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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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 (165)

Blended/Skip/Cooperative Cleaning (3)

Carpet/Furniture Care (78)

Cleaning for Health & Safety (49)

Cleaning Procedures (181)

Colleges, Schools & Universities (27)

Contract Cleaning (76)

Day Cleaning (12)

Developing Management Teams (3)

Distribution (1)

Employee Issues (12)

Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies (41)

Executive & Managerial Development (3)

Facilitating/Advising Process Improvement Teams (1)

Facility Management (17)

Family Business Issues (3)

Foodservice/Hospitality/Hotels (6)

Green Cleaning (30)

Groundskeeping & Building Exteriors (2)

Hard & Resilient Floor Care (166)

Healthcare (16)

Hiring & Staffing (10)

Implementation of Cleaning Systems Upgrades (5)

Indoor Air Quality (9)

Instructional Materials and Manuals (2)

Legal Issues (7)

Marketing Strategies (17)

Mold Prevention & Remediation (10)

New Product Development and Testing (7)

Operations Audits (3)

Production Rates (15)

Quality Assurance (5)

Residential, Apartment & Condo (9)

Sales Training (1)

Slip & Fall (4)

Strategic Planning (7)

Team Cleaning (9)

Training Resources (14)

Water & Fire Damage Restoration (4)

Zone Cleaning (1)

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[Wednesday, March 03, 2010]

What is actually cleaner, carpet or tile? We think the tile is, and I am asking because the District wants to put carpet on the new tile just put in the summer of 2009. The carpet is going down this April, 2010.

Cleaning for Health & Safety - Lorena Larsen

[Thursday, February 25, 2010]

The building that I am bidding on is a Gold certified LEED facility. It is approx. 50,000 sq ft. but only 18,300 is going to be used for a surgical center. What is the going rate per square foot on LEED buildings? They will pay for building supplies.

Bidding & Estimating - Hank Munford

[Thursday, February 25, 2010]

I have two questions: (1) What is the best way to clean the carpet on a raised, carpet tiled floor, to ensure liquids do not get onto the cabling and equipment below the floor, and (2) Is the application of an anti-static chemical after carpet cleaning effective in preventing static discharge from disrupting/damaging computers located in carpeted facilities? Is there a more economical, yet effective method?

Carpet/Furniture Care - Kathy McPherson

[Wednesday, February 24, 2010]

I am looking for a good "Green" dusting spray but, everywhere I look, there is nothing that specifies an eco-friendly "dusting spray." The only results are for traditional products. 1) What determines a product can be called a "dusting spray" and can you recommend a green one? 2) I have seen that the majority of green solutions are concentrated and have different dilution levels for different purposes and thought of purchasing one to use for just dusting. How reliable are these all-in-one green solutions, and if they are as good as they say they are, which one(s) would you recommend which would also be great for dusting? 3) Which green product would you recommend that is strong enough to remove hard baked-on gunk on ovens and stove tops that works as well as the traditional products? I have already used two different green solutions that did not work as well as the product description specified.

Green Cleaning - Dan DC

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