A Professional Clean for a Professional Business

As a business owner, you know how important it is to have a clean business. Not only does it foster a better work environment for your employees, but it impacts every single customer and client who comes by. So, you need to work with a cleaning company who is going to get things done right the first time, doesn’t waste your time, and doesn’t make you wait. But does a cleaning company like that actually exist? It does! ASF Clean Team gives you a professional clean for a professional business.

First Impressions are Important

There is almost nothing more important in the business world than a first impression. According to Forbes, your business only has seven seconds to make a first impression. And that’s the max! Some people may form their opinion even sooner than that. If you’re a boutique on the street, all you may get is a quick glance before someone decides whether or not they want to stop and come in or just keep walking on by. If you work in an office, there’s a good chance that a potential client has formed their opinion before you’ve even greeted them. So, the cleanliness of your business (a.k.a. their first impression) is of utmost importance.

Making a Great First Impression

The easiest way to make a great first impression is to make sure the outside of your building is sparkling clean. But, you can still run up against unexpected obstacles. Even if you clean your building so it’s spotless, you may come to work one day and find graffiti on your storefront. You don’t have the time (or the tools) to clean that before you open! But, if you work with ASF Clean Team, you don’t have to worry about it for long. Let us know about the problem, and we’ll have your storefront sparkling clean again in no more than 48 hours. Not having to worry about doing this yourself not only means you can run your business with a peace of mind, but you can also give your customers the best experience possible regardless of the graffiti.

Regularly Schedule Exterior Cleaning Services

There are a million and twelve things to keep track of when running a business. That being said, cleaning the exterior of your building is probably one of the last things on your mind. It’s just something people don’t think of often, even with their home! You may be wiping down your windows, but that’s about it. However, when potential customers and clients come by, they’re going to notice the cleanliness of your building’s exterior. We’ve all been to those places where we aren’t sure we want to touch the door handle with a ten foot pole. While your business probably isn’t that dirty, you still don’t want the dirt to be noticeable.

To solve this problem, you can simply schedule cleaning services so you don’t even think about it! ASF Clean Team can help make your business shine with pressure washing, power washing, and more. You can schedule regular cleaning services (you get to choose how often), and we’ll be there. You don’t even have to put it on your calendar because we’ll let you know when we’re on our way. And as long as we have access to the area we’re cleaning, you don’t have to be there, either. We’ll send you before and after pictures so you can see how the job was done. It’s that easy!

Enjoy the View

Enough talking about the customers and clients. Even though they’re super important, so are you! Whether you’re in an office building or a store front, you are paying for that space. And you deserve to enjoy what you’re paying for, especially if you’re in a high rise office space. San Francisco real estate is not cheap. Your professional business deserves a professional clean. And you deserve to enjoy your high rise view with a high quality clean. You don’t want to clean those windows yourself. Not only is it not fun, it can be dangerous if you’re not a professional. So, let us handle it. Our clean team has both the equipment and the experience to give your windows a professional clean, and do it safely. 

Leave It to the Professionals

When it comes to cleaning your business, you truly want to leave it to the professionals. You are the best at what you do, and we are the best at what we do. Which is why you don’t want to leave the cleaning to just any professionals. 

Did you know that it is not legally required for cleaning teams to have insurance for their employees? This means that you could hire a totally legit, certified cleaning team, but they may not have employee insurance. So, if an employee gets injured while cleaning your business, you could end up being liable. 

But, if you hire an insured cleaning team, you don’t have to worry about that. At ASF Clean Team, we insure all of our employees. We know that no matter how experienced we are, sometimes accidents just happen. That’s why they’re called accidents. And if an accident happens, we don’t want that to be on you. We care about our clients and our employees, and understand that holding insurance is important so everyone is taken care of, even if it’s not legally required. So, don’t just work with any cleaning business. Work with one that’s insured.

Get a Professional Clean for a Professional Business

Your professional business deserves a professional clean. You don’t want to do the work yourself, and you don’t want just anyone to do it. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area, choose ASF Clean Team. We’re as professional as it gets. As mentioned, we are an insured cleaning team, and we have an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau. We also provide a chemical free clean, so not only are you getting a high quality clean, you’re getting a safe, natural clean. Request a bid today to get started.

Why Our Tools are Better for Solar Panel Cleaning

You live in sunny California, so you decided to get solar panels. After all, the sun’s always shining and it’ll save you money in the long run. But recently, you’ve noticed that the solar panels haven’t been working as well and they haven’t been saving you as much money. You’ve tried cleaning the solar panels, but it apparently hasn’t worked. We have a secret to share with you—this is why our tools are better for solar panel cleaning.

Our Tools Filter Water

If you’re just using a hose to clean your solar panels, or are trusting the once-in-a-blue-moon rain to get the job done, your solar panels aren’t actually getting clean. Why is that? Because that water isn’t filtered. At ASF Clean Team, we only use water and no chemicals to clean, so you may assume there isn’t a huge difference. But there is! When you use water from a hose, there’s absolutely no filtration. This means that there are minerals still in the water, and the mineral deposits will stay on your solar panels. So, even if you think you cleaned your solar panels really well, they won’t be 100% clean.

Our Tools Are Designed to Clean Solar Panels

If you go to Lowe’s or Home Depot, there is no section for “Solar Panel Cleaners”. In fact, most people just use a hose to clean their solar panels. We’ve already discussed why that doesn’t work, so you may think if you just get a rag and go at it by hand with a bucket of filtered water, you’ll be fine. But, that’s still not the case either.

How many times have you cleaned a window or mirror, and no matter how many different directions you moved the rag in, there were still little fuzzies left behind? The same concept applies to cleaning solar panels. If you clean them with a rag, squeegee, or whatever you get at the hardware store, there’s going to be something left behind. It’s inevitable because those tools weren’t designed to clean solar panels. 

On the flip side, our tools are designed for solar panel cleaning. Not only do they filter water, but there will also be no streak left behind. So, you’ll regain 100% use of your solar panel power.

Our Tools Are Just Longer

Some of you may be lucky enough to have solar panels in your backyard, but a lot of people have solar panels on their roofs. And when your solar panels are all the way up there, you don’t want to have to clean them yourself. Luckily, we have tools that can get us safely up there to clean your solar panels. Plus, we’re insured, so you don’t have to worry about what to do if an accident occurs. 


It’s clear why our tools are better for solar panel cleaning than anything you could get from a hardware store. Are you ready to make more of your solar panel investment with a professional cleaning? Get a quote from ASF Clean Team today.

Why You Should Trust Professionals for Roof & Gutter Cleaning

Fall is getting closer and with fall comes falling leaves. That must be how it got its name, huh? Anyway, with fall approaching it’s time to start thinking about roof and gutter cleaning. You don’t want to do it yourself—no one does. Here’s why you should trust professionals for roof and gutter cleaning.

Your Roof & Gutters are Like…Really High

Raise your hand if you’re afraid of heights! While YOU may have raised your hand, no professional roof and gutter cleaner did. Your roof and gutters are really high up on your house. And if you’re going to clean them yourself, you’re going to have to be the one who goes up there. You won’t just have to do the work of climbing up there and cleaning them. You’ll also have to pay for the safety equipment you need so that you don’t seriously injure yourself if you fall. 

Instead, the professionals can take care of it! We already have all of the safety equipment needed, and we’re super comfortable with climbing to higher surfaces. But, we won’t always need to! We have some equipment that can reach your gutters without us ever leaving the ground.

Roof & Gutter Cleaning Professionals Have Insurance

One of the biggest hesitations of having someone come clean your roof and gutters for you is what happens if they get hurt. Hopefully, with professionals they won’t get hurt, but you never know. Accidents happen. This is exactly why you shouldn’t take your neighbor, Dave, up on his offer to clean your roof and gutters. Dave likely doesn’t have his own insurance, and even if he does, there is still a risk that he’ll sue you. But that’s not a concern with insured professionals (or at least most professionals). If a company is truly reliable, like ASF Clean Team, they’ll have insurance for all of their employees. That means if someone gets hurt, you won’t be liable.

Our Tools Get a Better Clean

Think about times in the past that you have been cleaning, not necessarily your roof and gutters, but just cleaning in general. How many of those times, towards the end, are you feeling like, “Eh, that’s fine” and you don’t clean as well because you just want to get it done? Probably a lot. Well, with professionals, you won’t have that issue. First, it’s our job, so we actually enjoy doing it. But we also have better tools to clean than you are able to purchase. Our tools will make your roof and gutters sparkling clean. Plus, they get the job done faster than just a hose and hands, so you never have to worry about us saying, “Eh, it’s fine” just to get the job over with. You’ll even get before and after pictures to truly see the difference (because you still don’t want to climb up on that roof).


There’s no question why you should trust professionals for roof and gutter cleaning. Get ready for the fall by getting a quote and  scheduling your roof and gutter cleaning with ASF Clean Team today.

Pressure Washing vs. Power Washing: What’s the Difference?

There are so many types of cleaning out there it can be hard to keep track, especially if you don’t know the first thing about cleaning. Two of the most confusing terms are pressure washing vs. power washing. For real, what’s the difference? They sound so similar, and don’t pressure and power basically mean the same thing? The truth is, they are really similar, but there is an important distinction. Let’s talk it through.

What’s the Difference?

The main distinction between pressure washing vs. power washing is the temperature of the water. Power washing uses hot water, and pressure washing does not. While it may seem minimal, this is actually a very important distinction to make. Both use basically the same amount of pressure to clean your home or building, but the hot water is not safe for all structures. So, it’s important to keep these two terms straight, and work with a cleaning business that knows the difference.

What Surfaces are Safe for Pressure Washing vs. Power Washing?

Pretty much all exterior surfaces are safe for pressure washing. Pressure washing is the easy part, because the temperature is not nearly as hot. So, you can use it on your home, your sidewalk, your parking lot, etc. But, power washing cannot be used for everything. Often, the water is too hot to be safely used on your home or building itself. Instead, it is better to reserve power washing for more concrete structures … literally. Surfaces such as concrete are ideal for power washing because, not only are they sturdy enough to withstand the heat, they also get dirtier. Think about it: your parking lot or driveway is probably much dirtier than your home or office building, right? The heat of the water helps pull the grime up more quickly and efficiently than pressure alone. 

Isn’t That Pressure and Heat Dangerous?

Pressure washing and power washing can sound scary. The water is coming out of the cleaner at a pressure high enough to clean quickly, and then you add heat on top of that. So what happens if something goes wrong?

Hopefully nothing will go wrong, but there is always the possibility for accidents, especially if a team is cleaning an upper level of a building. Should something happen, you don’t want to be held liable for something the cleaning crew did. So, it is always important to work with a cleaning company that carries insurance for its employees. Insurance is not required for cleaning companies, but it is always a good sign that a company takes its job and safety seriously. 

Who Can Do Pressure Washing and Power Washing?

While you can buy pressure washers for home use, it is best to leave these tasks to the professionals. After all, accidents happen. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area or Sacramento, ASF Clean Team has you covered. We provide pressure washing and power washing services for both residential and commercial clients. Plus, we have insurance for all of our employees. Get a free quote today to get a sparkling finish for your home or building’s exterior.

Why You Need to Work With an Insured Window Washing Team

There’s a reason you likely don’t wash your windows yourself: not only do you not want to, but it can be dangerous. If you work in a high rise building or have a home with multiple stories, you have to use a ladder to clean the exterior windows. It’s an accident just waiting to happen. This, among other reasons, is why you need to work with a properly insured window washing team. Most homeowners and property insurance policies do not cover claims for injuries and accidents for hired help.

What Does Window Washing Insurance Cover?

Accidents happen. They’re just a part of life. And when you’re climbing ladders to clean windows, they’re almost guaranteed — no matter how much training and experience the window washers have.

Window washing insurance covers different things, depending on the type of insurance. It is common for window washing insurance coverage to include:

  • Workers Compensation and Employer’s Liability
  • Commercial General Liability – $1 million for each occurrence
  • Commercial Automobile Liability Insurance – $1 million for each occurrence
  • Umbrella Liability Insurance – $15 million for each occurrence
  • Injury to the window washing team members while on the job
  • Injury to third parties during the window washing (for example, if a tool falls and hits a passerby)
  • Damage to the windows and property as a result of the service(s) performed
  • Auto coverage driving to and from job sites

Not all window washing teams have the same insurance coverage, so you may want to ask about the specific coverage when you find out whether or not a company is insured. This way, you know exactly what you could be held liable for if you hire that team.

Why Is It Important for Window Washers to Have Insurance?

Workers Compensation and Employer’s Liability Insurance is required in the State of California to legally operate to protect their employees and property owners. However, a lot of service providers and window cleaners do not carry them. So why is it important for you to work with a team that has insurance? Because the insurance does not only protect the team; it protects you and your assets.

No one wants to pay for bills, whether they’re medical bills, auto bills, equipment bills, or something else. If a window washer is uninsured and they incur a bill while on your property, they’re not going to want to pay. So who are they going to try to get to pay the bill? You and your property insurance. Most property insurance doesn’t cover hired contractors or hired help. And if you do have that coverage, imagine the hike in your rate after just one claim. 

With an insured window washing team, you don’t have to worry about that. Workers’ comp? Covered. Third party injury? Covered. Damage to their property? Covered. Damage to your property? Believe it or not … covered. 

How Can I Find an Insured Window Washing Team?

It’s clear why you need to work with an insured window washing team. Not just for their protection, but yours, too. To find out if a window washing service team is insured, the easiest place to look is their website. If you can’t find any information there, just ask! When you request service from ASF Clean Team, ask about our insured team. We’ll endorse you and your property and send you a copy of a certificate of insurance.

If your building is in the San Francisco Bay area or Sacramento, the easiest way is to go with ASF Clean Team! ASF Clean Team is insured and provides the best cleaning service in the area. Plus, we only use very hot water and state-of-the-art equipment to get the job done. You’ll have peace of mind knowing the team you hired an insured team, and not using harmful chemicals. Get a free quote today!