| I had a customer call me to make a complaint about | | | | amount of clean water used. I know from experience |
| the Limestone floor we had restored and sealed for | | | | that a "contract cleaner" would only ever use 1 |
| them. The building is a state of the art facility in the | | | | bucket of water on a floor. It would be too much |
| heart of Covent Garden, in London. The problem was | | | | trouble to keep getting fresh water to clean a stone |
| as an up market serviced office block the tenants | | | | floor and that is exactly what is required. If you |
| were complaining that the Limestone Floor was | | | | continually use dirty water to clean the floor you will |
| resoling very fast and looking extremely dirty even | | | | simply be washing dirt into the floor from the dirty |
| immediately after the contract cleaners had washed | | | | water. |
| the floor. | | | | So I had to explain that Professional maintenance |
| I was somewhat surprised by the complaint as we | | | | was required to keep the floor in tip top condition |
| had only restored the floor a few weeks prior to the | | | | and we set up a maintenance regime over the |
| complaint. I know the floor would take quite a bit of | | | | course of a month at the same price the cleaning |
| looking after and the right guys with the right | | | | contractor's had charge and the floors look great. |
| cleaning machinery and detergents should be able to | | | | So, what should you do to maintain your commercial |
| keep the floor in great shape. | | | | facilities stone floor surfaces? |
| I had to find out exactly what was being done to | | | | 1. Also have a professional Stone maintenance quote |
| maintain the floor. I enquired to my client and he | | | | for your work |
| promptly told me that the cleaners where using a | | | | 2. Contract cleaners do not understand stone and will |
| strong "washing up" liquid in a warm bucket of plain | | | | never keep it in great shape. |
| water to perform the cleaning. I felt that I had found | | | | 3. Never use a product that isn't designed to keep |
| the root of the clients problem and realized he wasn't | | | | the stone in good order |
| going to like what I was about to tell him but I | | | | 4. Never use a high pH detergent you will leave the |
| soldiered on regardless. | | | | floor greasy. |
| When you are performing maintenance on a stone | | | | 5. Change the water in your bucket a minimum of |
| surface you need relatively neutral pH cleaning | | | | every 5 sq mtrs. |
| detergents. So in this case the "washing up" liquid | | | | It needn't be more expensive for your stone |
| that had a pH level of around 18 was leaving a | | | | contractor to offer professional maintenance services |
| greasy residue on the surface of the stone that | | | | for regular upkeep of your stone product so always |
| would be invisible to see but would still be present. | | | | ask, we don't bite. |
| The floor would be attracting all dust, grease from | | | | offers regular stone maintenance services call for a |
| shoes etc because of the greasy film. | | | | quotation on 0800 7317232. |
| The second part of the problem would be the | | | | |