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Large, high-traffic facilities, like retail stores, face numerous floor care challenges while dealing with fewer resources. Although a new floor care machine may have a high initial investment cost, it provides numerous benefits for employees, facilities and your business’ bottom line.

Floor care challenges

Three small words can create a facility manager’s worst nightmare during the winter: snow, sand and salt. Applied on outdoor walkways to protect people from snow and ice, salt and sand does just the opposite to floor surfaces. If tracked through the building, these materials can drive labor and floor care costs upward and ultimately reduce the longevity of floors. However, a few practical steps can keep harmful cold weather contaminants from wreaking havoc on a retailer’s floors. 

Matting and moisture control 

Today, carpet represents the highest percentage of any floor covering in the U.S. flooring market and accounted for 45.4 percent of 2017’s total flooring sales. Ongoing carpet care and maintenance is key to making a good impression, supporting indoor air quality and extending the life of carpet.

Carpet has long been the go-to choice for school flooring in areas such as classrooms and libraries. Not only is it stylish, abundant and cost-effective, but carpet can help reduce energy consumption and is highly sound absorbent.