SURFACE CARE / RESILIENT FLOORING

Commercial Resilient Floor Cleaning & Restoration

Your floors are cleaned every night. They haven’t been truly clean in years. Before you strip again or replace, let us show you what’s underneath.

CT, LVT, LVP, RUBBER, LINOLEUM, & CORK
ONE-TIME RESTORATION OR AN ONGOING PROGRAM.

40+ YEARS  ·  IICRC INSTRUCTOR ON STAFF · NO STRIP-AND-WAX CYCLE

BEFORE AFTER

Same floor. New shine. No replacement.

THE PROBLEM

Floors that look the same after every cleaning.

Surfaces that stay dull, scuffed, hazy or gray no matter how much effort goes in. Nightly cleaning was never designed to restore a floor, only to maintain it, so every surface in the building slowly settles to the same baseline. That isn’t a janitorial performance problem. It’s a structural one, and it has a name.

UNIFORMLY DIRTY.

When nightly cleaning masks the real condition of your surfaces, not because the janitorial team is failing but because daily cleaning was never designed to restore them, every surface in your building reaches the same baseline: uniformly dirty.

Why your floors stay hazy.

Nightly cleaning doesn’t restore surfaces.
Over time, it buries them.

  • Nightly mopping moves the top layer of soil
  • Cleanser residue is left behind with every pass
  • Residue attracts the next round of soil
  • Trapped dirt and chemical film build up, layer on layer
  • The floor sinks deeper with every pass
  • The original finish is at the bottom

Original floor + chemical buildup + trapped dirt
= the uniformly dirty haze.

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TRIGGER MOMENTS

Is it time?

  • A replacement quote for VCT or LVT is sitting on your desk.
  • Floors look cloudy, yellowed or hazy no matter how often they’re buffed.
  • The strip-and-wax cycle is eating the labor and chemical budget.
  • Rooms keep coming out of service for floor work.
  • Scuffs, scratches and traffic lanes that burnishing doesn’t take out.
  • LVT or rubber that has gone dull and holds soil in the texture.
  • A tenant, executive or customer has commented on the floors.
  • A big event, inspection or corporate visit is on the calendar.
  • It no longer meets your standard, even if no one has said so.
WHY IT KEEPS HAPPENING

Janitorial can’t fix this. It was never built to.

Daily cleaning removes today’s soil. Maintenance preserves the asset.
Those are two different trades, and only one should be included in a janitorial contract.

The Tools Gap

Mops ride on the highest points of the surface. Seams, texture and worn finish sit below their reach. Not a technique problem. A physics problem.

The Chemistry Gap

All-purpose cleaners strip protective finishes and leave residue behind. The wrong chemistry accelerates the wear it’s meant to prevent. And one supply closet serves every surface in the building.

The Frequency Gap

Monthly scrubbing without the right chemistry moves buildup around without removing it. Technically clean. Visually unchanged. Same result every month.

Daily Janitorial

Trash removal, surface cleaning, visible spills, restroom sanitation

The Missing Middle:

Restorative Maintenance

Capital Replacement

Tearing out and installing brand new floors

Most facilities jump straight from daily mopping to six-figure replacement,
skipping the restorative maintenance that preserves the asset.

the math

Twelve months of the wax cycle. Or one deep clean & recoat.

Every floor in your building is on one of two schedules. Here’s what each one costs you in labor, chemicals and closed rooms.

The strip-and-wax cycle

Every month. Forever.

  • Burnish, scrub and recoat on a rolling cycle
  • Strip and rewax when the layers get too thick to fix
  • Rooms out of service, chemical odor, wet-floor signs
  • Stripping is when most floor-care slips and falls happen
  • And the floor still looks hazy within weeks
A coated floor

Every one to three years.

  • Neutral cleaner and a microfiber or auto-scrubber, nightly
  • Recoat every 12 to 36 months. No stripping, no waxing
  • Low odor, low VOC, walkable when dry
  • Sealed seam to seam, so soil has nowhere to settle
  • Slip-resistant finish available
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JANITORIAL ONLY

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CORPORATE CARE PROGRAM

Red vinyl floor restoration before photos

JANITORIAL ONLY

Red vinyl floor restoration after photos

CORPORATE CARE PROGRAM

Without a maintenance program, resilient floors get replaced two to three times more often than they need to.
Not because they wore out, but because they stopped looking clean.

HOW IT WORKS

Strip it. Clean it. Coat it.

TRY IT

See it before you commit.

Pick one corridor, one lobby, or one room. We restore it, you judge it. Defined scope, transparent price, no obligation beyond that one job.

RESTORE IT + PROTECT IT

Skip the replacement.

Strip, deep clean, then seal and protect it all with a CareGuard coating. Across every resilient floor in scope. One project, one invoice, no program required.

MAINTAIN IT

Take it off your plate.

We come back on a cadence set by your traffic, recoat before the finish wears through, and the strip-and-wax cycle never restarts. Coated floors on a program carry our appearance warranty.

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

What we’ll tell you honestly.

During the walkthrough, we’ll tell you how your floors are doing and what we can do to improve their appearance and performance. A coating is the wear layer, and how long it lasts depends on traffic and the chemistry used on it day to day, so we’ll give you a realistic expectation for your space, not a best-case scenario.

After restoring and maintaining millions of square feet of resilient flooring, we know what comes back and what doesn’t. Most of it comes back, and it usually looks better than anyone expected, because nobody in the building remembers what the floor looked like before the layers. When a floor genuinely needs replacing, you’ll hear it from us before we start, not after.

Once we’re on a program with you, we’re a second set of eyes. A leak under a cooler, a threshold starting to lift, a walk-off mat that’s stopped doing its job. If we see a problem developing, in our scope or not, you’ll hear about it, whether or not there’s work in it for us.

WHY CORPORATE CARE

Forty years in business. Our technicians average twelve.

Corporate Care has been restoring commercial surfaces since 1984.
Family owned, woman-owned, serving buildings across the United States and Canada.

40+

Years in Business

Since 1984. Family owned, organically grown.
No venture capital, no private equity.

IICRC

Instructor On Staff

We don't send our people to someone else's class. We run the class.

85%

Safer Than Industry Average

A recordable incident rate 85 percent or more below the industry average.

12+

Year Avg. Tenure

The same technicians come back to your building. Day one quality on day 1,000.

WBENC

Woman-Owned

Certified Women's Business Enterprise. Counts toward Fortune 1000 diversity spend.

US + CAN

National Coverage

One point of contact for every surface in every building in your portfolio.

NEXT STEP

Let’s look at your floors.

Book a complimentary assessment. We’ll walk the building, look at what’s built up on the floor and what type of resilient is actually under it, and check whether the current finish is protecting it or burying it. Then we’ll come back with a recommendation to improve your floors’ appearance, along with a price. One corridor or a whole building.

Or call the 24/7 facility support hotline: (800) 728-8508

Frequently Asked Resilient Vinyl Floor Cleaning Questions