| Don't just pour some blue soapy liquid in a bucket | | | | accordingly a specific cleaning strategy. Image and |
| with water and expect that you'll get a clean floor. | | | | cleanliness are critical in a grocery store and so is |
| It's not advisable to use vinegar, the acid in vinegar | | | | cost. |
| will open up the floor to more dirt and bacteria. Even | | | | It's important to effective cleaning to know the |
| Spic & Span, Bleach and baking soda have harsh | | | | proper cleaning agents and systems. Restaurants, hair |
| additives than can be too abrasive for floors. | | | | salons, retailers, schools, hospitals and medical |
| Another misconception is that the more concentrated | | | | buildings all need specific products. |
| the solution the cleaner the result. | | | | Each use has unique sources of dirt, grime and |
| The owners of Decorative Concrete Kits stumbled | | | | grease. Hair sprays require different cleaning agents |
| into the floor cleaning market by necessity. According | | | | to remove than the food grease that gets on a floor |
| to one of the partners they were hearing great | | | | in a restaurant. Retail store floors get lots of scuff |
| results from clients who had installed stained concrete | | | | marks from slow scuffling feet that are like sand |
| and epoxy floors. Clients love them for many | | | | paper on a floor. |
| reasons, they solve function and design issues for | | | | Salt in winter tracked onto floors and black asphalt |
| many interior floors. | | | | marks tracked in from hot parking lots are cleaned |
| The problem clients were having was how they | | | | with specific cleaners. |
| looked 6 months to a year later. A few hair salons | | | | Then there is the occasional scrub & recoat |
| and restaurants had noticed the floors becoming | | | | process which is a mild stripping of worn finish coats |
| smeared looking, the shine and clarity wasn't there | | | | on the floor and reapplication of 2 new coats. This |
| from the beginning. | | | | restores the floor to new than back to the cleaning |
| A few high traffic grocery stores who had concrete | | | | system. |
| stains applied were loving their floors. In most cases | | | | Like with any project the proper tools make all the |
| they were looking better than just after the floors | | | | difference. It's critical to do it right to keep clean and |
| were new and finished. | | | | healthy and a substantial cost savings to doing it |
| It turns out that most grocery stores were masters | | | | wrong. |
| at maintaining floors, they used specific products and | | | | |