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Health Hazards Hidden in Dirty Tile and Grout

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Just because you mopped your tile floor doesn’t mean it’s clean. Dirt and microbes may be hiding in the grout regardless of how often you clean your tile floor. Tiles tend to trap the dirt and even the odors from these sources.

Consider Professional Surface Restoration to deep clean your tile and grout. We specialize in cleaning hard surfaces, effectively getting rid of hidden dirt and trapped odors, and bringing your floor back to the original state you remember.

Dangers of the Five-Second Rule

It’s about time to retire the belief that you can still safely eat anything off the floor if it hasn’t been down there for five seconds. Harmful bacteria do not wait five seconds before infecting food.

Your kitchen, dining areas, or any room with tiled floors are at risk of harboring bacteria that may harm your entire family.

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Keep your tile and grout free of bacteria with Professional Surface Restoration. If you could prevent children from eating dropped food, you would. Children will do anything, so it would be best to ensure your floors are as clean as possible.

Common Germs and Bacteria in Dirty Tile and Grout

Germs pose several health risks for your eyes, lungs, and stomach. Here are some dangerous bacteria that commonly thrive in dirty grout:

  • Streptococcus: Strep bacteria trapped in tile and grout can be airborne and cause a sore throat, specifically called strep throat. This condition includes fever and pain when swallowing. It is more common among children than adults.
  • Staphylococcus: This contagious germ spreads through skin-to-skin contact, resulting in several skin infections. Staph bacteria may cause blisters, boils, and cellulitis, a condition that causes redness, swelling, and pain.
  • Escherichia Coli: Commonly known as E-coli, this bacteria commonly affects children. Adults then contract E-coli through their children. E-coli infection leads to painful illnesses, such as abdominal pain, extreme diarrhea, and vomiting.
  • Salmonella: This bacteria spread through contaminated food and water. Salmonella also thrives in bathroom tiles. Children and adults with weak immune systems have a high risk of developing salmonella-associated adverse symptoms, including abdominal pain, chills, diarrhea, fever, and vomiting.
  • Campylobacter: Like other common bacteria in this list, campylobacter affects children. Infants crawling on the floor also run risks of contracting this bacteria. Affected people may experience bloating, cramping, diarrhea, and fever.

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Dirty Tile Floors, Dirty Air

Bacteria hiding in dirty tile and grout contribute to poor indoor air quality. Poor air quality may cause the following health effects:

  • Confusion
  • Dizziness
  • Fatigue
  • Headaches
  • Irritation (eyes, nose, and throat)
  • Nausea

Meticulous and Professional Cleaning Solution

Professional deep cleaning services can effectively restore any home with tiled floors to ensure overall health and safety for the entire family. However, you may still have to deep clean your grout and tiles occasionally to maintain their condition. Here are some tips on how to clean dirty tile and grout properly:

  1. Wipe down visible dust with a damp cloth.
  2. Use a baking soda, vinegar, and water solution to clean tiles.
  3. Use a toothbrush to clean between tiles.
  4. Allow the solution to sit before scrubbing.
  5. Rinse the tiles with water.

If you perform these tips and still notice stains on your grout or tiles, consider professional cleaning services to save you the trouble. Get in touch with our experts at Professional Surface Restoration to discuss your options today!

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COVID-19 Disinfecting Service

By antimicrobial floor coating, Commercial Cleaning Services, COVID-19, Deep Cleaning

The coronavirus pandemic has been one of the most transformative periods of our lives. It has affected pretty much everything from the way businesses run to how we interact with one another.

With the challenges of 2020 being phased out, companies and businesses are reopening and welcoming customers again. It is truly a wonderful thing to see; people are coming out and attending small events, company workers can resume, and businesses are also able to run and provide their services, albeit to a lesser degree than they could before the pandemic hit.

Day by day, it looks more like the world is returning to normal.

Protection as a Priority

However, it is critical to point out that “normal” isn’t exactly what we have now. Companies and businesses are opening their doors again, but there’s a need to still stay careful and vigilant. One of the most significant areas where we need vigilance is with cleanliness and organization.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided guidelines for companies and businesses that resume operations to help them understand how to keep surfaces and their environments clean. To ensure compliance with these standards, we at Professional Surface Restoration are looking to provide businesses with the best COVID-19 disinfecting services available.

Our Solution

Professional Surface Restoration is a full-service, deep cleaning and surface restoration company. While we continue to provide our core service to locations that require it, we’re also lending our expertise to businesses that are looking to bounce back from the coronavirus. Our professionals are on hand and would like to provide the best in surface restoration and cleaning to companies of all sizes and industries, allowing them to achieve optimal cleanliness as they welcome customers.

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Fight Bac™ RTU Disinfectant

This quaternary based, anti-bacterial cleaner is an ideal disinfectant spray for use in hospitals, nursing homes, schools and hotels. It provides excellent performance in cutting grease, heavy soil and filth with quick drying times.

It’s also efficacious against

  • COVID-19
  • TB
  • Staph aureus
  • Salmonella
  • Pseudomonas and Ecoli.
  • Also virucidal when used on pre-cleaned environmental surfaces against HIV-1 (AIDS virus) and Canine Parvovirus.

Features include:

  • Broad spectrum disinfectant – kills Human Coronavirus, TB, HBV, HAV, HCV, staph, salmonella, and pseudomonas.
  • Meets requirements of OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard.
  • Quat-based formula for use on a variety of hard, nonporous environmental surfaces.
  • Quickly cuts grease, cleans, disinfects and deodorizes hard surfaces.

Why Work With Us?

Quality Assured

COVID-19 disinfecting services are critical now because of the health crisis we’re facing. To ensure the protection of you and your customers, you need the best hands on the job. At Professional Surface Restoration, we have qualified cleaners who are well-trained and experienced. No matter the cleaning task’s nature, they can get things done easily and without any stress whatsoever.

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Support for Your Business

It doesn’t matter what you want cleaner or what type of business you run. As long as you’re taking in customers in this period, you need to ensure their protection at all times. Let the professionals help you out.

We can take care of multiple parts of your building and ensure that everything you need cleaned is in pristine condition. We guarantee a no-hassle experience.

Cost-Effective Cleaning Services

A proper COVID-19 disinfecting service doesn’t have to cost you a fortune. With Professional Surface Restoration, you can get the best of both worlds—optimal surface cleanliness at low costs.

For the best cleaning and disinfecting services in the Toledo area, contact Professional Surface Restoration.

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FAQs About Antimicrobial Floor Coating

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Daily business concerns are often more than enough to keep you busy. Ensuring the safety and maintenance of the flooring can go from being a distant thought to an urgent problem that suddenly needs to be dealt with quickly, especially during these times of microbiological awareness. Preventing the spread of disease has become a singular priority in the last year and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.

What Is Antimicrobial Floor Coating?

Microbial, sometimes called antibacterial, flooring is produced with an EPA-registered component that deters and inhibits the growth of microorganisms, which provides long-term protection from a wide-ranging spectrum of bacteria, fungi, yeast, actinomycetes, and mildew. It can also protect your flooring from odor-causing microorganisms.

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For the best prevention possible, we use an antimicrobial dispersion throughout the resin used for the floor, rather than just in the sealer alone. This process maximizes antimicrobial protection, as well as giving the flooring a beautiful glossy shine.

Why Is It Important?

Bacteria and microbes exist nearly everywhere and in every environment. They can even survive in outer space. Imagine how easily germs can be carried into your facility by your staff, customers, shipping partners, and even by industrious creatures like rodents and tiny ones like insects. Your flooring is a high-traffic area and is likely to have the most exposure to microbes than any other part of your facility, therefore, it should be the most heavily protected from microorganisms. This is especially true of businesses that demand clean and safe processing environments.

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What Are the Benefits?

Concrete is naturally porous and is a breeding ground for bacteria, fungi, molds, and spores. These microbes grow in the moisture-retaining cracks and crevices found in concrete. Compared to bare concrete, antimicrobial flooring systems:

  • Provide a more microbiologically sound environment, which prohibits the growth of microbes, rendering your facility safer from health hazards.
  • Are USDA compliant and CFIA approved.
  • Come in a variety of colors and textures (for safety)
  • Can be installed very quickly, minimizing facility downtime
  • Are easy to clean and sanitize, eliminating the need for caustic chemicals which pollute the air

What Industries Are Best Benefited from Antimicrobial Flooring?

  • Manufacturer Processing and Packing Facilities
  • Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
  • Meat and Seafood Packing Facilities
  • Laboratories
  • Bakeries, Kitchens, and Dairies
  • Pharmaceutical Processing Facilities

The list is not exhaustive. Any business can benefit from antimicrobial floor coating since it provides a barrier for microbe growth, which is rapidly becoming an important focus of businesses around the world.

For more information on antimicrobial floor coating solutions and how they can benefit your particular business, reach out to Professional Surface Restoration today at (419) 705-8693.