Gym and Studio Cleaning, Starting With the Grips

Members judge a gym by what their hands touch. Grips, dumbbell handles, cable attachments, bench pads, the rails on a treadmill, the console and the screen. Those come first on every visit and they get wiped properly, not passed over with a dry cloth on the way to the door. Mirrors come next, cleaned to the edge and left without a streak at the height where people stop to check their form, because that is the one flaw the whole room can see at once. Then the floor, which is where gyms most often get damaged by their own cleaners. Rubber and vinyl do not want a degreaser or a solvent. Those pull the plasticizer out, dry the surface, and take a black floor to gray and chalky inside a year, at which point it is a replacement bill rather than a cleaning problem. Ours runs on a neutral cleaner and controlled water, worked in the direction the tiles were laid.

Locker rooms are a smell problem before they are a cleaning problem, and smell does not answer to fragrance. It comes from the drain, the grout, the underside of the bench, the mats and the bin nobody washes out. So the source gets taken: showers and tile joints scrubbed, curtains or doors done, drains cleared and flushed, benches wiped top and underneath, lockers inside and out where the scope allows, trash pulled and the bins themselves washed instead of relined. Do that on a schedule and the room stops needing anything sprayed into the air. Timing depends on how you operate. A studio with a class timetable gets the gap between the last class and the doors being locked. A twenty four hour access site never truly closes, so we take the deadest stretch, usually the run from one until five, and work zone by zone so no area is ever fully out of use. Studio walls take constant contact, and repainting them overnight keeps the room open the next morning.

What the program covers

• Grips, handles, benches and the pads members lie on
• Cardio consoles, screens and the rails around them
• Rubber and vinyl floors on a neutral cleaner, no degreaser
• Mirrors cleaned to the edge with no streak at eye level
• Locker rooms, benches and lockers inside and out
• Showers, curtains or doors, drains and the tile grout
• Trash pulled and the bins washed, not simply relined
• Overnight windows on twenty four hour access sites