Welcome to MerchantHouse Office Cleaners, your friendly and hard-working team of professional office cleaners. No matter what your needs are or how big your business is, we can help you out by ensuring that your workplace is as clean as it ought to be.

If you stop to think about it, you spend a lot of time in your office in the typical week. If you’re the average worker with a 40 hour working week, then you probably spend one-third of your day in the office – that’s actually about half of your waking hours, if you get the proper amount of sleep (i.e. 8 hours out of every 24). Add in those days that you work overtime and your lunch break, which often isn’t counted in the 40 hours, and it’s easy to see that you spend quite a lot of your life at the office. Then you’ve got those people who have to work for more than 40 hours a week…

Given the amount of time that you spend at work, it makes sense that you’d want to have pleasant surroundings. Sure, somebody probably put a bit of thought into the interior décor (although there are times when you wonder if the place was decorated by some sort of robot). However, even the cushiest surroundings won’t be all that pleasant if there’s fluff on the carpets, unnamed smears all over the tables, overflowing rubbish bins and horrible smells. On the other hand, when the office has been taken good care of by a decent janitor, it’s good for everybody.

The Advantages Of A Clean Office

Through talking with our clients over the years, we’ve discovered that businesses benefit in a number of ways when the office has been cleaned to a high standard. Firstly, there’s the whole issue of hygiene. We all know that workplace health and safety is very important for any business, and hygiene takes care of the health side of things. When a number of people spend any length of time in the same building, there’s an increased chance of bacteria and viruses being spread around. While you probably want to encourage sharing in your workplace, there are some things that you probably don’t want to share, like coughs and colds. Hygiene is important throughout your workplace, and not just in obvious places like the toilets and bathrooms. Door handles, phones, computer keyboards, touchscreens are all places where germs can be passed from one person to another.

Having good office hygiene helps to cut down on the rate of workplace sickness and the amount of lost work hours to employee and staff illness. It’s obvious that this is going to be better for your bottom line and your productivity!

However, the advantages of a clean office don’t stop there, although hygiene is absolutely vital (and, in the case of a place where food is produced, sold or handled, it’s a major requirement). There’s the issue of morale as well. When surroundings are clean and attractive, this promotes better feelings, which leads on to less stress. You might not think that it’s a big deal, but when you try to work surrounded by mess, overflowing rubbish bins, etc. then it will add to stress levels and irritation. However, ensuring that the office is clean and tidy will help to cut down on stress levels.

Having a clean office also has a further effect on morale. When the office hasn’t been cleaned and cared for properly, it gives off a vibe of neglect and general sloppiness. This sets the atmosphere for the workplace, and before long, that “I can’t be bothered” attitude will spread and will affect the work habits and work ethic of your staff. However, a smart office that’s orderly and clean is more professional. It means business – and this attitude will spill over to the people working in it. It’s fairly well known that people tend to be more creative and innovative when their surroundings are less cluttered (apart from those few who seem to thrive in piles of books and papers!), and that’s good for business as well.

There’s another factor at play as well. It’s more or less impossible to run a business in today’s world without electronics – after all, that’s how you’re reading this! Although we think of electronics just as screens and buttons, they’ve still got hardware, and this hardware needs to be clean and dust-free to work properly. Think of computer keyboards – they don’t work so well if they’re full of fluff, crumbs and dust. Similarly, the printers, faxes and photocopiers don’t do their job very well if there are mysterious marks all over the copier plate (OK, who was the clever-clogs at the office party who decided to photocopier their rear end?). This is why we provide specialist cleaning services for electronic equipment – and it’s a lot cheaper to clean your equipment regularly rather than replacing it!

Why Outsourcing Janitor Services Is Best

In fact, it’s a lot cheaper overall if you arrange for an outside company to clean your office. If you had your own janitor on the staff, then you wouldn’t just have to pay his or her salary (and holiday pay and all the rest of the paperwork). You’d also have to provide the right equipment and the right training. It takes more than just a vacuum cleaner and a few rags to ensure that an office stays in good order. Think of hard floors, for example. A good professional office cleaning company will have access to proper floor buffing and polishing machines. That’s not the only machine that’s needed to ensure that an office or other workplace is hygienic. If you didn’t outsource the office cleaning work, then you’d have to purchase all of these for your janitor cupboard – and you’d have to have a rather sizeable cleaning supplies cupboard into the bargain. It probably just isn’t a worthwhile investment.

On the other hand, if you outsource the work of cleaning your office to MerchantHouse Office Cleaners, we will take care of all the contracting and employment hassles – all you’ll need to do is to call us, get a quote, discuss exactly what you need done and pay the bill. We take care of things like insurance, providing the cleaning equipment and sprays (yes, even the dusters and cleaning rags!), training and arranging for a replacement in case your regular janitor gets ill. We use a transparent pricing system as well, and we do our best to ensure that there won’t be any nasty surprises on the bill, which keeps everybody happy.

We’re also super flexible, which means that if you only need professional office cleaning services on a one-off basis or for a special occasion such as moving out cleaning, then you can arrange for this as required!

Cleaning’s Not Just For Offices!

MerchantHouse Office Cleaners also cleans for those who aren’t strictly speaking businesses as well. Our flexibility and our simple pricing system also means that we can provide commercial cleaning services for organisations that aren’t there with the primary aim of making money – things like sports clubs and places of worship, for example. Because our hours are flexible and you get to set how often you want a janitor, then you can arrange for things the way you need them.

Take a sports club, for example. Most of the week, the buildings aren’t used much. However, on game day, then the bathrooms will be used like crazy and heaps of muddy boots will come marching inside, so this will require a lot of cleaning up the day after. However, unlike a workplace, the sports club won’t need to be cleaned every day. With MerchantHouse Office Cleaners, you can arrange for this to happen. In fact, we’ll listen to all of your needs no matter who you are and do things your way.

Talk to us today about what you need – we’d love to hear from you!