Abbey Cleaning Blog & Company News
Catch up with the latest news and read cleaning advice articles from office cleaning company The Abbey Cleaning Service:
Flu Season: Office Cleaning & Workplace Hygiene
Autumn is awesome: the colours, the coffees, the run-up to Christmas... It's all lovely. By the time Halloween rolls around, the nights are long and the air is cold and crisp. Nothing beats the cosy feeling of quiet contentment you feel when it's chilly outside, but...
Cleaning Office Ceiling Tiles – and Why it Matters
When Lionel Richie was done dancing on the ceiling, he'd likely left behind a footprint or two - but you don't need to actually be in contact with your ceiling tiles for them to get grubby. Cobwebs, dust, and telltale watermarks can leave ceiling tiles looking tired....
Why Cleaning Your Office Ventilation Matters
If you work in an office complex, chances are there's a ventilation system. You might even have HVAC installed. And this network of ducts, filters, grates and fans is all too easy to forget about. After all, ventilation is just another one of those things we take for...
How to Look After Your Office Plants
It's hard to overstate just how transformative it is to have plants in your office. You see, your leafy teammates aren't just a nice little addition to the office - they're borderline essential for a happy, calm work environment. In fact, a greener office can help...
Office Dishwasher Rules – Etiquette, Cleaning & Maintenance
Okay, so you're probably going to roll your eyes at a blog post about dishwasher etiquette - but it really does matter more than you might think. How a team treats their shared space is a mirror of how they treat each other, and for everyone to get along, you need to...
How to Clean Office Doors
Nobody talks about doors in any normal conversation. Well, unless they're having a new one put in, or asking their kids not to slam them! And people talk about how to clean office doors even less. But maybe that's why so many office doors end up looking like a grubby...
How to Clean Office Walls: Painted, Papered & Partitioned
When was the last time you really looked at your office walls? Not a quick glance - but a proper, deep stare. Maybe you found yourself looking at a patch of the wall while you crunched some numbers in your head? Or you needed a minute to just... stare into the abyss...
How to Clean Light or White Carpets and Floors
White flooring. It's out there, folks - and it's getting grubbier by the minute. But there's something undeniably smart about light-coloured flooring - and in some environments, it's a necessary feature. Pale surfaces have a brilliant way of making a space feel...
How to Clean Office Desks
We office workers spend countless hours at desks. We eat over them, drink tea, touch up our makeup, moisturise our hands, blow our noses - and do all of that while beavering away at our jobs. But how often do we give them a proper, thoughtful clean? Despite looking at...
Moving Out of Your Office: Cleaning Tasks You MUST Do!
Leases don't last forever. Businesses scale up, scale down, and relocate all the time. And whether your company is growing or relocating, at some point - you'll be moving out of your office space. If you've ever moved house, you'll know how much effort and stress that...
How to Prepare your Meeting Room for Visitors
Your office meeting room is where the magic happens. Connections are made, deals are done, and hard work pays off. Presentations, pitches, reports, interviews, and staff meetings all happen in your meeting room. It's one of the most important places in any office, so...
Client Visit? Here’s Where You Need to Focus Your Office Cleaning
When a big client visit gets booked in, it's all systems go. There's excitement, tension - and a lot of work to do. First impressions count, and you want to put your best foot forward. But while your team's busy preparing presentations and rehearsing pitches, who's...
Break the Mould – Protecting Your Office From Damp
Mould (or "mold" as it's sometimes also spelt) is pretty fascinating stuff. Under a microscope, it can even be sort of beautiful to look at. It's one of the many structures that fungi can form, the others being mushrooms, yeasts, and mycelium - and it has given us...
Office Sofas: How to Clean Communal Soft Furnishings
Hello, sofa - the office's comfiest refuge. The best spot for a sandwich. A quiet place to tackle the noisy tasks in your brain. Your tea break's only other requirement - except for maybe a few biscuits. We all love office sofas, where colleagues collaborate, share...
How to Clean an Extractor Fan: An Office Cleaner’s Guide
"How to clean an extractor fan" is one of those questions you never think you'll ask. But when you're in an office environment catering to a bunch of workers, it's a cleaning task that you can no longer ignore. If you do neglect your fans, they can end up so clogged...
How to Clean Ceiling Lights in Your Office
As we type this, it's British summertime - the finest season of all. Even Cardiff gets a fair share of that beautiful sunshine and 16 hours of glorious daylight, every day. Yep, it's all strawberries and cream, flip flops, and... bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. From the...
How to Clean Plug Sockets
Of all the places and things in offices that can get dirty, electrical outlets are probably the most challenging to clean. Why? Well, for one, everything we clean with tends to be water-based - and water and electricity don’t mix. For two, plug sockets are everywhere:...
Office Kitchen Rules Template: A Guide for Workplaces
We recently covered kitchen etiquette in the workplace - highlighting the worst offences, with a few solutions to help make lunchtimes more harmonious. Now, we're going a step further: with a workable office kitchen rules template that you can remix to suit your own...
