Raghwat Al Janoub Maintenance and Cleaning
Disinfection and sanitisation in Al Quds, Riyadh
Al Quds in east Riyadh mixes modern villas with planned apartment blocks along the Eastern Ring Road. Villas stand alone, but flats in buildings share passages, lifts and communal yards. Disinfecting Al Quds must account for this blend of detached and shared housing and the number of families circulating through each building.
Why disinfecting is separate from cleaning
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Places people share
Clinics, schools and shared offices see many different people in a single day.
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After illness at home
When someone in the household has been ill, what they leave on shared surfaces lingers for days.
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Kitchens and food areas
Surfaces where food is prepared need a sanitiser that is safe for food contact and leaves nothing behind.
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Before moving into a home
Before you move into a flat someone else lived in, you cannot know what they left on the surfaces and in the bathrooms.
Why the job is different in Al Quds
Households here enjoy relative quiet compared to older crowded districts, meaning lighter foot traffic on shared passages and lifts. Yet seasonal dust accumulation still demands regular disinfection schedules. The whole method is set out in our disinfection and sanitisation guide.
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Villas and apartment flats require different disinfection patterns in the same district
Villas have separate gardens and direct street access, while flats in buildings share passages, lifts and common doors. A villa owner does not disinfect shared passages, but flat residents need deeper treatment of high-contact communal surfaces. Their schedules cannot be the same.
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Lifts and passages accumulate pollution from multiple families
A single apartment building with twenty flats means a lift touched by hundreds of people weekly. Handrails, passages, and buttons collect diverse contaminants from different households. Treating these shared surfaces often matters more than treating an individual flat.
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Nearby parks and mosques increase household contamination
Al Quds has parks and mosques close to residential buildings. Garden dust and movement from prayer times increase foot traffic on passages and lifts. Children enter from play with dirty hands, raising disinfection demand on shared surfaces in particular.
What's Included
The district sits on the Eastern Ring Road and enjoys modern urban planning with parks, mosques, schools and local clinics nearby. Air pollution is moderate compared to industrial zones or busy highways, but proximity to green spaces means natural seasonal dust.
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Cleaned before disinfecting
Flats and villas need basic pre-cleaning to remove seasonal dust before disinfection, and shared passages require extra attention during this stage.
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High-touch points
Lift buttons, handrail grips and communal door handles are touched by dozens of people from different families daily and must be treated as critical high-touch zones.
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Fogging the open areas
Individual flats receive disinfectant coverage on core surfaces, while passages and lifts demand deeper, more thorough misting due to their size and heavy use.
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Contact time respected
Disinfectant requires moderate contact time on standard surfaces in flats, but metal lift surfaces and passage walls may need extended contact before wiping.
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Ventilated before re-entry
Flats use natural window ventilation for air changes, while passages require end-of-corridor and window ventilation to fully purge disinfectant vapour.
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The product used, recorded
Product records document whether we treated the lift and passages together or separately, and note flats requiring special attention due to location or family circumstances.
Al Quds on the map
Al Quds sits about 2.5 km from Al Hamra and about 2.5 km from Al Rawdah.
Open in Google MapsHow we work
We learn the space
We prepare and clean first
We disinfect and wait
We ventilate and hand over
Some of our work
Photos from our team's work.
The character of Al Quds
Mixed district: shops at street level with homes above them
In a mixed housing district, flats in buildings demand intense shared-surface disinfection while detached villas do not. Lifts, passages and communal entry points become the core priority in disinfection strategy because they transmit infection rapidly among dozens of families.
Other services in Al Quds
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