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Do you have to do this every day?? And are you the only person. Or do you have help

Hey bud New subscriber here. New custodian. I've been having streaks on the tile floors. Got any tips?

I start thus Monday jeff, i did a 45 minute walkthrough of the place and they gave me the daily checklist i have a question for you. One of my tasks is to "replace liners" what are liners?

There is skill level and there is down right laziness. You have to take that into consideration also.

Hey, Jeff. Currently a substitute custodian. Always feels like there’s some disconnect or confusion on what the tasks for the run is even among the other custodian present. I don’t like to leave things unfinished but a few times it ended that way because lack of clarity on whether it’s a task assigned to the run I am on or meant for a different day. Really want to do well as a sub to eventually transition to a full time position. It’s just been a little jarring when I’m only covering a shift every other week or so due to other job’s weird scheduling and tasks not consistent among other sites despite it being same day of week (e.g. fridays being refill days). Much appreciated for your content and knowledge!

Someone is sleeping on the job damn water leaks

I love it how everyone assumes since the building is empty of people that we have nothing to do! 🤣 That's the busiest time a year! Around late July I start to look forward for the school year to start to get back in my usual routine!

Jeff, how much dawn soap drops per water?

Yep! That’s right👍

Hi Jeff! Any advice you can give me how to not make floors so streaky with rock salt? I clean a few buildings and the rock salt is awful. Doesn’t seem to matter what cleaner I use.

The only thing I liked about them is that they'd stop kids from clogging up the urinal drains.

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My biggest issue is with a few ladies who happen to be older that will be uppity in our shop who complain about everything! With me being 1 person doing everything. They just go out of their way to try and make me look bad. Fortunately all the executives recognize it! It's almost like these women don't realize they work in a shop!! 😅

I used to use them but got disgusted with them pretty quick.

I have three separate buildings that I try and clean on my own. It's an elementary school in Oregon, and the rooms get trashed with dirt. It's very hard to even attempt to keep them up. Our district has 3 schools and 6 custodians. It's very over whelming.

I just found your channel yesterday. It's pretty funny. I work at an elementary school.

Great video..tho..u mean u didn't use any flooring stripper chemical...I'm all for it..I hate toxic..chemicals..o..yea..it dosent require u to use a mask.when laying down..the waxx🤔🤔

R u supposed to be pouring that stuff in to the earth..like that🤔🤔🤔🤔

Hey, brother, I work for a poor school district to. A lot of things don't get fixed because they don't have money to fix it.

Oh my goodness!!!! We have that! Ours leaks in like 3 places! It's got so bad, it fills up now in about two days!!!! It's ridiculous

Hey Jeff, I have interview coming up for a Custodian position at a community college, what kind of questions can i expect they ask me? thank you again jeff

Some places will use urinal screens and other types of odor counteractants to mask an odor problem that could be eliminated by proper cleaning

What’s really bad is when you go somewhere like a gas station or even a restaurant sometime where I looks like they’ve never changed the urinal screen. So disgusting the buildup underneath and the odor

What’s really bad is when you go somewhere like a gas station or even a restaurant sometime where I looks like they’ve never changed the urinal screen. So disgusting the buildup underneath and the odor

I was a Sub-custodian for over 20yea Minimum 10hr days.(my best was a 27.5hr shift . pne day.) .Multiple buildings in a day. Boss was a total jack wagon. But I learned a ton about cleaning and floor care. Working for the schools set me up for working Custodial in a local hospital for 13yrs. I literally walked into the hospital interview. and said" i've survived Jr. high school kids. Nothing here's gonna phase me.". Oh and did I mention it made a whopping 8.50/hr. No benefits or pay raises . Cuz i wasnt part of the union. I was fortunate to have building custodians the knew me and taught me how to do the shift properly. The best part of being a Sub was the fact that i was exposed to all(At the time.) 9 school buildings in my district. So as i learned each building. i could take bits and pieces from each building and mold it into my own workflow

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I've worked in elementary schools and colleges. I swear I got just as many 🤮 and 💩 calls.

The dust factor is the only thing I don't like about, but great for getting in edges and corners without back breaking doodlebuggin!

Urinal screens have to be replaced every month

Is the scrubber pad supposed to be spinning as I use it ??

hey Jeff, I'm 19 and I just got my first custodian job at a elementary school! Any tips for a newcomer with 0 experience?

I like to use the ecolab floor cleaner from home depot they work really well for my hardwood at home my floors have never looked better it is neutral PH so it leaves no film

Did they put that up lol, so tempting to use but we all know 99% of teachers have no common sense

Great insight on the urinal screens holding odors after being marinated in there. The problem I have with taking them out is that there would be a major splashing problem. The urinals on our campus are narrow and don’t have much ability to catch the splash. I’ve used the urinal without a screen and got my pants wet from the splash. Gross.

i use urinal screens in the factory i work in.. in facilities.. they have a fresh clean smell at first? but after awhile of course it dissipates.. my factory runs 3 shifts so we cant let things sit overnight. only time it smells clean n fresh in the guys bathrooms? is from urinal screens. im afraid NOT to use them

My man! I quit using urinal screens for all the same reason you stated. The screens hold in that musty urine smell and I think they are disgusting. I actually quit using clips and other types of deodorizers too. I feel like the deodorizers just mask the odors and issues. If you clean the restroom really good every night, you will contact and kill germs that can cause the bad smells. I’m also a NABC guy. It’s my go to. I also use Spartan Germicidal bowl disinfectant on a weekly basis. That’s for the great content my dude!

Same here brother. We started taking those out a year ago. To my surprise they do hold an oder.

While people look at custodians as someone who is a bottom feeder, what they don’t know is the person who is cleaning the school halls is either -A guitarist for a well known cover band in the local scene -An up and coming semipro athlete -someone who can’t afford to go to college and is on a scholarship reimbursement plan -a nighttime comedian Looks can be very deceiving

I worked at a small town HS in Iowa for five years(been doing janitorial since 1993 though). The high school however was massive and within the time I had worked there the district had obtained grants to renovate an elementary and the middle school and built another elementary(everyone had to have a hand in clean up for those, too). For the HS they added 12 classrooms to the north wing, doubled the size of the weight & wrestling rooms, annexed another gym on the south wing with an indoor running track and plans to expand the sports complex which was already outfitted with baseball, football, track, shot put and soccer fields. They also installed geothermal for the HS one summer. That was a mess. We had three people on our cleaning staff...figure that one out. During summer we worked four '10s' but usually got three day weekends. Unlike some schools, our HS was NEVER quiet...it NEVER shut down! There was always something going on there(community, band or sports related). It also didn't help that administrators seemed to have no problem lending the facility out to just about any non-district affiliated entity...it got to be really tiring. And if they made a mess we had to clean that too, of course. The gym had to be on a usage schedule and many times it was supposed to be closed but someone would always be banging on the door saying they had reserved gym time. One time I came in on a weekend to do building checks and not expecting anyone in the building at that time I began hearing commotion in the gym. I walked in and there were some people doing layups but I had no idea what team or district they were from as they were in red Ts(our colors were blue and white). I'm like...what intrigue is this?? Man, we used to get so mad about all the miscommunication there and we always seemed to be the ones to have to sort out other people's errors. [Edit: I seemed to have forgotten: whereas that did happen, it was because our HS was a WaMaC Conference Host. So it was basically open to 12 other Eastern Iowa conference members. We had to 'represent' I guess lol] A whole day had to be reserved to refinish the gym and the whole staff had to be there(well, three custodians, grounds director, the finish distributor and a few back up people). Once that finish was catalyzed, you had to get it down and perfectly within 15 minutes or so per bucket. And once it was down you had no time to go back over a mistake or you'd make it worse(wax was more forgiving than this stuff). So it had to be perfect. All along, the ventilation had to be turned off(including AC)and the doors shut and sealed off to drafts otherwise the finish would flash dry. It was sweaty work in thick fumes. Other things we did in the summer other than strip & wax floors: move furniture for staff/new teachers, install projectors(smart screens/projectors were phasing out white boards then), scrub and paint walls, clean out lockers and account for text books, make trips to the recyclers with truck loads of discarded books, pick up supplies like clay for the art room, change filters & light bulbs, assemble new kitchen or office furniture, extract office, library and auditorium carpets, squeegee windows, pull weeds and other grunt work around the sports complex, adjust toilet and sink valves, change automatic sink batteries...we pretty much did everything except major plumbing or construction. Oh yeah, pest control...seems like we were constantly battling mice in the fall and wasps and hornets in the summer. The school was more or less surrounded by farm fields and a nearby creek, so, we were in line for all sorts of critters. One summer as they were adding on classrooms to the north wing one of the construction workers accidentally cut a glycol coolant line in one of the classrooms. We had just finished those floors, too(2nd level) and put everything in order only to have over three classrooms and part of the hallway flooded with cobalt blue glycol. It even leaked down into 1st floor against the walls and all over the lockers. It was chaos. I loved the job and 'HS Janitor' is 'the job' to have in terms of benefits and pay, but, in my situation the last few years due to the growing population/rural-urban sprawl it just wasn't feasible for me(small town was annexing to a major college town). They weren't planning on hiring more help in step with the scope of work being added, either. So, I quit.

I was a custodian Dothraki school district for the school district for 9 years

The custodian you are talking about i call them a 007 0 motivation 0skills and 7bathroom breaks. I appreciate your hard work and dedication on showing people, what custodians do in daily.

I been a custodian for 16 years. When you said “during Christmas break, we treat the building like the summer.” I did not see you starting from the top and working your way down. You basically did a regular cleaning. I tell all my staff high dust everything first and then start working your way down.

Why not wash it instead?

This is the most positive custodial presentation I've ever heard in my life. I have been doing it for 30 years. Lots of people make it so negative. Keep up the good work ethic and attitude.😊 By the way, need to be like me, in the behave of comments. If I can't say anything good , don't make a comment at all , thanks 😊

Fixed my issue, had no idea how dirty the filter was Thanks

Thx for these videos Subbed

Awesome encouragement

Hey Mr Jeff thanks for all your great advise and help. You’re a very uplifting kind guy. I going to apply for a school caretaker job in the UK very soon. your channel has given me a lot of confidence to apply. Thank you! 😊