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High-Touch Surfaces: The Hidden Threat in Your Office
The dirtiest spots in your workplace might surprise you.
You vacuum the floors. You wipe down the counters. But there's a category of surfaces in your office that may be hosting thousands of bacteria per square inch — and they're touched dozens of times every single day.
You vacuum the floors. You wipe down the counters. But there's a category of surfaces in your office that may be hosting thousands of bacteria per square inch — and they're touched dozens of times every single day.
They're called high-touch surfaces — and they're often the last thing a standard cleaning routine addresses.
What Counts as a High-Touch Surface?
High-touch surfaces are any surface that multiple people contact repeatedly throughout the day:
- Door handles and push plates — touched by everyone entering and exiting
- Light switches — flipped on and off dozens of times daily
- Elevator buttons — particularly concentrated touch points in multi-floor buildings
- Keyboards and mice — especially on shared workstations
- Phone handsets — rarely disinfected, almost always shared
- Coffee machine buttons and water cooler taps — used by every person in the office
- Copier and printer control panels — overlooked constantly
- Chair armrests — contacted passively but frequently
Why Standard Cleaning Isn't Enough
A mop and a vacuum do an excellent job on floors. Glass cleaner handles windows beautifully. But general cleaning rarely includes systematic disinfection of the contact points listed above.
This matters because many pathogens — including cold and flu viruses, and more serious bacteria — survive on hard surfaces for hours or even days. Without targeted disinfection, these surfaces become a cycle of recontamination no matter how clean the rest of your office looks.
The Professional Difference
At CourtneyCleaners.com, high-touch surface disinfection is a core part of our commercial cleaning service — not an afterthought. We use proven disinfectants applied systematically across every high-contact point in your facility.
The result: a genuinely cleaner, healthier workplace — not just a visually clean one.
A Simple Truth
Cleaning is visible. Disinfection is invisible. But it's the invisible work that protects your team day after day.
If your current cleaning service isn't specifically addressing high-touch surfaces, it's time to have that conversation — or to find a team that makes it a priority.
We'd love to help. Reach out today.
- Email: Info@Courtneycleaners.com
- Phone: 226-377-7531