Cleaning and Maintenance Magazine polished concrete maintenance
Nov/080
A polished concrete floor surface will take to “green cleaning” more easily than others and, of course, requires significantly less maintenance to stay shiny. It’s one reason why retailers are replacing vinyl composition tile with polished concrete floors. Cleaning & Maintenance Magazine published my article about the care of PC.
“You can actually walk up to the showroom and see the blue sky shining in the floor, that’s how shiny it is,” says Richard Smith, Ag-Pro’s general service manager in Arkansas, who installed the environmentally friendly floor in two of their John Deere showrooms.
Concrete floors can cost half as much to maintain as vinyl composition tile (VCT) because VCT requires the laborious process of stripping the old wax off and then hours of buffing and shining the new wax.
“Over half of the floors we install are going from tile to polished concrete,” says Joseph Urbanic, president of QuestMark Flooring.
Here’s the link to the full article in CMMonline.
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