How often is too often when it comes to cleaning office windows? The short answer is that this depends very much on the individual business. There are some key factors involved in creating the right schedule for window cleaning – often enough to ensure a consistent clean, balanced with the need for efficiency and cost effectiveness. If you’re looking to ensure that you have the right schedule when it comes to your office windows then these are the key points to consider.

 

The environment around your office

Although all windows need to be cleaned at some point, there are environmental factors that can mean this frequency needs to be increased. For example, an office in the centre of a city such, as London, may mean windows are constantly exposed to the dirt and dust of an inner city environment.

If there is a lot of traffic nearby, pollution from car fumes can have an impact, as can general urban grime. This type of position tends to require a more frequent schedule of cleaning for office windows than one in a more rural location – or away from main roads – where is less environmental dirt to deal with.

 

Factors that may have a temporary impact

For most office windows, construction or road works are likely to have the biggest impact when it comes to factors that may affect a cleaning schedule. Construction can generate a lot of dust and may also increase the volume of heavy traffic passing by. Road works can also be responsible for a spike in the amount of dust in the air that can settle on office windows and make them appear grimy. Both may result in the need to – temporarily at least – increase the frequency of window cleaning to maintain standards.

 

The business itself

How often do clients or customers come to your office? For some businesses – such as a high street law firm or estate agency – those windows are one of the first parts of the business that people see. The level of cleanliness of office windows for this type of business may have an impact on first impressions.

For other organisations, there is still the effect that the general aesthetics of the building will have on those who come for meetings or to make enquiries. The cleanliness of windows is often a key factor in the judgments that clients and customers make about the quality of the business and how much care it is likely to take with those it partners with.

 

The general average 

A bi-annual clean is the average for most offices where windows aren’t part of attracting clients or customers in to the business. In between those two yearly cleans, Facilities Managers will usually keep an eye on the state of office windows to monitor whether a one off clean is necessary as a result of unusual factors such as road works or when there has been a large amount of rain. Every business is unique and the right schedule of cleaning for one set of office windows may not be the same as for another.

Give Aquamark Cleaning a call today to find out how we could take care of your bespoke commercial cleaning requirements and window cleaning today.