The ABCs (and Beyond) of Flooring

Posted on: 17 September 2021

The appearance of the floors in your business premises speaks a lot about you and the kind of business you run. For instance, if a potential client or customer walks into your business and finds the floors dirty, they might reconsider doing business with you. As a result, it is essential to ensure that your floors are always squeaky clean to avoid embarrassing yourself and losing business.

However, business owners and companies usually opt to have their employees clean the floor because it is cheaper than hiring a commercial floor cleaning service. However, at some point, having your employees conduct the floor cleaning may start giving you reasons to consider finally hiring commercial floor cleaning services.

With that in mind, here are the two main signs that will let you know it's time to relieve your workers of floor cleaning duties and instead hire a commercial floor cleaning service.

Cleaning Cost Eat Into Your Profit 

Cleaning your floors can often become a pricey endeavor that limits the amount of business profits you get to enjoy. For one, you have to buy cleaning equipment and supplies to facilitate your employees with the tools they need to clean the floors. As for cleaning equipment, you need to buy:

• Rotary floor machines
• Auto scrubbers
•  High-speed buffers

All these machines will cost you thousands of dollars to purchase, and thus, you have to dig deep into your businesses' finances to make the purchase. Additionally, the pieces of cleaning equipment mentioned above tend to break down quite often, leading to you spending more money on repairs. Because purchasing the cleaning equipment and supplies and conducting repairs gets added as an expense, you may soon realize that the costs of cleaning your floors are eating away at your profits.

Thus, you should take this as a clear sign to hire a commercial floor cleaning service. Commercial floor cleaning companies clean floors for multiple businesses. As a result, they enjoy economies of scale. However, these companies can also provide commercial floor cleaning services at a subsidized rate. Additionally, you don't have to worry about spending money on damaged or broken cleaning equipment when you hire a floor cleaning service. 

Hiring commercial floor cleaning services will cost you less money than doing it yourself. Thus, you will get to enjoy better profit margins with a commercial floor cleaning service.

Stained Floors

Even if you opt to conduct the floor cleaning using your workers, your workers are not trained and lack the experience to clean your floors adequately. As a result, they might utilize the wrong cleaning products that cannot provide the ideal level of cleanliness you want your floors to have.

Therefore, after some time, you may realize that your floors are stained due to improper cleaning jobs. Additionally, your workers may not be fully qualified to remove the stains. As a result, you may be embarrassed when your clients and customers find stained floors on your premises. When you realize that your workers are not cleaning your floors properly and stains have begun to develop, it is a sign you need to hire professional commercial floor cleaning contractors before the floor stains become permanent.