This won’t come clean. Or is it clean? Look closely at the trafficked areas. This is an example of extreme pile distortion. This is multilevel tufted carpet tile. The higher tuffs became susceptible to distortion from foot traffic and rolling loads as they weren’t supported by the lower tuffs. As you look closely you can […]
Commercial floor care providers know that initial maintenance for resilient flooring is imperative to put the floor in service after construction, but how many have considered post construction carpet cleaning to ready the floor for foot traffic? Times have changed and commercial spaces are no longer built top to bottom. Carpet is often installed before […]
Are your techs familiar with the basic principles of hard surface care? In this case study, Steve Brown of Southeastern Commercial Flooring uses two maintenance projects to explain the basic principles of cleaning hard surfaces. By starting with basic principles to troubleshoot common floor care issues, finding solutions can often be faster, easier, and less […]
Fast action on the part of Miguel Martinez and the maintenance team at ACS Flooring Group in Houston spared a customer’s commercial wool carpet from almost certain replacement after a cement-based product unexpectedly spilled onto the floor. Miguel, Operations Manager at ACS, describes the scene. “An ARDEX floating cement product had been used on the […]
In this XLN resource, learn the standard operating procedures for initial, daily, periodic, and restorative cleaning and maintenance on ceramic tile and grout.
Learn the standard operating procedures for initial, daily and restorative cleaning and maintenance on crumb rubber flooring.
Learn the standard operating procedures for the low moisture carpet cleaning process.
In this helpful XLN resource, learn the suggested procedures for initial, daily, periodic, and restorative cleaning and maintenance on luxury vinyl tile (LVT) flooring.
In this suggested procedures document, learn the standard operating procedures for cleaning, restoring, and maintaining rubber flooring.
Discover XL North’s step by step suggested procedures for sanitizing carpet along with recommended products to ensure the best possible results.
In this XL North Suggested Procedures PDF, get step by step instructions for disinfecting resilient floors along with recommended products to ensure the best possible results.
This checklist, compiled by members of the XL North Tactical Group, covers almost everything that influences a resilient flooring life cycle and can help solve challenging problems with your customer’s floor.
Chip Grimes, President of Facility Services Group in Delaware, discusses his experience with a resilient floor and ceramic tile project at a healthcare customer’s facility. In this case study, see the phenomenal before and after photos from the sheet vinyl and ceramic tile floors (wait ’til you see the grout photos!) and learn the process […]
What a difference Tri-State Carpet from Wilmington, Delaware made on a restaurant’s heavily soiled carpet. In this case study, Tri-State’s Valerie Harrison explains the pre-existing carpet conditions and describes the process used to achieve such amazing results.
At the request of a carpet manufacturer, XL North was asked to offer recommendations for cleaning the carpet in a restaurant chain. The franchisee owner was upset wit the condition of the carpet, even though he’d just had it cleaned, and he believed the carpet was the problem. Learn the simple process XLN’s Bill Luallen […]
Recently we were called out to a restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio that had an extreme build-up of kitchen greases in carpet less than two years old. The most notable soiling was in the major walking paths and around the server area and extended from the restaurant’s kitchen into the dining area. With proper chemistry and […]