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Green Brush Glide use directions and suggestions



It has come to our attention at GreenGlides that far too many carpet cleaners are using their Teflon-glided wands on vinyl, tile, and stone surfaces that can be easily scratched and permanently damaged. Our goal was then to create a tool to replace the awkward, messy, streaky, and uncomfortable designs of the common hard surface wands available in our industry.

With our new Green Brush Glide, you’ll be able to safely, easily and enjoyably clean vinyl, tile, and stone quicker than ever! The tufts on our GBGs are specifically designed to enhance water pick up and protect the floor and YOU from costly fixes or replacement.

Our GBGs work best with our selected wands and truckmounted extractors. The ease of use and effectiveness come from the familiarity of your favorite high-performance carpet cleaning wand and your ability to use it quickly and efficiently. As with carpet cleaning, the larger the truckmount and the more efficient your vacuum hose setup is, the more pressure you will be able to use and the better recovery you will enjoy. Cleaners will enjoy just how easy it is to clean under or around furniture and right to the very edge of baseboards on most any hard surface.

Our other goal with this project was to make hard surface cleaning easier and quicker so that cleaning companies can once again start cleaning whole homes, rather than just the three bedrooms of carpeting that is becoming so common. More and more homeowners are choosing to install vinyl and tile in their living, family, and dining rooms and we believe that if your company can offer to clean those floors for the same price as they are used to with the carpet, they will.

We highly recommend that you or your phone staff start mentioning your “new service offering” when customers call in to place an order for just carpet cleaning. Explain how you or your techs can now quickly and efficiently rinse away mop water or Swiffer residues, pet hair, oils and accidents, germs (buzzword), and sticky messes that the average mop or vacuum has a hard time removing. You probably won’t be able to finish that sentence before they agree and ask for a quote. It does not take long for homeowners to realize that their new hard surface floors do not stay as clean or are as easy to clean as they had hoped, especially if their tiles or planks have faux wood grain.

The goal is to train your customers to clean ALL their floors more often so that restorative methods and prices can be avoided. Repeat that to yourself and think about just how long it takes to run a spinner tool followed by an edging tool, followed by acid cleaning for tough stains, followed by neutralizing and…you see my point? There really is no reason that you should have to charge any more than your current carpet cleaning rates when cleaning moderately soiled floors with our GBG and recommended process.

Just like with carpet cleaning, wouldn’t you rather clean lightly soiled carpet with a wand rather than perform restorative cleaning with a rotary extractor?

Here is something to chew on: your female clients place far more emphasis on their floor smelling and feeling great then they place on visible stains in the grout. Our industry needs to stop obsessing with using high pH chemistry, acids, and 1500 to 2500 PSI to get floors cleaned to OUR standards. All three of these actions can cause serious damage to floors, add lots of extra time to the cleaning project and thus raise the prices of hard surface floor care to an amount that most homeowners can’t afford on a regular basis.





Processes:

Clean any carpet and upholstery first to avoid drips or foot traffic on the hard surface flooring.

Most vinyl floors can be cleaned with the same chemistry that you use on the carpeting, but there are some LVP-specific products available now.

Wood- or stone-look porcelain is very popular now, but due to very thin and delicate glaze/coatings on these tiles, we recommend that you use neutral pH cleaning agents.

For natural stone, be sure to know exactly what it is you are cleaning and how that stone reacts to alkaline or acidic cleaning agents. If you aren’t sure, play it safe and use a neutral pH solution designed specifically for stone.



-Use a microfiber dust mop to sweep the floor if needed.

-Pour or spray down small puddles of your cleaning agent away from walls, furniture or appliances and use a microfiber flat mop to spread the solution.

-Work in small areas to prevent the solution from drying (no more than 300 square feet at a time, less for porcelain).

-Allow 10 minutes of dwell time.

-Spend the 10 minutes scrubbing stubborn areas in the kitchen or bathrooms IF NEEDED. Use a Doodlebug, pole brush, or CRB as needed.

-Use an All Fiber Rinse through your truckmount (pH of 4 to 5) at low dilution to help reduce water spotting or splotchiness on porcelain, vinyl, and wood. DO NOT USE ON MARBLE, TRAVERTINE, OR LIMESTONE.

-Start rinsing at 300 PSI and go up from there IF NEEDED. Soiled grout and embedded soil in faux wood grain will require 400 to 600 psi most likely. Anything higher than that and you would probably be better off using a spinner tool, although larger truckmounts and 2” wands can easily handle up to 1000 psi with excellent recovery.

-Rinse your way out of the room and follow up with a dry microfiber mop or bonnet to remove any remaining water from the floor.



Helpful tips:

-When rinsing grouted floors, work at an angle to the grout line for better recovery.

-Be aware of MDF baseboards and keep your cleaning and rinsing solutions from getting underneath the gaps to prevent swelling.

-The brushes on your GBG are intended to protect the floor from being scratched, but if you have a stubborn area that could use a scrubaduba, go ahead. We don’t want these things to last forever…

-If you are experiencing poor water recovery, check your inline and blower protection filters, keep your vacuum hose run as short as possible, replace any old and worn wand jets, or reduce your pressure.

-If you choose to use the GBG with wood flooring, turn your pressure all the way down at the truckmount and try reducing flow even more by adjusting the ball valve on your pressure line. All wood floor wet cleaning machines rely on a shower feed which is equivalent to less than 50 psi, keep that in mind. Look for pre-existing water damage on edges and seams and use any evidence of such to make a wise decision about whether to proceed with wet cleaning. The wrong decision can be VERY costly, so don't attempt to be a superhero with wood floors.

-DO NOT use this tool on Pergo/Laminate or MDF-type floors or raw or damaged wood floors.

-So that’s about it, go out and raise your job average by being an all surface cleaning professional!
 

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