Office Cleaning in Scottsdale, AZ, for Practices, Suites and Airpark Offices

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We clean offices in Scottsdale: doctors’ and dentists’ practices, law and accounting suites, insurance and real estate offices, and the front offices of businesses in and around the Scottsdale Airpark. We are As It Should Be Cleaning LLC, based in Mesa and at work across the Valley of the Sun since 1988. Office cleaning is the center of what we do, on a daily, weekly or monthly plan, with HEPA vacuums, microfiber cloths and non-toxic, biodegradable products.

This page is about Scottsdale offices in particular: the kinds of workplaces the city is full of, how a cleaning visit moves through an office one room at a time, what the city’s very hard water does to a break room sink, and the questions a suite in a shared building needs answered before anyone is handed a key.

The offices Scottsdale is made of

Ask what an office in Scottsdale looks like and the answer depends on the street. Some are single suites with a reception counter and four rooms behind it. Some are practices with a waiting room, exam rooms and a lab. Some are a floor of desks above a showroom, or a front office stuck to a hangar. Each of them gets a different plan from us, so it helps to say plainly what each one asks of a cleaner.

Medical and dental practices

Shea Boulevard carries two of the big medical campuses in the Valley. HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center stands at 9003 E. Shea Blvd., and its campus is home to HonorHealth Cancer Care, the Virginia G. Piper Surgery Center and the HonorHealth Research Institute (HonorHealth). Further east, Mayo Clinic’s Scottsdale campus is at 13400 E. Shea Blvd. (Mayo Clinic). Practices tend to gather around campuses like these, and a practice is an office with patients in it.

That changes the order of work. In a practice we start where patients sit and stand: the waiting room chairs and their arms, the check-in counter and its pen cup, the clipboard tray, the door handles and the restroom patients use. Exam rooms come next, then the staff side. The clinical rules a medical office runs under, and the points to settle with any cleaning company before it starts, are on our commercial cleaning page under medical office cleaning. One more point belongs in the plan from the start: when the last appointment can run late, the cleaning visit should be set to begin after the last patient leaves, not at a fixed hour on a sheet.

Law, accounting, insurance and real estate offices

Professional offices are mostly paper, carpet and glass-topped desks. The work is quiet and careful. Desks are dusted around what is on them, not cleared, because a stack of files on a desk is somebody’s work in progress. Shred bins are left alone unless the office tells us otherwise. Conference rooms are the rooms clients see, so the table is wiped of rings and fingerprints, the chairs are pushed back in a straight line, and the whiteboard is wiped only when the office says it can be. Copy and mail rooms collect toner dust, paper scraps and staples, so they get their floors done every visit, not every other.

Airpark offices beside shops and hangars

The City of Scottsdale calls the Scottsdale Airpark the second largest employment center in Arizona. It surrounds Scottsdale Airport, and some private facilities there have taxilane access to the airfield through secured gates (City of Scottsdale). The same study counts aviation-related Airpark businesses alongside everything else that works there. For a cleaner that means offices of every size, from a single suite to a front office joined to a warehouse, a showroom or a hangar.

Where an office sits next to production or aircraft, two plans live under one roof. The office side gets an office clean: desks, restrooms, break room and floors. The shop or hangar side is entered only by arrangement, at the hours and on the paths the business sets, and the doors between the two are where dust walks in. Entry mats at those doors and at the front door do a great deal of the work, as long as they are vacuumed every visit.

An office visit, one room at a time

We clean to your specifications, so the table below is a starting point for writing them down, not a fixed menu. The left column is what happens on a routine visit. The right column is work that comes around less often, on a schedule we agree with you.

Room	Every visit	On a set schedule
Reception and waiting area	Bins emptied, counter and chair arms wiped, glass on the front door wiped of handprints, carpet vacuumed, entry mat vacuumed	Chairs vacuumed, baseboards dusted, carpet cleaned with the extractor
Private offices	Bins emptied, desk surfaces and ledges dusted around papers, phones and door handles wiped, carpet vacuumed including under the desk	High ledges, vents and picture frames dusted
Conference rooms	Table wiped, chairs straightened, bins emptied, floor vacuumed or mopped	Chair bases and table legs wiped
Copy and mail room	Floor swept or vacuumed, counters wiped, trash and paper scraps out	Under and behind the machines, where they can be moved
Break room or kitchen	Counters, sink and faucet cleaned and dried, appliance fronts wiped, table wiped, trash out, floor mopped	Inside the microwave and refrigerator, by agreement with the staff
Restrooms	Fixtures cleaned and disinfected, mirrors polished, dispensers checked, bins emptied, floor mopped last	Partitions and walls washed down, grout lines given extra work

Two things in that table deserve a word. The phones, keyboards and door handles are the surfaces many people touch, and the CDC’s guidance for community buildings such as offices names door handles, touchpads, restroom fixtures and desks among the high-touch surfaces to clean regularly (CDC). Keyboards are worth a line of their own in the scope, because some offices want them left untouched. And the break room is the room that decides whether an office smells clean in the morning, so its trash never waits for the next scheduled day.

Scottsdale water, and why we dry every faucet

Scottsdale’s water is very hard, and it gets harder the further south an office is. The city publishes approximate hardness by area (City of Scottsdale):

Part of the city	Grains per gallon	Milligrams per liter
South of Indian School Road	22 to 25	370 to 430
Indian School Road to Chaparral Road	20 to 22	340 to 370
North of Chaparral Road	16 to 18	275 to 300

The city adds that hardness is not a primary water quality standard and is not considered a health risk, though it may present aesthetic concerns. Every one of those figures is well above the 180 milligrams per liter at which the U.S. Geological Survey begins calling water very hard. In an office the aesthetic concern is easy to spot: a white ring around the break room faucet, a film on the restroom mirror where the sink splashes, spots on the glass of a coffee carafe and a crust where the water sits on a counter.

Our answer is a habit, not a special product. Faucets, sinks, counters and mirrors are wiped dry with microfiber at the end of every visit, so the water never gets the chance to leave its minerals behind. Film that has already formed is dealt with on the scheduled deep work, before it thickens into scale. An office that has gone months without that care usually needs one longer visit to bring the fixtures back, and then the routine keeps them there.

Carpet in Scottsdale offices: where the wear goes

Carpet wears where people walk: the path from the front door to reception, the lane past the copier, the doorway of the break room. The Carpet and Rug Institute’s advice for facilities is short: “For high traffic areas, you should vacuum daily” (Carpet and Rug Institute). Private offices that see one person a day can go longer between passes. We vacuum with HEPA vacuums, edges and under the desks included, because the dirt that matters to a carpet is the grit that settles where nobody looks.

Vacuuming keeps carpet in service. Cleaning it brings it back. We run a carpet cleaning van and offer customized carpet care, which in an office usually means the traffic lanes and the reception area on a set schedule and the private offices less often. Tell us which rooms are booked on which days and we will plan the work so that wet carpet is never in the way of a meeting.

Suites in shared buildings: who cleans what

Many Scottsdale offices are tenants in a building with other tenants. That brings a question a single-owner building never has: where does the landlord’s cleaning stop and yours begin? Often the building looks after the lobby, the elevators and the common restrooms, and each tenant arranges cleaning inside its own suite. Sometimes the lease says otherwise. Before a first visit, these points should be answered in writing:

• The line on the floor plan. Which rooms are yours to have cleaned, and which belong to the building. Restrooms inside the suite and restrooms down the hall are often handled by different people.
• The building’s rules for vendors. Some managers want a list of who will be in the building, a sign-in at the desk or a set entrance after hours. Ask your property manager what applies before the first night.
• Keys, cards and alarm codes. Who issues them, how many, and who is called if the alarm goes off while the cleaners are inside.
• Trash and recycling. Where the building’s dumpster and recycling bins are, and whether the suite’s trash goes there or to a room on your floor.
• Supplies. Who buys the soap, paper towels and toilet paper for the suite’s own restrooms and break room, and where the stock is kept.

None of this is complicated. It just has to be settled once, so that nobody finds out on a Monday morning that the restroom down the hall was nobody’s job. The longer list of access questions, and what a written scope should hold, is on our commercial cleaning page.

Fitting the cleaning around the working day

Most office cleaning happens when the office is empty: in the evening after the last person leaves, early in the morning before the first arrives, or on the weekend. We are open on Saturdays and Sundays as well as on weekdays, which helps offices that want the deeper work done when nobody is at a desk. A practice with a late clinic, a firm with a filing deadline or an Airpark business running a second shift all need a different start time, and we plan the visit around that, not around a default.

It is worth deciding in advance what happens when someone is still working as the cleaners arrive: which rooms are done first, whether a desk left covered in papers is skipped, and how lights, doors and thermostats are to be left at the end.

What to tell us when you call

An estimate starts with a visit, and the visit goes faster when we know a few things in advance:

• What kind of office it is, and roughly how many people work there on a normal day.
• Whether patients, clients or the public come in, and how many on a busy day.
• How many restrooms and kitchens the space has, and whether they are inside the suite.
• Which floors are carpet and which are tile, wood-look or sealed concrete.
• How often you want us there, and at what hours the space is empty.
• Anything that has been a problem with cleaning before.

We are based in Mesa, our home city, which has a page of its own: commercial cleaning services in Mesa, AZ. From there we serve Scottsdale and the rest of the East Valley, and we offer every Scottsdale office the same thing: we will come out, walk the space with you, answer your questions and give you a free estimate.

Questions people ask