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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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.

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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 (102)

Blended/Skip/Cooperative Cleaning (2)

Carpet/Furniture Care (56)

Cleaning for Health & Safety (32)

Cleaning Procedures (138)

Colleges, Schools & Universities (21)

Contract Cleaning (51)

Day Cleaning (9)

Developing Management Teams (3)

Distribution (1)

Employee Issues (8)

Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies (26)

Executive & Managerial Development (3)

Facilitating/Advising Process Improvement Teams (1)

Facility Management (12)

Family Business Issues (3)

Foodservice/Hospitality/Hotels (6)

Green Cleaning (17)

Groundskeeping & Building Exteriors (2)

Hard & Resilient Floor Care (113)

Healthcare (11)

Hiring & Staffing (8)

Implementation of Cleaning Systems Upgrades (3)

Indoor Air Quality (8)

Instructional Materials and Manuals (2)

Legal Issues (3)

Marketing Strategies (13)

Mold Prevention & Remediation (8)

New Product Development and Testing (7)

Operations Audits (3)

Production Rates (11)

Quality Assurance (2)

Residential, Apartment & Condo (7)

Sales Training (1)

Slip & Fall (3)

Strategic Planning (7)

Team Cleaning (7)

Training Resources (11)

Water & Fire Damage Restoration (3)

Zone Cleaning (1)

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Recent Questions

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[Monday, May 05, 2008]

How do you suggest removing permanent marker graffitti from glazed cinder block walls? No graffitti remover has worked yet.

Cleaning Procedures - Willaim Gilhooly

[Monday, May 05, 2008]

I live in Florida and would like to know the charge to clean a 43,000 sq. ft. country club. It has 5 dining rooms, 8 bathrooms with showers, rugs, wood floor, many windows (250 window ledges), desks, tile and rugs, tables to be dusted, an employee area, bars, 3 elevators, and 4 stair cases.

Bidding & Estimating - jeanie colberg

[Monday, May 05, 2008]

I have been in the cleaning business for about 30 yrs. I have opened and closed 2 businesses in cleaning. I have been in business for a third time for about 15 yrs. I have mainly stayed with residential cleaning, but would like to start doing construction cleaning again. It has been about 20 years since I last did construction cleans and I am not up to date on the prices per sq. ft. And is there a price for cleaning the interior and a separate price for the windows? I live in Colorado.

Cleaning Procedures - Merry Bloodworth

[Monday, May 05, 2008]

We recently were asked to place a bid on day cleaning at one of our local schools. We have never taken on a project this large before. So, my question is, how do we even begin to quote such a job?

Bidding & Estimating - Craig Packam

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