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"Part 3: Maintenance Management. Chapter 7: Custodial Services"
Author: Campbell, Kirk
Published In: Facilities Management: A Manual for Plant Administration, first edition
Date: 1984

Covers priorities and standards for a efficient, versatile, and economic custodial service program.  Describes planning and scheduling, staffing requirements, custodial training, equipment requirements, custodial supplies, and contract cleaning.  Includes "how-to" cleaning procedures, describing duties, materials, and step-by-step instructions for performing routine custodial functions for emptying trash receptacles, chalkboard care, furniture polishing, spot cleaning glass, metal cleaning, cleaning water fountains, carpet cleaning, manual sweeping, and floor waxing, among others.  Figures include custodial service levels, routine cleaning schedules, custodial inspection form, specification for concentrated neutral detergent, and specification for high- and low-solid water emulsion metal-link polymer floor finish.

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