Winter. It’s a magical time filled with twinkling lights, hot cocoa, and the total destruction of your office floors.
While everyone else is enjoying holiday cheer, your floors are being endlessly trampled by boots packed with salt, slush, snow gunk, and whatever else your coworker dragged in from the parking lot.
But fear not. Here’s your guide to saving your floors from an unsightly demise.
Salt is great for popcorn, not so great for floors.
Salt is everywhere in winter: sidewalks, stairways, your car mats, and your floors. It leaves white streaks, scratches surfaces, and makes carpet crunchy. Your floors don’t need this kind of energy.
Our solution:
Mats. Doormats. Absorbent mats. Mats on top of mats. Turn your lobby into a “mat emporium” to save the wear and tear on your floors.
Slush is your flooring’s emotional breakdown.
Slush has an identity crisis. It’s not quite water, not quite ice. Pretty much just a cold, mushy cocktail that melts directly into your floor’s soul. On hard surfaces, slush creates slip hazards and puddles the size of Lake Poinsett. On carpets, it stinks and becomes a breeding ground for mold.
Our solution:
Frequent mopping. Like, “bring your mop to meetings” frequent.
Beware the silent destroyer – winter shoes.
Your employees are probably delightful humans, but their boots? Absolute villains to your floors. They track in salt, dirt, sand, gravel… everything! It can quickly turn your entryway or lobby into a small rock quarry.
Our solution:
Kindly encourage a “wipe your boots” culture. Better yet, install a “shoe shaming zone,” where an alarm sounds when anyone walks in without wiping their feet.
Don’t forget dreaded ice melt residue.
You know that chalky residue? It’s everywhere and it sticks to tile like nobody’s business. And once it gets on carpet, it settles in and plans to settle down for the long winter ahead.
Our solution:
Use winter-specific cleaners (yes, that’s a thing) because regular cleaners look at ice melt residue and say, “Yeah… I don’t do that.”
If all else fails, just consider the mess “décor.”
Can’t beat the winter mess? Rebrand it. Call salt stains “seasonal white accents.” Call slush puddles “indoor water features.” Hey, you’ve gotta make the best of it, right?
You might be one of those people who think winter is beautiful, but your floors don’t. They just want protection. With the right amount of savvy, you can get through the season without your floor looking like it survived a natural disaster. Oh, and Happy Holidays from your Kleenrite crew.