If you manage a commercial building, you may be wondering whether you should schedule daytime or nighttime janitorial services. Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. Let’s look at these types of daily cleaning service to determine which is best for your facility.
How Do Day Porter Services Work?
Commercial cleaning companies that provide day porter services send a group of trained and certified cleaners to your building every day. They perform the following tasks throughout your facility:
- Cleaning common areas, doors, and windows
- Scanning areas for trash
- Vacuuming carpeted areas
- Mopping and polishing floors
- Cleaning restrooms
- Replacing light bulbs
- Setting up and breaking down events
- Delivering packages
- Answering service calls
While day porters provide cleaning services in your facility, they also act as daily helpers who perform tasks like setting up events as you need them. Their cleaning tasks ensure dust, dirt, and bacteria don’t build up in your building and harm your employees and visitors. Porters work during the day to keep your office building, school, or other commercial property clean and safe.
How Do Night Porters Work?
Night porters visit your building after it closes for the day. Your cleaning company sends a cleaning crew to perform the following tasks while your facility is unoccupied:
- Cleaning restrooms
- Mopping and polishing floors
- Vacuuming carpeted areas
- Cleaning high-, medium-, and low-traffic areas
- Cleaning doors and windows
These services focus solely on cleaning, unlike day porter services, which are more flexible. With a nighttime cleaning routine, the cleaners have constant access to areas in your facility that need tidying up.
Pros and Cons of Day Porter Services
Like any service, day porter services have their advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that your porters work during the day alongside your staff. They can complete any tasks your employees have for them along with their routine cleaning services. However, this can also become a disadvantage. Your day porters may leave their cleaning tasks unfinished if your employees constantly call them away. Their cleaning tasks may also be disrupted by employees who need to use the spaces they’re cleaning, like conference rooms and break areas.
However, hiring a day porter service is a good idea for several reasons. First, porters clean your office throughout the day, preventing dirt, dust, and bacteria from building up on surfaces. They also clean areas multiple times as needed. Second, since they visit your building during the day, you don’t need to leave your utilities on after hours like you do for night porters. This reduces your utility bills a bit, which in turn reduces your overall operating costs. Finally, the flexibility of day porters provides additional help with all kinds of simple tasks when you need them done.
Pros and Cons of Night Porter Services
Night porter services also have their advantages and disadvantages. For instance, when you bring in nighttime cleaners, they can complete their tasks more efficiently, without interruptions from building occupants. However, because they clean at night, you have to leave your utilities on. This could raise your utility bills slightly, increasing your overall operating costs. Additionally, your cleaners arrive when your building is empty, so they aren’t available to help you with various tasks during the day. Finally, dirt, bacteria, and dust may build up more in your facility because your cleaning team can’t visit your high-traffic areas multiple times throughout the day like day porters can.
But don’t write off the possibility of using night porter services—they still have their advantages. Maybe you’re a facility manager for a school that has restrictions on adults roaming around the campus during the day. You could hire porters to clean your school at night to get around these restrictions and keep your facilities clean. This strategy also works for facilities that have machinery running during the day or other operations that limit outside visitors during work hours.
Which Type of Daily Cleaning Program Does Brenner Offer?
We offer day porter services that include all of the tasks listed above, but we customize them to fit each client’s cleaning needs. Our day porters are fully trained and certified to provide the specific daily cleaning services your building needs. We send the same team to your facility every day, so they learn all of the ins and outs of your facility’s operations. We can then adjust our cleaning tasks to better suit your unique business.
We can also combine our day porter services with our other janitorial services. For example, our day porters keep your surfaces clean on a daily basis, but our deep cleaning services go deeper into your surfaces to remove all contaminants. These two solutions work together to keep your facility as pristine as possible.
Get Effective Day Porter Services From Brenner Facility Services
Porter services guarantee you have clean surfaces throughout your building and friendly helpers who can complete small daily tasks for you. If you’re ready to implement day porter services in your facility, reach out to us today. Our cleaning professionals have the knowledge and experience to keep your building spotless every day, and we know how to adjust our services as needed to ensure you always get the porter services you’re looking for.
