At the end of the day, you wash away the coffee stains on your desk after drinking several much-needed cup of coffee and you wipe off the leftover crumbs from your lunch into the trash. It only takes a few seconds and your desktop furniture is good to go for the next business day. In addition, your office building likely has a cleaning service that cleans the whole office space every day. But heavy everyday use can leave its mark on your office furniture. You will begin to see scratches on office chairs, dust forming in your fancy rug and you may even notice scratches on your desk. In this blog, we teach you how to best take care of your office furniture.
Do a Grand Cleanup
The most visible areas are often erased immediately, like your office and floor. In addition, the cleaning service guarantees a complete cleaning of the office furniture once a week. You may think that is enough, but you need to ensure that the office furniture gets a great cleaning and maintenance once or twice a year. After all, we also like to do a big clean-up in our own houses at least once a year. So why should our offices be left behind? A great cleaning spree is the perfect time to really tackle every corner of the office space and make it completely dust-free and shiny.
Instead of wiping computer monitors and keyboards, you should empty the entire office for complete cleaning. Moreover, some drawers with things that are never used, old documents and that one lingering scarf that seems to belong to no one anymore, will be cleaned up during a big yearly cleaning. This may take some time, but you will be rewarded with an organized and clean work space. After all with your hard work, you will have a fresh and renewed desktop space for the next (half) year.
Care for Leather Office Furnishings
It can be the most popular part of many office designs: the large leather sitting couch to relax in during your busy workday. Or perhaps you have several lovely leather conference chairs or luxury leather office chairs. Leather is a very beautiful material, and therefore frequently seen in office space. Another benefit of this equipment is that it is highly durable. However, your leather furniture needs proper maintenance. This can be done by occasionally wiping the leather sofa or chair with a damp cloth to gently remove accumulated dust and dirt. Please ensure that your fabric is not too damp, because this will leave your furniture with stains on the leather.
You should also make sure that your leather office furniture is not placed in the sunniest spot of your office space, as too much exposure to sunlight will make the leather dry out. Even when you strictly adhere to these maintenance measures, your leather furniture may begin to look a little old and dry at some point. When that happens, it is preferable to treat it with leather wax. This will give your leather desktop furniture a boost, helping it last for years to come!
Service Wooden Furniture.
Along with leather, wood is also a common material in many office areas. Although many work desks are often not made of solid wood, we often see wooden tables and wooden closets in an office interior. For this wood office furniture to retain its beautiful appearance, it must be well maintained. You can do this, for example, by treating it with a moisturising agent on a regular basis. This will allow the wood to remain in perfect condition.
In addition, regular maintenance ensures that the wood remains easily wiped with a damp cloth. This will help keep the furniture in excellent shape, which in turn will make it last much longer. If there are stains on the wood that cannot be polished by hand, you can choose to sand and re-grease the wooden furniture. Afterwards, your furniture will look brand new!
Provide a Deep Cleaning
Certain aspects of office furniture maintenance may not be performed by your regular cleaning service. Therefore, you should contact a professional corporation to perform the specific maintenance aspects. Consider, for example, the thorough cleaning of your carpets, or the padding of chairs. These items may seem less dirty at first glance, but their clean-up is very important from time to time.
However, after years of intensive use, these furnishings have retained much invisible dust and dirt. You will be surprised how much dirt comes out when these rooms are cleaned. This is why you should professionally clean your office furniture once every couple of years. Although you may not even have realized that it was dirty, the outcome of such professional service will surprise you. Such thorough cleaning will make your office furniture look new, giving the whole of your office interior a boost. In addition, a clean work environment will help you and your co-workers stay healthy and happy.
Well Maintained!
As you have seen, even when an office furniture is cleaned weekly, there are many other maintenance tasks that must not be forgotten. While good regular cleaning certainly helps, good care of your office furniture can significantly extend its lifespan. Moreover, good care of office furniture is good for the environment and your wallet! Even when something really needs to be replaced, a revitalization can always provide a beautiful and durable solution.