journal article
LitStream Collection
Cleaning services how to make the most of a bargain
1984 Property Management
doi: 10.1108/eb006576
Old timers in the contract cleaning industry have traditionally told commercial building owners that they are likely to spend, each year, an amount equivalent to around onetwentieth of their construction costs on cleaning. If this was ever true, it is no more if it was an analogy to boost the importance of what is generally a nonconsidered industry, it was a perverse misrepresentation. In fact, contractors can today clean most new office buildings for an annual charge of no more than half of one per cent of the capital cost. Contractedout cleaning is one of the great unrecognised bargains of commercial life in the UK today.