Child Care · Cambridge
Daycare, Montessori & Child Care Centre Cleaning in Cambridge
Your staff keep the rooms safe during the day. Once the last parent leaves, the building needs a deeper clean that nobody on the floor has time for, and that is the part we do.
Who sets the standard
Licensed child care centres in Ontario are licensed by the Ministry of Education. Inspections of sanitation, food handling and infection control in Cambridge come from Region of Waterloo Public Health. Your centre already has written routines for diapering, handwashing and toy sanitizing that staff follow through the day.
We do not replace those routines. The split is straightforward: your staff handle the daytime sanitizing, and we do the after-hours deep clean. When staff open the room in the morning, washrooms, floors and touch points are already done, so their time goes to the children.
Cambridge centres come in different shapes
A small licensed centre in an older Galt or Preston building may have narrow halls, a single child washroom and wood floors that need gentle products. A larger purpose-built centre in Hespeler, Saginaw or East Galt has more rooms, more washrooms and long runs of resilient flooring. Montessori schools in the city often serve families who commute to Kitchener, Guelph or along the 401, which means long days and full rooms. Each one gets a scope written around its own floor plan.
The nightly clean
Washrooms and change tables
Child-height toilets and sinks, the floor around and behind each fixture, partitions, dispensers and the wall up to adult hand height. Change tables are cleaned and then disinfected, and the disinfectant is left wet for the full contact time on its label before it is wiped. Spraying and wiping straight away does not disinfect.
Play and program rooms
Tables, chairs, cubbies, shelving, door edges and the lower half of walls and doors, where children actually touch. Hard toys are cleaned on a rotation set with your supervisor, so each bin is done on a known night of the week. Plush and fabric items are set aside for laundering rather than sprayed.
Nap rooms
Cots and mats wiped on both sides, the floor under and between them vacuumed or washed, window sills and vents dusted. Bedding stays with the centre.
Kitchen and servery
Counters, sinks, appliance fronts, the floor and the space around high chairs and low tables. Food-contact surfaces are finished so no residue is left where meals are prepared.
Entrances
Cambridge winters bring salt and slush to every door. Boot trays, entrance mats, cubby floors and the stroller area get extra attention from November to April.
Montessori classrooms
A prepared environment depends on order. Practical-life and sensorial materials stay exactly where the teacher placed them on the shelf. We clean the shelf around each item and put nothing back in a different spot.
Much of the material is wood, cloth or natural fibre. Wood is never soaked or sprayed with harsh disinfectant. It is wiped with a damp cloth and a product suited to finished wood, and anything that looks like it needs a proper wash is left on a tray for staff to decide.
What we use
- Fragrance-free, low-residue products as the default
- A safety data sheet for every product kept on site, in a binder or location your supervisor chooses
- Disinfectant only where it is called for, with contact times followed
- No product or equipment left in a room after the crew leaves
- A product list given to the supervisor to check against centre policy before the first night
When illness goes through the centre
An outbreak of a stomach virus or respiratory illness can sweep through a room in days. Centres can add extra visits for a week or two to disinfect washrooms, touch points and toys more often, without rewriting the regular agreement. Call as soon as you see it starting, and follow any direction you receive from public health.
How we report back
Supervisors need to know what was done without walking every room each morning. After each visit the crew leaves a short note or log entry: rooms completed, which toy bins were on rotation that night, anything that looked damaged or unsafe, and any product running low. If something could not be done, such as a room locked or a spill that needs a carpet extractor, it is written down rather than skipped quietly.
Security and access after hours
Child care buildings are locked down for good reason. The same small crew comes each night, alarm codes are assigned to them only, and the centre decides which doors they use. Nobody is let in by our crew for any reason, and the building is checked and locked before they leave.
Next step
We start with an evening walk-through after the children have gone home. For typical ranges first, see the Cambridge commercial cleaning cost guide, or book through the contact page.
Frequently asked questions
Do you replace the sanitizing our staff do during the day?
No. Your staff keep doing the daytime routines your licence requires. We do the deeper after-hours clean so the centre starts each morning clean.
What products do you use around the children?
Fragrance-free, low-residue products by default, with a safety data sheet for each one kept on site and a product list given to your supervisor to approve.
Will you move our Montessori materials?
No. Materials stay in their places on the shelf. We clean around them, and wood is wiped gently, never soaked.
Can you come more often during an outbreak?
Yes. Extra disinfection visits for washrooms, touch points and toys can be added at short notice for as long as the outbreak lasts.
Serving Cambridge and surrounding areas. Contact us for a no-obligation quote specific to your property.