Church and Parish Hall Cleaning, Priced to Budget

A sanctuary has to be ready twice on a Sunday and sometimes three times, so the work is a reset rather than a deep clean. Aisles and the floor around the altar, papers and old bulletins cleared out of the pew racks, the pews themselves wiped down, and the candle wax that ends up on the wood and the tile taken off before it gets walked through the building. The entry and the coat area take the weather in this valley: wet boots, road sand and dripping umbrellas, all landing on the same twenty feet of floor from November into April. Both sets of doors get their glass, and the mats get lifted rather than swept around. Restrooms are cleaned and restocked before the weekend instead of after it, since Saturday evening is the last useful moment for that. Offices and classrooms fit into whatever week the parish calendar leaves open, and the schedule is written around the calendar you already publish.

The hall and the kitchen are their own job. A supper, a funeral reception or a fundraiser leaves tables, chairs, a floor and a kitchen behind, and it usually lands on the same handful of volunteers who were already there all day. That is the part worth handing over. Tables and chairs reset, floors done, kitchen surfaces, sinks, the range front and the trash carried out, so the people who cooked are not also the people mopping at ten at night. Budgets here are real and the scope gets built to them. Tell us the figure the committee approved, and the list is written to fit it, with whatever is excluded named just as clearly. Older buildings need more than cleaning eventually. Joints that have opened up through freeze and thaw need cutting out and repacking, which we do all twelve months with a heated enclosure once the nights turn, and interior walls that have gone dull need paint. Both are ours, and the order is set so the cleaning happens last.

What the program covers

• Sanctuary floors, aisles and the area around the altar
• Pews wiped, racks cleared and wax taken off the wood
• Entry, coat area and the glass on both sets of doors
• Restrooms cleaned and restocked before weekend services
• Parish hall floors, tables and chairs reset after events
• Kitchen surfaces, sinks, the range front and the trash
• Classrooms and offices on the week the calendar allows
• A scope you can trim or expand as the budget changes