The question or search of how to clean slate floor is a popular one. There are many homes and commercial buildings that have slate floors installed. Slate is a wonderful stone floor that comes in a variety of colors. It gives a room or building a rich look. There are also many ways to clean slate floors. Most of these methods will provide good results. Mop and bucket, flat mop, specialty cleaning floor products, etc.   For the...

When cleaning cement floors, the removing of stains from cement floors can be a frustrating experience because of the nature of concrete or cement floors. What you must always remember when cleaning cement floors is that the cement itself is extremely porous. The porosity of the cement allows soil, dirt, oil, grease to rapidly penetrate into the cement floor. This make cleaning cement floors frustrating because the deeper the soil the more...

The goal of this discussion is to provide our commercial readers with step by step instructions on for deep cleaning cement floor that has no top coating seal or finish on it. Deep cleaning differs from daily cleaning and is done on a periodic basis. It is performed when the soil penetrates into the pores of the cement floor to a point where daily cleaning cannot remove the soil and therefore a much deeper cleaning is required to bring back...

Understanding how to clean travertine floors relative to deep cleaning is critical for any facility that has travertine floors installed in their facility. So, the goal of this article is to provide our commercial visitors with the steps and tools it takes to correctly deep clean unsealed travertine floors. The key word for this article is “unsealed” travertine floors. In the event your travertine floors are sealed with a floor finish...

The topic of clean room floor cleaning is one that should be taken seriously because a clean room is designed as a work space where any soil, lint, dust, loose debris and even airborne particulates can create serious issues in high-tech production environments.   So this articles goal is to provide our readers interested in the maintenance of a clean room floor with guidelines and tips on how to clean a clean room floor. We also...

So many times in a commercial environment, sweeping is often overlooked as an important step of keeping concrete floors looking good. There are many ways to remove loose debris as well as many different types of loose debris found in a commercial building. Different types of commercial businesses will have different types of loose soil. In some settings it can be metal shavings and in others it can be simple concrete dust. Concrete dust...

There are parts of the world especially in Europe and many parts of the United States of America where travertine floors are more commonly used than in other parts of the world. Travertine is a quarried stone product that is cut to size and is similar in its make up to marble.     This topics goal is to provide our readers and visitors with the daily or routine steps for cleaning travertine floors. Relative to cleaning travertine...

Garage floor cleaning is usually considered a difficult task when it comes to household chores. However, this article will provide our readers with another way of garage floor cleaning. It is a dry cleaning with a sweeping compound. When deciding to wet or dry clean a garage floor, the homeowner must decide if the garage floor is really soiled enough to require a wet cleaning with a heavy-duty cleaner degreaser and a lot of manual or...

With so many flooring choices available to the homeowner today, stone floors have always been a popular choice. There are many different types of stone floors and most of them are all hard surfaces. Stone floors are rich and believe it or not give a room a warm old world appearance which makes the so popular with residential homeowners.     Cleaning Stone floors for many homeowners seems to be a tough task but in reality they are...

Rubber floors are popular in commercial buildings but certain care and precautions need to be considered and used when how to clean floor. One of the more popular and quality rubber floors is manufactured by Nora. Nora has specific precautions. The goal of this article is address the stripping process for Nora Rubber Floors. How to clean Nora rubber floors, relative to stripping them is easy and simple as long as you follow the procedures...

No matter how well you clean your floors including a granite floor, there will eventually come a time when you need to perform a periodic heavy or deep cleaning. The reason why this deep cleaning procedure needs to be performed is that daily or routine cleaning still can leave small amounts of residual soil on the floor when you are cleaning granite floors. Over time this soil begins to build up and requires a stronger cleaning procedure to...

Slate is a wonderful floor for any home. It is rich and warm looking at the same time. It is a tough durable floor and the multiple color variations allow the homeowner to match any décor in a house.   When initially installed, most homeowners select to have a seal applied to the slate floors in an effort to make cleaning slate floor easy and simple. Usually this seal is a penetrating type and applied by either the homeowner or...

This topic of cleaning concrete floors is interesting unto itself but even more interesting because of the different varieties of concrete. Specifically the goal of this article is to teach and explain about polished concrete floors. It will cover what is polished concrete, what is polish concrete, daily cleaning maintenance in a commercial environment and to dispel some myths about concrete and the no maintenance marketing of concrete...

The purpose of this article is to provide our visitors with step by step procedures for industrial floor cleaning of concrete floor. There are several different industrial floor types but concrete makes up the vast majority of industrial floors.  Industrial floor cleaning can be difficult because of the heavy greasy soils that are associated with industrial facilities. The heavy traffic such as forklifts, heavy plant equipment and boot...

The following article’s goal is to provide our commercial readers with the proper steps to clean unsealed stone floors. Stone floor cleaning is becoming a popular and common topic because so many commercial buildings have moved away from carpeting and vinyl type floors. This is especially true in the common areas of a commercial building such as in a lobby. So it is no wonder that stone floor cleaning and how to properly clean stone...

As outlined in prior articles on slate floor cleaning, slate floors are incredibly beautiful. Slate is a stone floor that is quarried from the Earth and cut into slabs of various thicknesses. It is processed further into tiles. Slate floor cleaning is easy and simple. Cleaning will depend on whether the slate floor has been sealed with a coating like a floor finish or wax. If that’s the case, simply clean the floor on as you would...

For the residential homeowner concrete cleaning is usually a periodic cleaning task and not a daily or routine cleaning task because it is periodic the concrete floors around a home are usually fairly well soiled, stained or saturated with oil and grease. This cleaning can become a difficult process and due to the fact that concrete is so porous, the soils and stains from the oil and grime are usually next to impossible to remove...

Have you ever experienced and wondered why the floor you have been cleaning is not as clean at the end of your cleaning as the area of the floor where you began the cleaning process? The answer is Cleaner Power Fade Out. This discussion will cover the term “Power Fade Out”; this term is more commonly known in the commercial market but it happens to all cleaning products whether it is a commercial grade or residential cleaning product....

The goal of this article is to provide our readers with a simple easy way to how to clean slate floors with proven effective results by using simple tools and supplies. The key to cleaning floors sometimes is to use standard common methods of cleaning. In this case a simple mop and bucket cleaning method does a fine job of cleaning slate floors. However, there are many newer methods that also provide great cleaning results such as a...

This article’s purpose is to address and outline the proper way to maintain clean room flooring through the daily cleaning process. This is important knowledge for clean room cleaning and each step should be followed correctly or issues and problems can ensue. This is because clean room flooring requires special maintenance and cleaning. This includes the floor finishing (waxing) of the clean room floor which we will discuss in another...

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...

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...

This is the first article written on this website on cleaning concrete floors. We are glad to finally explain the procedure steps of daily cleaning concrete floors in commercial buildings but we will also address some major myths on what the Concrete Producers and Trade Organizations are doing to promote their product line…concrete floors. We will address the main myth and explain the reason for an increase in using concrete as flooring...

This article’s purpose is to provide step by step procedures on cleaning granite flooring in a commercial building. We will also outline where does granite come from and a new innovation that is green and will deep clean granite and all stone floors easily while producing incredible cleaning results. Also listed in this article are chemicals, tools and supplies to achieve great clean results.      The following cleaning procedures...

This article’s goal is to provide an overview of what are Slate Floors, how it is made, the uses of Slate and daily procedures for cleaning Slate floors. Slate Flooring is used in both the commercial and residential markets and is beautiful flooring that comes in a variety of colors and is very durable, which makes it a popular choice in higher profile commercial locations and residences that is used both indoors and outdoors. Basically,...