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30 07, 2021

Commercial Restroom Tile & Grout Floor Cleaning Tips

By |2021-08-17T14:51:32-04:00July 30th, 2021|Cleaning, Floors|0 Comments

Restrooms play an important yet often understated role in a wide range of commercial properties. An unkempt-looking bathroom can offer up a poor reflection on the professionalism of the tenants as well as the property managers. Clean and pristine bathrooms are especially important in commercial retail areas, where customers are statistically less likely to return for repeat business to a shop or commercial property with unsanitary, unkempt, or visually unappealing restrooms. Of course, a lot of commercial property restrooms have tile and grout floors that see a lot of use and abuse. This can stain the tiles, as well as [...]

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30 07, 2021

Guide To Stripping & Refinishing Commercial Floors

By |2021-07-30T18:36:46-04:00July 30th, 2021|Cleaning, Education, Floors|0 Comments

Commercial properties and professional buildings see a lot of foot traffic over the course of just a single day. Not to mention how all those shoes, boots, and seasons can compound to affect the floors over the course of an entire year. This much activity, plus things like outdoor dirt, and road salt can wear down a floor’s finish in a variety of ways. Then mopping, and other cleaning methods add to the effect leaving floors looking dingy, unappealing, and downright unprofessional. If you manage a commercial property, multi-family residential property, or some other type of professional space, and your [...]

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30 07, 2021

What’s The Difference Between Mold Removal And Mold Remediation?

By |2021-07-30T18:33:15-04:00July 30th, 2021|Mold|0 Comments

Awareness of the threat posed to people and property by indoor mold infestation continues to grow. The sometimes shocking reality is that mold spores live everywhere floating in the world around us. When they encounter warm and humid conditions these spores can germinate into an increasingly fast-growing mold colony. Not only does this release more mold spores into the air in greater concentrations, but it can also permeate the surrounding environment with harmful mycotoxins. There are even thousands and thousands of different mold strains. Some are seemingly benign, while others like dangerous “Black Mold” can cause chronic health conditions and [...]

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30 07, 2021

How Much Does Water Damage Cleanup Cost?

By |2021-07-30T18:29:50-04:00July 30th, 2021|Flood|0 Comments

Sometimes even something as seemingly minor as a small roof leak can turn into a much larger problem. Water is called the “Universal Solvent” for its ability to affect pretty much anything given enough time. So when water gets into your home, business, or commercial property from a roof leak, failed gutter, severe weather, or a ruptured water line, the damage can be severe. Not to mention costly. Acting fast to stop the flow of water is a critical first step in minimizing and controlling the damage. Though even with the leak plugged, the water drained or contained, and the [...]

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30 07, 2021

How To Improve Air Quality In Office Buildings

By |2021-07-30T18:28:23-04:00July 30th, 2021|Cleaning, Education|0 Comments

In recent years, the impacts of indoor air quality have become big news. Things like mold spores, pollen, dust, animal dander, chemical vapors, and industrial contaminants have all been linked to respiratory health problems. Especially for individuals with pre-existing respiratory health problems and people afflicted with chronic inflammatory conditions. At the same time, commercial properties and multi-tenant residential properties are held to a higher standard when it comes to health and safety regulations. Making sure that your office, retail space, or commercial facility meets these indoor air quality standards will go a long way toward mitigating potentially costly liability issues. [...]

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30 07, 2021

Why Retail Should Use Professional Cleaning Services

By |2021-07-30T18:22:49-04:00July 30th, 2021|Cleaning, Education|0 Comments

They say that we eat with our eyes, but even more so we shop with our eyes. Which makes a neat, tidy, and odor-free environment a top priority for most retail spaces. While facing, folding and stocking shelves in a visually appealing array will certainly help. Unfortunately, most retail employees simply aren’t trained or experienced at the type of high-end techniques it takes to give a retail store a truly professional clean. Not to mention their expertise is better served in helping customers, taking care of inventory, and other important tasks like setting up displays. Of course, a professional clean [...]

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30 07, 2021

Benefits Of Pressure Washing Your Building

By |2021-07-30T18:21:07-04:00July 30th, 2021|Cleaning|0 Comments

Managing a commercial property effectively takes more than just maintaining basic safety and liability guidelines. Tenants and visitors also expect everything to be clean and professional-looking. This includes removing things like pollution, bird excrement, mildew, graffiti, sprinkler stains, old gum, grease, and caked-on dirt from the building’s roof, windows, and walls as well as frequently used sidewalks. Pressure washing is one of the most time-efficient and effective ways to remove a lot of stuck-on, unwanted debris from a building’s surfaces. Though the process of doing so does require a rather experienced and trained hand. Some surfaces of a building, plants, [...]

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30 07, 2021

What’s The Difference Between Cleaning, Sanitizing And Disinfecting?

By |2021-07-30T18:18:00-04:00July 30th, 2021|Cleaning, Education|0 Comments

Schools, grocery stores, offices, restaurants, and public commons areas are just a few of the places that need effective cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting. This includes not just keeping the areas neat and tidy, but also eliminating potentially harmful microbes as well as other pathogens that pose a serious threat to the people who occupy those spaces every single day. This includes things like The COVID virus Influenza strains Rhinoviruses The Norovirus E. Coli What Is Cleaning? Cleaning is a general term that some people interpret as keeping the area in neat, order. This includes things like vacuuming, wiping down hard [...]

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14 06, 2021

Severe Building Flooding & What To Do When It Happens

By |2021-06-14T15:19:05-04:00June 14th, 2021|Education, Flood|0 Comments

Even the smallest water event can cause serious damage to a commercial property. So, it’s especially distressing when a ruptured pipe, or act of nature causing serious flooding and water damage. In moments like this, a lot of commercial property owners and building managers are left wondering what they can do about a flooded building. If you find yourself in a time like this, you can use the following steps and tips to help minimize the damage caused by flooding and hopefully restore the building to safe working order as fast as is reasonably possible. Step 1: Turn Off The [...]

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14 06, 2021

How To Protect Your Floors From Salt

By |2021-06-14T15:12:53-04:00June 14th, 2021|Cleaning, Education|0 Comments

Salt plays an important role in winter road and sidewalk safety. It helps to melt ice and add traction to a lot of important surfaces. Unfortunately, it also means that salt and other chemical treatments can easily adhere to the bottom of shoes and boots, which tracks salt straight into your building. You might not even notice the salt on your floors when they are slightly wet from the gently melting snow. Though when the floors completely dry you are left with ugly salt spots and a floor that looks gritty and dirty. Of course, salt on the floors isn’t [...]

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