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floors

Spring cleaning your floors

After the snow and salt damage your floors endured through the winter, spring often brings a rainy, dirty mess to try and keep clean all
polished concrete floors

It’s time for your polished concrete floors to shine

If you have polished concrete floors in your building, you know that winter can make it tricky to keep those floors looking clean and shiny.
robots

Robots gain momentum for commercial floor cleaning

In recent years, we’ve mostly heard about touchless technology dominating commercial cleaning, with things like traffic counters, automatic dispensers, sensored doors, and more, but part
office floors

Cleaning floors for health, instead of for appearance

Science is emerging about facility managers prioritizing your floors to clean for health, rather than for appearance.
floor scrubbers

Extending the lifespan of floor scrubbers

Failure to properly maintain scrubbers can lead to wasted time, money, labour, and other resources.
facility spring cleaning

The essentials of facility spring cleaning

ServiceMaster Clean outlines several tips for building an effective spring cleaning procedure.
carpet

Extending the lifespan of carpet

Most quality commercial carpet has a life expectancy of 10 to 30 years, but hitting the upper end of that range requires proper regular care.
mop water

Not changing mop water can be deadly

Failure to change mop water, use of over-diluted solutions & use of contaminated water to dilute concentrated solutions can have dire effects.
Absorbent compound cleaning

Knowing your way around absorbent compound cleaning

This method can be a highly useful tool in cleaning, maintenance, and restoration — as long as you know how best to use it.
pathogens

The stubborn travels of pathogens

Knowing which tools to use, and how to employ them, is vitally important for disinfecting effectively.
tile and stone floors

Keeping tile and stone floors up to scratch

These floors are an attractive and popular choice for many facilities and can last a long time - but only with adequate maintenance.
floors

Swabbing floors to detect COVID-19 could be useful indicator of spread

Floors can be tested to predict the level of COVID-19 in an environment.
antimicrobial testing

Antimicrobial testing available for new ISO ceramic tile standards

Testing using new ISO standards is now available from the Tile Council of North America testing lab.
office

The new commercial office takes shape

Facility managers and BSCs are reassessing how they maintain safe office environments. Keeping best practices in mind is vital.
carpet cleaning

Carpet cleaning in high-traffic facilities

Conducting the best commercial-grade carpet cleaning is vital to keep your business's high-traffic areas in good shape.
ice melt

The need-to-know about using ice melt

While it's a common winter solution, there are several things that ice melt users need to be aware of.
robotic tech

OSHA updates guidance on robotic tech

The cleaning and janitorial industry has come to increasingly rely on robotic tech, and this requires updated stringent standards.