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The Benefits of Scrubbing & Recoating Your Floors

By: Briana Smith  |  December 9, 2014

Keeping your flooring looking great can take a bit of work, and each flooring type, whether it be natural stone, wood, VCT (vinyl composition tile), etc. has its unique set of challenges to take into consideration.

Softer flooring surfaces, such as VCT, marmoleum, linoleum, etc. typically need several layers of floor finish to protect the flooring material from the wear and tear of shoes that drag in dirt, sand and other debris from the out-of-doors. Synthetic flooring materials are very resilient and can be low-maintenance if you take care of them properly.

Topics: Hard Floor Care, flooring, cleaning tips

Summer Break Doesn’t Apply to School Maintenance Staffs

By: Briana Smith  |  June 26, 2014

Summertime Deep Cleaning & Maintenance Procedures

Mark your calendars - it’s time to tackle those yearly restorative cleaning projects! Many school maintenance staffs are gearing up to tackle some time consuming cleaning tasks including gum & graffiti removal, as well as deep cleaning various hard flooring surfaces. Here are some ideas for making these tasks easier.

Topics: flooring, Education, cleaning tips, deep cleaning

5 Tips for Refinishing Your Gym Floor

Photos taken at WAXIE Ontario's Gym Floor Care Seminar at Pete Knight High School in Palmdale, CA on April 8, 2014

By: Tom Ciccarone  |  April 24, 2014

1. Know Your Area

Square footage, facility events, spring breaks and more can play a factor into preparing to refinish a gym floor. Square footage – this is key to have an accurate knowledge of how much area will be refinished. Varying finishes alongside individual application techniques can have certain finishes cover anywhere from 200 to 800 sq ft per gallon. Price per gallon can be deceptive, know your product and break it down to price per foot to ensure you know exactly what bang you are getting for your buck.

Topics: wood floors, Hard Floor Care, flooring, gym floors, cleaning tips

Frequency for Cleaning & Maintaining Hard Floor Surfaces

By: Briana Smith, Graphic Designer, WAXIE Sanitary Supply

The #1 enemy in keeping your floors clean and in good condition is sand & dirt, followed by heavy equipment being dragged across it. Yes, foot traffic and general usage is a factor – but not in the way you might think. When people enter a building, they also bring in debris on the bottom of their footwear. In fact, 80% of dirt is tracked in via the front door of a building. As more people walk over the dirty floors the friction between the tracked in sand, dirt & debris and people’s shoes acts like sandpaper on the floor, causing the surface to get scuffed up and potentially damaged. That’s why it’s so important to have a daily or routine maintenance program in place.

Topics: flooring, hard flooring surfaces, cleaning tips

Eight Tips For Keeping Facilities Clean

Topics: cleaning procedures, flooring, Restrooms, green cleaning chemicals

PDIR: I is for Interim (Cleaning)

Republished with permission from Windsor's Cleaning Tip of the Month eNewletter August 2013

Interim cleaning is often the most overlooked step in the PDIR cleaning process. As a reminder, PDIR stands for Preventative, Daily, Interim, and Restorative cleaning processes. These cleaning processes form a cost-saving cleaning system for any facility.

Topics: carpet, flooring, machines & equipment, cleaning tips

Preserving History: Restoring UCLA’s Royce Hall’s Hard Wood Floors

By: Briana Smith & Tom Ciccarone  |  August 29, 2013

UCLA’s Royce Hall has been an institution in Los Angeles for over 90 years. It has hosted acclaimed orchestras, musicians, performing artists & speakers since 1929 when the building was completed. It even survived the 1994 Northridge earthquake, even though it was heavily damaged and had to be renovated. One thing that hadn’t been touched much though was the original hard wood floors in the studio area installed in the mid 1920’s and they were looking rather worse for wear.

Topics: wood floors, flooring, gym floors

Messed Around and Got a Triple Double – All-Star Gym Floor Care

Topics: wood floors, flooring, gym floors

WARNING!!! Year-End Tax Savings for Purchasing Cleaning Equipment

Topics: carpet, flooring, machines & equipment