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Creating a Floor Disinfection Program
Disinfection efforts directly affect the health and safety of a facility's patients, employees, visitors and customers. It is critical that building managers continue to audit and revise their infection prevention plan. Flooring is one surface that facility managers...
Steps To Become Eco-Friendly
Becoming eco-friendly often starts at home by saving energy and utilizing public recycling collections, but what else can we do to help our earth? By following the same practices at work, we can reduce our waste costs, energy usage and carbon footprint. Get everyone...
Spots vs. Stains
Nothing in a facility says you have let your floors go like spots that inevitably appear in the most high profile of places. As a facility manager, your proficiency in spotting is essential. In this article we are going to talk about some of the basics you will need...
Corners & Crevices
True or False: The toilet seat is the dirtiest part of the restroom. Regardless of what patrons may think, the toilet seats - unless visibly soiled - is probably cleaner than many other surfaces in the restroom and is a less-likely source of cross-contamination...
Protecting Your Terrazzo Floors
Durable terrazzo flooring can be a bit complicated to maintain when compared to other hard floor options like a vinyl composite tile. Make sure you know how to clean and care for these floors or hire a company that does. Installing terrazzo requires mixing it and then...
Post Construction Clean Up
Construction can be a long and tedious job so the last thing on a construction workers mind is picking up after themselves. The cleaning process can also be long a tedious as well, therefore, no newly opened business wants to deal with the mess themselves....
Four Tips for Tackling a Troubled Carpet
According to a 2018 survey by CMM magazine, carpet is the number 2 trouble spot for facility managers and the top trouble area for those working in long-term care and retail facilities. Below are several tips for taking on carpets that may be giving your staff a...
Paper Towels vs. Hand Dryers
The workplace restroom is crawling with germs. Research has shown there are thousands of different species of bacteria on the floors and on other surfaces of public restrooms. Even worse, that bacteria is not simply lying dormant - it is actively multiplying and...
Let Us Do The Work For You!
Why should you hire a professional cleaning company to clean your building instead of having your employees do the cleaning: While many praise multi-tasking, in truth multi-tasking is a question of quality verses quantity. I know an employer and on every job interview...
Easy Tips To Reduce Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
Becoming eco-friendly often starts at home by saving energy and utilizing public recycling collections, but what else can we do to help our earth? By following the same practices at work, we can reduce our waste costs, energy usage and carbon footprint. Get everyone...