Housing Development: 4 Reasons to Hire Ongoing Clean-Up for Your Job Site

If you supervise a large-scale home building project, you're in charge of keeping the job progressing on schedule. Even though you coordinate different contractors and tradesmen while also working to ensure safe supply delivery, you might not have thought about a business essential to the job site: cleaning services.

Here are a few reasons why hiring a commercial construction cleaning service for your home development projects will benefit your business now and in the future.

1. Contractors Will Enjoy Working With You

Your building company supervises the entire development project, but contractors are the backbone of your whole operation. Framers leave to make way for roofers. Then come the people who install the drywall, do the finishing carpentry, wire the home, and install the plumbing. Each specialist contracts to do the work.

If you have the reputation of keeping a clean job site, skilled contractors are more likely to want to return to work on future projects with you. Each stage of construction is messy, and finishing trades, like cabinet installers, don't want to wade through three inches of sawdust and empty product packaging in order to get their work done.

Not only will professional tradesmen not enjoy working in messes, but the mess will also slow them down.

For example, if a finishing carpenter has to spend ten minutes clearing out each room before he can work, that adds an hour or two to the job for one house. Over the course of many houses, that time compounds into days of work. This extra time means lost income for the carpenter (because they are paid by the job), but this also means slowing your completion date.

Hire a cleaning company to come in every week or so to clear away the debris and sweep the floors so the house can always be ready for the next contractor.

2. Buyers Touring the Homes Don't Have to Look Past the Mess

If you build your development on spec, you rely on making sales as the houses go up. People will still want to come and see the homes they buy, and they might be disconcerted to find that the houses are full of cabinet boxes, discarded pieces of drywall, and bits of surplus lumber.

A dirty worksite can make a buyer question the quality of the work, which means they might look elsewhere for their home needs. If the buyer has already made a purchase, they might wonder why the workers don't treat their home with more respect.

Word of mouth is bread and butter for building companies. Buyers will share both good and bad experiences, and cleanliness is a simple way to make sure buyers give you solid reviews.

3. A Clean Environment Is a Safe Environment

Construction work is not well-known for providing the safest jobs, but you still need to do your part in ensuring the safety of your job site. As contractors come in and out, they haul tools and carry heavy materials. If the floor is not clear of debris, simple deliveries can turn into serious accidents.

Hire a cleaning company to help reduce injuries. You also want the floor to be clear because a trip or fall won't only harm people but also harm the product. A case of tile or a cabinet gets damaged when dropped. Those damaged goods hurt your bottom line.

Debris and dust in the workplace also pose other risks. The houses don't have alarms in the early stages of construction, and building debris can be a major fire hazard, especially if a contractor needs to use a space heater indoors.

4. The Final Product Is Easier to Prepare for Sale or Possession

Finally, after all the work is done, the house needs cleaned for open houses or for the buyer to take possession. If the house is in reasonably good condition from ongoing cleanliness, this job will be much simpler and quicker.

For more information, contact us at Janitorial Services Atlanta.