Many small businesses cannot afford the cost of hiring full-time building cleaning and/or maintenance staff. As a result, building cleaning and maintenance services are available on a contract basis.

They can serve multiple businesses in the same building or office park, or provide multiple services within the same building or facility.

For example, office cleaning services and maintenance services may clean all of the offices on one of or more floors of a high rise building. They may also perform basic repairs to desks, chairs, and cubicles.

A janitorial service may clean corporate suites on a daily basis and perform activities such as window and carpet cleaning several times a year.

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Typically, a commercial cleaning company begins work after a business’ normal working hours.

In this way, personnel can perform potentially disruptive or noisy activities without affecting worker productivity. Landscape management and pest control are other functions of some building cleaning and maintenance services.

Companies that hire a business building cleaning service may also hire separate cleaning and maintenance services to service mechanical or electrical systems. For example, some building cleaning services and maintenance services can also repair heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

Others can repair plumbing, heating, or electrical systems.

Building cleaning and maintenance services that specialize in air quality or painting are also available.

Cleaning companies are located across the United States and around the world, and differ in terms of cost and capabilities.