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ICAN  Q & A  Home CMI Home CMI Membership Book Store Educational Courses Contact Us	Saturday, May 18, 2013 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 (291) Blended/Skip/Cooperative Cleaning (2) Carpet/Furniture Care (95) Cleaning for Health & Safety (57) Cleaning Procedures (241) Colleges, Schools & Universities (35) Contract Cleaning (114) Day Cleaning (16) Developing Management Teams (4) Distribution (1) Employee Issues (17) Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies (54) Executive & Managerial Development (3) Facilitating/Advising Process Improvement Teams (1) Facility Management (25) Family Business Issues (4) Foodservice/Hospitality/Hotels (8) Green Cleaning (33) Groundskeeping & Building Exteriors (3) Hard & Resilient Floor Care (225) Healthcare (22) Hiring & Staffing (24) Implementation of Cleaning Systems Upgrades (7) Indoor Air Quality (10) Industrial (4) Instructional Materials and Manuals (2) Legal Issues (10) Marketing Strategies (18) Mold Prevention & Remediation (10) New Product Development and Testing (9) Operations Audits (3) Production Rates (18) Quality Assurance (6) Residential, Apartment & Condo (11) Sales Training (1) Slip & Fall (4) Software (5) Strategic Planning (9) Team Cleaning (9) Training Resources (17) Water & Fire Damage Restoration (6) 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 [Friday, May 17, 2013] I am preparing for the seasonal cleaning of the ceramic tile in our court house restrooms.Will be using a 12'' scrubber. What type of product works best and will a 12" scrub pad be to harsh? Going to use a doodle bug pad with a black pad also.The grout lines look decent since the facility is only 10 months old. Any advice or recommendations? Hard & Resilient Floor Care - Jack Raffensberger [Friday, May 17, 2013] A new building being constructed on our campus is using VHT flooring that the included literature says can have a floor finish applied, but is not necessary. What have others with this floor type been doing to maintain it? Hard & Resilient Floor Care - Scott Robinson [Friday, May 17, 2013] I am bidding on a cleaning contract with a movie theater that is 16,000 sq. ft. I will be cleaning the tile floors, vacuum carpet, 4 restrooms, (two men/two women) 1 lobby, 4 glass entrance doors, 12 movie theater showrooms, (6 at each end of the hall with the movie theater lobby in the middle) cleaning all the movie theater seats with cup holders and armrest, empty trash disposal, and I am providing all cleaning equipment and cleaning supplies. I will make sure that all their paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers and bathroom tissue holders are filled (they supply those items). I will be working with 5 workers including me. Will try to be finished in 6 hours. How much should I bid on a movie theater contract? Bidding & Estimating - Darden Jones [Monday, May 13, 2013] We have a linoleum floor at my church that needs cleaning. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to remove the foot traffic residue which leaves what appears to be a dark colored smudgy film in the heavy traffic areas. The linoleum (a light tan colored linoleum) was installed one year ago. Any suggestions? Cleaning Procedures - Joe Robinson
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