At the conclusion of your event, you’ll be expected to check each item on this list to make sure it has been completed before departing. If you have permission to complete cleaning the next morning, you’ll confirm each item again after finishing clean-up.
- All candles out. Be sure!
- Wipe tables and bar tops.
- Check chairs for spills and sticky spots.
- Sweep floors and steps.
- Mop floors as needed (brooms, mops etc. are located in corner behind refrigerator)
- Clean toilets and basins as needed. Supplies are in cabinets in 1st floor restroom.
- Remove trash bags if your event has generated a significant amount. A significant amount is anything that will impede the next user. A few paper towels are ok to leave. Remove any/all items that will spoil and smell. Take your trash away; do not leave it at the curb.
- Place a new (large) plastic liner in each trash can and (kitchen size) in lavatory wastebaskets if needed.
- Turn thermostats down to 50 degrees. (In summer turn off air-conditioner.)
- Turn off ceiling fan.
- Turn off hot water heater in ground-floor restroom.
- Close and lock all windows (check to make sure skylight is closed).
- Turn off lights in basement, first floor ceiling lights, restroom, stairs…
- Turn off second floor ceiling lights.
- Turn off light at bottom of stairs to second floor.
- Turn off lights on ground floor: ceiling lights, back bar lamps, stained glass windows, restrooms, light over the sidewalk outside (pull string).
- Lock both exterior doors including deadbolt on each door. (Try them from the outside just to be sure, as you depart.), also, check that street-level window is locked from inside.
- If furniture was broken or scratched, save the pieces and please tell us!