How Do You Keep Homes in the Country Clean?

If you have employed a commercial cleaning crew to clean a newly-opened library, here are some tips you'll find useful.

Instruct them to polish the library tables first in the mornings

You should instruct the commercial cleaners to polish the library tables first during their morning cleaning shifts. You'll want to have this as the first task because furniture polish often leaves a slightly greasy film on the surfaces it's applied to. This can take time to dry, and before this happens, the library users who sit at these tables and try to study or read may find that both their hands, notepads and books get covered in furniture polish. This could not only be inconvenient, but it might leave stains on any book pages that come into contact with the polish as well.

As such, it's best to have the cleaning crew polish these tables at the start of their cleaning shifts before the library opens, so that there is time for this product to dry before any library users sit at these tables. On a related note, it may also be sensible to advise the cleaners to use a fragrance-free polish on the tables. If any library users who develop rashes or become congested when they touch or inhale these type of fragranced products lay their hands or even their heads on the tables after the cleaners have applied a fragranced polish to them, they may develop reactions. Choosing to use a fragrance-free polish will circumvent this.

Tell them to sweep, rather than vacuum near the library's rare book collection

Many libraries have rare book collections. If the library you run has these, you should advise your commercial cleaning crew to sweep rather than vacuum the floor beside this collection. Rare old books often have very fragile bindings, as well pages that can tear or crumble very easily.  Even when taking as much care as possible, cleaners who use vacuums around these books could accidentally point the vacuum in the direction of one of these books, in which case, the equipment's strong suction might pull out a book off its shelf and damage its binding or tear some of its pages.

Given this, it's best to ask the cleaners to stick with sweeping the floor beside these books. If the floor is carpeted, it may be worth getting a rubber-bristled sweeping brush for the cleaners, as this may be more effective at picking up dirt and hair from carpeting than a standard sweeping brush.