Inter-Departmental Relationship With Maintenance

1. The housekeeping department depends on maintenance to keep things in order.
2. 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.
3. A need for urgent repairs is reported to maintenance over telephone and these requests are usually taken into action immediately.
4. There are various heads under which maintenance work is done they are:
5. 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.
6. Boiler work: this is necessary to maintain a supply of hot water to guestroom.
7. Mechanical work: this entails repair or replacement of any faulty equipment, such as vacuum cleaners, ice-cube machines, and so on.
8. Plumbing work: this deals with faulty faucets (taps), showers, drainage systems, water closets, and so on.
9. Carpentry work: broken of shaky furniture; mirrors and cupboards in less than peak condition, and fresh woodwork are all part of this.