Abbey Cleaning Blog & Company News
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Small Office Cleaning Services – Worth It?
In teams working on the hybrid model (working from home with some office days mixed in), the humble office has shrunk down to a more cost-effective, manageable size. But its importance has only grown as a hub for information sharing, workplace culture and team...
WARNING! Don’t Make These Risky Office Cleaning Mistakes
Disclaimer: In this post we talk about bleach. We want to make it clear that The Abbey Cleaning Service's cleaners very rarely use bleach because of its implications to the environment (unless instructed by our customer). However, given that other cleaning companies...
Dentist Cleaners: What to Look for in Dental Practice Cleaning
Running a dental surgery is seriously hard work. Teams are usually very small, with high expectations for each member. Between the secretary, hygienist, nurse, and the dentist themselves, there isn't a lot of wiggle room (or time) to clean, beyond preparing and...
This is the PERFECT Office Fridge Clean-Out Email to Send to Staff
We recently wrote about the ultimate guide to office kitchen cleaning. The kitchen is one of the biggest parts of a cleaning job, and it's one of the most important, too. There's a lot of work - but it's mostly straightforward when you have a plan. There's just one...
Office Kitchen Cleaning: The Ultimate Guide
Picture the scene... Mouldy old food. A crusty microwave. Crumbs everywhere, and a sink full of half-finished tea and coffee mugs. Worse still, there's a weird smell in the fridge, and the sink's not too fresh either. To top it off, the coffee machine hasn't been...
How to Deep Clean an Office: The Ultimate Office Deep Cleaning Checklist
While our regular commercial cleaning service keeps spaces sparkling in day-to-day use, an office deep clean goes a step further. We get asked how to deep clean an office all the time - and people are always surprised at just how much work goes into it. In this post,...
How to Clean a Computer Mouse
Guess what? The dirtiest area in the office is YOUR DESK. Well, not your desk in particular - we mean everyone's desk. Even the cleanest, most fastidious worker in the office is all but guaranteed to be harbouring a googleplex of germs on the surfaces they work at....
Fogging – The Ultimate Deep Office Cleaning Method?
Carrying out a deep office clean with fogging was once seen as a pretty drastic measure, and an obscure cleaning method reserved for extreme cleaning cases, outside of its most common applications. That was, until the coronavirus pandemic. All of a sudden, fogging...
How to Get Coffee Stains out of Carpet
Quick Help Guide Get a towel, and blot as much coffee away, as quickly as possible. NO SCRUBBING! Mix 1 tbsp washing up liquid and 1 tbsp white vinegar into 500ml of water Dab the mixed solution into stained area of carpet with a clean cloth, blotting excess Dust the...
Cleaning for Solicitors’ Offices: The Laws to Follow
If you’ve ever been into a solicitor's office - or work in one - you'll know that on the face of it, everything is super clean and organised. Or at least, it should be! But for those who work in back offices, mail rooms, or on the non-client-facing side, it can be...
Call Centre Cleaning: Do Your Office Cleaners Just Phone It In?
You know, a lot of us have strange preconceptions about call centres. They often get lumped into one big category - but that's not how it should be. Having done the office cleaning at a fair few call centres in our time, we've seen that - actually - they're pretty...
Should Office Cleaning Change for Hybrid Working?
The world's changed a bit since March 2020. Little did we know, it was probably the last time that many people would be in an office for years. Fast forward to today, and remote working and working from home are still happening, long after lockdown. There's a lot to...
Office Carpet Cleaning vs. New, Cheap Office Carpet
Hard floors are not without their charms, and a lot of workspaces opt for hard flooring - be it wood, laminate, lino, or just bare concrete. Sometimes, they're a perfect match for the look and feel of a building, and the style of a business. They're really quick and...
Office Kitchen Ideas – Make Break Times Better
After working from home for so long - and many of us still are - returning to the office can feel conflicted. On the plus side, the world feels like it used to again. We can see our work friends, customers and clients once more. Meetings and business travel are back...
How to Clean Office Equipment: the Ultimate Guide
Over the years, we've learned that office cleaning is all about the details - the little things that make our customers smile. Details are what it’s all about for us, because a lot of the time, that's where our attention is focused; on our computer screens, office...
White Vinegar for Cleaning: Better Than Cleaning Products?
Vinegar isn't just great on chips - it's in plenty of cleaning products, too. And it's no secret. Just look at the ingredients list on the back of a window or shower cleaner, for example. You're sure to find vinegar as a component. For some cleaning jobs around the...
Office Cleaners: It’s Time to Talk TOILETS
A few months back, we talked about smells in the office. And we didn't mention toilets, because... well, toilets are gross. But we're a pretty tough bunch, and it's not like we're afraid of them or anything - in fact, we clean toilets every day and it's no big deal....
Make Some Office Cleaning New Year’s Resolutions
Unbelievably, that's another year done. As we type and publish this, it's 2021: another year of Zoom and Teams, takeaways, and facemasks. After summer brought some of us back together, the days got shorter and colder - and new variants of COVID emerged. Now, as we...
