The Price of Keeping our Properties Clean!
September 24, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : News, Office Cleaning, Cleaning News, Total Clean Services , add a commentAn article The Guardian informs us that our cleaning services are at the same price as 5 years ago in 2003, and it also serves up some interesting facts about our cleaning habits.
Dusting, washing, ironing, disinfecting and general tidying up - keeping a property clean means waging an endless battle against grime.
According to the UK 2000 Time Use Survey from the Office of National Statistics, women spend on average 21 hours a week on household chores, with men coming in at just over 11.5 hours a week.
The survey estimates the value of this work at £700 billion a year for the UK and, with just over 24 million households that works out at a staggering £576 a week.
However, if you’re going to pay other people to clean your house, you probably won’t ask them to turn up for three hours a day - two to three hours a week is more likely.
Cleaners will carry out most general chores except laundry. However, a service operating predominantly in North London but which has plans to go city-wide will collect your laundry and return it after either ironing it, or washing and ironing it.
Window-cleaning is also usually excluded from weekly domestic services - if it isn’t, expect to pay from £5 to £20 to have all the outsides of your windows cleaned, depending on where you live.
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Office Cleaning in Hospitals Reduced to Help Fight Superbugs!
August 11, 2008 Posted by Administrator in : News, Office Cleaning , add a commentDoctors’ offices in hospitals battling superbugs will be cleaned less to try and save money.
Staff worry managers will expect them to become unpaid cleaners, taking them away from their actual jobs, and that dirt from offices will be spread to wards.
Staff have been told offices will be vacuumed and dusted less frequently, rubbish bins will have to be taken to a central collection point and confidential waste will have to be taken to another point to be destroyed.
A spokeswoman said the trust was concentrating on the need to reduce cases of infections but needed to make savings wherever it could.
She said: ‘The trust is facing a very difficult year financially and is having to look closely at all areas of expenditure. We are committed to reducing hospital-acquired infection and have recently increased the number of cleaning staff working in clinical areas. We are committed to maintaining this level of service despite the financial difficulties.’
‘Offices are still being cleaned but hoovering and dusting is at a reduced level. The trust has an inhouse team of cleaning staff and is looking to make savings on the cleaning budget. No jobs will be lost.’
The trust had seven cases of MRSA in April and May, compared with a target of two. It is aiming to have no more than 12 cases from April to the end of next March