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Floor and surface care

We plan care for each floor type, including scrubbing, burnishing, stripping and sealing, and carpet extraction where appropriate. The scope sets the methods and schedule for your surfaces.

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A woman in a navy Add Life polo guides a floor burnishing machine across a polished lobby floor past a dark reception desk.

What we look for

On the walk, looking down.

  1. Floor types

    Epoxy, vinyl composition tile, luxury vinyl, stone, terrazzo, sealed concrete, carpet tile: each with its own chemistry and schedule.

  2. Condition

    Wear paths, scratches, failed finish, staining, grout; what a restoration would need before a maintenance schedule works.

  3. Traffic

    Entrances, corridors, kitchens, docks; where the mats go and what the burnish frequency should be.

  4. Equipment and access

    Where a scrubber fits, where it does not, power and water, and when the floor can be closed.

  5. Chemistry

    Neutral cleaners for stone, the finish system for VCT, what is banned on epoxy in a regulated area.

  6. Windows

    Which floors can only be done on a holiday weekend, and which can be done nightly in sections.

A man in a navy Add Life polo steers a walk-behind floor scrubber across a polished floor at night, glass walls behind him.
A man in a navy work shirt steers a floor scrubber on the wet ramp of a parking structure at sunset, light streaks behind.

A year of floors

Every floor on its own schedule.

This sample maintenance calendar shows how different floor-care tasks can fit together. Your floor types, condition, traffic and agreed scope determine the actual schedule.

  1. As often as the traffic asks.

  2. On the dates in the scope.

  3. Usually quarterly, more often on wear paths.

  4. In the window the scope names.

What we write down

What goes into the scope.

  1. Per-floor schedule

    Scrub, burnish, strip and seal, extraction: by floor type and area, with the dates.

  2. Restoration first

    Where a floor needs restoring before a schedule can hold, that project, its window and its price.

  3. Results

    Before-and-after photographs in the monthly report, and a note on anything the floor itself needs.

Floors we keep

  • A man in a navy polo and blue mask holds a yellow-handled mop by a yellow double-bucket trolley, a mop slide behind him.
  • A low view of a blue mop head on the floor, a man in a navy polo and mask holding the handle beside a yellow caution sign.
  • A man in a navy Add Life polo and blue mask pushes an upright vacuum across carpet tiles, a caution sign behind him.
  • A woman in glasses and a patterned mask, in a tan cardigan, points at a yellow mop bucket before a mop system slide.
  • A man in a navy polo and blue mask stands behind a blue mop on a wood-effect floor beside a yellow bucket and a caution sign.
  • A man in goggles, a mask and blue gloves holds an orange feather duster behind a cart of colored cloths and spray bottles.
  • A floor machine's spinning pad throws water droplets on a polished concrete floor, a glass-walled room behind it.
  • A woman in navy scrubs and blue gloves pushes a flat microfiber mop across a glossy floor in a long laboratory corridor.
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Questions about floor care

Can you do floors without closing the building?

Most of it, in sections and at night. Strip and seal needs a window; the scope names it.

Do you restore floors or only maintain them?

Both. Where a floor has failed, restoration is written as a project with its own date and price, then the schedule takes over.

What about carpet?

Nightly vacuuming is janitorial; extraction is on the floor-care schedule, usually quarterly, more often on wear paths.

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