Church carpets, tile, and upholstery cleaning

With VBS done, Medford United Methodist Church is ready for their annual cleaning.

Like clockwork, once vacation bible school is over, it’s time to clean the carpets and floors.

For almost 15 years now Medford United Methodist Church has us clean their carpets every August. Following vacation bible school block out that first couple days to do their work. Considering that VBS is a jam packed week with kids it stands to reason there is some cleaning up needed. With lots of fun activities for the week, there are also lots pairs of feet traipsing dirt, spilling drinks and crumbs, and debris from arts and crafts like glue, and glitter to clean up.

All in all it is a fun week the children look forward t. There is quite the team of Sunday School teachers and volunteers. So it is is a busy week at the church. Likewise, when it is over everyone takes a sigh of relief. But it also is the ideal time to prepare the church facilities for families returning from summer vacation. It is ‘back to school, the precise time when worship attendance increases.

The annual inspection

After catching up on family, other parishioners, activities and grandkids, we take a walk and look at carpets and upholstery. This helps us define our “action list” is. Less comprehensive now, other areas have new flooring or aren’t being used.

Additionally Lisa tees up the carpet cleaning for their preschool program as well, always done at the same time we work in the main church area.

Normally just a schedule thing, we tell her what day we will clean that area. With notice given to Caitlyn, she can then prepare their rooms for our cleaning. Usually we do a day in the preschool, and two or more days in the main church.

Reviewing the condition of the carpets overall, we also review the previous year’s work, and other needs they may have.

So this year, it is typically the year we don’t do the entire sanctuary. But Lisa and the trustees determined that the upholstery on the fronts of several of the pews need attention. Together we think it’s mindful of the budget to add them to the cleaning list this year. As a result there is a saving since we do a shortened cleaning in the sanctuary.

In all, Medford Methodist appreciates our steady hand in working with them to deliver results. From being fluid in creating an action plan that fits their needs, we hold our pricing steady, and work it as if we are making budgetary decisions as if we were in charge of them. They appreciate it that we “have their needs in mind.”

For instance, the upholstery portion of the project is one such example.

As we walked the sanctuary Lisa pointed out that several of the pews had spots and spills. As usual, it appears that there are drink spills, perhaps grease marks, and wax from when the use lighted mini candles. She asked our opinion, should they just target the soiled pews only, or should they consider doing all of them. In this case, that meant doing 19 pews vs the more than 30 total.

Both Chris and I suggested that it is better to tackle the pew cleaning this year, as the amended and shortened project in the sanctuary created some savings for them. Waiting perhaps for the following year would “tip the scales,” so it might be better to knock them out now. The only issue, is just doing the soiled pews, vs. doing all of them.

With only 19, we did give them pricing for just them, or all of them. They then could decide how best to proceed. We didn’t see enough soiling to do them all, so we advised them just to do the ones affected and save the money.

Finalized Agenda.

Without meeting with the trustees, Lisa called the head trustee and got approvals.

Not only for the main church areas, Michael Polhemus, the head trustee requested work at Parsonage II also.

All Church Work completed

With all the work done at the parsonage, we scheduled the church carpet cleaning. First starting with the Pre-school area we get the classrooms, office and halls done, followed by the bathroom tile floors cleaned too.

Similarly we next did the offices, hallways and administrative areas.

Finally we finished by doing the sanctuary carpets and the pews. While we usually do the main traffic lanes, then the whole thing every other year, we focused on the pews and the traffic lanes, then the altar area and the mats. This spaces out what they pay. So this way if one area isn’t completely done, that money frees up to be spent in other areas that need attention.

We are done. The carpets and upholstery are much cleaner and ready for another year!

But right then, out of the blue, Haddonfield United Methodist Preschool requests an estimate for floor stripping and waxing from us.

Although unaware of long reference list of places of worship, Phil Juliani discovers our strip and wax work on line and calls us during the very days we were working at Medford United Methodist. Doing the same thing, scheduling their floor cleaning projects after “VBS” scheduled for August 14th – 18th, they requested pricing for their floor work.

When asked, Phil told me he saw the pictures of projects on our website of our “case studies” that he saw all the commercial services we do. He eagerly wanted pricing and planned to schedule their preschool floor project with us!

Want to see our reference list of places of worship we have served.

If your church, place of worship or non profit needs carpets or floors cleaned, give us a call. We make it easy to get the job done and be a steady hand in the process! Give us a call at 609.953.0472. Contact Us on line and we will reach out to you!