Floor Care Tips for Schools

Keeping your floors clean isn’t just about keeping your image spotless; it’s about the safety and health of your student body and staff. Everything within your facilities ends up on the floor, and that’s why your school needs a floor care professional who can keep them clean and in great shape on a regular basis.

Night Owl Floor Services specializes in keeping challenging hard floors and surfaces clean. We work at night, so there’s no interruption of classes. If you need help with your floors, give us a call at 503-723-8466.

Here are some tips that we have for keeping your floors working for your school:

School Entrances

Over a 20 day period, assuming you have 1,000 people using your facilities, you can expect 24 pounds of soil and debris to be tracked into your school. This means you need to mitigate for soil with entrance mats that will dramatically cut down on the soil in interior rooms and keep it at a place where it’s easily managed. These mats can be spot cleaned daily to ensure they aren’t overburdened with soil.

Classrooms & Hallways

These are the thoroughfares of your facility and should be swept and mopped daily to ensure clean floors every day of the week. Periodic polishing and finishing can be scheduled over weekends or evenings to allow for plenty of time for ventilating these areas following treatment. Special deep cleans should be scheduled for these areas during spring and summer breaks to remove ice melt chemicals and built-up dirt that winter mud leaves.

Gymnasiums

Gym floors are most commonly made of hardwood. Still, they are also occasionally made of resilient vinyl tiles that require proper maintenance to ensure the safety of your students and staff. Daily sweeping and mopping are critical to removing dirt and fine particles that athletic shoes leave behind. Make sure to add mats to the entrances of your gym to catch any extra debris before it can enter.

Locker Rooms & Restrooms

With many students and faculty using restrooms and locker rooms daily, bacterial build-up is a definite concern. Everything from the common cold to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can hide within these hot, wet tiled, and concrete corners. For that reason, these rooms should be sanitized and disinfected frequently to prevent the spread of illness. Professional cleaning of these areas can be done on a more frequent basis than the other areas to ensure stringent safety guidelines are followed.

Cafeteria & Kitchen

It’s obviously critical to provide a clean environment in the areas where you will be preparing and serving food to students and staff. It’s also highly challenging to keep these areas grease and soil-free due to the nature of cooking and feeding so many. Applying degreasers and floor cleaners frequently as needed is vital to keeping these areas clean and safe for your staff and student body.

If you ever need help keeping your school floors clean and serviceable, you should give Night Owl Floor Services a call at 503-723-8466!