🧹 Office Cleaning Service: Your Complete Guide to Choosing the Right Company
When it comes to maintaining a clean and healthy work environment, choosing the right office cleaning company in Seattle is crucial. This guide will help you understand what to look for when selecting a cleaning service, ensuring you find a reliable and effective partner for your office cleaning needs.
⭐ Key Takeaways
- ✅ Check online reviews and ask for referrals to gauge the company’s reputation
- 📄 Ensure the company has proper licenses and insurance to protect your property
- 🛠️ Understand the range of services offered, including specialized cleaning for your industry
- 🌿 Look for companies that use eco-friendly cleaning products and practices
- 💰 Evaluate pricing structures and contract terms to avoid hidden fees
🏆 Evaluating the Reputation and Experience of Office Cleaning Service in Seattle
📱 Checking Online Reviews and Testimonials
- Search for reviews on platforms like Google and Yelp or your local LGBTQ chamber of commerce, in Seattle we have the GSBA.
- Look for consistent positive feedback from clients
- Pay attention to how the company responds to negative reviews
👥 Seeking Referrals from Other Businesses
- Ask other businesses in your area for recommendations
- Get peace of mind through trusted source referrals
- Consider companies with experience in similar businesses
📊 Assessing the Company’s Track Record
- Inquire about years in business, you can also often find this information on the BBB website.
- Look for proven reliability through long-term service
- Request references from past clients
📋 Ensuring Proper Licensing and Insurance
📝 Verifying Business Licenses
- Confirm valid business license status
- Check for specialized certifications
- Verify current license validity
⚠️ Understanding the Importance of Insurance
- Verify liability insurance coverage
- Confirm workers’ compensation coverage
- Request proof of current insurance
🔒 Checking for Bonding and Certifications
- Verify bonding status for extra security
- Look for industry-specific certifications
- Confirm employee background checks
🎯 Understanding the Range of Services Offered for Office Cleaning Services
🏢 General Office Cleaning Services
- Daily cleaning and maintenance
- Restroom sanitation
- Kitchen and break room cleaning
🏥 Specialized Cleaning for Different Industries
- Medical facilities (extra sanitization)
- Restaurants (health code compliance)
- Event centers (post-event services)
🧽 Additional Services
- Deep cleaning services
- Sanitization and disinfection
- Floor and carpet maintenance
🌱 Considering Green Cleaning Products and Practices
🌍 Benefits of Eco-Friendly Cleaning
- Creates healthier environment
- Supports sustainability
- Enhances company image
🧪 Common Green Cleaning Products
- Natural all-purpose cleaners
- Eco-friendly disinfectants
- Biodegradable floor cleaners
👨🏫 Evaluating Employee Training and Management for Office Cleaning Service Success
- Background checks and verification
- Comprehensive training programs
- Regular quality control inspections
💵 Assessing Pricing and Contract Terms
- Clear pricing structures
- Transparent contract terms
- No hidden fees
📞 Customer Service and Communication
- Multiple contact methods
- Quick response times
- Regular feedback opportunities
⏰ Flexibility and Availability of Services
- After-hours cleaning options
- Emergency service availability
- Customizable cleaning schedules
💭 Final Thoughts
Selecting the right office cleaning service in Seattle is an investment in your workspace’s cleanliness and your team’s productivity. Whether you’re looking for routine maintenance or a deep clean, it’s essential to explore all your options, including top-rated providers of maid service Seattle. Take the time to evaluate services and choose a company that aligns with your specific needs and standards.
❓ Office Cleaning Service: Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What should I look for in an office cleaning company? A: Focus on reputation, experience, insurance, and cleaning methods 🔍
Q: Are cleaning companies in Seattle insured? A: Yes, most reputable companies carry proper insurance coverage 📄
Q: What types of cleaning services do companies offer? A: Services range from basic office cleaning to specialized deep cleaning 🧹
Q: Can I customize my cleaning plan? A: Most companies offer flexible, customizable cleaning plans ✨
Q: How do I know if a cleaning company is reliable? A: Check reviews, ask for referrals, and verify their track record 🏆
Episode Transcript
The Dazzle Podcast is brought to you by the Dazzle Cleaning Company, the gayest cleaning company in America. But don’t worry, you don’t have to be part of the LGBTQIA community to hire or work at Dazzle. Whether you’re looking for the best office cleaning service or home cleaning, we’ve got you covered. I’m Logan, the founder of the Dazzle Cleaning Company. Welcome to the Dazzle Podcast. Each podcast will either be labeled as a client podcast or as an employee podcast.
And the only point of the podcast is to get you information in the way you want it. Okay, let’s get into it.
All right. So this week, what to look for when you’re hiring an office cleaning service in Seattle. All right. So you want to do it right the first time, because you want this to be set it and forget it. You don’t want to have to mess with this down the road. So first of all, ask for referrals. Is there anybody in your building or any neighbors that are using a company that cleans their office that they’re happy with?
If so, add them to the list that you get a quote from. If not, then go straight to Google or Bing or Facebook or wherever it is that you search for new products and services at. What you’re going to want to do is reach out to three cleaning companies, get quotes from them, and compare who has the service that you best think Who has the service that you best think fits with what you’re looking for?
So you want to pay attention to online reviews. Do the companies have a good online reputation? It’s okay if they have a couple bad reviews. This is normal. All small businesses and businesses in general get bad reviews from time to time, but there shouldn’t be a lot of them. And you also want to pay attention to how the company is reacting to a bad review.
When something goes wrong, how does the company handle it? All right, so pick three companies that you think are a good fit and reach out to them for a quote. So what does the process typically look like? So first, you’ll reach out and you’ll contact them. Either by giving them a call, sending them an email, or filling out some kind of web form on their website.
And then they’re either going to set up an in person walkthrough with you, which is probably the most common definitely the most common. Or they might ask you a series of questions in an email or over the phone. Or ask, they might ask for some pictures or a video, and they might just be able to give you a quote remotely.
And at Dazzle, we’re able to provide exceptional cleaning for certain types of businesses, like small offices—we can handle that. Bigger places, we can’t. But for most small spaces, people love this option because it’s fast and easy. If you’re looking for a reliable office cleaning service, here’s how it works: Once you provide your information or schedule a walkthrough, the cleaning company will send you a quote. I’ll upload an example of a Dazzle quote in the show notes. It outlines the scope of service, what’s included, what’s not, and details such as whether the cleaning company will handle reordering disposables like paper towels, soap, toilet paper, and trash liners—or if your business will take care of that. Once you receive the quote, you’re ready to move forward.
So now hopefully you’ll have three quotes. So a quote from three different cleaning companies, then you’ll want to evaluate those quotes. And we’ll get more into that in a second. But after you have evaluated the quote and chosen what cleaning company you want to go with, then they will most likely set up another in person Onboarding or final walkthrough with you.
And this will be when they are, you’re giving them the keys codes showing them how the alarm system works, showing them any areas that are off limits or that you don’t want to have touched. Showing where the garbage compost and recycling is. Sometimes there’s keys and codes for that as well, or it’s just in a weird area.
Sparking, things like that. So specific things. And if you book with Dazzle, when we do that, we’ll most likely take pictures and videos, which we’ll upload to your like, internal client profile so that if anybody ever has a question about specifically where something’s at or how something’s done, it’s really easy to find the answer.
Not all office cleaning services do that, but don’t be surprised if that is part of it. Okay, so now let’s jump back a little how to evaluate the different quotes that you get. So first of all, you want to know what is included in each service and office cleanings are a little bit more there’s a little more variation in what’s included from company to company than what you’ll typically find with homes.
So you’ll really want to pay attention to that part. You’ll also want to find out who’s restocking, ordering, paying for disposables, again, like toilet paper towels soap, that kind of thing, and you want to make sure that they have insurance, so typically when they send you their quote, they’ll, if they’re You know, organized reputable cleaning company.
They’ll probably include a COI, or certificate of insurance, for your property along with the quote. If they don’t, it’s not a big deal—it’s just an extra step, and if they’re providing multiple quotes, they may wait until you’re ready to book. However, from my experience providing quotes for office cleaning services, I’ve often heard from office owners, small business owners, and managers that they’ve gotten to the end of the process, ready to move forward, only to have the cleaning company fail to produce the certificate of insurance.
So if they are insured, getting a COI is super easy. It shouldn’t be a big delay or anything. It’s just takes a couple minutes. So Ask for the COI, they’ll send you the COI. If they don’t send you a COI, it means they either have a very high level of disorganization going on, or they’re just not insured.
Or they’re not insured to the specifications that you’re requiring. For example, in Seattle, a lot of even if the business doesn’t care that much about what the insurance requirements are, they might be leasing in a building that requires That all of the vendors like your cleaning company has a million dollar umbrella policy.
And so if they only have 500, 000 or 300, whatever, then they probably don’t want to change their insurance for, one client. And so they might be just not giving it to you. If that is something that’s important to you, make sure you get the COI before you choose which service you’re going to go with.
Okay. So now it’s time for this week’s snappy news.
This week, MSN reported a Danish biker is facing 86 charges after his helmet cam snitched on him like a Scandinavian America’s Dumbest Criminals. Turns out when you’re breaking the law, you might want, not, might not want to live stream it on Instagram. NPR reported that Pavlidmir, A beluga whale suspected of being a former Russian spy was found dead off the Norwegian coast this weekend.
The whale gained international attention in 2019 when he was discovered wearing a camera harness labeled Equipment St. Petersburg, fueling suspicion about his involvement in a Russian Marine Mammal Military Program. His nickname combined the Norwegian word for well and Vladimir Putin’s first name. And I know that I can’t say the word well properly.
My friends make fun of me all the time. I’m sorry. Despite his mysterious origins, he became beloved for his friendly interactions with humans along with are along the Norwegian coast going viral for playful behaviors like retrieving dropped objects and playing fetch. However, his proximity to human activity led to injuries and concerns for his safety.
Conservation groups have been planning to relocate him. To an Arctic beluga population, but he was found dead near in Norway at the estimated age of 14 to 15 years old, short of the 30 year lifespan for belugas. The exact cause of his premature death is pending investigation. That’s a sad story.
I love whales. I’m from Alaska and we got to see a lot of whales up there. And this is directly from the onion. Barmington Hills, Michigan. Discussing the second amendment with Oprah Winfrey at a Michigan town hall last night, Vice President Kamala Harris admitted that she may have gotten too comfortable when she remarked that any home intruders, burglars, litter bl Litterbugs, or slow walkers near her house, could expect to be shot.
If somebody breaks into my house, knocks on my door to sell me something or leaves their dog’s waste on my line, they’re getting shot, the Democratic presidential nominee said in an attempt to bridge the gap with conservative gun owners in the swing state, drawing applause as she pantomimed looking through a rifle scope at the audience to then mimic the sound of gunfire.
If you trespass onto my property or take my plate away from the table before I’m finished eating, I’m going to take you out, as is my right as an American citizen. Let this serve as a warning to anyone who steals my mail, runs down the airplane aisle to de board before it’s their turn, or talks too loudly in a movie theater.
These things upset me and I’m not afraid to defend myself accordingly. Also goes for drivers who don’t signal. Heavy mouth breathers, or if I just don’t like your face, boom. Later in the interview, Harris drew a gun from her inside jacket and fired a warning shot into the air after someone in the audience answered a call on speakerphone.
That’s funny because Kamala Harris isn’t crazy. And Donald Trump is. And if he said something like that, we wouldn’t even be surprised. And it wouldn’t affect the polls. And that’s we this week’s Snappy News!
So how much does an office clean cost in Seattle? Okay, so let’s say you have a thousand square foot office with one bathroom that just, it’s not like multiple stalls. It’s just one bathroom. Maybe there’s a shower in there and a break room with a kitchenette, a small waiting room. If you’d like to have this cleaned every week, it’s going to be about 180 per week.
Now, what if your bid comes back really high? You can talk to the company about the scope of work. So let me give you an example for this. Last year, I did a quote for a textile company, they sew stuff at a, Like really cool old building in Ballard and I the owner and the manager were there and I thought it is going to be a nightmare to get this place looking up to our typical dazzle standards.
So I knew that it would just take. Dozens of hours with multiple people, but I also felt like that’s not what they were looking for. I let him know that their quote is going to be really high. And if they get quotes from other cleaning companies, it’s probably also going to be really high.
And the reason is because we at the cleaning companies really don’t want to have disappointed clients or Yeah, just anyone who doesn’t like the service. So we’re going to give you a, we’re going to offer you a service that matches the expectations that we think that our company should be delivering.
But I told them that if I was mistaken and if what they really wanted was just the garbage just taken out vacuum mop, like a quick thing, and there’s And knowing it’s a big, it’s a big like old industrial space. There’s still going to be dirt everywhere. It’s like not even like the floors, they’re concrete and hadn’t been cleaned in decades.
So we can do a more basic service for you and it’ll be whatever it was, like probably about that 180 bucks a week or every two weeks or whatever they got. Or we can give you this much grander service, which is really going to get this place sparkling, but it’s a lot more expensive.
And they were like, no, that’s not what we want. You’re right. This is I shouldn’t be telling stories about how you’re right. That’s not the point of this story. I’m just saying they were like, they were in agreement with me that they did want the more limited service. So I was like, okay, great.
We’ll get you this more limited service. And I just want you to know that, it’s not gonna like pop, we’re just doing a basic thing for you. And they were happy with that. And they’ve been clients for years now. And I don’t know, whatever, it’s been a year and a half or something, and we love them and they love us.
But, you might not have I happen to be there and I own the company, but if it were one of my employees it’s, not out of the realm of possibilities that they would have just given them a quote that was really expensive and probably outside of their budget and certainly not even what they wanted.
So if that happens, just reach out to the company and say, Hey thanks for your quote. I think we, we want a more limited service and then they’ll get, they’ll adjust the quote for you, right? They’ll give you a quote that is more in line with what you’re looking for. At my company, we were eager to be easy to do business with.
And I, I think a lot of companies are, so if something seems a little off or it doesn’t seem to fit with exactly what you want, just talk to them, or send them an email if you’re a millennial and there’s no way in hell you’re going to get on the phone. Or a Gen Z. Okay. What about paying for your service?
So at dazzle, you put a debit or credit card on file and we automatically charge that card on the day of each service. Some companies you pay for the whole month at once typically in advance. So it’s like at the beginning of the month you pay for the upcoming month’s service. And some companies will still let you pay with a paper check or with an ACH payment.
So we don’t do that at Dazzle. It’s just a debit or a credit card. But, there’s other options. So you could ask about that. Now, should I sign a contract? If you are having a really small, if you’re, let’s say you’re have a, it’s a 2000 square foot dental office, right? There’s six treatment rooms and a bathroom and a waiting room and a kitchen.
There’s, You could sign a contract that, where you, where both parties are agreeing on the terms of the agreement, but I wouldn’t sign something saying that you can’t cancel for 12 months or whatever, because if you’re not happy with the service, you’re going to want to be able to cancel. If I had a client who wasn’t happy with the service, I don’t know why I would try to be getting them not to cancel.
I don’t want them to be clients if they’re not happy with the service. I want them to find something that works for them. So I’m skeptical of of companies that put a cancellation clause in like that. I would be unlikely to sign something like that. Now there is a big. exception to that.
Let’s say that you have a 10, 000 square foot office building and you’re having it cleaned every night, seven days a week, or even five days a week. And it’s, you’re maybe having them do something after lunch every day. So this company has, There may be, let’s say that they have somebody there 30 hours a week for you.
If you’re in a situation like that, then signing something that has a cancellation cause clause makes a lot more sense because the company needs the ability to staff up and staff down. But I still wouldn’t have it be a year. I would have the clause say something like, four weeks notice or something like that.
My recommendation is not to sign something. If you’re just getting like a simple, typical, office cleaning service. All right, and now it’s time for Dirty Talk.
This week’s Dirty Talk, how to clean a cast iron skillet. Okay, so some people say you should never wash a cast iron skillet. This is not true. You absolutely should wash your cast iron skillet. Here’s the best way to wash it. Wash it with just a little bit of dish soap. In warm water, never soak it in water.
That’s a bad idea, but do wash it with just a little bit of dish detergent and you can use a dish brush, but don’t use anything really. Horse, like still wool or something like that. It’s not a good idea. Don’t use a metal brush on it. It can damage the pan. And just a regular plastic scrub brush should be fine.
Then rinse it thoroughly and then dry it with a cloth or a paper towel. And my mom taught me this part when I was a kid and it is in fact the best way to do it. Then put the pan onto the burner on your stove. Turn it on for 30, 40 seconds so that it dries fully. Then take a little bit of vegetable oil.
And just drop a couple, half a teaspoon in the pan and then rub it around the inside and outside of the pan with either a paper towel or a cleaning cloth. So you want to get the inside and outside because you want the pan to stay nicely seasoned. And then don’t make sure that it’s fully dry and then put a dry dishcloth or hand towel or paper towel into the pan when it’s storing so that any moisture that might get in there gets absorbed so that it doesn’t hurt your pan.
All right. And that was this week’s Dirty Talk.
Okay, so let’s get into the specifics about what Dazzle cleans at a standard office cleaning service. So we empty the trash, the recycling, the compost. We wet wipe tables and public spaces, like if there’s one in the kitchen, or, conference rooms, things like that, dust furniture, including the chair and table bases, dust and spot check, baseboards, doors, door frames, window seals, outlets, light switches, in the bathroom, tubs, toilet sink, showers, counters, mirrors, floors, restocking toilet paper towels, and soap, and in the kitchen, cleaning sinks, counters, exterior appliances, inside and outside of the microwave, and the exterior of the cabinets and drawers.
Now can you modify and add services on top of that? Of course, and that increases your price, or you can limit the scope, decrease what’s done, and that will reduce your price. So typical upgrades that we see are cleaning the tops of the desks, inside of the oven, the fridge, the dishwasher. Sometimes companies want to have the fridge cleaned every time we’re there.
Nobody ever really wants the dishwasher or the oven cleaned every time, but that’s something you might want to have done every few months or once a year, depending on how often you use it. Windows are not included, or sometimes there’s like glass walls, windows in between, like in inside the office. So it’s a window looking from the office to the office.
Those aren’t included in our office cleaning service, but you can add them. Dry dusting blinds, erasing dry erasers, boards, which is like not even expense. It’s not like that’s a big upgrade, right? It’s just, you want to let us know, let your cleaning company know that you want that done because we don’t do it automatically because sometimes people are planning and whatever, they have stuff on there that I don’t want to have a race scene to let us know dusting office equipment, printers, fax machines, whatever that can also be.
Added on. So in the show notes, I’ll drop what is included in the Dazzle standard office cleaning and typical upgrades. And also I’ll put that contract so that you have something to compare it to if you’re thinking about getting an office cleaning service. All right, that’s it. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for listening to the Dazzle Podcast on office cleaning in Seattle. Join us again for more dazzling info next week. Until then, have a fabulous gay ass week.
