SOP – Housekeeping – Cleaning Sink and Vanity area

Materials Required for cleaning:

• A Clean washcloth or hand towel, a sponge, cleaning cloths, a stiff brush and cleaning supplies.
• Make space for cleaning.
• Move guest toiletries when necessary.

• Place a clean wash cloth or hand towel on that spot and keep the guest toiletries on it.
• Move the guest toiletries with the washcloth or towel.
• Wipe the light fixture, towel racks, and other bathroom fixtures.

• Neatly arrange them once the cleaning is completed.
• Wash the ashtrays, wastebasket and washbasin:
• Spray a little diluted LOC in the washbasin.
• Scrub inside the washbasin and the tap fixtures with nylon scrubber.
• Scrub the vanity counter and the side shelves with diluted solution of LOC.
• Wash with generous amount of water.
• Wash the ashtrays and wastebasket with your sponge, rinse them out in the sink and dry them with a clean cloth.
• Set the clean ashtrays aside in the wastebasket.
• Rinse your sponge and cleaning clothes as needed.
• Remove the sink stopper.

Clean surface area:

• Spray cleaning solutions on the sink, stopper, overflow and main sink drains, fixtures and vanity.
• Use a stiff brush to clean overflow holes in the sink as dirt often collects in sink overflow drains.
• Using a sponge wipe all the surfaces.
• Polish with a dry cloth to prevent water spots.
• Wipe dry with towel discard the entire vanity counter, side shelves and inside the washbasin.
• No watermarks on the chrome features or the counter.
• Dust below the vanity counter, wooden shelves and inside the vanity counter cupboard, which conceals the bottle trap and the plumbing fixtures.
• Sweep and mop below the vanity counter.    Vanity counter has to be spotlessly clean with no spots or marks.

Cleaning chrome (Taps and fixtures):

• All chrome in the bathroom are wiped with a damp cloth, and then polished with a dry rag.
• All chrome items are free of watermarks, smears, to make them shiny. These include the polished taps, showerhead, soap holder, toilet paper holder, and towel rack and towel rod.   
• All chrome fixtures are cleaned and polished dry showing no smears, dirty marks or fingerprints