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Educational Institutions

Cleaning for Schools, Colleges and Campuses

Classrooms, hallways, washrooms and high touch surfaces, on a schedule built around your term calendar. Family-run in Northern Ontario since 1952.

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The last week of August

The building has to be ready before the first bus. Floors finished, classrooms reset, washrooms fully serviced, and all of it inside a window that closes whether the work is done or not. If it is not done, everyone finds out on the same morning.

A school is the hardest building in your portfolio to hold

Hundreds of people move through the same corridors at the same four times a day. Washroom demand arrives in ten minute bursts and then stops. There is no version of this building where the load is spread evenly.

Northern winters make it worse. Sand and salt come in on every pair of boots from November to April, and grit gets walked down the same corridors until it is ground into the finish. The heating season keeps the building closed up for months, and everything that gets tracked in stays in.

Then there is coverage. A caretaking vacancy or a stretch of absences does not shrink the scope of work, it just moves it. The gap shows up first in the areas nobody looks at, and by the time it is visible it is a backlog.

The cost never lands on the cleaning line

Absence is expensive whatever the cause

When washrooms and classrooms fall behind, cleaning is one of the first things named in the conversation about it. You will be asked what the contract covers and how often. Having a clear answer is worth more than being right.

Parents escalate past you

A photo of a washroom reaches a trustee, the board office or a community Facebook group before it reaches your desk. You then respond to the version of the story that arrived first.

Boards answer in public

Your contractor's performance becomes your department's performance at the meeting where it comes up. Nobody in the room distinguishes between the two.

Grit is a capital problem

Floor finish worn through by tracked in sand means early stripping, early refinishing, and eventually early replacement of tile that had years left in it. That comes out of a capital budget already committed elsewhere.

Your summer window is fixed

Every day of turnaround work that slips is a day taken from a period that cannot be extended.

What we cover

We respond to board tenders and RFPs, and we can price a single site or a group of schools in one submission with the scope broken out by building. On the safety section, we were named a 2025 Canada's Safest Employer. In a building full of children, that is the part of a submission worth reading.

We work out of Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie and Timmins.

  • Classroom and hallway cleaning on a set frequency, with corridors and entrances weighted for winter
  • Washroom cleaning, sanitation and restocking scheduled against real traffic rather than a flat rate
  • High touch surface disinfection: door hardware, push plates, handrails, light switches, shared desks and lab benches
  • Hard floor care programs, with the heavy work placed in the breaks where it belongs
  • Gymnasium, cafeteria and assembly space cleaning around the booking calendar, including community use evenings
  • Window cleaning inside and out, including our drone service for gymnasium and multi storey campus glass. We were the first drone window cleaning service in Northern Ontario
  • Hood and vent cleaning for cafeteria and culinary program kitchens, so the exhaust system is not the item holding up an inspection

We schedule to your calendar, not to a generic twelve months

We plan summer scope with you in the spring, while there is still room to plan it.

  1. September to December

    Settling in. Entrance matting and grit control tighten up as the weather turns. Washroom frequency gets set against the real traffic pattern once the timetable is running.

  2. January to March

    Salt season. Corridors and entrances carry the heaviest load of the year, the building stays sealed through the heating season, and floor care shifts to protecting finish rather than restoring it.

  3. March break

    The one mid year window with the building empty. This is where deeper floor work, carpet work and catch up items get placed.

  4. April to June

    Exams, assemblies, graduation and community rentals. The building is on display to parents and the public more in these weeks than in any other stretch of the year.

  5. Summer turnaround

    The full reset: strip and finish, wash down, deep clean washrooms, reset classrooms, sequenced wing by wing so your trades and ours are not standing in each other's way.

Before the next term, or the next tender

Send us the school or the campus and we will walk it with you, then put the scope in writing by area and frequency. If it is going to tender, tell us the closing date and we will work to it.

  • A walkthrough at your building, not a price off a spreadsheet
  • A written estimate you can take to ownership or your board
  • One point of contact from Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie or Timmins

Prefer to talk it through?

705-806-5660

rcs@reliableclean.com

Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie and Timmins.

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Reliable Cleaning Services  ·  Northern Ontario since 1952

705-806-5660  ·  rcs@reliableclean.com

Sudbury  ·  Sault Ste Marie  ·  Timmins