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Lesson 9 Cleaning of Public Are As

The document outlines cleaning routines and procedures for various public areas in a hotel. It discusses the daily, weekly, and periodic cleaning tasks needed to maintain cleanliness standards for areas like entrances, lobbies, corridors, elevators, pools, spas, dining rooms, fitness areas, and restrooms. The housekeeping department is responsible for cleaning these spaces to provide guests with a positive first impression and overall clean hotel experience.

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Lesson 9 Cleaning of Public Are As

The document outlines cleaning routines and procedures for various public areas in a hotel. It discusses the daily, weekly, and periodic cleaning tasks needed to maintain cleanliness standards for areas like entrances, lobbies, corridors, elevators, pools, spas, dining rooms, fitness areas, and restrooms. The housekeeping department is responsible for cleaning these spaces to provide guests with a positive first impression and overall clean hotel experience.

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Cleaning Public Area

Introduction
● The public areas in a hotel such as entrances,
lobbies, lounges the front desk, guest corridors ,
elevators, swimming pools, the spa, and health club.
● A neat and clean public area is reflective of the
cleanliness standards that rough out the hotel
property, because guests see these areas first and
from an overall impression of the hotel based upon
these.
● The housekeeping department is responsible for the
cleanliness and maintenance of these public areas in
the hotel.
CLEANING ROUTINE IN PUBLIC AREAS
DAILY CLEANING
● daily cleaning task includes
dusting, brooming, emptying
ashtrays and bins, suction
cleaning upholstery mopping
hard floors cleaning glass
purposes arranging flowers and
cleaning toilet area.
CLEANING ROUTINE IN PUBLIC AREAS
WEEKLY
CLEANING
● weekly cleaning task includes
disturbing had floor the single
testing and wiping light fixture
cleaning and polishing hard
surface and vacuuming carpet.
CLEANING ROUTINE IN PUBLIC AREAS
PERIODIC CLEANING
● periodic task include washing
wall stripping repolishing or re-
sealing floors shampooing carpet
and washing window cleaning
swimming pool area etc.
PUBLIC AREAS
HOTEL LOBBY
● These are area provided as a
common meeting point for guests
near the reception.

● It is important to note that hotel


lobbies and lounges are cleaned
in the same way.
PUBLIC AREAS
FRONT DESK
● All arriving guests are registered to their home
from here and many inquiries are made.

● The cleaning should be done at non-peak hours


so as not to interrupt the flow of business.

● The cleaning task for the lobby applies to the


front desk as well.
PUBLIC AREAS

ELEVATORS
● Elevator doors are usually made of
steel and they may be covered with
wooden panels. Steel doors show
grease mark from fingers easily.

● Elevators should be cleaned daily and


a more thorough cleaning may be
done on a periodic base
PUBLIC AREAS

STAIRCASES
● Staircases should be cleaned when
there is least traffic. The appropriate
way to clean staircases is to divide
them in to half-length way and clean
one half at a time.
PUBLIC AREAS
GUEST CORRIDORS
● Floor corridors must be cleaned at
least once a day based on guest
traffic and occupancy.

● A long corridor should be divided


into half lengths.
PUBLIC AREAS
CLEANING OF BANQUET HALLS
● These may be used for dinners,
conferences, convention, exhibitions etc.
when banquet halls have booking for
several function on the same day,
cleaning them becomes more of a
challenge. A larger work force and good
organization will be required on such
days.
PUBLIC AREAS
CLEANING OF DINING ROOMS
● Housekeeping may be responsible for
main training the dining areas in
conjunction with the service staff of the
dining room. The housekeeping
department tasks on the tasks of the
thorough weekly cleaning, whereas the
service staff are responsible for the daily
cleaning and maintenance.
PUBLIC AREAS
CLEANING OF HEALTH CLUB
● All hotels have an exclusive area for guest to
exercise and work out in, perhaps using
exercise equipment. The equipment found in
health club include treadmills, bench presses
rowing machines, cycling machines,
dumbbells etc. the cleanliness of the whole
area including the equipment is the
housekeeping departments responsibility.
PUBLIC AREAS
SWIMMING POOLS, SPAS AND CHANGING ROOM
● The primary concerns in cleaning swimming
pools are water clarity and water chemistry
control.

● Water clarity results from effective filtration to


remove all particulate matter. Water for
swimming and involves the maintenance of a
bacteria in the pool water. If water is too
alkaline, the sides and bottom of the pool will
become slipping.
PUBLIC AREAS
PUBLIC RESTROOMS
● This refers to the washrooms and toilets meant
for use by the general public, washrooms may
have elaborate upholstered furniture. The
sanitary fitting commonly found in washrooms
are we urinals, vanity unity unit or wash basin
public restrooms need to be cleaned thoroughly
twice a day at the minimum. The daily cleaning
processes for these are the same as followed in
a guest bathrooms
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