While buildings are shut down or open to limited access, it’s a great time to perform restorative floor care procedures. In addition to preparing buildings for reopening, floor restoration provides a deep cleaning, removing soils and debris from high traffic surfaces. Plus, you can keep custodial staff busy with a strip and recoat of your finished flooring.
Deep Cleaning and Restoration of Floors
Rarely in professional floor care operations do we have the opportunity to strip and recoat floors without people traffic getting in the way of our projects. Take advantage of this period, while buildings are closed, to efficiently tackle your floor care projects. Spartan recommends a 5-step process to accomplish clean, safe, and glossy floors.
Step 1: Remove debris from the area
Step 2: Test floors for appropriate stripper dilution
Step 3: Apply floor finish remover and allow to dwell
Step 4: Deep scrub stripper solution, wet vac,
neutralize and clear water rinse
Step 5: Apply finish when floor is dry — remember to use the correct number of coats to maintain coverage until the next season
Staff Training: CleanCheck® Hard Floor Care
Spartan Chemical offers an online training module that demonstrates, step-by-step, the processes and procedures required to get the job done right. Online instruction helps to promote social distancing and keep everyone safe. Complete with bilingual video tutorials, training manuals, on-the-job cards and testing tools, CleanCheck will help you train your employees on floor restoration.
Determining the Proper Dilution for Your Floor Finish Remover
Many people subscribe to the philosophy that more is better, but when it comes to removing finish from floors, this is not always the case. Over-diluting or under-diluting your floor finish remover can cause problems such as tacky, gummy residue or simply not getting the finish off the floor. Before stripping the floor, you will need to determine the correct concentration for the floor finish remover. Spartan’s CleanCheck Hard Floor Care module includes easy to follow directions to test for the correct amount of floor finish remover in just 5 minutes.
What Floor Finish is Best for Your Facility?
Spartan Chemical offers a complete program of resilient floor care products that make floor care simple. Depending on your critical business needs,
we are including three recommendations for a simple, floor care program.
Rapid Repairability
- Finish: The Fixx
- Maintenance: Xcelente® neutral cleaner, Dust Mop Dust Cloth, burnish 3-7 times per week
- Recoat schedule: biannual strip and recoat, monthly top scrub and recoat
- Floor Finish Remover: Shineline Emulsifier Plus®
Low Maintenance
- Finish: PROmatte® and iShine®
- Maintenance: Xcelente® neutral cleaner, Dust Mop Dust Cloth, burnish 0-4 times per month
- Recoat schedule: annual strip and recoat, 6-month intermediate top scrub and recoat
- Floor Finish Remover: Shineline Emulsifier Plus®
Environmentally Preferred
- Finish: FloorFront®
- Maintenance: Xcelente® neutral cleaner, burnish 0-4 times per month
- Recoat schedule: annual strip and recoat, 6-month intermediate top scrub and recoat
- Floor Finish Remover: Green Solutions® Floor Finish Remover
While buildings are empty and floor traffic is at a minimum, take advantage of the opportunity to do floor care projects efficiently and right! Talk to your distributor today about Spartan floor care. Products are in stock and ready to ship.
Count on Spartan Chemical for products and services that make hard floor care simple.
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