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Why Janitorial Distributors Can Help You Save Time And Money

By April Briggs


As you are starting a new cleaning business, whether for commercial properties or private homes, you will need to have a lot of things to work with. You will need employees, of course, and you will also need equipment. The largest group of items you need will be dusters, chemicals, cloths, sponges and most of all, information. For all of those reasons, you need to contact and do business with the local janitorial distributors available.

A large number of these store front operations have been set up as places for large manufacturers of cleaning products to sell their goods. This is fine because all of them also offer things from other makers, usually in non competing lines. There are also quite a few that are independent and shelf products from all makers of cleaning materials. This may be the best decision.

Chemicals are critical as no real cleaning can be accomplished without them. You must have a cleansing agent that removes the bond between the soils and the surface being cleaned. You will need a hard surface cleaner as well as a disinfectant. Other chemicals, such as for carpet cleaning and polishing are also needed and available.

The thing about chemicals is that some of them can be dangerous if handled improperly. Material Safety Data Sheets, or MSDSs must be on hand, at the location they are being used. This is a federal as well as local regulation and the stores you do business with will have access to them for you. Some of them will have the sheets for products they do not have to make this regulation easy for you to follow.

Carpet cleaning machines, vacuums and buffers are usually thought of as being the machines needed for custodial work. There are other machines and all of them are displayed for all to see. You will be able to ask questions to understand the good and bad about each item and be able to try them out, in many cases, in a back room.

Information is what this store is about. If you are just starting your cleaning business, or if you are just setting up a cleaning department in a large company, you need to know a lot of things. The employees, manning the counter, have worked with everything in the place and can give you the results of their inquiries. They can assist in finding the correct cloth, sponge, mop, bucket, duster or machine for every task you are going to meet.

Some of the best information comes from the other clients, standing around. Most of them are probably drinking coffee or water and, possibly eating popcorn that is always cooking. They are often quite anxious to share all about what works for them and, specifically, what does not work. They can help you understand what items are best for some things, regardless of what they are advertized for.

These companies exist to help you get what you need to ensure your clients are happy with your work for them. Yes, they are there to make money, but they only make money by making sure you are happy. You can become happy when you have everything you need to do your job and be able to grow your business because of adequate training, equipment, supplies and information.




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