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ICAN  Q & A  Home CMI Home CMI Membership Book Store CMI Events Educational Courses Calendar About Us Site Search Login Update Profile Newsletter Member Directory Member Portal Forum	Saturday, September 04, 2010 The International Custodial Advisors Network, Inc. (ICAN)--a non-profit association comprised of industry consultants with a wide range of expertise in building management, indoor environmental and service disciplines provides this free janitorial and building maintenance consultation service to the industry through Cleaning Management Institute. Building maintenance professionals can use this service to get knowledgeable answers to questions regarding facility maintenance from experienced industry experts who are ICAN members. To submit a question, simply click on this button. You will be notified by e-mail when suggested solutions from ICAN members are posted on this page, usually within three business days. Before submitting a question, you may want to search ICAN's Index of Building Maintenance Topics below for responses to previous questions in similar subject categories or use the key word search engines in ICAN's Facility Maintenance Professionals Troubleshooting Search Center. Index of Building Maintenance Topics Bidding & Estimating (181) Blended/Skip/Cooperative Cleaning (3) Carpet/Furniture Care (82) Cleaning for Health & Safety (51) Cleaning Procedures (193) Colleges, Schools & Universities (29) Contract Cleaning (84) Day Cleaning (13) Developing Management Teams (3) Distribution (1) Employee Issues (13) Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies (43) Executive & Managerial Development (3) Facilitating/Advising Process Improvement Teams (1) Facility Management (18) Family Business Issues (4) Foodservice/Hospitality/Hotels (8) Green Cleaning (30) Groundskeeping & Building Exteriors (2) Hard & Resilient Floor Care (179) Healthcare (17) Hiring & Staffing (14) Implementation of Cleaning Systems Upgrades (5) Indoor Air Quality (10) Industrial (4) Instructional Materials and Manuals (2) Legal Issues (7) Marketing Strategies (17) Mold Prevention & Remediation (10) New Product Development and Testing (7) Operations Audits (3) Production Rates (15) Quality Assurance (6) Residential, Apartment & Condo (10) Sales Training (1) Slip & Fall (4) Software (5) Strategic Planning (8) Team Cleaning (9) Training Resources (14) Water & Fire Damage Restoration (4) Zone Cleaning (1)   Facility Maintenance Professionals Troubleshooting Search Center Search the Q & A Archives    Search the Article Archives    Search the Article Archives    Recent Questions Click on the question to read ICAN solutions [Wednesday, August 25, 2010] How may I promote the selling of my 37 year old business in Costa Rica? We are leaders in cleaning carpets, rugs, upholstery, and car interiors. Family Business Issues - Rodrigo  Cedeno [Wednesday, August 25, 2010] I am being asked to bid on a 20,000 sq. ft. grocery store. The floors need to be swept, mopped and buffed nightly. I figure that, with two people, this will take about 6 hours per night. My question is, if I am paying my employees $14 an hour each + overhead costs (mops, buckets, solutions, buffer machine, etc.) would charging 85.00 per hour be too low? In my area, the average per hour rate is very difficult to find. Bidding & Estimating - Garret Belisl [Wednesday, August 18, 2010] I would like to start a commercial cleaning business. Where should I start? How can I go about it? Bidding & Estimating - mike guluster [Friday, August 13, 2010] How can you remove scratches from stainless steel mirrors, if they can be removed? Cleaning Procedures - Juan Diaz
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