Why Parking Lot Cleaning Is Important

Making sure that your parking lot is looking neat and tidy is not only a good management practice, it also helps solidify your brand and plays a crucial role in positioning your business. Every day we put in a lot of effort when we are interacting with customers to make sure that we give the best results possible and leave a lasting impression. What we do not realize is that it is not just what we do that the customers take away from interaction. A customer will notice every little detail, consciously or subconsciously, and the parking lot of a business is most likely the first point of contact they have. Remember the saying “first impressions count”? Well,  in this case, it most certainly rings true. Whether it is the parking lot of a restaurant, building complex or mall, a debris-filled parking lot always makes the customer think that the business is unfit for their custom and can force them to make judgments. These judgments can be on the quality of service, trustworthiness, professionalism, cleanliness, attention to detail, and it can even result in the making inference on how much you care about the environment.

How Can Parking Lot Cleaning be Beneficial?

Apart from the ability to gain and retain customers, a parking lot cleaning can have many other benefits such as:

• Preventing people from littering: If an area is clean, there is less likelihood of someone throwing trash there, because people feel more guilty about throwing trash in a clean area rather than one that is covered with litter.
• Minimizing pollution: Often when trash is left on the ground, it gets washed away by the rain. This trash then ends up in not only in our drinking water but also nearby lakes and rivers, that can then, in turn, harm any wildlife that resides in them.
• Preventing extra costs: Not cleaning your parking lot can end up costing you a lot more in the long run. Occasionally trash and debris will not be carried away by rain or flowing water, and instead, decompose where it is. This debris then provides nutrients for unwanted plants to grow, cracking your asphalt, resulting in a need for your whole lot to be replaced.
• Keeps rodents at bay: A lot of the debris found on your parking can be food, especially if you run a restaurant, this debris then invites rodents and other animals which are not only unsanitary, especially if they get inside your building, but they can also carry hoards of diseases.
• Prevents lawsuits: Large debris or even something minor like a wet plastic bag can cause your customers to injure themselves. Besides being bad for business, if taken to court you could end up losing a lot of money.

What to Do to Keep Your Parking Lot Clean:

• Invest in trash cans: Make sure there are trash cans placed in convenient locations all around your parking lot. The easier it is to access them, the more likely people are to use them.
• Make sure cleaning is done regularly: By ensuring that a cleaning schedule is implemented, you will be sure that you give your business a good brand as well as avoid all the problems listed above. If it is hard to find time to assign this work in the busy schedule of your business to an employee, perhaps you should consider outsourcing the job to another company.

How Can Reilly Sweep Help You to Keep Your Parking Lot Clean?

Reilly Sweep works with your business to help take off the load and create a parking lot cleaning plan that suits the needs of your business. The services we provide include hand-blowing sidewalks and inaccessible areas, emptying and relining trash cans, handpicking planters and surrounding areas, and bulk item removal. Regardless of what type of business you own, we can help you ensure that your parking lot is always spick and span. Contact a location near you to speak with a sweeping professional.