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Inter-Departmental Relationship With Maintenance
- The housekeeping department depends on maintenance to keep things in order.
- While
carrying out their scheduled work, housekeeping employees may find some
deficiencies in the hotel facilities, such as faulty electrical plugs,
dripping faucets, leaking pipes or malfunctioning air-conditioning units
etc.
- A need for urgent
repairs is reported to maintenance over telephone and these requests are
usually taken into action immediately.
- There are various heads under which maintenance work is done they are:
- Electrical
work: air conditioning and heating; fused bulbs , lights and lamps that
are not functioning ; defective plugs and plug points ; short circuits;
and faulty geysers , refrigerators , and minibar fall under this
category.
- Boiler work: this is necessary to maintain a supply of hot water to guestroom.
- Mechanical
work: this entails repair or replacement of any faulty equipment, such
as vacuum cleaners, ice-cube machines, and so on.
- Plumbing work: this deals with faulty faucets (taps), showers, drainage systems, water closets, and so on.
- Carpentry
work: broken of shaky furniture; mirrors and cupboards in less than
peak condition, and fresh woodwork are all part of this.
