The Office Cleaning Checklist to Get Your New Season Right
Get your premises back in order before your teams return, and use 12 questions to check whether your cleaning provider is really doing the work you pay for. 9 pages, made to be printed and ticked.
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Every year we see the same thing when taking over premises that have been closed all summer: dust settled back across every desk, dried-out traps letting drain odours through, forgotten fridges, clogged air-conditioning filters. A standard maintenance visit does not fix this — and yet that is exactly what most companies schedule for the day everyone comes back.
This is also the only point in the year when you can judge your cleaning provider under fair conditions: the premises start from a known state, and the gap between what was promised and what is actually done becomes visible within weeks. This checklist was written by our team from what we record on the ground in Paris. It is free and designed to be printed.
Looking for the full list of tasks by frequency? See our office cleaning checklist: daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly tasks, zone by zone. This page deals specifically with bringing premises back into use after a summer closure.
What should an office cleaning checklist cover for the new season?
An effective back-to-work checklist covers four areas: preparation two weeks ahead (consumables, access, flushing water points, traps, air-conditioning filters), inspection of the first cleaning visit, the six critical zones where complaints concentrate, and an audit of the current provider. It should also state the expected on-site time per floor area — the only reliable way to compare two quotes.
What the document contains
Six independent parts. Each one stands alone, in whatever order suits you.
Two weeks ahead: preparation
Ten items to handle before your teams return: consumables, access, flushing the pipework, traps, air-conditioning filters, the fridge, pest checks.
Inspecting the first visit
Eight concrete checks you can run yourself in twenty minutes after the first intervention. The zones that immediately reveal an under-resourced contract.
The 6 critical zones
Desks, washrooms, kitchen, meeting rooms, common areas, glazing: the minimum frequency for each and the point that is systematically missed.
Paris specifics
Bins and city fines, access and building-management constraints, the real cost of parking. What no generic guide covers.
Auditing your provider
Twelve yes-or-no questions, with a scoring grid telling you what to do based on the result. The most used part of the document.
Real time & reading a quote
Expected on-site time by floor area and frequency, what a serious quote must contain, and five warning signs to spot before signing.
A preview of the most useful part
Four of the twelve audit questions. Each "no" is worth 1 point; the document contains the full scoring grid.
Who this checklist is for
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Office managers and facilities leads taking the premises back in hand in September and wanting an objective baseline for control.
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Owners of small and mid-sized businesses with no dedicated team, managing the cleaning provider on top of everything else.
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Companies with doubts about their current provider who struggle to pin down exactly what is wrong — part 5 exists for precisely that.
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Companies running a tender who are receiving several quotes and need a reliable comparison criterion beyond the headline price.
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Medical practices, coworking spaces and retail whose footfall demands a higher standard of upkeep than a conventional office floor.
Get the checklist now
Immediate download once the form is submitted. We also send you the link by e-mail.
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