What recurring janitorial covers, and what waits for a deep clean
A recurring janitorial visit from San Francisco Cleaning Co sanitizes each restroom, takes out trash and recycling and restocks paper products, soap and liners, then finishes the floor. In an office tower with a restroom core on every floor, that routine is what keeps tenants from noticing the restrooms at all.
Yet every restroom collects things a recurring visit can’t fully clear. Small mosaic tile in older buildings traps soil in hundreds of grout joints. Mineral residue forms a cloudy skin on chrome and a ring in the bowls. Ventilation grilles and partition tops gather fine dust, and the tile near the urinals begins to hold an odor. A deep clean is the separate, planned visit that strips those layers back, so recurring service goes on looking after a restroom that is truly clean.
Work done on each deep clean
- Floor tile, including small mosaic and hex patterns, scrubbed by machine and then extracted so soil leaves the grout rather than resettling
- Cloudy residue and scale cleared off each toilet, urinal and sink, reaching their bases, rear faces and the strip of floor beside them
- Floor drains scrubbed through the grate and flushed
- Stall partitions, doors and the full height of the wall tile or wainscot washed
- Ventilation grilles, light lenses and ledges well above eye level dusted
- Dispensers, hand dryers, sensor faucets and flushometers detailed
- Base trim and the corners of each stall brushed out by hand
- Odor dealt with where it starts, in the drains, the grout and the floor by the urinals, rather than covered with fragrance
Weekly, monthly or quarterly: three levels of service
A building can keep its ground-floor restrooms on a tighter schedule than the restroom cores on its quieter upper floors.
Weekly
- Spot descaling of faucets, flushometers and bowls
- Partitions and stall doors wiped, latches and coat hooks included
- Floor drains flushed
- Scrubbing along edges and into corners
Monthly
- Floor and grout run under the scrubber
- Wall tile washed
- Grilles, lenses and other high points dusted
- Dispensers and dryers cleaned thoroughly
Quarterly
- Heavy scale lifted from each fixture
- Restoration scrubbing for darkened grout
- Partitions washed panel by panel, wall tile included
- Light fixtures cleaned and the whole room detailed
The number of people through the door is what decides the level. A flagship store’s customer restroom, a hotel lobby restroom or a school restroom generally needs weekly work. A converted loft office with one shared restroom for a small team keeps well on a quarterly visit.
Disinfection that gets its full dwell time
Seats, flushometer handles, sensor faucets, door pulls and other surfaces people touch are disinfected with EPA-registered products. Grime comes off beforehand, since disinfectant can’t act through it. Nobody wipes the product off early: the surface stays wet until the label’s dwell time has run out.
Medical offices, schools and hotels get the same sequence on every deep clean, with products suited to each surface.
San Francisco buildings that benefit
The clearest results come where restrooms see constant use. In San Francisco that includes office towers and multi-tenant buildings, hotels with busy lobby restrooms, retail stores and shopping centers, and restaurants whose guests judge the kitchen by the restroom.
It also helps schools, medical facilities, fitness studios and club locker rooms, congregations and event venues, life science labs and their office floors, and employee restrooms in warehouses and light industrial spaces.
What tenants and guests notice
- Fresher air, with the sources of odor scrubbed out
- Grout and fixtures that hold up for longer
- Fewer complaints to the building manager
- Restrooms you are happy to include on a tenant tour or show an inspector
- A first impression that matches the rest of the property
Scheduling in a busy city
Crews arrive after the building empties or on a weekend. Where a floor has two restrooms, one is restored while the other stays in service, so a working restroom is always nearby. We fit the visit around your recurring janitorial service, and buildings with day porter services can have porters check restrooms and keep them stocked through the day.
A hotel or restaurant can use the quiet hours before breakfast or after the last seating.
What the price is based on
- Restroom cores, and the fixtures in each core
- The condition the restrooms start in, including scale
- The level of service you choose
- Floor and wall surfaces, from mosaic tile to stone
- Building access hours, including loading dock or freight elevator times
A few useful answers
Common questions.
Can a high-rise be deep cleaned floor by floor instead of all at once?
Yes. The work can be spread over several nights, a few floors at a time, so each restroom core is restored without tying up the building.
Our building has old mosaic tile. Can the grout really be brought back?
In most cases, yes. Repeated machine scrubbing and extraction lift years of soil from small mosaic grout lines, and the quarterly level is built for exactly that kind of restoration.
How does a hotel keep lobby restrooms open during a deep clean?
The crew works in the early morning hours and finishes one restroom before closing the next, so guests always have one available off the lobby.
Is the deep clean booked on top of our recurring janitorial service?
Yes. Recurring visits continue as they are, and the deep clean is added weekly, monthly or quarterly for the work those visits don’t reach.
