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By: Gene Rhodes

If you own, or manage, a commercial building you are well aware of an on-going need that simply won't go away and that is the need to keep your building clean and good looking. The problem comes in with you having to figure out the best way to get that accomplished. The purpose of this blog is to give you some important insight to exactly what hiring a professional cleaning service vs doing this in-house, or not doing this at all, would give you. 

Cleaning is a dirty and time-consuming business. There just isn’t enough time in the day, week, or month to accomplish all the cleaning tasks that need to be done.  But it is necessary and someone needs to do it.  It does not matter if it’s a business or a residence, ServiceMaster Quality Services has a few tips to aid in your selection of a quality cleaning service.

Employees are more productive, healthier, and happier when their work environment is clean. Professional janitorial services can make your office setting cleaner and organized, while not putting pressure on the employees to keep up with cleaning, as well as their other work duties. The five benefits of hiring a janitorial services company include:

The last sub-contractor is finished with the building site. You step back to admire your handy work once more before moving on to the next job. You see the great attention to detail. The construction couldn't have gone better, but looking at it through the new owner's eyes, you see a mess. Scraps of lumber and sheet rock litter the lawn. You realize that indoors you'd still want to wear a dust mask to protect your respiratory system.

You take pride in the way your business appears. Your employees take pride in where they work. Your workplace is like a second home. You ensure that the infrastructure of your business is well-kept. You understand sanitation and cleanlinessare worthy hallmarks of any successful business enterprise. 

More companies are now supporting or even spearheading programs that support workplace health. Implementing comprehensive changes and policies designed to assist employees become or stay fit helps counteract absenteeism. Adding a janitorial services approach that includes wall cleaning may be an instrumental step to succeeding.

There's always a lot of questions when it comes to predicting a pending hurricane season. Will this be a heavy or light season? How many named storms are expected? What are the chances that a storm will hit Louisiana? If a storm does hit the state, what's the potential damage? For Louisiana's low-lying parishes and towns -- such as Houma, LA -- what's the risk to floods and other storm damage?

Let's face it; life gets busy. With the hectic pace of most of our daily schedules, the house cleaning responsibilities are often the last things to get completed during the course of a busy day. Worse yet, they may go days or even weeks without getting touched, leaving the dust to accumulate, clutter to pile up, and general untidiness all around the house. And by the time the weekend or a day off rolls around; the last thing you feel like doing is a host of household projects such as extensive window washing, dusting, bathroom cleaning, or floor scrubbing.

Rodents are known carriers of diseases and bacteria. When home or business owners discover that a rat or mouse infestation affects part of their property, they quickly call in the specialists to exterminate the pests. When these professionals are done, the homeowner is usually left with the mess that the animals left behind.