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ICAN  Q & A  Home CMI Home CMI Membership Book Store Educational Courses Contact Us	Friday, May 24, 2013 The International Custodial Advisors Network, Inc. (ICAN)--a non-profit association comprised of industry consultants with a wide range of expertise in building management, indoor environmental and service disciplines provides this free janitorial and building maintenance consultation service to the industry through Cleaning Management Institute. Building maintenance professionals can use this service to get knowledgeable answers to questions regarding facility maintenance from experienced industry experts who are ICAN members. To submit a question, simply click on this button. You will be notified by e-mail when suggested solutions from ICAN members are posted on this page, usually within three business days. Before submitting a question, you may want to search ICAN's Index of Building Maintenance Topics below for responses to previous questions in similar subject categories or use the key word search engines in ICAN's Facility Maintenance Professionals Troubleshooting Search Center. Index of Building Maintenance Topics Bidding & Estimating (291) Blended/Skip/Cooperative Cleaning (2) Carpet/Furniture Care (95) Cleaning for Health & Safety (57) Cleaning Procedures (241) Colleges, Schools & Universities (35) Contract Cleaning (114) Day Cleaning (16) Developing Management Teams (4) Distribution (1) Employee Issues (17) Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies (55) Executive & Managerial Development (3) Facilitating/Advising Process Improvement Teams (1) Facility Management (25) Family Business Issues (4) Foodservice/Hospitality/Hotels (8) Green Cleaning (33) Groundskeeping & Building Exteriors (3) Hard & Resilient Floor Care (226) Healthcare (22) Hiring & Staffing (24) Implementation of Cleaning Systems Upgrades (7) Indoor Air Quality (10) Industrial (4) Instructional Materials and Manuals (2) Legal Issues (10) Marketing Strategies (18) Mold Prevention & Remediation (10) New Product Development and Testing (9) Operations Audits (3) Production Rates (18) Quality Assurance (6) Residential, Apartment & Condo (11) Sales Training (1) Slip & Fall (4) Software (5) Strategic Planning (9) Team Cleaning (9) Training Resources (17) Water & Fire Damage Restoration (6) Zone Cleaning (1)   Facility Maintenance Professionals Troubleshooting Search Center Search the Q & A Archives    Search the Article Archives    Search the Article Archives    Recent Questions Click on the question to read ICAN solutions [Tuesday, May 21, 2013] I just secured my first office cleaning contract. The Property Manager says she will supply all cleaning supplies as soon as I forward a list of desired cleaning products. What cleaning products would you recommend I use for stainless steel (kitchen app. sinks and counters). Marble (huge marble table)... Not to mention copious amounts of woodwork, interior glass windows, leather chairs, and lcd/plasma flat screens? Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies - joe benjamin [Monday, May 20, 2013] I have an account with a correctional facility. The warden wants the bathrooms stripped and finished. I informed him since the flooring was sheet vinyl, I would not strip and finish them. The prior account holder applied finish over dirt, and used some type of finish that did not have a very good shine. Should sheet vinyl floors be finished? Hard & Resilient Floor Care - ron branson [Friday, May 17, 2013] I am bidding on a cleaning contract with a movie theater that is 16,000 sq. ft. I will be cleaning the tile floors, vacuum carpet, 4 restrooms, (two men/two women) 1 lobby, 4 glass entrance doors, 12 movie theater showrooms, (6 at each end of the hall with the movie theater lobby in the middle) cleaning all the movie theater seats with cup holders and armrest, empty trash disposal, and I am providing all cleaning equipment and cleaning supplies. I will make sure that all their paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers and bathroom tissue holders are filled (they supply those items). I will be working with 5 workers including me. Will try to be finished in 6 hours. How much should I bid on a movie theater contract? Bidding & Estimating - Darden Jones [Friday, May 17, 2013] I am preparing for the seasonal cleaning of the ceramic tile in our court house restrooms.Will be using a 12'' scrubber. What type of product works best and will a 12" scrub pad be to harsh? Going to use a doodle bug pad with a black pad also.The grout lines look decent since the facility is only 10 months old. Any advice or recommendations? Hard & Resilient Floor Care - Jack Raffensberger
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