So why does it matter whether your floor is maintained by a certified Floor Care Technician or not? Isn’t experience more important?
After spending the last 22 years stripping, refinishing, mopping, scrubbing, buffing, burnishing and restoring floors, I can say that experience is priceless.
And getting educated about all of those processes through seminars, hands-on classes, articles, books, and finally a two-day course followed by a written exam gave all that experience some meaning.
My formal education about floor maintenance started shortly after my entrance into this field.
Some of the topics studied were:
• What different flooring types are composed of and how they are made
• Various floor installations and optimal maintenance for each kind
• Soil composition and how each kind of soil affects the floor surface
• How to best remove each type of soil
• The most cost-effective methods of remediation and prevention
• Designing maintenance programs that fit the needs of both you and your floor
The description of the Floor Care Technician’s Course (FCT) reads:
“The identification, characteristics, cleaning and maintenance practices, procedures, equipment, materials and supplies for Resilient, Nature Stone, Clay Masonry/Grouted, Wood and Specialty Floors.”
Getting educated at the same time that I was working on real floors made the learning come alive.
This short list barely scratches the surface – learning the nuts and bolts, such as the properties of various cleaning chemicals, capabilities of equipment, applying all this knowledge to the real world – well, actually I can go on for a very long time talking about cleaning. What really matters is, how does this benefit you?
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Jan Basnar
Kleenworks
