Sustainability in Surface Care

Why Restoration Beats Replacement Every Time

In today’s eco-conscious business landscape, sustainability in surface care isn’t just a checkbox on your corporate responsibility list—it’s an essential approach to managing your facility. Implementing sustainability in surface care practices means looking beyond quick fixes and considering the long-term environmental impact of your maintenance decisions.

At Corporate Care, we’ve built our business around a simple but powerful concept: Don’t replace. Revitalize! This philosophy drives everything we do, from our carpet restoration services to our innovative hard surface treatments. The environmental and economic benefits of choosing restoration over replacement are substantial, and we’re proud to be leading the charge toward more sustainable facility management nationwide.

The Environmental Impact of Surface Replacement

When you replace flooring in your commercial building, the impact extends far beyond your budget. Consider this:

• Vinyl flooring takes over 1,000 years to decompose in landfills
• 5 billion pounds of carpet end up in landfills each year, taking up to 100 years to break down
• Manufacturing new flooring materials produces significant carbon emissions
• Replacing floors requires additional resources for packaging, shipping, and installation
• Construction debris from removal contributes to already overloaded landfills

The cycle of replacing surfaces prematurely creates an environmental burden that’s simply unnecessary. With the right care and maintenance approach, most commercial surfaces can have double or even triple their expected lifespan.

The Sustainable Solution: Restoration Over Replacement

At Corporate Care, we’re firm believers in restoration over replacement whenever possible. Our approach focuses on extending the life of your existing surfaces, which reduces waste while saving you time and money.

Our specialized makeover services transform worn surfaces to like-new condition:

Carpet Restoration & Refresh Service: With average care, commercial carpets typically last 5-7 years. Our deep cleaning removes stains and gunk trapped in the fibers that make your carpet look worn out. With this service, you can double or triple your carpet’s lifespan, keeping these materials out of landfills for years longer.

Tile & Grout Flooring Makeover: What might appear to be irreversible damage can often be completely transformed with our deep clean and acid wash process. We recolor grout for consistency and apply an antimicrobial protective coating, making floors look brand new at a fraction of the replacement cost and with minimal environmental impact.

Concrete Shine & Renew Service: At 96% less waste over its lifetime compared to carpet and vinyl, polished concrete is already an eco-friendly choice. Our restoration service breathes new life into exposed concrete floors, preventing spotty discoloration and premature aging while enhancing their appearance for years to come.

Resilient Vinyl Renewal Service: Vinyl, rubber, and other resilient floors are particularly problematic environmental offenders when replaced. Our renewal service provides deep restorative cleaning and surface treatments to improve your resilient floors’ appearance, longevity, and performance.

Furniture & Fabric Panel Transformation: Office furniture replacement generates significant waste. Our service refreshes your textiles for a tiny fraction of the replacement cost, extending the life of chairs, sofas, and fabric panels while maintaining a professional appearance.

Each of these makeover services exemplifies our commitment to sustainability through restoration rather than replacement, offering significant environmental benefits while preserving your budget.

The Economic Benefits of Restoration Over Replacement

Sustainability isn’t just good for the planet—it’s good for your bottom line. When you choose restoration over replacement, you’ll experience:

• Significant cost savings—restoration typically costs a fraction of replacement
• Less disruption to your business operations—most restorations can be completed overnight
• Reduced maintenance costs—our protective coatings make surfaces easier to clean
• Extended asset life—postponing capital expenditures for years or even decades
• Enhanced facility appearance—creating positive impressions for visitors and staff

One of our oil and gas industry clients discovered this firsthand when faced with replacing tile and grout in over 50 restrooms throughout their building. After seeing our demo of what could be achieved through restoration, they opted to revitalize rather than replace.

The Director of Facility Operations reported:

“It’s crazy; it’s been four years, and the floors still look day-one fresh. Thank you for taking such great care of us.”

Not only did this client save over $1 million by avoiding replacement, but they also prevented tons of construction materials from entering landfills.

Performance Coatings: The Secret to Sustainable Surface Care

Our CareGuard protective coatings represent the pinnacle of sustainable surface care. These specialized coatings:

• Create an antimicrobial barrier that reduces bacteria, mold, and mildew
• Significantly extend the lifespan of your surfaces
• Make cleaning easier and faster for your janitorial team
• Reduce the need for harsh cleaning chemicals
• Decrease water usage during regular maintenance

For example, in a typical restroom with our CareGuard Premium coating, clients see:

• 76.56% reduction in time required to clean each restroom
• 73.3% reduction in water usage during cleaning
• 91.91% reduction in chemicals needed for maintenance

These impressive statistics translate to real environmental benefits day after day, year after year.

Taking Action: How to Implement a Sustainable Surface Care Strategy

Ready to embrace a more sustainable approach to your facility’s surface care? Consider these steps:

1. Assess your current surfaces – Before assuming replacement is necessary, have our IICRC®-certified team member evaluate your floors and surfaces to determine if restoration is possible.
2. Develop a proactive maintenance plan – Regular deep cleaning and maintenance prevent premature deterioration and extend surface life.
3. Invest in protective coatings – These provide long-term protection against wear, stains, and damage while making surfaces easier to maintain.
4. Partner with surface care experts – Our team understands the unique properties and cleaning protocols every surface needs to look amazing and comply with manufacturer warranties.
5. Train your janitorial team – We provide supplemental training for your existing cleaning crew to ensure they’re using the right methods and products between our visits.

A Commitment to Reducing Waste Together

At Corporate Care, sustainability isn’t just something we talk about—it’s integral to our business model. We have no vested interest in replacing anything in your building. Instead, our focus is on restoring and revitalizing what you already have, making it look great and last as long as possible.

Our approach to sustainability centers on these key principles:

• Extending asset life – With average care, commercial carpets typically last 5-7 years. With our deep cleaning programs, you can double or triple that lifespan.
• Reducing landfill waste – When you consider that the EPA estimates 5 billion pounds of carpet go to landfills annually and vinyl takes up to 1,000 years to decompose, our restoration services have a significant environmental impact.
• Conserving resources – Our specialized equipment and conscious water management processes use up to 50% less water than traditional cleaning methods.
• Using sustainable chemistry – We utilize green cleaning chemistry and techniques to reduce environmental impact and improve occupant safety.
• Innovative protective coatings – Our CareGuard products improve appearance and performance while reducing labor costs, water usage, and the need for harsh chemicals.

As a sustainability company, everything we do is focused on improving the appearance, performance, and longevity of every surface in the commercial buildings you manage. Our deep restorative cleaning and maintenance programs have asset longevity and stunning results baked into the process.

By partnering with Corporate Care, you’re making a choice that benefits both your facility and reduces unnecessary waste. Our IICRC-certified technicians stay current on the newest and most sustainable cleaning technologies to ensure we deliver the best possible results with the smallest environmental footprint.

Ready to restore and revitalize? Contact us today to schedule an assessment and discover how we can help you avoid costly replacements while extending the life of your valuable assets. Let’s reduce waste together!

 

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About Corporate Care – A Sustainability Company

Corporate Care exists to improve the appearance, performance, and longevity of every surface in the commercial buildings you manage – reducing capital expenditures, stress, and management burden on facility managers from coast to coast.

As true surface care experts, we understand the unique properties and cleaning protocols every surface needs (or doesn’t) to look amazing and comply with manufacturer warranties. We’re here to support your existing janitorial crew with cadenced deep restorative cleaning and tailored maintenance protocols – performed by IICRC®-certified cleaning technicians.

We are firm believers in restoration over replacement. Let’s reduce waste together!