Streamlining Your Cleaning Operations Through Work Loading

Copyright 2006 The Janitorial Store You have only so many hours in a day to get your buildings cleaned ... can clean you also need to include “non-cleaning” tasks such as picking up equipment, restocking supplies ... and your employees, you can then decide if it is feasible to purchase high efficiency equipment, such as backpack [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 22:34:48

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Appliance Tune-up

Back when fuel prices were up around $4.00/gallon, the mere anticipation of winter energy costs was enough to send a shiver down people’s spines ... . Keep the coils well ventilated and clean so that heat doesn’t build up. Washers & Dryers Almost ... filter clean and separating your loads by thickness of material (i.e. don’t dry towels with bed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 07:02:38

iGo to introduce a bevy of new products at CES 2009

iGo is no stranger when it comes to accessories for notebooks as well as mobile electronic devices, with chargers being one of their main forte ... to standard power products, which is a whole lot if you’re running a huge office building. Three ... iGo laptop cleaning kit: Premium cleaning kit with six tools to safely clean your laptop and other [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 12:30:53

Green Cleaning Products - Truth or Fiction?

What with all of the attention being paid to all things “green” these days, one of the items I see most frequently mentioned are cleaning supplies ... janitorial program with environmentally sensitive cleaning agents, best practices to insure a clean building and energy efficient equipment. The main difference I have found is that with the “green” [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 05:23:51

A URL Czar for Google?

A simple idea in a twit. Google should hire someone to beautify their URLs. Seriously would make their products 100 percent more attractive and usable. I'm always cleaning ... State Building: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Empire+State+Building [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:11:21

Listed Building Grades & Restoration

Buildings and architecture are all around us and we often fail to notice ... repair work and cleaning the buildings brick work. Building restoration is basically about maintaining ... . From great big office blocks, cathedrals and churches, town halls to guildhalls, there are bound [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:12:24

LAURIES REPLY

First of all, I have never pointed out anything negative about Salem except to bring attention to those who are breaking the law ... .  Time to restate them and enforce them.  I SURE DO know about the trashy looking building material ... in cleaning up the town and in making progress?  It takes less energy to be positive than [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:41:18

Step Two - Get My Life the Heck Organized Some More!

Yeah, that's right, get yourself more organized! Hopefully you have been doing a good job managing the clutter in your home this week ... room. You can see my schedule on the left sidebar of this page. It goes like this:Weekly Cleaning ... - we are building up to being able to complete this every week.So, for example, here is my sample weekly cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:56:00

What's Up With The Laziness?

I won't lie to you. Things are slackish around here these days. I've seen slumps before, but never like this. We're spooky lazy. I blame summer ... with such haste that I squirted a blob of cherry filling onto the Berber carpet in the elevator lobby. (Note to self: call building maintenance and schedule carpet cleaning while subtly implicating the [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 18:50:55

6323: Seeking Writers With Leadership Skills.

This actual job listing from craigslist was mistakenly published in the Writing/Editing category ... accepted methods of retail cleaning of buildings• Knowledge of products and equipment used ... retail store maintenance, including, but not limited to: trash removal; dusting; cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 05:21:00

Maintaining Excellent Credit Rating

Being approved for credit is a sign that someone is willing to take a risk on you with their money ... spending nowadays. Even if you decide to lock yourself up in your home, you will still be accumulating ... on credit as long as you can pay for it eventually. Aside from cleaning up your credit, build a savings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:41:35

Geothermal Systems-Find out more with Oliver Heating & Cooling

No matter what climate you live in, the temperature throughout the year varies ... Boiler Installation, Service, and Repair Residential Air Duct Cleaning Forced Air Systems ... Maintenance Agreements Commercial Air Duct Cleaning Cooling Tower Service Building Automation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 17:07:45

Solow Fighting For $250M Payday on East River Project

For octogenarian megadeveloper Sheldon Solow, 2008 certainly ended with a bang. He was dragged into the Marc Dreier mess (aka The Other Scam) ... what? It all has to do with the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, which gives developers tax credits for cleaning up and building on contaminated sites. Last year, the State Legislature set a cap of $35 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:26:26

Community support wins higher wages for lowest paid cleaners

Community spirit is not yet dead, bringing about positive changes like winning higher wages for some of the London's lowest paid ... clean. Contract cleaners employed in just one building at Canary Wharf were found to come from 29 ... in the cleaning industry, but were often more dissatisfied with a perceived lack of respect. They highlighted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 06:27:28

Missed us…

…by that much. On Friday, it was the coldest it has been all year (and past few months) in Atlanta ... was suffering water damage.  When I arrived and saw the multiple carpet cleaning vans and large pools ... that lead to the front of our apartment building. You can see the carpet cleaning van and vacuum [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:35:13

How To Start A Home Improvement Service

In last few years home improvement referral services are cropping up from New York to California ... you want to refer. This can include gutter cleaning and replacement, remodeling, building additions ... of resources. A home improvement referral service business takes only a little money and not more time than [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:07:30

Efficiency Help Wanted

Efficiency Help Wanted By Kate Galbraith Spraying insulation in Maryland ... job opportunities in a variety of clean-tech fields. For building retrofitting, the opportunities include: electricians, heating/air-conditioning installers, carpenters, construction equipment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:20:30

The Correct Approach

For workers dealing with lying, lawbreaking bosses: ... employees of Republic Windows and Doors began their sit-in Friday, the last scheduled day of the plant’ ... have been shoveling snow and cleaning the building, Fried said. “It’s a rarely used tactic,” Fried said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 17:41:45

Restaurant Pressure Washing

Restaurant Pressure Washing Bloged in restaurants by admin Monday January 19, ... in steam cleaning of restaurants. They are looking for a company that has cleaned thousands ... and Building. They are asking themselves; are there grease stains in the parking, bird droppings on the signs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:08:24

Tips To Maintaining Your Garment Steamer

by Martha Serensford The cleaning procedure below is recommended as a regular maintenance measure to help your steamer maintain its maximum steaming ... it to be disassembled to properly clean and prolong the life span of the unit. It is recommended ... by sediment build up. This will remove any build up that occurred inside the hose. 3. Clean the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:46:21

Inauguration Journal - Day 14

Anthony Atwood's Inauguration Journal - Day 14 THURSDAY 15JAN09: Today we run more radio checks on the mall ... of the Capitol building. MSNBC setups, trailers with cable feeds the size of elephant trunks running in and out, pressure cleaning on some building cornices, traffic detours, and the red, white, and blue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:56:01

Green Party candidate Todd Price running for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction

Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch Todd Price, ... collect signatures before Sunday January 4. Price advocates: · Building Safe Schools. Calling ... . · Cleaning up the testing mess. Convening a meeting of assessment and evaluation experts to consider [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 03:43:47

Health Care Facilities: A Profitable Niche for Your Cleaning Business

A growing area that offers plenty of opportunity and potential profit for building service contractors is cleaning health care facilities. Besides hospitals, there are nursing homes, doctor’s offices, clinics, hospices, and dental offices that all need cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 07:59:53

Illegal aliens working at county courthouse?

A company hired to provide janitorial services to the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown was the target of a raid by immigration officials ... annual contract with ABM to clean the county building. What gives? Read more about this case [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 15:24:50

Best Franchise for You !!!

If you planned to own your Business here’s the dealer.Nowadays economy is getting slowdown ... will have question what are the franchises type we can apply for??.Automotive,Beauty,Beverage,Building and Remodeling,Business opportunity,Children product,cleaning and maintenance,computer and Internet,Education [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:16:25

On the Road: Reno, Nevada

During the summer, John McCain’s Reno office was struggling to attract volunteers ... are the McCain and Obama Reno field offices. Republicans, of course, have long built up grassroots ... by the DNC 50-state program, they have been building party infrastructure by cleaning up voter files [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 18:59:00

Kent Avenue Power Plant Destructoporn: Massive Shrinkage

2008_12_Powerplant%20Desctructoporn.jpg Remember the old Kent Avenue BMT Power House that Con Ed said it was just doing some "spring cleaning" ... , complaints of toxic clouds of asbestos wafting into residential neighborhoods and the like, the spring cleaning is so complete that the building is nearly gone. A tipster sent this pic showing what [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:51:27

Diary of a Distiller: Chapter 19 - The Bionic Brewery

Filed under: Diary of a Distiller Wow, it's the first weekend of Autumn and in marshy areas and along ponds and rivers the leaves are starting to ... . We have been building, rebuilding, cleaning, polishing, taking things apart, repairing them [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 10:01:00

How To Choose A Whole House Air Purifier

By Ray Lam Before purchasing an air purifier for your home, ... it with your household air duct system, allowing the air flow from the entire building ... gas and clean the air of other contaminants. If you have a problem with dust, mold, or mildew [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 04:45:00

Ventilation Systems - Design and Performance

by: Hazim B. AwbiHardcover: 445 pagesPublisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (December 20, 2007) ... ventilation for cooling, heating and cleaning the outdoor air supplied to buildings are essential for maintaining good indoor quality as well as for reducing a building’s energy consumption. Modern [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:37:00

LEGO Wall-E roundup

LEGO fans all over the ‘net love the new Pixar movie Wall-E, ... to build frustrated cleaning robot M-O (”FOREIGN CONTAMINANT!”), along with his own Wall-E: M-O cleaning bot on Flickr While other builders go fairly large or very small, the Wall-E that legomocs [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 05:44:20

Job’s lost categories

Click to view graph The chart is pretty self explanatory. If 2001 bar is larger then 2007, we lost jobs in that category ... 31-0000 Healthcare support occupations 33-0000 Protective service occupations 35-0000 Food preparation and serving related occupations 37-0000 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:03:27

For janitorial service please Contact us at 877-880-4110

Higest quality janitorial service & office cleaning services.Universal Building Maintenance Inc. is committed to providing our customers with the highest level of quality green certified service http://ubmaintenance.com/blog/contact-us/ read more [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 07:38:30

15 workers arrested in BP raid

December 10th, 2008 05:00 AM - Immigration authorities arrested 15 janitorial workers in an early morning raid at the BP plant in Whiting. The raid came after at two-year investigation of United Building Maintenance, a Carol Stream, Ill.,-based cleaning company that had been hired by BP. By Andy Grimm Post-Tribune staff writer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 10:05:13

Large Franchise Opportunity; Invest In A City!

Wanted: People with the ability to lead, help, and support other small business owners. The Opportunity: Huge ... , wealth building stuff. Jani_2_2 Definition This commercial cleaning franchise is a low ... . Some commercial cleaning Master Franchise Opportunities cost over $150,000, just for the franchise fee. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 11:55:38

I Am Fortunate!!

Here I've been feeling sorry for myself the last week or so, well, ... needing a deep cleaning. I took it apart and cleaned deep inside, yes there was a build up of ash inside [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 02:43:00

Update: Judge won't halt cancelling of TriState contracts

PROVIDENCE -- A judge this afternoon denied a temporary restraining order sought by a cleaning company that wanted to stop the Carcieri ... Enterprises, had state contracts covered cleaning and janitorial services at a dozen buildings [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 19:36:30

Sneaker

I left the house after the kids went to sleep and.... came to the office. To work. At 11:00 at night ... to the state. Organize my pile o' crap for taxes.No one works 3rd shift in this building. I scared the crap out of our cleaning people. They were more than a little bit surprised to see me.You [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:16:00

Day 14: Courtyard

Day 14: Courtyard I’ve lived in this apartment for three years, and I’ve still got a bit of a puppy-love crush on my little Midtown building ... s tiny and gross (no amount of cleaning will ever get it clean) and there’s no room for anything [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 04:54:31

Window Washers Play Dress-Up

Window washers play dress-up, Nebraska: Expressions of surprise and amusement lit up the faces of those who craned their necks skyward while ... of cleaning...Munger, who retired from the Lincoln Fire Department in 2004, founded a small window cleaning business in 1981. G&M Window and Building Service now has 20 employees and serves commercial [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 17:31:00

Floor-Cleaning Robot In Japanese Office Building

This bulky janitor robot was recently developed and employed by Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd and Sumitomo Corporation in Osaka City, Japan to clean their floors. This bot, operated by Reibi [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 19:33:18

TriState tries to stop cleaning-contract terminations

By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE -- A cleaning company, ... and janitorial services at a dozen buildings on the University of Rhode Island campus; the Providence ... to the public interest'' as a justification for the mid-contract terminations. In the motion he filed [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 19:12:57

Happy “Healthy-n-Green” New Year!!

Be the Change you want to see in the World  - Ghandi As we start a New Year, ... ! Consider the cleaning products, pesticides, paints, building products, personal care products, hobbies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 10:49:29

Go Ramblers!

Yesterday after dance and swim we took the kids to a Loyola University Men's Basketball game ... some really clean carpets now! :-)Okay... the boys are building a trebuchet out of legos and I'm [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:06:00

How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture

How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture Oxford University Press, USA | 288 pages | 2005-07-13 | ISBN: 019516198X | PDF | 14 ... and windows, fire safety, and noisy interiors. He serves up some surprises: thermal insulation ... the array of amazing new building materials now available, such as self-cleaning glass, photovoltaics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 09:54:34

2008 Server DC quits being a dc every two weeks or so....

I'm new to this company, didn't build the network, but am cleaning up some problems ... BE. thanks! Kikker_small Beattyc5 — Windows — Reply [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:36:36

Beautiful Home on Cul-de-sac One Mile From Mona Boat Ramp (Murfreesboro) $219900

Beautiful Home on Cul-de-sac One Mile From Mona Boat Ramp (Murfreesboro) ... large bonus rooms upstairs. Ceramic tile, Berber carpet & laminate floors, reverse osmosis water ... yard. Also features a 14×23 deck, a 10×16 storage building, tilt-in windows for easy cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 16:53:11

10 Reasons A Home Buyer Will Never Buy Your House

by Ada Denis If you’re getting your house ready to put it on the market, keep in mind that buyers are looking for their dream home ... by cleaning down to the shine - and then avoid building odors back up. Move the cat’s litter box [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:31:02

Pioli: Hail to the Chiefs; Former Pats Personnel Director Takes Chiefs GM Job

Scott Pioli has been named Kansas City Chiefs new Head of Football Operations. Pioli 43, had been with the Patriots for nine years ... . People inside the Patriots complex were reported as saying that Pioli was cleaning out his office ... forward to his leadership in building a championship organization.” Pioli’s old boss Robert Kraft [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:55:28

Michael Rakowitz's ParaSITE

ParaSITE is an ongoing project by artist Michael Rakowitz (who we learned about via Charlie Todd's blog, Urban Prankster) ... this device, the user must locate the outtake ducts of a building's HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air ... , SUCH AS THE CLEANING OF SKIN, PERISTALTIC CONTRACTION OF THE DIGESTIVE APARATUS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 13:24:32

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