We keep Westmont buildings clean

Older Westmont buildings need a deeper clean

Most commercial space in Westmont is low rise. You have office and medical buildings along Ogden Avenue, and smaller offices and storefronts downtown near Cass Avenue and the Metra station. Many of these buildings have been in use for a long time. It shows. Worn grout and tired carpet can look dirty even right after a wipe down, and a restroom with old tile never quite looks finished. The first cleaning in a building like that has to go deeper than a regular visit.

When we take on a Westmont building, we start with an intensive initial cleaning. It costs you nothing extra. That first pass gets into the corners and floor edges that a quick clean skips. Then we test surfaces with equipment to check that the cleaning actually worked, and we test again from time to time after that. You get a measured result, not a building that only smells clean. Milan Popovic Jr wrote on Google: "Really great company to deal with. Very professional, left our building with a brand new feel to it."

After that, the daily work follows what we call the CLS Everyday Cleaner Standard. Every building we clean has a single point of contact at CLS who is responsible for meeting it. Something is off in a restroom or a conference room? You tell that person and they take it to the crew. That crew is our own staff. Many of our cleaning technicians have been with CLS for more than a decade.

• Intensive initial cleaning at no extra cost
• Surfaces tested with equipment after the first clean
• A single CLS contact responsible for your building
• Restroom pressure washing in the standard contract
• Carpet extraction and floor waxing included

Winter salt wears down Westmont entry floors

Westmont gets a full Chicago area winter. Ogden Avenue gets plowed and salted for months, and so do the parking lots behind local offices. All of that salt comes inside on shoes. It hits the entry mat first. Then it gets tracked down the hall onto tile and carpet. If nobody deals with it, it dries into a white film on hard floors and a gritty crust in carpet that a vacuum leaves behind.

Salt is hard on every kind of floor. The grit scratches the finish on vinyl tile and stone every time someone walks across it, and the residue dulls whatever wax is left. Carpet has its own problem. Salt pulls in moisture and holds it, so the carpet by the doors stays damp and looks dirty long after the snow melts. By spring, a lobby that looked fine in the fall can look years older.

For Westmont buildings, we put carpet on a maintenance program from the first day and follow the carpet maker's recommendations, so the warranty stays valid. Restorative extraction carpet cleaning comes with our standard contract, and IICRC certified carpet technicians do that work. Floor scrubbing and waxing is included too. We do it once a year or twice a year, depending on the building, and after a salty winter that is what hard floors need. Carpets on our program have lasted for decades.

How we clean medical offices in Westmont

If your Westmont building has a dental office or a doctor's suite in it, the cleaning has to meet a higher bar. Our crews are trained to clean and disinfect high touch surfaces every day, such as door handles and light switches. We use hospital grade disinfectants. We also give them the right dwell time, which means the product stays wet on the surface as long as its label says. A quick spray and wipe does not give it time to work.

The other risk in a medical space is cross contamination, which means carrying germs from room to room. Our crews use color coded microfiber cloths and flat mops, so a restroom cloth never touches an exam room counter. It is a simple system. It only works if the crew follows it every shift. Our cleaning technicians average more than a decade of facility maintenance experience, so that habit is already there when they walk into your building.

Every Westmont building we clean, medical or not, gets products and liners that meet LEED standards. Our vacuums capture particles as small as three tenths of a micron. Fine dust stays in the vacuum instead of going back into the air your tenants breathe. CLS is a member of the US Green Building Council's Illinois chapter and the Indoor Air Quality Association. We have also helped customers get green certification for their buildings.

Getting a price in Westmont

To get a price for your Westmont building, call us at (630) 816-0300 or leave your details on this page. We start with a free building cleaning audit and talk. There is no obligation. We look at your floors and restrooms in person before we price the job. Then you get a free quote. It lists what is included, such as restroom pressure washing and carpet extraction. You see it before you agree to anything.