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3 Products To Prevent Foul Public Restroom Odors
Dirty public restrooms can leave a lasting negative impression on the people that enter your building. In fact, about 47% of people are led to believe a business doesn’t care about its customers when they see an unclean restroom. If your guests encounter...
How To Avoid Grout Odor: 3 Essential Commercial Cleaning Products
Grout can easily become the cause of a wide range of restroom odors.
5 Benefits of Preventive Maintenance for Janitorial Equipment
An essential part of being able to clean and maintain your facility is keeping your janitorial equipment in working condition. Not only will your cleaning staff need to perform basic maintenance procedures before and after each use, but your machine...
What Causes Restroom Odors?: 3 Common Sources
Keeping your commercial restroom looking and smelling its best is an important part of maintaining a positive perception of your facility among guests. If your guests notice a foul odor while they’re in your restroom, it’s possible that you and your...
How to Improve Your Commercial Restroom’s Image: 3 Must-Have Products
The appearance of your facility’s restroom is important to how your guests view your facility as a whole.
Public Restroom Cleaning Schedule: How Often Should A Commercial Restroom Be Cleaned?
Your facility’s restroom can make or break the experience that your guests have in your business. Dirty restrooms not only make for a negative bathroom experience but can lead to an increased amount of complaints about the cleanliness of your facility....
6 Best Carpet Extractors of 2024: What’s The Best For Your Facility?
Carpet extractors are an important piece of janitorial floor maintenance equipment that can be used to deep clean the commercial carpets in your facility. Commercial carpet extractors differ in size, type, power source, and other factors that will...
How To Start A School Recycling Program in 6 Steps
Did you know that up to 80% of the waste produced in schools could actually be recycled? A majority of the waste produced in schools isn’t disposed of properly leading to excessive trash and large disposal costs. In many cases, large amounts of paper,...
How to Choose the Right Commercial Dish Machine for Your Business
Commercial dish machines are a great alternative to manually washing and sanitizing the wares your facility uses. Read this article to learn about the different types of commercial dish machines and how to choose the best one for your facility.
5 Tips to Safely Strip and Wax Floors
Floor maintenance procedures of any kind can pose a safety risk to your staff and the people in your building. Risks include slips, falls, chemical exposure, and more. However, if performed correctly, these risks can be greatly reduced or even eliminated. ...
How To Change a Floor Pad or Brush on an Auto Scrubber
Is it time to change the floor pad or brush on your auto scrubber? The pad driver or brush on your machine needs to be removed and stored after each use. Pads also need to be changed regularly in order for you to achieve the most effective clean possible....
How To Use An Auto Scrubber To Clean Your Commercial Hard Floors
Knowing how to use an auto floor scrubber is key to cleaning commercial hard floors safely and more efficiently. With an automatic floor scrubber, cleaning your commercial hard floors can be done with just one pass. An auto scrubber can be used in...
Auto Scrubber Maintenance: How to Maintain a Floor Scrubber After Use
Keeping your auto scrubber in peak condition will make sure that your team is able to clean your floors thoroughly and efficiently throughout the year.
What’s The Best Floor Finish For My Commercial Facility 4 Questions To Ask
Choosing the right commercial floor finish for your facility is essential to achieving your desired facility appearance.
How To Change An Auto Scrubber Squeegee Blade To Get Clean, Dry Floors
Have you noticed that your auto scrubber isn’t leaving your floors clean and dry after use? You may need to check your auto scrubber’s squeegee blades. The squeegee blade on an auto scrubber is used to collect water and cleaning solution from your...
Commercial Floor Buffers: How Do You Use a Floor Buffer?
A floor buffer is commonly referred to as the “workhorse” of hard floor maintenance.
Disc Scrubber vs Orbital Floor Scrubber: Which Auto Scrubber is Best?
You can choose between a traditional disc or an orbital scrubber when choosing an automatic floor scrubber for your facility.
4 Signs You Need to Change the Floor Pad on Your Floor Cleaning Machine
Floor pads that are used on commercial floor cleaning machines have a limited life expectancy. When floor pads aren’t changed when necessary, it can lead to damage on your hard floors and equipment as well as reduced worker productivity. Damaged floors...
How To Remove Stains From Carpet Using a Commercial Carpet Extractor
When you have people constantly walking through your facility, stains on your commercial carpet are unavoidable.
Auto Scrubber vs Mop and Bucket: What are The Benefits of an Auto Scrubber?
Floorcare is the most time-consuming part of your commercial cleaning program. During daily cleaning procedures, your cleaning team should be cleaning your floors at least once a day. This can be done with either a mop and bucket or using an automatic...
Ultimate Guide To Achieving Great Looking Commercial Hard Floors
Everything you need to know to build a comprehensive hard floor care program that will keep your resilient flooring protected and looking its best.
Buying vs Renting Commercial Floor Mats: Which Is Best For Your Facility?
Commercial floor mats can stop up to 90% of dirt from being tracked onto your floors, saving you as much as $1,200 per pound of soil removed from your facility. With that knowledge, you can see why floor mats are an integral part of maintaining and...
3 Ways to Avoid the Spread of Foodborne Illnesses in Your Facility
Preventing the spread of foodborne illnesses, like Salmonella, Listeria, and E. Coli, is important to maintaining the health and safety of your customers. Read this article to learn three practices your food processing facility can use to avoid spreading...
Neutral Floor Cleaner Vs Floor Neutralizer: When and How To Use
Understanding the purpose of specific floor care products is key to achieving the best cleaning outcomes. When the wrong product is used to clean your floors, you may notice that the floor remains dull and dirty, or it may even cause damage. The right...
What is Burnishing?: How to Keep Your Commercial Hard Floors Looking Great
Having floors with a robust shine is important to having a great-looking facility and happy guests. Many times, your guests, tenants, or the other people in your building associate the appearance of your floors with the overall health and cleanliness...