Communal Cleaning

The cost of this will be added to the weekly rent charge. Please contact either housing office for the current charge.  All tenants who receive housing benefit will have their benefit increased so that they will have nothing to pay for the communal cleaning service. Owner occupiers will have to pay monthly in advance.

Tenants can help the communal cleaner in their job in a number of ways by:

• maintaining the communal areas in a clean and tidy condition between weekly cleans
• reporting any acts of vandalism
• bringing to the caretaker's attention any potential problems inside or outside the block
• making suggestions on how the conditions in the block could be improved

Every Week

• remove chewing gum/litter etc.
• sweep and mop stairs and stair landings/chute rooms paying particular attention to edges and corners. Clean water to be used for every individual floor
• sweep and mop all tenants' landings (tenants must lift their own door mat/s on the day)
• sweep all paths, steps and immediate entrance areas, wash entrance steps where applicable
• dust and damp wipe sills, railings, ledges etc of stair areas
• dust and damp wipe sills, ledges etc. on tenants' landing

Every Two Months

• dust and damp wipe all doors/walls (to hand height) on every stair head and tenants' landings
• clean windows and glass on stair head and tenants' landings

The contractor will provide an accurate work plan for two-month periods of weekly schedules - in order that occupiers can make arrangements for the contractor to access bin chutes etc.

The contractor will be responsible for ensuring that the workforce complies with all relevant Health & Safety Regulations and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health information, and that proper Risk Assessments are carried out prior to the commencement of the job.