Shoppers judge a store before they reach the door. AD Facilities Management keeps shopfronts, glazing, car parks, service yards and back-of-house areas in order for retailers and centre managers in Leeds and across Yorkshire, with visits timed round trading.
Retail premises are on show all day. A smeared window, a faded fascia sign or a car park scattered with litter is seen by every customer who walks past, and it costs footfall long before anyone complains. The store manager has targets, staff rotas and deliveries to think about. Upkeep of the building tends to be squeezed in wherever there is a spare hour, which is how small problems become permanent features.
The demands vary with the type of site. A unit on Briggate has a narrow frontage, a rear service lane and no land of its own. A retail park off the ring road has acres of tarmac, trolley bays, planting beds and a shared service yard. A shopping centre adds malls, toilets and public seating. Each needs a different balance of cleaning, glazing, grounds and waste work, so we write the schedule for the site in front of us.
A store or centre manager needs work done without it getting in the way of trade. That means glazing cleaned before doors open where possible, yard and car park work kept clear of delivery slots, and repairs carried out with the shop floor left presentable. Work outside trading hours is by arrangement and is agreed site by site. We confirm what is possible before the contract starts.
Shopfronts, canopies, entrance doors and fascia signs are washed on a cycle set by how busy the street is.
Sales floors, fitting rooms, staff areas and customer toilets are cleaned to a list agreed with the store manager.
Cardboard, general waste and recycling are organised in the service yard so collections run cleanly.
Car parks, trolley bays, planting beds and boundaries on retail parks are litter picked and kept trimmed.
Damage to doors, floor finishes, bollards and external fixtures is reported, assessed and booked in with the store.
Cladding, canopies, rendered walls and paving around the unit are repaired before they spoil the frontage.
We visit during trading to see how customers, staff and deliveries move through the site, then record the frontage, yard, car park and back-of-house areas that need attention.
Tasks are given time slots that keep ladders, hoses and machines away from customers. Work outside trading hours is by arrangement and confirmed in writing for each site.
Yard sweeping, bin store cleaning and waste collections are timed round the delivery schedule, so vehicles are not blocked and freshly cleaned areas are not immediately covered in packaging.
Frequencies are reviewed before peak trading periods such as Christmas and the summer sales, when footfall, litter and packaging waste all rise and the site needs more attention.
We work from Leeds across Yorkshire. Main area pages: Leeds, Leeds City Centre, Holbeck, Hunslet, Thorpe Park, Morley, Pudsey, Horsforth, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Harrogate, York, Sheffield, Hull. The coverage finder lists the rest.
Pure-water cleaning of glazing, frames, cladding and signage on a fixed cycle, with internal glass where the site needs it.
Read more →Contract cleans for offices, schools, shops and communal areas, set out in a written specification and checked against it.
Read more →Collections arranged through licensed carriers, bin stores kept clean and usable, and the duty-of-care paperwork kept straight.
Read more →A fault is reported, logged, made safe or fixed, and reported back with photographs. Priorities are agreed in writing first.
Read more →Tell us about the store or centre and its trading pattern, and we will visit to see what the site needs.
