Commercial Cleaning Checklist For Each Room in Your Facility

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simple template you could follow for every commercial cleaning job? Well, there kind of is! There will always be a little nuance involved based on the specific facility, but our commercial cleaning checklist will cover almost everything you need to know to streamline your cleaning operation and get more done in less time.

The best thing you can do beyond following a detailed cleaning checklist for commercial spaces is empowering your staff with the right supplies and equipment. SweepScrub carries the top floor cleaning machines from the industry’s best manufacturers. Learn more today! 

Commercial Cleaning Checklist By Space

How to Clean Each Space in Your Building

There are really three goals with commercial cleaning:

• Keep your facility safe and compliant
• Preserve the life of surfaces and equipment
• Maintain impeccable conditions for employees & customers

Following a good commercial cleaning checklist accomplishes all three at once, but it will also help you maximize labor hours by boosting efficiency. Here are some tips on streamlining your cleaning tasks across the facility. 

Entrances and Corridors

Your entrance is where a first impression is formed, and it’s also the first place dirt and grime get tracked into your building. This area and your corridors take more foot traffic than any other in your building. All it takes is one rainy day to totally soil your entryway, and that gunk will get tracked all throughout your building. 

The cleaner you keep these spaces, the cleaner the rest of your facility stays. 

Good floor mats go a long way in trapping messes before they make their way into the rest of your facility. They have to be big enough to capture at least 3-4 footsteps. Replace or clean them every week. Daily sweeping/vacuuming is non-negotiable. 

It’s usually worth investing in an industrial floor sweeper for long hallways and lobby areas. This will save a ton of time and prevent you from merely pushing the mess around your facility. Push brooms and mops just don’t cut it. You might even want to add a walk-behind floor scrubber to our arsenal to replace mopping.

Wipe down glass entry doors and sidelights daily. You should also disinfect door handles and push bars on a regular basis, especially if you have a lot of public-facing foot traffic come through your doors.

Office Areas

Offices tend to be carpeted, and those little fibers are like a sponge for filth. Office cleaning is of the utmost importance regardless, but especially if you have customers or clients stop by your office regularly.

The daily and weekly priorities for commercial cleaning checklist for an office is talking out the trash, vacuuming the floors, and wiping down desks, keyboards, and phones. It’s important not to overlook surface disinfection in a shared space like this where an illness can put your whole sales team on sick leave for a week.

Commercial carpet tile cleaning is a never-ending battle. Make time for this task at least once a month. This is in addition to your daily or weekly vacuuming. You may want to add a carpet extractor to your arsenal. At the very least, once a quarter or twice a year. You’ll know when your carpets need deep cleaning. 

Don’t overlook the rest of your office space - blinds, vent covers, baseboards, and the edges where carpet meets the walls. 

Kitchen or Break Room

This is where a lot of grime builds up because people are enjoying food and drinks in the break room every single day. Residue and spills can build up quickly. Sanitize the surfaces that contact food or hands every day - counters, sinks, faucet handles, and appliance exteriors.

Weekly or monthly deep cleaning will entail detailed work within the microwave and refrigerator, degreasing the range hood/vent filter, and descaling coffee makers. Spend some extra time on grout lines around sinks and counters on this schedule as well. 

Of course, floors will need sweeping and scrubbing at least every other day, if not daily. Depends on how many people use the break room or kitchen on a daily basis.

Restrooms

This is the part of the commercial cleaning checklist everyone dreads. But it’s also among the most important to keep clean from a safety and hygiene standpoint. 

Restroom cleaning can be a lot less of a nightmare when you have the right equipment, too. We have an entire restroom cleaning machine collection that helps you cross this task off your to-do list in ⅓ of the time while removing up to 60x more soil.

However you decide to go about it, just make sure you are doing it. Toilets, urinals, sinks, and mirrors should be sanitized at least once a week. More depending on the volume of people that use your restrooms. You should make sure toilet paper, soap, and paper towels are stocked every single day. 

Carve out some time to descale faucets and flush valves once a month. This is a good frequency for inspecting caulk around fixtures and deep scrubbing tile walls from top to bottom.

Specialized Spaces (Factory Floors, Warehouses, etc.)

We can’t give you a one-size-fits-all commercial cleaning checklist because we don’t exactly know the nature of your building or the types of messes it encounters. Obviously, the routine will look a little different in a healthcare facility than it does in a small office. 

A lot of industrial facility managers come to us looking for guidance on their commercial cleaning tasks. After all, taking care of tens of thousands of square feet is daunting. This is why it’s worth having an industrial floor scrubber. These machines take all the manual effort out of floor care and ensure a consistently pristine environment every time. 

Does your facility deal with dry and wet messes? A sweeper scrubber machine eliminates the need for two separate passes with two separate machines. These pay for themselves fast. 

From loading docks to gyms, we can help you come up with the ideal cleaning protocol if you reach out to your customer service team. We’ll recommend the right equipment, supplies, and process!

Figuring Out Cleaning Frequency For Each Space

We’ve found that there’s just no way to tell you with any level of certainty how frequently you should do each task. It all depends on foot traffic, the type of space, and the consequences of neglect.

For example, a restroom in a public-facing building could need twice-daily cleaning. That same restroom in a small business's office might only need to be cleaned once a week. Here are some tips on how often you should do each task, generally speaking. 

Daily Tasks

Anything the public or employees touch or see daily gets cleaned every day. That’s a good rule of thumb. In other words, trash removal, restroom sanitation, floor sweeping in high-traffic areas, and surface wiping are daily necessities. 

It’s worth noting that the more seriously you take daily tasks, the easier weekly and monthly tasks become since there’s less buildup to tackle. So, you can decide - do you want to cut corners now at the expense of more labor later on?

Weekly Tasks

Floor scrubbing may be a weekly task for some facilities. It could be a daily task for others. It all depends on what actually gets tracked into your building! Other stuff you should do weekly in most types of facilities includes:

• Dusting blind covers
• Grout scrubbing in restrooms
• Cleaning interior glass

Monthly and Quarterly Tasks

You’ll do more deep-cleaning tasks once a month or every quarter. This includes carpet extraction, hard floor stripping and refinishing, duct cleaning, and equipment deep-cleaning. These are the types of tasks that prolong the life of your investment, be it in flooring or HVAC. 

Clean Smarter, Not Harder, With SweepScrub

Whether you’re looking for the best commercial floor cleaner or trying to streamline restroom cleaning, SweepScrub has the equipment, chemicals, and know-how you need to work smarter instead of harder. 

We stock the best brands and back them up with world-class customer service. So, don’t hesitate to reach out today for personalized support overhauling your commercial cleaning checklist!

Frequently asked questions

What is needed for commercial cleaning?

Cleaning chemicals (all-purpose, disinfectant, glass cleaner, floor cleaner), floor care equipment (sweeper, scrubber, buffer, carpet extractor), and restroom supplies. Don’t forget the PPE for your cleaning crew, either. 

How often do I need to clean each part of my building?

All depends on how often they’re used! Foot traffic is your best gauge for cleaning frequency. 

What’s the difference between regular and deep cleaning?

Regular cleaning is the stuff that saves you from having to do more intensive deep cleaning. Think daily sweeping and weekly scrubbing. Deep cleaning involves grout cleaning, carpet extraction, floor stripping - it’s a lot more involved.

Where can I find commercial floor cleaning equipment and supplies?

Your search ends here at SweepScrub, the #1 choice for every piece of equipment and all the supplies you need to start implementing your commercial cleaning checklist!