Industrial Floor Cleaning Is Often Cheaper Than Recoating
We would rather say this at the survey than after you have paid for a coating you did not need.
A warehouse floor gone grey and dull is very often a sound sealed floor carrying years of rubber, dust and cleaner residue. Proper industrial floor cleaning brings it back at a fraction of the cost of recoating. The same goes for a plant floor that never looks clean however often it is scrubbed, where the usual cause is a machine running the wrong pad and the wrong chemistry for that surface.
The floors that genuinely need recoating are the ones where the coating has worn through, is peeling or is failing at the joints. All of that becomes visible once industrial floor cleaning has taken the dirt off, which is another argument for cleaning first.
Industrial Floor Cleaning Is What Decides Whether A Coating Holds
Where industrial floor cleaning turns into preparation, it becomes the most important part of the whole job.
Oil, coolant and hydraulic fluid soak into concrete over years and settle deep in the pores. Grinding the surface away does not touch what has gone below it, and a coating laid over contaminated concrete gives fisheyes, craters and patchy adhesion. Hot water pressure cleaning and dedicated degreasers come first, and on badly contaminated areas the industrial floor cleaning is repeated until the slab passes a water break test.
Degreasing is the step most often left out of a cheap quote, and it is the reason a cheap floor comes off again.
Hard Water Makes Scale A Standing Industrial Floor Cleaning Problem
In washdown areas around Woodstock and Ingersoll the problem is often mineral rather than organic.
Oxford County groundwater comes through limestone and is very hard, tested at 324 to 693 milligrams per litre in Woodstock and 355 to 495 in Ingersoll. Every wash cycle leaves calcium behind and it builds into a film ordinary detergent will not lift. The answer is a periodic acidic descale rather than more caustic, which is the opposite of what most crews reach for. Getting that industrial floor cleaning cycle right protects the floor, because the harsh chemistry used to fight scale does more damage than the scale ever does.
