Warehouse cleaning in Sydney can be a tough job, particularly with so many hard-to-reach places, like your ceilings and rafters. However, it’s absolutely essential that these areas do receive regular cleaning, by contractors who know what they’re doing.
Why do you need to clean your warehouse ceilings?
Primarily, it comes down to the well-being of your staff, maintaining equipment and products, and ensuring that any visitors to your facility are entering a safe space.
The ceilings of your warehouse don’t just consist of the actual underside of your roof, but encompass:
- Beams and trusses
- Piping
- Exhaust systems
- Lighting
- Fire safety apparatus.
All of these parts of your ceiling will require cleaning, for several reasons.
Dust is the enemy
We’ve talked about dust before, but this is a conversation worth having again. Unfortunately, dust is ever-present in warehouses and the bad news is that it can be very harmful to your employees, especially in the long run.
Dust can enter warehouses in a wide range of ways, which is why there isn’t really an effective preventative measure. For instance, dust can enter your warehouse on the surfaces of boxes, crates, and shipping containers, the boots of your employees, and the tyres of vehicles. It can blow in through open loading docks and windows and even come from the products or materials that you store in your warehouse, particularly if your operation involves cutting or grinding.
This dust can be made up of a huge range of matter, but most commonly the dust in your warehouse consists of dirt, cardboard particles, metal and plastic particles, wood particles, bacteria, silica, clay, and much, much more.
When this dust settles upon your ceiling, on rafters and piping, or inside exhaust systems, it can cause all sorts of problems for your employees. Most commonly, that includes respiratory issues, skin irritation, and eye irritation. In the long run, this can lead to lung disease, heart disease, and cancer.
Disgruntled employees
The risks of dust, as well as filthy ceilings, will ultimately lead to disgruntled workers. That’s because no one wants to spend 8 hours of their day in a dirty, poorly kept workspace… especially when their health is at risk.
Ultimately, if your staff aren’t happy with the space that they operate in daily, their happiness and satisfaction levels will drop considerably. That will then affect performance and the productivity of your organisation will take a hit. On the other hand, if you keep your space in excellent condition, your employees will be happier and more efficient.
It’s amazing the effect that regular Sydney warehouse cleaning can have on your workforce!
Contaminants
Contaminants like dust and other matter which accumulate on your ceilings can affect your products, as well as degrade equipment and materials. When these contaminants fall from your ceiling and become airborne they can enter machinery, packaging, and boxes.
Once inside machinery and boxes, particles that contain moisture can cause rust and corrosion, while other particles can clog up air filters. Corrosion can render machinery ineffective, which then means costly repairs… not to mention the cost of replacing corrupted materials when dust gets into packaging and boxes.
Keeping up appearances
While a warehouse needs to be a functional space, you should also be mindful of appearances. It’s likely that stakeholders, business partners, and clients will tour the space on occasion and when that happens, they’ll need to be suitably impressed. A filthy warehouse with unclean ceilings certainly won’t do that.
Your employees also deserve to work in a space that’s pleasing to the eye. You don’t need to put up paintings on your warehouse walls, but cleaning your ceilings regularly will go a long way toward keeping your staff happy.
How exactly do you clean your warehouse ceilings?
Hire a Sydney warehouse cleaning company
At Sydney Sweep and Scrub, we’ve got a wealth of experience in warehouse cleaning, particularly those hard-to-reach spots like ceilings. Our employees know exactly how to get the best clean in your space while ensuring your surfaces aren’t compromised.
When you hire a professional company, you get the peace of mind that comes with the correct use of equipment and the right health and safety practices. Our staff are trained to the highest degree in safe practices, meaning you’re in good hands.
If you attempt a warehouse ceiling cleaning operation yourself, using your own staff and equipment, the risks could be dire. It’s simply not worth putting lives at risk, and working at heights is a serious health and safety concern. Therefore, it’s critical you leave it to the professionals.
We’ll deliver a comprehensive warehouse cleaning service every single time, pressure cleaning, sweeping, and removing cobwebs.
You need the right equipment
We use our cutting-edge sweep and scrub vehicles to leave your warehouse floors spotless, but we obviously can’t use those on the ceiling… until we find machines that fly!
However, we do have an inventory of the latest equipment which allows us to expertly clean your warehouse ceilings. This equipment includes:
- Hot and cold water pressure washers
- Telescopic poles
- Scissor lifts
- Window cleaning equipment
- Eco-friendly degreasers
- Steam cleaning equipment.
If you attempt to clean the ceilings in your warehouse yourself, it’s likely that you won’t have access to the right equipment. This can turn a safe job into a hazardous one, putting your staff at risk. What’s more, poor quality and old equipment simply won’t do the job as well as newer, more efficient cleaning equipment.
To book in a comprehensive Sydney warehouse cleaning service, get in touch with Sydney Sweep and Scrub today.
