All about Leasing Equipment

All businesses, whether a bakery, a motor vehicle dealership or a kid’s playschool, demand high standards of cleanliness and business owners are faced with a choice – do we outsource our cleaning requirements or do we simply bite the bullet and invest in our own dedicated cleaning machines?

There are a number of traditional ways of fulfilling our industrial cleaning requirements and each of them has a range of benefits and detriments:

• We can employ a contract cleaner at a fixed cost, effectively outsourcing the job. They will have all the added worries of completing the job to our satisfaction as well as purchasing all the necessary chemicals and employing/ training the necessary staff
• We can purchase the cleaning machine and chemicals outright
• We can enter into a long term lease agreement with a reputable industrial cleaning company
• We can simply hire the equipment whenever the job needs doing

Investing in your own machine is a once-off cost to you and your business and could be a good investment in the long run, although there are a number of factors that must be considered before parting ways with a tidy pile of cash

• You will be responsible for the maintenance, service and repair of the equipment that could amount to quite a bit of financial outlay on an ongoing basis
• You will need to train your staff the necessary skills to operate the equipment
• You may very well need to employ extra staff to handle the job, an additional cost that may not have been factored in

Each case has its own merits, so here is why you might like to outsource your cleaning needs instead:

• You won’t have to train up staff for short term tasks
• The job itself will be fully insured with reliable and fully trained operators
• Reputable cleaning services are generally available 24/7
• Outsourcing will allow you to concentrate on your own area of expertise

In short, you need to decide what your business requirements and capacity is for outsourcing vs. buying – also good to remember is that leasing equipment has major pluses too, including tax benefits as the payments are considered operating expenses.

Lavana James
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