Washroom checks
Checked and restocked through the day rather than once, overnight. Running out of hand towels by two o'clock is the most common complaint in any busy building.
Daytime cleaning
Your building is judged at 4pm, not 9am
A workplace cleaned only overnight looks its best before anyone arrives and its worst by mid-afternoon — which is when most people form their opinion of it. Daytime cover holds the standard through the hours that matter.
What it is
Not a second clean — a different job
Daytime cover is not the evening clean repeated. The deep work still happens out of hours. Daytime is about keeping the areas that degrade fastest in a usable state while the building is full.
Kitchen resets
The lunch hour undoes a kitchen. A reset afterwards keeps the afternoon usable instead of leaving it until the evening clean.
Breakout and shared areas
Tables cleared and wiped, seating straightened, surfaces kept presentable in the areas people actually sit in.
Meeting-room turnaround
Rooms reset between bookings so the next meeting does not start by clearing the last one's cups.
Spills and incidents
Someone on site who can deal with a spill when it happens, rather than it being roped off or ignored until the evening.
Front-of-house presentation
Entrances, reception and glass — the first thing a visitor sees, and the areas that show wear fastest.
Working around people
Present, not intrusive
Cleaning an occupied building is a different skill from cleaning an empty one. The work has to happen around meetings, calls and people trying to concentrate.
- Noise is planned. Vacuuming and machine work stay out of hours where they would disturb people.
- Routes avoid disruption. The round is planned around the building's pattern — not through a meeting room mid-booking.
- Desks are worked around.Personal items are not moved, and occupied desks are left alone.
- The team is recognisable.Someone your people can point at a problem, rather than reporting it and waiting.
Whether it is worth it
When daytime cover pays for itself
It is an additional cost, and it does not suit every building. It tends to be worth it where the problem is not the quality of the clean but how long it lasts.
- Buildings where washroom consumables run out before the end of the day.
- Coworking and flexible workspaces with members in and out all day.
- Offices that host clients, candidates or visitors regularly.
- Sites with a busy lunch pattern and a single shared kitchen.
- Buildings where the complaint is not that cleaning is bad, but that it does not last.
How many hours, at what times, and covering what, is set by your site plan. A survey is where that gets worked out — seehow Acies works.
The standard
What "clean" means, in writing
Acies specifies the result rather than the activity. "Mopped the floor" is an activity and proves nothing. The table below is what both sides measure against at an inspection — including what is reasonable to see between cleans, because a building in use is not a photograph.
| Area | Acceptable on completion | Acceptable between cleans | Unacceptable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hard floors | Dry, uniform in appearance, and free from spillages, removable stains, superficial marks and loose debris. | Debris and spillages arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of spillages, removable stains, scuff marks or debris. A non-uniform finish. |
| Soft floors | Free from visible loose debris, dust, fluff and lint, with an overall even appearance. | Debris arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of debris, dust or lint, particularly around edges and the bases of furniture. |
| Vertical and high-level surfaces | Free from impacted debris, dust, cobwebs and removable marks. | Dust and marks arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of dust or impacted debris, especially where vertical surfaces meet horizontal ones. |
| Furniture, fixtures and fittings | Dry, uniform in appearance, and free from impacted debris, dust, cobwebs and removable stains. | Debris, dust and marks arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of dust or impacted debris. Removable stains and smears. |
| Sanitary fittings | Dry, odour free, uniform in appearance, and free from impacted debris, removable stains, scale and body fats. | Debris and residual odour arising from normal use since the last clean. | Build-up of impacted debris, fats or scale on any surface. Removable stains and smears. |
Find out whether daytime cover would help
A site survey looks at when your building gets busy and which areas fall over first. If daytime cover would not earn its cost, we will say so.