Omni Facility Services

How much can we save?  Actually a building manager I know said that to me we are saving a bundle even though our building is filthy  Reduced their cost per sq ft from 2.50 a sq ft to .79 cents for cleaning. I have not done janitorial for many a year the last contract that I had for over 15 years went out for bids and a large company under bid me by $75,000.00. I had 15 people in the building each night new company started with 8 and within a couple months reduced that to 6.

Why do the people in these large corporations continually fall for the smoke and mirrors sales pitches from these large building maintenance contractors, when they know full well that there is no way the cost of cleaning a building can go down year after year. 

$10.00 is high, most very large contracts they are lucky to gross $10.00 an hour, so to compensate for that they cut corners to cut the hours, and it ends up something like this

Hammy wrote: I use to clean for a large movie theater chain. The contractor would use electric blowers and only vac up the piles.

There is a lot of business to be had by subbing off some of the smaller janitorial companies, very hard to get work from the big companies, they will only use you when they are in big dodo

And the sad part of this is more and more facility managers are giving the carpet maintenance to these people that don't even know how to vacuum a carpet. They only want to deal with one company.

I always got a kick out of the companies that used floor sweepers instead of vacuums