We clean classrooms, play areas, infant spaces, diapering stations, restrooms, cafeterias, hallways, and administrative offices. Surfaces are thoroughly cleaned first, disinfected second, and allowed to dry completely before doors open:
That isn't a scare line. Under California law a disinfectant is a pesticide, and since July 2016 anyone applying one at a school or child care center has to complete annual Healthy Schools Act training. That includes custodians using disinfectant in a bathroom and teachers wiping desks.
Almost no janitorial company bidding your building has taken it. Ask the next one.
The second half is application. State guidance is blunt about it: if a surface is dusty or dirty, spraying disinfectant on it will not kill germs, and the surface has to stay wet for the time the label specifies. A crew that sprays and wipes in one motion has only spread germs around.
They look at the floor, the restroom, and the cubbies before they hear a word about your curriculum. Enrollment tours are won and lost on a room somebody cleaned at nine o'clock the night before.
We focus on the ultimate outcome for your facility and execute the steps required to get there.
We match the product to what's actually circulating, EPA List G for norovirus rather than a general purpose quat, and hold the full contact time so the label claim means something.
Every technician on your site holds active Healthy Schools Act certificates and verified Live Scan clearance. California treats disinfectants as regulated pesticides, and when an uncertified crew applies one in your building, it's your schoolsite that answers for it.
Color-coded microfiber, with red cloths and mop pads locked to restrooms and diaper stations and never crossing the threshold. A rag off a flush handle or a changing pad doesn't touch a student desk or a lunch table.
We pre-clean dirt and organic matter first, then let the product sit wet for its full labeled dwell time. Applying disinfectant onto a dusty or soiled surface neutralizes the active chemistry and renders it useless.
We work the mandated schedule, infant floors disinfected daily, walls washed weekly, diaper areas after every change, carpets vacuumed daily, and leave a signed log every shift. When an analyst asks when something was last done, you have a date instead of a guess.
We absorb the heavy nightly sanitation work so teachers go home when the last child leaves. Mopping and scrubbing after a ten hour day with kids is the part good staff quit over.
Your teachers, after a ten hour day with kids. Or a vendor nobody has checked on in months. Both end up the same way. An acceptable clean, in a building that never got disinfected.
The tightest sanitation schedule in the industry, and all of it is written down. Daily disinfectant mopping, walls weekly, changing areas cleaned and disinfected after every change, carpets vacuumed daily and cleaned every six months.
Everything happens below the three foot line, which is the zone a standing adult never looks at. Low cubbies, shared activity tables, sensory tables, chair legs, and the floor kids spend half the day sitting on.
K-8 and K-12 campuses where the nightly route has to fit between dismissal and lock-up. Classrooms, hallway VCT, gym floors, restrooms, cafeteria, and administrative offices, finished before the alarm goes on.
A second wave of traffic after the school day ends, often in a leased or shared building. Fast after-hours turnover on trash, floors, and restrooms, plus a lock-up check and a signed log every night.
Shared church and preschool space that has to reset twice a week. Classroom on Friday, fellowship hall Sunday, classroom again Monday morning. We schedule around services instead of asking you to work around us.
Dance studios, gymnastics centers, and youth sports facilities where the floor is the equipment. Sprung and marley floors need specific chemistry, and mats need cleaning on a real schedule rather than when someone notices.
Quats are fine for a lot of what's in a school. They are not automatically effective against norovirus, which is non-enveloped and the thing that closes a center for a week. Some quat products do carry a norovirus claim, at a specific dilution and contact time, and they're on EPA's List G.
The point is that it's a label question, not a brand question. A crew mixing one jug for the whole building can't tell you which side of that line they're on. We can, because we work off the list.
Mark Bradley is a fourth-generation tradesman who started working commercial buildings with his father at ten. That background sets both our cleaning standard and our repair work.
Child height toilet seats, stall latches, soap and towel dispensers, faucets, and caulk lines. The room a parent checks on a tour.
Sticking classroom doors, closers, loose cabinet hinges, damaged wall guards, and base trim pulling away.
Burned-out classroom lamps, flickering fixtures, and damaged switch and outlet plates.
School contracts fail when quality drifts, staff rotates, or cleaning products are used improperly. We use strict operational controls to protect your center:
You're handing someone a key to a building full of children's belongings, records, and equipment. A vendor who sends whoever was available makes that a new decision every month.
Ours are assigned to your site and stay assigned. Live Scan cleared, badged, and trained on your access and lock-up procedure. After a few months they know which door sticks and which room the two-year-olds moved into.
Color-coded microfiber, with red reserved for restroom touch points and diaper stations and nothing else.
A cloth that wiped a flush handle or a changing pad does not touch a desk, a chair, a lunch table, or a play mat. Ever. It's a simple system and the reason it works is that a mistake is visible from across the room.
Infant care sanitation is written down in detail and most janitorial routes ignore all of it. Hard floors mopped with a disinfecting solution daily. Carpets vacuumed daily and cleaned every six months. Walls and partitions washed weekly. Diaper changing areas after each change.
We build the schedule off that list and leave a signed log every visit, so when an analyst asks when the walls were last done you have a date instead of a guess.
Watch where a two-year-old spends the day. Sitting on the floor, hanging on a cubby edge, chewing a table leg, dragging a hand along the wall at eighteen inches. None of that is where a standing adult with a spray bottle is looking. We clean the bottom of the room on purpose. Chair legs, table undersides, cubby edges, low railings, the wall stripe at hand height, and the floor itself. It's the zone parents notice on a tour and the zone a routine wipe-down misses every night.
The questions Conejo Valley directors ask before they sign.
California classifies disinfectants as pesticides. Since July 2016, anyone who applies a pesticide at a school or child care center has to complete annual IPM and pesticide safety training approved by the Department of Pesticide Regulation. The state's own examples include a custodian using disinfectant in a bathroom and a teacher wiping desks. Our crews hold current certificates. Ask any other bidder for theirs and watch what happens.
Antimicrobials, meaning wipes, cleaners, and disinfectants, are exempt from the Healthy Schools Act reporting, recordkeeping, posting, notification, and IPM plan requirements. The annual training requirement still applies, which is the part most people have backwards. Any vendor promising to file your DPR disinfectant logs is describing paperwork that doesn't exist, and that should tell you something about the rest of their pitch.
Compliance is the license holder's, and no vendor can take it off you. What we can do is handle the parts you'd otherwise be chasing. Daily mopping, weekly wall washing, changing areas after every change, carpets on the six month clock, all done on schedule and logged with a date. So when an analyst asks, you're not guessing. Anyone promising you compliance itself is selling something they can't deliver.
Be skeptical of anyone claiming a disinfectant is completely safe to touch. Every antimicrobial pesticide label carries the federal Keep Out of Reach of Children warning, disinfecting wipes included. That's why the real answer is timing and process, not a marketing word. We work after hours, we mix to label rather than by eye, we rinse where the label calls for it, and surfaces are dry before anyone arrives.
No single product carries every claim, so matching the product to the target is how we work on a normal Tuesday, not something we do once there's a problem. Norovirus is non-enveloped and harder to inactivate than most of what circulates, and EPA keeps List G for products that carry that specific claim. During an outbreak we pull from that list, add passes on the surfaces that actually move it, tables, cubbies, door hardware, and the floor, and coordinate with you on which rooms come first.
The regulation is more flexible than most vendors admit. It allows a commercial rental machine or a professional service, so anyone telling you the state mandates professional hot water extraction is overselling. We recommend professional extraction because a rental unit under-extracts and leaves carpet wet, which is a worse problem in a room full of infants. The six month rule is a floor, not a target, and heavy-use rooms need more.
Rotating crews are the reason most directors stop trusting a vendor. You end up briefing strangers on your access procedure every month and hoping it stuck. Ours are assigned to your site, cleared through Live Scan, and trained on your lock-up routine. Exterior doors, alarm, and a signed log every night.
Color-coded cloths and mop pads assigned by area, worked clean to dirty. Red never touches a desk, a chair, a lunch table, or a play mat. It's a system standard in healthcare and food service and it's still rare in janitorial, mostly because it costs more in laundry and takes more discipline on a night shift.
Breaks are the only window for VCT stripping and refinishing, carpet extraction, high dusting, vent wiping, and wall washing. None of it can happen on a school day. We schedule break work months ahead and quote it separately from the nightly contract, so you can see exactly what the reset costs.
Loose child height toilet seats, stall latches, dispensers, sticking classroom doors, damaged switch plates, wall guards, and base trim. The kind of thing a licensing analyst notes and nobody ever gets around to. Our crew photographs it and Ernie handles what falls on our side.
What drives it is classroom count, whether you have infant rooms and how many, nights per week, restroom count, and how much of the floor is carpet. Break work prices separately. A bid that matches a general office rate for the same square footage is telling you the crew isn't holding contact times, because that's the only place the labor can come out.
onejo Cleaning & Maintenance LLC carries complete commercial general liability and worker's compensation coverage. Certificates of insurance (COI) can be provided prior to starting service.
