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Daycare Cleaning

Daycare cleaning is janitorial service for child care centers: classrooms, toys and play surfaces, restrooms and diaper areas, and kitchens, with a clear split between cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting. Pick your city below to compare the most-reviewed local cleaning companies, or request free quotes.

What daycare cleaning usually covers

• Classroom floors, tables and chairs, and high-touch surfaces.
• Restrooms and diaper changing areas.
• Toys, cribs, mats and play surfaces, as your center assigns them.
• Kitchens, eating areas and trash.

What is different about daycares

The CDC's guidance for early care and education settings separates three jobs. Cleaning with soap, water and scrubbing removes germs and dirt. Sanitizing reduces germs to levels public health codes consider safe and is used on things that go in children's mouths, such as infant feeding items and toys. Disinfecting uses stronger products and is done regularly in bathrooms and on diaper changing tables. The CDC says to clean before you sanitize or disinfect, to use an EPA-registered product or diluted bleach exactly as the label says, and to keep rooms well ventilated.

Your state's child care licensing rules may add their own cleaning requirements, so share them with any cleaning company you hire.

Questions to ask before you sign

• Which products will you use, are they EPA-registered, and where will they be stored?
• Will you clean after children leave, and how will you ventilate rooms?
• Who sanitizes toys and feeding items, your crew or our staff?
• Are your staff background-checked to the standard our state licensing requires?
• Can you follow a written schedule that matches our licensing checklist?

For the insurance, bonding and contract questions every building should ask, see janitorial services.

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