The following information provides answers on cleaning floor tile to remove soap or salt film from a tile floor. It also covers the primary reasons how salt and soap residue develops on tile floors and where to purchase a simple but effective product to make cleaning tile floors easy and fast. This is specific problem that can be remedied quickly if the proper product is used. The correct product to use to clean tile floors of soap...

This article is designed to provide general information on floor cleaning pads, how to select the correct pad for the correct task and how conventional non-woven floor pads are manufactured. Also discussed in this article are specialty floor pads and a new floor cleaning pad that just hit the commercial market. As stated in prior articles, mechanical action is essential to producing great cleaning results. Floor cleaning pads provide the...

The objective of this article is to provide step by step procedures for terrazzo floor cleaning on a daily basis. It also includes a list of the products, tools and supplies required to successfully perform the routine or daily cleaning task for terrazzo floor cleaning.  For the purpose of this discussion, we will be addressing those terrazzo floors that have been sealed with a top coating of floor finish or seal. Good looking floors...

This article’s goal is to provide the residential homeowner with step by step cleaning procedures for cleaning terrazzo floors. Also included in this discussion are the tools and products needed to clean terrazzo floors. These procedures are similar to cleaning terrazzo floors in a commercial building but without the use of commercial power cleaning machines. However as discussed in other articles there is some less expensive alternative...

The objective of this article is to provide the Commercial Market with a step by step heavy or deep cleaning process for unsealed limestone floor cleaning. We believe to better understand heavy or deep limestone floor cleaning and its grout, a basic understanding of limestone is needed.  Limestone is porous and easily stained; it can be affected adversely by acidity if proper daily maintenance is not maintained.  Limestone can be found on...

If you walk into the majority of high-rise office buildings, corporate offices, government locations, Museums, etc. you are mostly likely will be walking on a marble floor that is somewhere in the building. It has been a popular flooring substrate for commercial buildings for hundreds of years and even thousands of years. With some many marble floors used in commercial sites, the question of how to clean marble floors as it pertains to this...

What a beautiful looking floor. Travertine is so beautiful that vinyl composition tile manufacturers have and still make vinyl tile that looks like Travertine stone. I guess imitation is the best form of flattery.  This article’s goal is to give our readers procedures of how to clean a travertine floor, a list of the best supplies to use to clean travertine floors and an explanation of what Travertine is and a new innovative cleaning pad...

Marble flooring has become a popular flooring to use in residential homes and the trend is continuing to grow because of the beauty of marble and the warm, rich inviting look it brings to a home. Its renewed popularity has also driven a demand for many homeowners to decide what the best way to clean marble floors is. This question from homeowners is coming from the fact that marble is extremely porous and is susceptible to damage from harsh...

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