Are you someone that hires a residential cleaner? Or are you a business owner that has hired a commercial cleaning company? Either way, you may be interested in finding out the differences between these two subsets of the cleaning industry. Although they both include cleaning, there are actually some very stark differences between the two. In this article, we’ll go over some of those for you!
One of the biggest things that separate the commercial cleaning industry and residential industry is actually the times of day in which both of them are done. Commercial cleaning is primarily done in the evening and in the night so that the commercial cleaning crew doesn’t get into the way of the employees and vice versa. On the other hand, people don’t usually want to have someone cleaning their home in the evening or night when they’re trying to relax, so most residential cleaning jobs happen during the day. That means that, should they want to spend their every waking moment cleaning, someone could theoretically work both of these types of jobs.
Another thing that separates the commercial cleaning business from the residential cleaning business is the amount of oversight by the clients. A lot of residential cleaners report that their clients are very keen on watching over what the residential cleaners are doing, making sure that they are cleaning well and in a timely manner. This is very different from commercial cleaning. As we mentioned before, commercial cleaning takes place in the evenings or nights. That means that commercial cleaners don’t have to worry about their clients watching their every move. However, some clients will put out “traps” for the commercial cleaning crew to make sure that they are actually cleaning well. For example, they might put a piece of paper behind the trash can to make sure that the crew is actually cleaning back there.
The last thing we’ll talk about in this article is the difference in cleaning crew size between commercial and residential cleaning. Commercial cleaners usually clean a very large space, covering up to 4000 square feet in a single job. This is why commercial cleaners will often do jobs in pairs or with a crew of cleaners. This is very different from residential cleaning. Residential usually covers a lot smaller area, which is why it isn’t rare to see just a single residential cleaner per home.
After reading this article, hopefully you have some better insight into why commercial cleaning and residential cleaning are so different!