Facilities management in Garforth

Facilities management in Garforth at a glance

Garforth combines a long high street of shops and small offices with modern industrial estates on its northern side, plus several schools and a scattering of care and community buildings. Garforth is within the Leeds area we work in every week, which makes regular visits straightforward to organise. Most enquiries from Garforth begin with one service that is not working, usually cleaning or grounds. We deal with that first and show how the others could sit on the same schedule if you want them to.

Garforth (LS25): the local picture

Garforth is a large commuter town east of Leeds, close to junction 47 of the M1. Its Main Street carries a long run of shops, cafes, banks and upstairs offices. North of the railway, the industrial estates off Aberford Road, Ash Lane and Lotherton Way hold modern warehouse and trade units. The town also has a secondary academy, several primary schools, medical centres and sheltered housing schemes.

Main Street premises are mostly small, so cleaning is about regular short visits, clean shopfront glass and keeping bins off the pavement on trading days. On the estates, occupiers want tidy reception areas, swept forecourts and waste that leaves on time. Schools in Garforth need daily cleaning during term and a deeper clean in the holidays. Sheltered schemes and surgeries need communal areas and entrances kept in steady good order.

Garforth's industrial units date largely from the last few decades, with steel cladding, low-pitch gutters and block-paved forecourts. These benefit from gutter clearance before winter and from annual checks on sealant, downpipes and door thresholds. On Main Street the older shop buildings need pointing, painted timber and rainwater goods watched closely. We fit school work into holiday periods and carry out shop repairs before opening or after closing.

We travel to Garforth from Leeds along the A63 or the motorway. The first step is meeting you on site to see the building and hear what is currently not working. We follow that with a written schedule of tasks and visit frequencies. You then have a single point of contact at AD Facilities Management. Verges, hedges and planted areas on the estates are maintained with our sister firm AD Outdoor Solutions.

Facilities services for Garforth businesses

All eight services are described on the services page. They are available around the shops on Main Street and the units off Aberford Road and Lotherton Way and throughout LS25.

What we check first on a Garforth site

• Whether there is a written cleaning specification at all, or only a number of hours.
• Entrance matting, door glass and reception floors, because they set the first impression of the building.
• Washrooms and kitchens: condition, consumables and how often they are really being attended.
• Gutters, downpipes and gullies at low level, and any staining on the walls beneath them.
• Car park surfaces, markings, kerbs and drains, along with litter and leaf build-up in the corners.
• Paving, steps and handrails on the routes people actually walk, looking for trip edges and movement.

Sectors we work with in Garforth

The sector pages explain how a contract is planned round the occupier: healthcare, offices, schools, retail, industrial and warehouses and block management and landlords.

Why use AD Facilities Management in Garforth

• One contact for your Garforth site: A named person manages the contract. Requests, changes and problems go to them and they report back to you.
• A written specification: Each service has its tasks, frequencies and exclusions listed, so there is no dispute later about what a visit should include.
• A schedule you can check: Visit days and periodic tasks are dated. If something is due in March, you can see that in January.
• Photographs in the report: Periodic work and repairs at your Garforth premises are photographed before and after and sent with the report.
• Cost shown per service: The figure for cleaning is separate from the figure for grounds or waste, which makes comparison and change simple.

Nearby areas

If you manage more than one property, the neighbouring areas may be useful: Thorpe Park (LS15), facilities management in Cross Gates, commercial cleaning Seacroft, FM services in Cross Green, Rothwell property maintenance and Castleford. One schedule can cover sites in several of them.