How to maintain cleanliness and hygiene in your hotel washrooms
Your hotel washrooms can have a huge impact on your guest’s stay and their experience with your brand. Not only that, but this can also influence your reputation and whether your customers choose to stay with you again in the future.
However, between the washrooms in the lobby and the many individual hotel bathrooms, you’ve got a job on your hands ensuring that all these spaces are always up to the highest standard.
So, what is the easiest way to maintain cleanliness and hygiene in your hotel washrooms?
Well, there are several steps you can take to get a strong bathroom maintenance strategy in place, and we’re here to share those with you.
Implement a strong cleaning schedule
You know what they say, prevention is better than cure and ensuring your hotel bathrooms are cleaned regularly can stop dirty and bacteria from building up. This can prolong the life of your bathrooms.
With that in mind, it’s vital that you get a strong cleaning schedule in place and that your housekeeping team stick to it.
As well as regular cleaning and frequent checks throughout the day, it’s also important to use top-quality cleaning products. These must be able to remove stains, kill germs and protect the health and safety of your guests.
Educate your housekeeping staff
Regular cleaning is all well and good, but if your housekeeping staff aren't meeting expectations, your bathrooms (and your guests) will still suffer.
That’s why it’s a good idea to encourage proper, regular training for your housekeeping staff. This should cover all cleaning protocols, including the use of correct cleaning products, proper techniques and health and safety measures.
By reinforcing the importance of cleanliness and hygiene and explaining how the team will support and strengthen the reputation of the business, your team will ensure they always clean to the highest standard.
Consider doing some hotel bathroom renovations
Of course, there is only so much you can do with cleaning products. Even the world’s strongest bleach cannot tackle discoloured or missing grout, leaky taps and outdated decor. So, if your washrooms are looking a little worse for wear, you might want to consider a wider bathroom refurbishment project.
By updating your hotel washrooms, you can instantly transform the space.
This could be as simple as a lick of paint. Alternatively, using an expert bathroom design service you can redesign and seamlessly install new bathrooms throughout the hotel.
In the next couple of sections, we’ll take a look at the different design elements and features you might want to introduce to your hotel washrooms as part of updating these spaces.
Choose easy-to-clean, antibacterial surfaces
By reducing the amount of joints and porous surfaces, you can instantly reduce the build-up of dirt or bacteria. Not only making these spaces easier to clean but also ensuring your hotel washrooms look great for years to come.
So, if you’re refurbishing your bathrooms, consider adding solid-grade laminate (SGL) toilet cubicles or all-in-one units with fewer joints. You can also use panels to hide unsightly and unhygienic pipework, reducing the amount of places dirt can build and making your washrooms instantly more stylish and comfortable.
At Flush washrooms, we even offer toilet cubicles that are sanitised with antibacterial treatment that can eliminate 99% of germs.
By thinking carefully about every surface in your hotel washrooms and how these work together, you can design your bathrooms to be sleek and easy to clean.
Introduce touch-free technology
Even if you’re not ready for a full washroom refurbishment project yet, installing touch-free technology in your bathrooms can reduce bacteria buildup and cut down on wear and tear in high-touch areas.
For example, you could add fixtures such as automatic taps, soap dispensers and flush toilets to minimise the spread of germs. You could even add touchless locks to the toilet doors.
As well as being practical and making it easier to clean and maintain your hotel washrooms, these fittings also help to transform your bathrooms into an attractive, modern space.
Maintain proper ventilation
Finally, to stop mould and mildew from building up on the surfaces and walls, you must ensure adequate ventilation in all your washrooms. Proper ventilation helps in drying surfaces faster, which can deter the growth of nasty spores and fungus like this.
It also helps to prevent the buildup of humidity and odours, all of which can lead to a poor experience for guests using the facilities.
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By implementing these strategies and making important updates to your washrooms, you can create a clean and hygienic environment that ensures a positive experience for all your guests.