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Floor & Specialty Surface Care

Your floors are wearing out faster than your budget expects

Stripping, waxing, buffing and restorative deep cleaning for commercial floors across Northern Ontario. We maintain the surface you already own so you are not replacing it early.

Floors do not fail on a schedule

Most commercial floors are not cleaned wrong. They are cleaned the same way every night regardless of what the surface actually needs. A general mop pass keeps a hallway looking acceptable and does nothing for the finish underneath it.

Northern Ontario adds its own problem. Sand, road salt and winter melt come through the door on every boot from November to April. That grit sits in the finish and grinds it down under traffic. By spring the coating is thin, the shine is gone, and the tile below it is exposed.

Different surfaces fail in different ways. Vinyl composite tile loses its finish. Sealed concrete dusts. Terrazzo and stone dull and etch. Carpet packs down in the lanes people actually walk. One cleaning method cannot hold all of them.

What the wear actually costs you

The invoice you are trying to avoid is not the cleaning invoice.

You stop buying maintenance and start buying capital

A finish stripped and recoated on a sensible cycle protects the substrate underneath. A finish allowed to wear through stops protecting anything, and the tile, sealer or subfloor starts absorbing the damage.

Slip exposure lands in an insurance file

Worn, uneven or improperly finished floors are the surfaces people fall on. A fall in a commercial building becomes an incident report, an insurance conversation, and sometimes a claim. Your insurer takes an interest in your maintenance record when that happens.

The part with no invoice attached

A tired entrance floor is the first thing a tenant walks across, and the first thing an auditor or a prospective buyer notices before anyone has said a word. Tenants raise it at renewal. Owners raise it during a sale.

Restoration gets more disruptive the longer it waits

A planned recoat runs on a weekend or an overnight. A full strip and rebuild of a badly neglected floor takes areas out of service, moves furniture, and interrupts the work happening in the building.

What our team does about it

We start by identifying the surface, not the room. We walk the building, confirm what each floor actually is, look at how the finish is holding, and note the traffic pattern doing the damage. That walkthrough is where the plan comes from.

From there we match the method to the material. Stripping and rewaxing where a finish has to come off and be rebuilt. Buffing and burnishing where the coating is sound and needs to be brought back. Scrubbing and restorative deep cleaning where the problem is embedded soil rather than failed finish.

We schedule around your operation. Most floor work happens outside your business hours, in sections, so the building keeps running. We tell you before we start which areas will be closed and for how long.

We also set a cycle rather than a one time visit. Entrances, corridors and lunchrooms take the traffic and come up more often. Back offices do not need the same frequency and should not be paying for it. That is the difference between a maintained floor and a floor that gets rescued every few years.

We have been doing this in Northern Ontario since 1952. We know what a Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie or Timmins winter does to an entrance floor because we have been cleaning up after it for seventy years.

What a floor care program with us covers

Every building gets a different mix of these. The walkthrough decides which ones you actually need.

  • Surface identification and condition assessment for every floor type in the building
  • Stripping and rewaxing on hard surfaces where the finish has failed
  • Buffing and burnishing to restore gloss on sound finishes
  • Machine scrubbing and restorative deep cleaning of embedded soil
  • Sealed and specialty hard surface treatment matched to the material
  • Carpet and soft surface deep cleaning in traffic lanes and common areas
  • Entrance and high traffic zones scheduled on a shorter cycle than back of house
  • Winter salt and grit management through the Northern Ontario season
  • Work scheduled outside operating hours, in phases, with affected areas confirmed in advance
  • A written maintenance cycle so recoating happens on plan instead of on emergency

Start with a walkthrough, not a quote sheet

We cannot price a floor properly from a square footage number alone. Tell us the building, and we will come look at what is actually on the ground.

  • A walkthrough at your building, not a price off a spreadsheet
  • A written estimate you can take to ownership or your board
  • One point of contact from Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie or Timmins

Prefer to talk it through?

705-806-5660

rcs@reliableclean.com

Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie and Timmins.

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Reliable Cleaning Services  ·  Northern Ontario since 1952

705-806-5660  ·  rcs@reliableclean.com

Sudbury  ·  Sault Ste Marie  ·  Timmins