School Cleaning Blacktown

School cleaning Blacktown schools receive is judged in one place, and it is not the staff room. It is the toilet block. A school whose toilets are unpleasant has a problem that reaches parents within about a fortnight, because children will not use them, will not drink water so they do not have to, and will tell somebody at home about it. Everything else in a school clean matters. That matters more.

Blacktown has schools of every size and every kind, spread right across the suburb — large primaries, high schools, independent and systemic schools, each with its own bell times, its own calendar, and its own set of buildings that were added in different decades and clean differently. Our depot at Seven Hills is in the same council area, which is the practical reason a supervisor can come and walk a school during a normal school day rather than at a time that suits us.

Cleaning around the bell, not against it

A school cannot be cleaned like an office, because it is never really empty and the windows in which work can be done are short and immovable. Classrooms are done after the last bell and before the first. Corridors are done when they are clear. Toilets are cleaned before the day starts, serviced at least once during it, and cleaned again at the end — because a primary school toilet block at 1pm bears no resemblance to the room it was at 8am, and a contractor who cleans it once a day is not cleaning it.

The holidays are the point

Everything that cannot be done in a fifteen-minute window between lessons gets moved into the school holidays: hard-floor stripping and resealing, carpet extraction in classrooms and the library, canteen exhaust and canopy degreasing, high dusting, light diffusers, detailed grout and partition work in the toilet blocks. That program is scoped and priced separately, and it is agreed well before the term ends rather than negotiated in the last week when everybody is exhausted and the school has no leverage.

A school clean that has no holiday program is not a school clean. It is a term-time clean that will slowly lose ground every year, and in about four years somebody will look at the hall floor and wonder what happened to it.

The canteen is a commercial kitchen

It has a shorter opening period than a restaurant and it feeds hundreds of people at once. It gets cleaned to food-handling standards, with equipment that does not go anywhere else on the site: benches, sinks, splashbacks, fridge exteriors, floors and bins on every service day, and the exhaust, canopy and behind-equipment degreasing scheduled into the holidays. Cleaning a canteen like a staff room is how a school ends up with a problem it did not see coming.

Your calendar decides our schedule

Exams need quiet equipment or no equipment. Assemblies need the hall cleaned and reset around them. Evening events and weekend community hire need a reset clean afterwards, and somebody has to have decided in advance who is paying for it. Give us the Blacktown school calendar at the start of term and we build the schedule from it. Give it to us on the morning of the event and we will do what we can, which is not the same thing and we will not pretend otherwise.

WWCC, and handing over the numbers

Every cleaner attending a Blacktown school holds a current Working with Children Check and a police check, and we give the school the numbers so they can be verified. Each cleaner is inducted on the site, the sign-in procedure and the areas they may enter before their first unsupervised shift. When somebody takes leave, the relief cleaner has already been inducted — because an unfamiliar adult wandering a school with a key is a problem nobody wants to be explaining afterwards.

Call 1300 494 983 and we will come and walk the school during an ordinary day.