Janitorial Services in Gilbert, AZ, for Offices of All Sizes

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We offer daily, weekly and monthly commercial cleaning for offices of all sizes in Gilbert, and a full range of janitorial services to go with it: trash removal, restroom cleaning and floor maintenance. We are As It Should Be Cleaning LLC, based next door in Mesa and at work in the Valley of the Sun since 1988. We are committed to a clean and healthy work environment for your employees, and we have some great references from the clients we serve in Gilbert.

This page sets out what a janitorial routine consists of, task by task, how often a Gilbert office needs it, what the town’s water and its employment areas have to do with it, and what to check when a cleaning service is not keeping up.

What a janitorial routine consists of

Janitorial service is three jobs done on a schedule: the trash goes out, the restrooms are cleaned and the floors are looked after. Done right, they keep your facility clean and well maintained at all times. Each is simple to describe and easy to do badly. The federal floor under all of it is one sentence in OSHA’s sanitation standard: all places of employment shall be kept clean to the extent that the nature of the work allows. Our commercial cleaning teams clean your space to your specifications, so treat the lists below as a starting point for writing them.

Trash removal

Every bin in the building is emptied and relined: at the desks, in the meeting rooms, in the break room, in the restrooms and beside the copier. Bags are tied and carried out to the building’s dumpster, not left inside the back door. Bins that have leaked are wiped out, and recycling is kept apart from trash where the building separates the two.

OSHA’s sanitation standard for permanent places of employment says that all sweepings, solid or liquid wastes, refuse and garbage shall be removed “in such a manner as to avoid creating a menace to health and as often as necessary or appropriate to maintain the place of employment in a sanitary condition” (29 CFR 1910.141). The rule sets no number of pickups a week. In practice the food decides. Whatever the schedule, a bin holding food waste should not sit over a weekend. The same standard asks that a receptacle used for waste that rots does not leak, can be thoroughly cleaned and kept sanitary, and has a solid, tight-fitting cover unless it can be kept sanitary without one. A break room bin that has started to smell is usually failing one of those tests.

Restroom cleaning

Who doesn’t appreciate a clean bathroom? It is a room people judge a building by, and it takes a lot of work for its size. Toilets and urinals are cleaned and disinfected inside and out, including the seat hinges, the flush handle and the base. Sinks, faucets and counters are cleaned and wiped dry. Mirrors are polished, the partitions, door handles and light switches are wiped, the bins are emptied, and the floor is mopped last, working back toward the door.

Then the dispensers. The same OSHA standard requires that hand soap or similar cleansing agents be provided at workplace lavatories, along with individual hand towels of cloth or paper, air blowers or clean sections of continuous cloth toweling. A restroom with an empty soap dispenser is not finished, however clean it is. Settle at the start who buys the soap, towels and toilet paper, where the stock is kept and who refills the dispensers, so that nobody discovers on a Monday morning that it was nobody’s job.

Floor maintenance

Carpet is vacuumed with HEPA vacuums, and that includes the edges and the space under the desks as well as the open lanes. Hard floors are dust mopped and then damp mopped, and mopped at an hour when they can dry before anyone walks on them: OSHA’s rule for walking and working surfaces is that workroom floors are kept clean and, to the extent feasible, dry (29 CFR 1910.22). The entrance mats are vacuumed too, because a full mat stops nothing. Beyond the routine, hard floors need periodic work and carpet needs a proper cleaning from time to time. Both are described on our commercial cleaning page.

Desks, counters and shared rooms

Around those three jobs comes the rest of office cleaning. Desks and counters are dusted and wiped with microfiber cloths, meeting tables are cleared of rings and crumbs, the break room counter, sink, table and the outsides of the appliances are cleaned, and the reception area is straightened up. The surfaces many hands touch deserve a line of their own in the scope. The CDC’s guidance for community buildings such as offices lists counters, door handles, stair rails, elevator buttons, touchpads, restroom fixtures and desks among the high-touch surfaces to clean regularly, and says that cleaning alone removes most types of harmful germs from surfaces (CDC). We provide professional cleaning services for most kinds of property, and as our Google profile puts it, we are proud to support schools, churches, banks and businesses. The aim is the same in each: an office left spotless, with the clean and professional appearance that only a quality janitorial service can provide, and ready for a productive day of business.

Daily, weekly or monthly: how often a Gilbert office needs cleaning

Plan	Suits	Watch for
Daily	Offices with a public counter or waiting area, shared restrooms, a busy break room or many people in a small space	Nothing builds up, so each visit is shorter. The plan to choose when visitors use the restrooms.
Weekly	Small professional offices with few visitors	Trash and restrooms set the limit. Someone on staff has to take out food waste and check the soap and paper between visits.
Monthly	Lightly used space, or periodic work on top of a routine	A month of dust is a different job from a week of dust. It suits storage and seldom-used rooms more than occupied offices with restrooms.

Most offices find their answer by looking at the restrooms and the trash on the last afternoon before a visit. If either is unpleasant by then, the visits are too far apart.

Where the offices are: Gilbert’s employment areas

The Census Bureau’s estimate for July 1, 2025 gives Gilbert a population of 287,285, up from 267,918 at the 2020 census. The town’s Office of Economic Development divides its business map into four employment areas, and they differ enough that the janitorial work differs with them.

• Northwest. The town calls it Gilbert’s densest employment center, made up mainly of light industrial and back-office space, and it includes the Heritage District, the downtown core. Janitorial work here means offices attached to production space and suites in older buildings.
• Banner. Near the town’s northeast corner, just south of US 60, this area is given over to health care, with Banner Gateway Medical Center and Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. Medical offices near a hospital bring their own cleaning rules, which we set out under medical office cleaning on the commercial cleaning page.
• Central. Off the Loop 202 freeway, with a mix of retail, office and industrial development that includes SanTan Village and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center. Offices, stores and clinics stand close together, so a cleaning company has to be able to do all three.
• Gateway. Along the town’s eastern border beside Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, with large retail developments, aviation firms and nearly 1,000 acres of undeveloped commercial property. New buildings mean a first clean after construction, and then a routine.

The Heritage District deserves a line of its own. The town describes downtown Gilbert as a collection of more than 30 restaurants, together with shops, a theater, a historical museum and two universities sharing one building (Town of Gilbert). Offices there sit among busy kitchens and evening crowds, so where the trash goes and which door the cleaners use are worth settling in advance.

Gilbert’s water: hard, though softer than Mesa’s

The Town of Gilbert says the average hardness of its water is between 8 and 10 grains per gallon, and suggests setting a water softener at 10 to 12 grains to allow for the change through the year (Town of Gilbert). At 17.1 milligrams per liter to the grain, that is roughly 137 to 171 milligrams per liter, which the U.S. Geological Survey classes as hard. The town adds that hard water is not known to cause any adverse health effects.

It does leave marks. The USGS describes the spots and film that hard water leaves on glassware and the mineral buildup inside a coffee maker. In a restroom or a break room the same residue dries onto faucets, sink rims and the mirror above the sink. For a janitorial routine the answer is habit more than chemistry. Fixtures and counters are wiped dry at the end and not left wet, and the spots that do form are dealt with while they are still a film and not yet a crust.

Move-in and move-out cleaning

We also provide move-in and move-out cleaning for commercial spaces, and our team leaves the property clean and ready for the next tenant. An empty suite hides nothing, so the work goes where routine cleaning never did. If your lease says how the space is to be handed back, tell us what it asks for when you call.

When a janitorial service is not keeping up

Employee morale sinks when the place stinks. If your office smells dingy even though you have a full-time cleaning service, the service is the place to look. Ask whether it is using the right cleaning products to improve your facility’s appearance. Some cleaning services use dollar store products, and it shows in how well the cleaning is done. If your place stinks and you have a cleaning service, maybe it is time to make a change.

Three plain things go a long way toward happy employees and a healthy facility:

• Frequent mop head changes. A mop head that is never changed spreads yesterday’s floor over today’s.
• Vacuums with the proper bags and filtration. A vacuum that leaks dust is only moving it around.
• Only quality cleaning products. Absolutely, and used the way their labels direct.

If you have a commercial cleaning service that is not making the grade, give us a call and we will answer any questions you may have. There is more about clean equipment in our article on cross-contamination mistakes in cleaning.

Before the first night

A janitorial arrangement starts with a visit. We come out, walk the building with you and give you a free estimate. Before the first cleaning a short list needs answers: who holds the keys and the alarm code, which door the cleaners use, where the equipment and supplies are kept, where the trash goes, which rooms are off limits and how you want to be told if something is found wrong. The longer version of that list, and what a written scope should cover, is on the commercial cleaning page.

References from Gilbert clients

We have some great references from clients we serve in Gilbert. Ask for them when we come out, and call the people on the list. Nothing we could write here tells you as much as ten minutes with someone whose office we already clean. Besides Gilbert we serve the rest of the East Valley: Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, Queen Creek and San Tan Valley. Mesa has a page of its own: commercial cleaning services in Mesa, AZ.

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