables and stock up to date

This might include a regular soap dispenser, paper towels, toilet rolls, and any sanitary provisions within toilet areas.

Using high-capacity units can reduce the frequency of replenishment and the number of service visits.

Making them quick and easy to replenish is also essential. For regular cleaners to identify when they need filling, for example, a transparent inspection window to help keep on top of the stock.

Making them lockable to deter vandalism, and a standard key lock can help keep them secure.

Also, monitor bins and the rubbish generated in these areas, ensuring they’re not overflowing or visually untidy, and raise concerns about potential germs and viruses.

Using the latest technology is also essential, for example, contactless paper dispensers, meaning fewer touch points and a lower risk of spreading germs.

And even more fundamental building tasks, such as lights that automatically turn on and off.

Even ensuring paper towels are dispensed one sheet at a time is more economical in the long term, as paper towels are more effective than hand dryers at keeping hands clean and hygienic.

2. Ensuring everything is eco-friendly and sustainable

With an increasing number of products on the market, using recycled materials becomes easier.

There are additional factors as well, though, for example, reducing unnecessary packaging, making sure there is no overuse, and having targets of creating zero waste.

For larger offices and businesses, feeding this back into their statistics, supply chains, and even the number of trucks on the road delivering these cleaning items, is increasingly important.

3. Using effective communication and notices

This is critical in any cleaning activity, particularly in sensitive areas such as washrooms and toilets.

Essential posters around the area that remind people how to properly hand-wash and dry can be a helpful complement to more specific obligations.

With COVID-19 measures in place, transparency on cleaning schedules is essential, and knowing how often areas are cleaned provides reassurance to users. For example, in large communal toilets at motorway service stations or supermarkets, cleaning is performed regularly at set intervals.

4. Going the extra mile

As a wide-ranging commercial and domestic cleaning company, we find that a special touch always helps people feel and stay clean in their work and home environments.

Simple things like ensuring there’s a pleasant aroma in these areas always help.

Even having cleaning personnel visibly clean large areas while others are still in use, with appropriate signage, demonstrates that issues are being addressed.

Keeping the floor clean is also essential, and not just the main wash areas, detailed areas such as handles on doors and touchpoints, and ensuring mirrors are clean and smear-free.

Getting the washrooms and toilet areas looking clean

The four points above will help focus on detail when it comes to not only commercial cleaning but also stocking washroom areas.

Once you work with another building or office and clarify tasks such as ordering supplies and removing waste, with careful reviews and monitoring, you can soon have a cost-effective, clean washroom.