The Importance of Commercial Cleaning & Air Quality

By Jared Sarbit

Cleaning your workplace may not sound important, but it is. Failing to clean commercial workplaces puts the health of the employees & customers at risk. Not only that, but it also affects the air quality of the workspace which affects overall employee productivity.

As such, you can’t just skip cleaning routines at work, as you do at home. With so many more people around, the risk of spreading bacteria and disease increases substantially. That said, it is good to have a vigilant cleaning company by your side to keep your commercial space sparkling.

How Does Commercial Cleaning Affect Air Quality?

Gets Rid of Dust in the Air

Sometimes, the air in your office may be dusty, even after cleaning. This is why you need a professional to help you. Experienced commercial cleaners get rid of the dust completely as opposed to moving it from the floor to the air with specialized equipment.

Air Conditioning Vents are Kept Clean

Hiring a commercial cleaner means that cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing is done thoroughly. This includes removing any dust that may be blocking your air conditioning vents. In turn, it leaves your air conditioner functioning optimally. That way, the air quality of your working space will always be great.

Gets Rid of Harmful Scents

When you decide to clean a commercial space on your own, you may end up using products with harsh chemicals with harmful scents. However, hiring a professional commercial cleaner eliminates this problem.

By using green scent-free products, commercial cleaners leave your space smelling fresh. They know exactly what ingredients go into the products, and how those ingredients react to various materials such as floors, furniture, or fabric.

That way, you will not be dealing with headaches and nausea caused by bad scents or products that may damage your stuff.

Risks of Skipping Commercial Cleaning

1. Exposure to Allergies

Failing to clean your working space thoroughly means that you’ll be dealing with a ton of health issues. For example, the accumulation of dust in the air can stimulate allergies in some people.

This means that you’ll be dealing with employees taking sick-offs now and then. How are you going to make profits when your employees are unproductive?

2. Workplace Accidents

A disorganized, cluttered, and dirty workplace is not only demotivating but risky as well. This is because you risk tripping and falling as you walk around. Moreover, if there are liquid spills on the floor, an employee can slip and break a leg. It not only exposes you to unplanned medical expenses but legal suits from employees as well.

Why Should You Hire a Commercial Cleaning company?

Here are the benefits of hiring a professional commercial cleaning company like Picture Perfect Cleaning to handle commercial cleaning for you:

• We are timely and fast, giving you space to continue with your work.

• Our experts not only clean surfaces but the air as well.

• We save you money by preventing workplace accidents

• Our cleaning methods are thorough

• We will help you stick to a regular cleaning routine

• Our company is skilled and equipped with all the right cleaning equipment.

Are you tired of cleaning your office daily, and still having it feel stuffy? Are you unhappy with your current cleaners and looking for an upgrade? Worry not! At very affordable prices, Picture Perfect Cleaning offers you the best cleaning services for any commercial space including office, school, daycare, industrial, strata, car dealership.

Who wouldn’t want to work in a sparkling and well-organized space? Call us today and enjoy an office with fantastic air quality!

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What Is In-House Cleaning Really Costing You?

Adjust the four numbers below to see your true annual in-house cleaning cost, an estimated cost range with Picture Perfect Cleaning, and what you'd save by making the switch.

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Supply and equipment costs

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Sick days or missed shifts

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Estimates are based on average commercial cleaning rates across Alberta and typical management and coverage costs. Your actual quote depends on square footage, service frequency, facility type, and scope of work. Request a custom quote above for an exact number.

The Hidden Cost of In-House Cleaning

A wage comparison only tells part of the story. Here’s what usually gets left out:

Wages and Benefits

Payroll is usually the first number people look at when they think about cleaning costs, but it rarely tells the whole story. Supplies, equipment, manager oversight, scheduling headaches, and the inevitable sick days all add up over time. By the time you account for everything, the true cost of keeping cleaning in-house can look very different from what’s on the payroll report. That’s exactly what our cost comparison tool is designed to help you see, along with what outsourcing might save.

Supplies and Equipment

Cleaning products, paper goods, vacuums, floor machines, and the replacement parts that keep them running all add up over the course of a year. Businesses that clean in-house often buy retail-grade supplies at retail prices because they don’t have access to the commercial pricing that a cleaning company gets from its suppliers. Equipment also breaks down, and replacing a vacuum or floor buffer every few years is a cost that rarely gets planned for in advance.

Management Time

Somebody has to schedule shifts, check the quality of the work, order more supplies when they run low, and step in when something gets missed. That’s real time pulled from a manager’s actual job, and it rarely gets assigned a dollar value, even though it should. If a facilities manager or office lead spends even a few hours a week on cleaning oversight, that’s time not spent on the parts of their role that actually move the business forward.

Absenteeism and Coverage Gaps

Sick days and missed shifts are part of running any team. When they happen, the work still has to get done, which usually means paying someone else to cover the shift or accepting that some tasks will have to wait. Over the course of a year, those extra costs can become surprisingly significant. There’s another effect that’s harder to measure, too. When cleaning is inconsistent, people notice. Employees notice it, clients notice it, and visitors notice it, even if they couldn’t tell you exactly why the space feels different.

Cost Category	What It Covers
Wages & Benefits	Annual pay for in-house cleaning staff
Supplies & Equipment	Products, tools, and machine upkeep
Management Time	Hours spent scheduling and supervising
Absenteeism	Missed shifts and last-minute coverage

Why Outsourcing Often Comes Out Ahead

Once you’ve seen your own numbers, the reasons behind the gap start to make sense.

Predictable Pricing

A cleaning company quote covers labor, supplies, and equipment on a single line. You know what you’re paying before the work starts, and that number doesn’t shift because someone called in sick or a vacuum broke down. Budgeting gets easier when the cost of cleaning is a single line item rather than four separate ones scattered across payroll, supplies, and management time.

No Coverage Gaps

When a member of an in-house cleaning team calls in sick, someone on your staff has to figure out what happens next. With a professional cleaning service, that responsibility shifts to the provider. If a cleaner is unavailable, arranging a replacement is part of the service, so your team isn’t left scrambling to fill the gap.

Accountability Built In

Picture Perfect Cleaning holds COR certification and provides regular service reporting, so you can see what’s being done and when, without spending your own hours checking on it. That’s the management time most in-house teams never get back. Our team also uses EcoLogo- and Green Seal-certified products, so you’re not trading cost savings for a lower cleaning standard.

Get Your Custom Quote

Wages are only one line in what in-house cleaning actually costs. Once you add in supplies, the hours a manager spends overseeing the crew, and the gaps left by sick days, the real number is usually higher than what shows up on a payroll report and often higher than what a professional service would charge for the same work. That’s the gap the tool above is built to show you, along with what outsourcing could put back in your budget.

Our cost comparison tool gives you a reasonable estimate of what you could save by switching to a professional cleaning service, not a final number. Every building is different, and factors like your cleaning schedule, the size of your facility, and the services you need will affect the actual cost. If you’d like a more accurate quote based on your space, contact Picture Perfect Cleaning, and we’ll walk you through the options.