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If you’ve been following our journey lately, you’ll know that Perfect Cleaning Solutions has had a whirlwind year. From being a finalist at the Women’s Enterprise Scotland Awards to our recent nomination for the Living Wage Trailblazer Award, it’s been a busy season...

We may be a small company compared to some of our competitors, but there’s a reason we’re winning contracts against much bigger businesses and consistently delivering great results for our clients. That reason is simple: we genuinely look after our people. Because...

We are a commercial cleaning company and a proud accredited Real Living Wage Employer. Honestly, this is something we’re incredibly proud of, and we want people to know why it matters. Apologies if this sounds like a rant, but please hear me out. I am genuinely tired...

Happy New Year everyone! The break was very much needed after a whirlwind year. 2025 was full-on and I barely stopped. That said, it feels good to be back in a routine and getting the year underway. Being a small business owner can sometimes feel lonely and, at times,...

Me, Alan and Kamil had an absolutely fantastic night at the Living Wage Awards 2025! I was incredibly proud to be nominated for the Trailblazer Award this year, alongside so many inspiring organisations who are actively raising standards in their industries. The venue...

I had a truly wonderful evening at the Women’s Enterprise Scotland Awards Dinner! ✨ Last year, I attended as a guest at the Bright Red Triangle's table, and this year, I was incredibly humbled to return — not only as their guest again but also as a finalist for an...

I am absolutely delighted to share that we’ve been nominated for yet another award – this time, the Living Wage Employers Trailblazer Award! 🎉 This nomination feels especially meaningful. From the very beginning, we’ve been committed to creating a fair, safe workplace...

I am absolutely delighted to share that Perfect Cleaning Solutions is a finalist for the Women’s Enterprise Scotland Award 2025 in the Outstanding Business of the Year category! 🎉 This means so much to me personally. As a mother of two, the last few years have been...

Thrilled for Sarah to be part of Women’s Enterprise Scotland’s research! 💙💗 Business doesn’t need to be a multimillion empire to matter. It can be small, sustainable, and still have a huge impact. PCS now supports over 25 staff and their families – and that’s...

The Benefits of a Clean Office A clean office environment is more than just aesthetically pleasing—it plays a crucial role in fostering productivity, promoting health, and enhancing overall workplace satisfaction. Employees spend a significant portion of their day at...

Our mission as a company is to provide our staff with the safe and fair workplace. In the cleaning industry, workers are often paid minimum or even below minimum wages due to people being exploited with unfair contracts. People are often made to work as a...

Being part of the local community and to contribute to the local economy is super important for us as a small business who relies on local employment and local customers. Through engaging with the local councils, specifically with the West Lothian and Edinburgh...

Since becoming accredited in 2021, we have fully embraced the ethos of the Living Wage foundation. We felt really proud for taking this step and wanted to promote it to our existing and potential clients, as well as our employees. This is why we were delighted to be...

I had an honour to attend the Women’s Enterprise Scotland's awards dinner as a part of the Bright Red Triangle team. Thanks for the invite Emma! The room was filled with businesswomen from all over Scotland, full of energy celebrating their successes. I feel so proud...

Since I started doing my business full-time and hiring new staff, I have made lots of mistakes. First of all, I thought a good manager is someone who monitored people constantly. I thought that was managing, but I was so wrong. When I tried to control everything that...

I feel like accountability is lacking in our society now. People are running away from problems and difficult situations. That is why one of our Core values are to "Be Accountable". Some people do think that time that burying problem is much better than facing it. For...

The Importance of Professional Cleaning for a Healthy, Productive Workplace While many businesses focus on high-level priorities like operations, sales, and marketing, the often-overlooked area of facility cleanliness plays a critical role in employee well-being,...

It's been a while since I posted something! I am pregnant now with our second child and it was a rocky start…but now I am feeling much better as I entered the third trimester 😊 This is the time I feel a lot of support from my colleagues at PCS. Last time when I was...

Keeping It Clean and Green: Eco-Friendly Cleaning for Commercial Spaces In today's environmentally-conscious world, businesses are seeking more sustainable practices in all areas of their operations – including cleaning and maintenance. Traditional cleaning products...

I had such a wonderful time visiting the Bright Red Triangle for the Bright Red Sparks evening. I have been involved with the Bright Red Triangle since 2016 when I studied at Napier University and used their co-working space quite a few times! Especially before COVID...

What a fab event this morning organised by the West Lothian Chamber of Commerce in the Terrae Restaurant in West Lothian College. It was my first meeting since joining the West Lothian Chamber of Commerce. It was really an eye-opener to see all the businesses from and...

I am incredibly proud and honoured to be part of the Living Wage's International Women's Day video. Cleaning industry typically works on a low wage, minimum wage and also below-minimum wages. Some people even are not employed but working on a self-employed basis or...

What does it mean to treat staff well? We pride ourselves for "treating our staff well". But what does this mean? I've realised in this past years, that merely paying them a little bit extra is just not enough. Although it helps of course. Money does make a difference...

I was thinking about how the way of doing business is shifted over the years I have worked in the business scene. I have been doing this for around 10 years, so I have seen a lot! When we started, we often noticed that cost was pretty much everything. The cheaper the...

Happy New Year 2024! A bit late for my new year post but here we are. My team has been working incredibly hard over the festive period, but a lot of us were able to take some time off which was great! To be honest, sometimes it is a challenge to motivate my staff in...

I was thinking about what I enjoy about the part of my job. It is definitely not the money part that's for sure! Although it is important… I enjoy helping people through the business. My business help businesses maintain a clean workplace. We also help people get a...

Last Friday, I had a great time again at the FSB networking at the government building! The venue was amazing and it made me feel like a secret agent. It is always so great to meet other business owners. Every time I visit the FSB networking, it reminds me that there...

We have been hiring, and this is the most common questions that I get. "Do you pay cash?" Meaning that if we pay cash and not through PAYE. Of course paying people in cash is not illegal itself. But paying people in cash off the records and then this person not...

Is the job worth your time? Recently I was told by someone who applied for the job that the job we offered was "not worth their time". Although this person literally lived 10min away from the work and their day job was just 5minutes away. This person also said that...

Attended Workflo connections at @workflosolutions. It was great to spend only 5minutes driving to get to an event! What a fantastic presentation from @MichelleQuinn Managing Director of Almond engineering. It was a story of her starting from the bottom and then now a...

😉Thinking about changing your cleaning provider? 🍑Is changing your cleaning company going to be pain-in-the-butt? Recently I am putting a lot of effort into getting new clients around Edinburgh and West Lothian! It really frustrates me when people are in the place...

🌻This is the sunflower that my daughter planted at her nursery from seed. 🌱Now has a beautiful flower and it smells like toasted seeds. Today's story is about small change that we made by joining the Living Wage Foundation and paying the Real Living Wage so that...

I had a great catch up with our client at their office last week! It is always fantastic to catch up face to face as well, and meet them at their beautiful office. It is completely different to just emailing and messaging. It is somewhat weird because I am so familiar...

Continuing from the story of people being rude and overthinking why people are being rude to you. My staff thought this person from the office was being rude and ignoring her. She might have thought that this person was "rude" to her because she was a foreigner, or...

"She always ignores me", my staff whispered to me when a person from the office passed by us. I was visiting the office and we were folding the cloths together with my staff. And I was thinking about this. Some people have been indeed rude to my staff, and I have...

I was well proud of our new guy today! I visited one of our client's premises this morning, and see how our new guy was getting on. He is one of our youngest member of staff and had no prior cleaning experience. When I entered, the doors were a lot cleaner and overall...

We have recently been working with local council and support group to help young people get into employment. We have recently hired 2 under 21's. When I interviewed the 16 year old person, he mentioned that he didn’t get any response from any of the employer at all....

Another fab morning at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) networking! Great presentation about goal setting and taking yourself to a next level by Nick Sellers. Recently I have been very busy with both business and in my personal life. I basically look after my...

The holiday season has arrived! Over the years I have been looking at other companies holiday policies and tried to make something that would suit us as a company. We have our standard 28days holiday, plus we give everyone extra day of holiday when they pass their...

I hear too often from people that worked for other cleaning company saying that they didn't get paid for the hours they have worked. And their manager was unresponsive. Why is this? This is because they either don't record the hours correctly, for example using manual...

I noticed there's a shift in thinking "work is evil". I was thinking about this a lot recently and thinking WHY do people hate work. Why did work became something that is an awful thing? Perhaps people had so much time over COVID that some of them didn’t need to work...

I was driving in Edinburgh yesterday and a girl aged probably around 7-8 years old pointed at my van and said "woooow!". This made my day and made me realise that I do love this van and the colours. I have designed the van myself(making my design degree useful here),...

We have and have had in the past, people from all over the world working with us. We had people from Ghana, The Gambia, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, Iran, India, Ukraine etc… Some people actually couldn’t speak much or any English. But we hired them. This one lady...

I was carrying out and setting up new cleaning contracts for our good clients recently. You get to think a lot when you are cleaning. And I was thinking how to carry out the cleanings best and most efficient. And who is a good cleaner. When you work at offices while...

🌸I saw a post from Lawrence at Electrify today he was speaking about hiring a good person. 🧼How we do interview in PCS is that we have an informal chat beforehand and then I will bring them onsite to do a "trial shift". ⏰Usually the trials are not long, around 30min....

Spot our van! One of my staff works for a bigger company who is based in England to do some of her other shifts. She told me that she hasn’t been paid properly for the last 6 months, and this still has not been resolved. She said that her payments were always late....

🙈I must confess that I am not a tidy person myself! 👻So I have come up with some tips for how to keep things organised and tidy as much as possible. 📚The key is not to organise per se, but more like to make the environment "easier to sort it out". 🔑The key is to have...

🌸My staff visited St Abb's Head couple of days ago and she sent me some pictures. 🌊Beautiful! 📷I enjoy getting pictures from my staff when they are away on holiday. 🙏🏻I really like it when they are able to go and have some time off. ☝️We give people "work anniversary...

🧐Recently we had client saying that they were not happy how our staff cleaned their office. 👎Initially they said she was not doing a great job at their office. 👉We updated cleaning tasks, we did deep clean together hoping that this was going to make a difference. 🙀It...