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| WHY CLEAN YOUR EPOXY FLOORING? | ||
Your epoxy flooring will look its best when it is clean. By instituting a scheduled cleaning program, the floor will continue to look and perform as it did when it was first installed.
Safety: No matter how aggressive the texture of your floor, if is not cleaned properly, it can present a slip hazard. Emulsifying, rinsing, and drying your epoxy flooring properly will reduce the risk of a slip-and fall-incident.
Service Life: The lifetime of your epoxy flooring will depend upon how well you clean it. In aggressive-use areas (e.g., kitchens and machine shops), contaminants such as oil, dirt, and grease work with water and bacteria to attack your floor.
Epoxy Floor Cleaning Process & Tools
The best way to clean epoxy flooring is to use the recommended cleaning product and follow a six-step process. (Equipment needs vary between small and medium/large floor areas.)
Recommended Cleaning Products
Determining the correct cleaning product for your epoxy flooring is based upon the amount and type of soiling the floor receives. We have divided these into four types, and recommended a cleaning product for each instance:
When to Clean Your Epoxy Flooring
Epoxy floors are designed for and used in heavy traffic areas that typically accumulate foreign matter. Because of this, the recommended maintenance schedule for most areas is once or twice daily cleaning and regular “touch ups” for spills. Less frequent cleaning of these areas results in a buildup of foreign matter, which diminishes the appearance, safety, and service life of the floor.
Important Cleaning notes:
- Never use a mop to clean a floor that is greasy or oily.
- Make sure the pads or brushes on the automatic scrubber are in good shape. Pads should be red or blue 3M cleaning pads or similar.
- Brushes should be nylon/non-abrasive or a similar medium flex bristle brush.
- When using a deck brush, choose a medium/stiff bristle.
- When using a rotary floor machine, use a tan or red 3M pad or similar.
- When removing solution with a squeegee, use a soft, neoprene squeegee.
- Do not use a water spray to remove cleaning solution from the floor because it will over-dilute the solution and cause grease and oil to fall back onto the floor.
- Wax strippers should never be used on a epoxy flooring.
- Spills should be cleaned up immediately to prevent staining and as a safety precaution.
Through proper training and education, unnecessary wear of epoxy flooring (such as forklift spin and skid-marks) can be avoided.
