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| Go Ask Alice: Hiring a Cleaning Service |
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If a venue won't handle the clean up after a big event, who do you call?
Post-event clean-up is often built into the space rental fee, meaning the venue expects its own staff to handle it. ("Most venues know their own staff will get stuck with cleaning red wine, puke, and cigarettes, so the cost is built into the rental fee," says event producer Jes Gordon.) But when the contract requires you to return the venue to broom-swept condition after the party—and when you require additional cleaning help for your staff—try an outside cleaning service. Eddie Sigcha of Bronx-based ESGC has been in the business for 12 years, and works in Manhattan and the Hamptons too. Manhattan-based Imacuclean has more than 50 cleaning people on its roster, and it has a 56-year-long history in business. Ask for Richard Shogan. You can also try calling ServiceMagic, a centralized office that prescreens 37,000 cleaning companies (including Imacuclean) nationwide and in Canada; a representative there can put you in touch with a vetted local business for the job.
Lots of event producers say they'd rather take matters into their own hands, though. "I [hire a cleaning service] less and less after I had an experience with a noshow cleaning company, and I was left with having to grab busboys from a nearby diner after they got off a shift; we ran to a 24-hour Duane Reade to buy supplies," says Relevent president H. Tony Berger. "It wasn't pretty, so I just try to keep it in-house now." However you choose to do it, happy cleaning.
Posted 04.11.06
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