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Commercial flooring care and cleaning

When performing commercial flooring care and cleaning there are a variety of factors to consider. The flooring professor knows these factors and how to help you sort through them to decide exactly how you will maintain your commercial flooring product. With the surge recently of people using commercial flooring products in home applications the task of commercial flooring care and cleaning has been forced to evolve. Many commercial flooring manufacturers are now releasing two sets of maintenance and care instructions. One for commercial and one for residential use.

Some of the questions you will want to have the answer to when trying to decide how you will care for your flooring are as follows....

• Where is the product actually installed? (a residence or a commercial application)

• How heavy of use will it get? (50 footprints per day? or perhaps 5000?)

• How much effort/time are you willing to invest in your commercial flooring care and cleaning program?

• If this is a commercial installation do you have a maintenance crew? or hire a crew to maintain your floors?

• What are the manufacturers requirements? (do they have two sets of instructions?)

After you have the answers to the above questions you are ready to determine how you will care for your floor. As a rule most people will try to do the bare minimum of maintenance and care if it is in a residential application.

Many different commercial flooring products are used in homes today. some include...

• commercial carpet

• commercial vinyl

• genuine linoleum

• commercial luxury vinyl tile

• commercial vinyl composition tile (vct)

• commercial laminate flooring

• commercial grade ceramic or porcelain tile

• commercial rubber flooring

• cork flooring (which is now marketed residentially but was pretty much just used commercially for years!)

Anyway......When you are armed with answers you need please visit our consumer support section for one of our step by step assistance modules to help you find the right commercial flooring care and cleaning program as well as resources to find the products you will need.

ARE YOU ACTUALLY USING THE PRODUCT IN A COMMERCIAL SETTING?

Then please beware if you have a commercial flooring product installed in a commercial setting You should not take the easy way out! be sure to do your research here with our help BEFORE you buy a product you cannot take care of effectively!

One example of how to formulate a maintenance program

check out the process on a commonly used commercial floor referred to as vinyl composition tile or vct

Believe it or not over the years we have very often done a cost analysis of up front investment on a higher priced low maintenance product that has little cost involved in commercial flooring care and cleaning, with a lower cost product that REQUIRES regular maintenance and care that can cost your business a lot of money!!! MANY times over a 5-10 yr period it cost FAR less to pay more up front. We can help you through this in our member services area on an individual basis if needed or you can get great guidance on purchasing or on commercial flooring care and cleaning in our commercial flooring care guide

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