Flooring
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
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 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
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.
Extending the lifespan of floor scrubbers
Failure to properly maintain scrubbers can lead to wasted time, money, labour, and other resources.
The essentials of facility spring cleaning
ServiceMaster Clean outlines several tips for building an effective spring cleaning procedure.
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.
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.
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.
The stubborn travels of pathogens
Knowing which tools to use, and how to employ them, is vitally important for disinfecting effectively.
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.
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 available for new ISO ceramic tile standards
Testing using new ISO standards is now available from the Tile Council of North America testing lab.
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 in high-traffic facilities
Conducting the best commercial-grade carpet cleaning is vital to keep your business's high-traffic areas in good shape.
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.
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.