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Custodian's Guide |
Follow these instructions to keep you terrazzo
floor clean and long lasting. These are minimum
maintenance suggestions:
CAUTION:
Before deviation from the instructions, contact
your local Terrazzo Contractor for advice. Always
keep rinse water, mops & pails clean!
Daily:
Sweep using yarn-wick brush treated with sweeping
compound.
Hand work
stubborn
stains
and
scuff marks
with neutral cleaner diluted in warm water.
Weekly:
Damp mop lightly soiled floors with neutral cleaner.
Heavily soiled floors should be scrubbed with a
mechanical buffing machine and neutral cleaner.
Mop up residue with clean water before it dries.
Allow to dry and buff with a dry brush.
NOTE: Allow your neutral cleaner, once applied
to the terrazzo surface, time to react. It is designed
to loosen foreign matter. Several minutes should
be adequate, but do not allow solution to dry on
the surface.
Semi-Annually:
Strip all old sealer and any finish coats. Reseal
clean floor.
WARNING!!
It is important that any sealer or dressing be
listed by underwriter’s laboratories for
slip resistance.
The preceding minimum maintenance suggestions have
proven over time to provide the owner with the
lowest maintenance cost of any floor system.
Some options to the above include the following: |
- Apply high luster finishes on top of the
sealer to the desired sheen. These normally require
the added expense of spray-buffing to maintain
the sheen. Terrazzo, unlike other floors, does
not require this for wear protection.
- There is another process that would produce
a sheen without the application of sealers. As
you clean your floors with the neutral cleaner
/ water solution, your final mop picks up the
majority of this cleaner, but still some remains
on the surface. After several such procedures,
the residue of cleaner will become buffable and
result in a sheen with buffing after each washing.
This method of achieving a sheen never requires
the stripping action, thus, reducing your maintenance
costs. This is not recommended in areas exposed
to staining materials.
- As of late, some owners have been testing
new technologies from the marble and granite
industries to produce super high gloss finishes
without day to day recoating. These include diamond
pads for mechanical honing and polishing as well
as crystallization/vitrification products. As
of this time the long term maintenance cost of
these systems is not known by this Association.
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Note: In the event that your floor
becomes heavily soiled, consult with your local
terrazzo contractor or this association for directions
before using any miracle cleaner suggested by someone
not familiar with terrazzo. Ignoring this warning
could prove harmful to your floor surface. |
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