Abbey Cleaning Blog & Company News
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How to Look After your Office Plants (& Why you Should Bother!)
Having plants in the office may seem like a nice idea, but all too often introducing them into a work environment goes awry. In many cases, after a few weeks, you may be left with a few shedding, drooping, browning clumps in the corner. This is a tale as old as time...
4 Rules to Live By for Cleaning the Office Dishwasher
If your place of work has a dishwasher, you'll know that this type of appliance can get pretty grimy when it's used communally. From overloading (which leaves all of your crockery in a nasty state) to stray pieces of food and nasty smells, there's a lot that can go...
How to Clean a Dog-Friendly Office
More and more offices are becoming dog-friendly, with employees' four-legged friends sometimes becoming part of the team. Whether your manager's pooch is a regular face round the water cooler, or your accountant's Dachshund commonly curls up near the photocopier on...
3 Cleaning Considerations for Solicitors’ Offices
Every business is unique. That means every office space they inhabit is different - and every cleaning routine they require is a little different too. Whether you work as an office manager in a solicitors' office, or a computer programmer at an IT company, your office...
How to Get Coffee Stains out of the Office Carpet
Are you an americano kind of person? Perhaps you're a flat white sort, or even a cortado lover. Whatever your rocket fuel of choice, coffee can rapidly become your least favourite drink once it comes into contact with a light-coloured carpet. Not only are coffee...
How to Prepare your Meeting Room for Visitors
The meeting room is often 'where the magic happens' for many businesses. Whether you're impressing potential clients, masterminding smart strategies that will take your company further or nurturing your team with inspiring training, meeting rooms help make it all...
5 Pieces of Cleaning Equipment No Business Should Be Without
Do you rely on your cleaning contractor to bring all the kit required to keep your premises clean? That just won't do! While relying on your cleaning team’s hoovers and surface sprays may be cost effective, it certainly isn't sensible. Whether it's a nasty spill or a...
The Employee’s Guide to Quickly Cleaning Your Desk
Take a look around you. Yes, you! Does your workspace leave you feeling clear-headed, focused and motivated? Or does it look like two neighbouring coffee and paper factories exploded? In the midst of the everyday flurry of work, it's easy for our desks to become a...
How to Make Your Workplace More Hygienic This Flu Season
Is your workplace full of coughs, sneezes and throat clearing at the moment? Colds and flu have been rampant this year, with 2018 proving to be one of the most contagious on record. The arrival of the so-called Australian flu (also known as H3N2), particularly, has...
The Speedy Guide to Cleaning Any Office Floor
Dirty carpet? Stained wood? Dusty laminate? You might not spend much time looking at the flooring at your business premises, but if it's looking less-than-lovely, you can be sure that visitors to the building will spot scruffiness a mile off. From taking care of your...
5 Tips for a Squeaky Clean Office Exterior
They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to your business' exterior, appearances really do matter. Whether you're being visited by a potential client, a job candidate, an inspector, a valued customer or a business contact, every...
A Best Practice Guide to Comms/Server Room Cleaning
No matter how cautiously and thoroughly you back up and protect your data, problems with your server always feel catastrophic. Not only do these issues take valuable time to resolve (often putting your entirely company on hold), they're also incredibly stressful,...
How to Clean the Office Coffee Machine
Have you ever stopped to wonder exactly who is cleaning your workplace's coffee machine? If it isn't you and you've never seen anyone else do it, the chilling answer may be... "nobody" (yuck). Coffee machines are one of those frequently neglected but regularly used...
How to Keep the Office Fridge Fresh & Clean
The politics of the office fridge can be complex. From almond milk featuring passive aggressive name labels to controversial stolen yoghurts, this area of the workplace can be alarmingly territorial and fraught. But whatever the "refrigerator politics" at your place...
Cleaning (& Maintaining) the Office Microwave
The microwave can take a lot of flak in hungry workplaces. From colleagues who cause splashes but don't wipe up, to crumbs, greasy handles and office-permeating aromas, the poor old microwave can become a pretty antisocial appliance in workplaces. But maintaining your...
Why Your Office Phone Needs a Good Clean
If you've never thought about the cleanliness of the phones used at your place of work, you're definitely not alone. Much like our smartphones, landline phones are something we use so frequently that we more or less take them for granted. But neglecting your office...
Fresh Air: Why Cleaning Ventilation Matters
It's alarmingly easy to forget about your premises' ventilation system. As a 'taken for granted'/workaday part of offices, commercial facilities and warehouses, assuming that everything is a-ok when it comes to your vents is normal. So normal - in fact - that as dust...
4 Office Tidying Hacks for Tackling Messy Employees
From paperwork and files to snack packets, cables, chargers, nail files, stationary, lunch debris and all things in-between, there's a huge amount of mess and clutter which can quickly turn an otherwise organised office into a chaotic heap of clutter. Even with...