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The Solution to Schools Maintenance

August 31, 2009

Maintaining a school is a real problem. Simply put, head teachers and deputy heads are there because they were good teachers and had an aptitude for organisation. But management is a very different matter, especially when it is about matters you know little about. And for teachers,are not experts in managing maintnenance.

Once upon a time, schools used to employ a caretaker and an assistant and they could usually keep things going. They could do a bit of painting and get windows repaired – windows quite often get broken at schools –. But they were not really good at schools maintenance because they had to be able to do all sorts of jobs when they cropped up as there was no planning involved.

Sub-contractors best

But these days, schools are much bigger, so the caretaker is a caretaker, and if you want maintenance done in a school, you need special staff – but you can’t keep them busy all the time. The solution is to use a firm that specialises in commercial maintenance, or better still, Schools maintenance. Probably, you will probably need a commercial carpenter, and these firms have them as well.

You then arrange to get three or four firms in to give you quotations for the work you want done, which might involve some cleaning, but otherwise jobs like:

Checking all light bulbs and lamps regulary; Working to a regular schedule of repainting the classrooms and common rooms; Maintaining the swimming pool; Checking and reporting on the condition of the floors and locks at regular intervals.

Get this type of maintenance and your school will be kept in better condition than before, usually at lower real cost than before.

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