Owning or running a hotel means overseeing everything from bookings to drinks licences, and from marketing to cleaning tasks such as laundry, windows, and carpet cleaning. For carpet cleaning, hotels have two options.
One is to use their own cleaning staff to clean carpets, and the other is to hire a professional carpet cleaning company.
Both of these options have their advantages and disadvantages, and it may well be down to the hotel owner or manager to decide which of the two carpet cleaning options they are going to choose.
To highlight what they will be comparing, here are some of the pros and cons of both using in-house staff versus using a carpet cleaning company to clean a hotel’s carpets.
Carpet Cleaning Company Pros
Carpets Cleaned Properly And To The Highest Standards
When you hire professionals to do anything, and that includes professional carpet cleaners, you can expect to get the best results.
In this case, carpet cleaning in the hotel will be done to the highest possible standards.
Expertise In Cleaning All Kinds Of Carpets
Within a hotel, there might be an array of different carpet types, fabrics, sizes, and piles and each of these need to be cleaned in a specific way.
A professional carpet cleaner will know how to clean effectively and safely each one of the carpets in a hotel.
Professional-Grade Carpet Cleaning Equipment
An obvious advantage of hiring professional carpet cleaners is that they will have access to the highest-specification equipment designed for optimal results as well as top-grade carpet cleaning solutions and detergents.
Warranties And Guarantees Will Be In Place
Given that the carpet cleaning company may be registered within one of the carpet cleaning industry’s professional institutes, it will work to the highest standards which will be backed by solid warranties and guarantees.
Carpet Cleaning Company Cons
Higher Costs
It should not be too surprising to learn that hiring an outside carpet cleaning company will cost more than simply instructing and subsequently paying staff a salary to clean hotel carpets.
Timings Might Be Disruptive
Given that a hotel effectively operates twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week, the timings necessary for professionals to come in and clean all its carpets might be somewhat disruptive for staff and guests.
In-House Cleaners Pros
Likely To Cost Less
It is the case that if hotel cleaning staff are being paid a salary and they then clean the hotel’s carpets, then there are effectively no additional costs, other than cleaning materials.
It Should Take Less Time
As the staff cleaning its carpets work for the hotel, they can be asked to clean carpets as and when it suits that hotel and as they are not doing so to a professional level, it should take them less time.
In-House Cleaners Cons
Carpet Cleaning Standards Might Be Average At Best
Whilst hotel staff might be hard-working and diligent, if they have not been trained in, or have no experience in carpet cleaning then it follows that their results will not be to the same standards of professionals who have.
Lack Of Expertise Could Lead To Carpet Damage
A further problem of hotel staff not having the requisite carpet knowledge or experience is the risk of them cleaning carpets using the wrong cleaning solutions or techniques and damaging them as a result.
Using Sub-Standard Equipment
Unless a hotel is prepared to invest considerable money in industry-standard carpet cleaning equipment, then its staff are not going to be able to get the results that top-level equipment would allow for.
Hotel Management Have To Oversee Everything
Finally, if it is its staff that are being instructed to clean an hotel’s carpets then hotel management is responsible for overseeing them, unlike the alternative where the carpet cleaning company would oversee their staff.