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How to Clean Commercial Entry Mats in 6 Easy Steps
Did you know you can save between $600-$1200 per pound of soil removal by using a properly maintained entryway matting system? Removing dirt from your facility’s floors through sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping is time-consuming and costly, but using...
4 Ways To Keep Your Floors Looking Their Best This Winter
Winter can be harsh on your facility’s hard floors so it’s important to take a different approach in the winter to account for increased soils and winter weather. The processes that would typically work during the summer or other seasons may not work...
4 Ways to Prevent Slips and Falls in Your Facility
Wet, slippery floors are one of, if not the most, common causes of slip and fall incidents in facilities.
Winter Commercial Floor Maintenance: 4 Products to Protect Your Floors
You’re probably familiar with the increased cleaning demands of winter, and you might be wondering how you’re going to keep up this year.
What’s The Best Floor Pad for VCT (Vinyl Composition Tile)?
When maintaining your VCT (vinyl composition tile) flooring, it’s important to know how to keep it looking its best for enhanced facility appearance, lower maintenance costs, and extended floor life. As you have likely seen in your searches, there...
4 Key Ways To Reduce Your Facility’s Commercial Cleaning Costs
The cleanliness of your facility is a priority, especially given the value placed on cleaning and disinfecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, keeping your facility clean can be expensive, especially during labor and product shortages.
5 Benefits of Adding Autonomous Cleaning Equipment to Your Cleaning Program
Over the last several years, autonomous cleaning equipment has continually risen in popularity as businesses seek ways to increase cleaning efficiencies and boost staff productivity. Labor shortages, tight budgets, and the battle against COVID-19 and...
How To Eliminate Odors From An Auto Scrubber Tank: 9 Steps
Auto scrubbers are valuable in speeding up the process of cleaning the floors in your building. Unfortunately, while using a floor scrubber, you may have noticed a bad odor coming from the machine. When this happens, it may be difficult to know exactly...
4 Benefits of Pre-Moistened Disinfecting Wipes
Illness-causing pathogens linger throughout your facility, especially on high-touch surfaces.
Commercial Composting vs. Home Composting: What’s the Difference?
As an establishment that purchases compostable food packaging, you may have noticed that some of your items are labeled as commercially compostable.
Commercial Cleaning Best Practices: 4 Ways to Boost Your Team’s Productivity
Labor accounts for a large amount of any business’s costs. In fact, it’s the greatest cost for most businesses. With that being said, finding ways to improve your janitorial team’s efficiency is likely a priority. However, identifying...
4 Ways to Improve Commercial Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in Your Building
No matter the type of facility you have, the indoor air quality (IAQ) of your building is important. Your building’s IAQ is essential to the health and safety of your staff and guests. Poor indoor air quality can have adverse effects on the health...
What is Electrostatic Technology: 3 Key Benefits For Your Facility
As thorough cleaning and disinfecting remain key to protecting the people in your building, your facility will need to find ways to efficiently increase the productivity of your janitorial team without sacrificing a clean and safe environment.
5 Benefits of Autonomous Vacuums
Businesses in every market are faced with increased and more intensive cleaning requirements today. As a facility manager, you are likely challenged to find new ways to meet these demands without adding more cleaning staff. This calls for innovative...
How to Choose the Right Soap or Sanitizer Dispenser for your Campus: 7 Considerations
College and university campuses are at an increased risk of germ spread and illness because students often spend most of their time in dorms, classrooms, and other shared spaces like cafeterias, restrooms, and recreational centers. Illness-causing...
5 Common Hand Hygiene Dispenser Problems & How to Solve Them
Are you having trouble with the hand soap or sanitizer dispensers in your facility? Don’t worry, many facilities experience problems with their dispensers at one time or another. Depending on the system, your soap or sanitizer dispenser could be affected...
A Facility’s Guide to Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting
Protecting your guests and building occupants’ health and safety is important. Cleaning is one of the most effective ways to lower the risk of illness by removing germs and contaminants from high-touch surfaces in your building. But, what do we mean...
Food Grade Sanitizer: What are Approved Sanitizers for Food Service?
Keeping any area clean and free of illness-causing germs and bacteria is important for businesses of all types, but it is especially critical in foodservice operations and other businesses that serve food. Businesses serving food must lower the risk...
Top 4 Benefits of a Color-Coded Microfiber Program
Facilities across the U.S. have realized the importance of infection prevention and mitigating cross-contamination. One of the easiest and most effective ways to prevent germ spread and cross-contamination is with a color-coded microfiber program.
How to Select the Best Hand Sanitizer For Your Building: Safety and Guidelines [VIDEO]
A robust hand hygiene program is integral to combating the spread of germs in your facility. While frequent handwashing with soap and water is recognized as one of the best ways to stop the spread of illness-causing germs, the Centers for Disease Control...
Commercial Soap Dispensers: How to Select the Right System For Your Business
Modern commercial skincare dispensing systems can enhance your facility’s hand hygiene program in several ways including reduced germ spread, limited risk of cross-contamination, and improved sustainability. As you search for a new skincare system,...
Auto Scrubber Buyers Guide: Steps to Determine Which Auto Scrubber is Best For your Facility
There are dozens of automatic floor scrubbers on the market today, and choosing the best one will require some thought and consideration. First, you’ll need to identify why you’re looking to invest in a new machine. Then, you’ll need to narrow down...
Best Hard Floor Maintenance Schedule: Keys to a Great Looking Floor [VIDEO]
Commercial hard floors require a robust maintenance program to keep them protected and looking great. There are three phases of floor maintenance:
How to Apply Floor Finish to Resilient Hard Floors in 9 Easy Steps
Every 12 months or so your resilient hard floors will need to be restored with a strip and wax to revitalize your dull, worn flooring. This is a two-part process. The first step is to strip or remove all layers of finish from your floor. Then,...
6 Expert Tips to Strip and Wax Commercial Hard Floors
Floorcare can be challenging, especially when performing a strip and wax. There are several steps as well as various mistakes that are common which can affect the outcome of the procedure. Performing this restorative procedure is also time-consuming...