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ICAN  Q & A  Home CMI Home CMI Membership Book Store CMI Events Educational Courses Calendar About Us Site Search Login Update Profile Newsletter Member Directory Member Portal Forum	Thursday, July 02, 2009 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 (135) Blended/Skip/Cooperative Cleaning (3) Carpet/Furniture Care (68) Cleaning for Health & Safety (40) Cleaning Procedures (165) Colleges, Schools & Universities (24) Contract Cleaning (68) Day Cleaning (10) Developing Management Teams (3) Distribution (1) Employee Issues (10) Equipment, Chemicals & Supplies (36) Executive & Managerial Development (3) Facilitating/Advising Process Improvement Teams (1) Facility Management (15) Family Business Issues (3) Foodservice/Hospitality/Hotels (6) Green Cleaning (22) Groundskeeping & Building Exteriors (2) Hard & Resilient Floor Care (147) Healthcare (14) Hiring & Staffing (10) Implementation of Cleaning Systems Upgrades (3) Indoor Air Quality (8) Industrial (3) Instructional Materials and Manuals (2) Legal Issues (4) Marketing Strategies (14) Mold Prevention & Remediation (8) 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) Software (5) Strategic Planning (7) Team Cleaning (8) Training Resources (13) Water & Fire Damage Restoration (3) 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 [Monday, June 01, 2009] How do I bid on a 15,000 sq. ft. facility that has hundreds of chairs and tables that must be moved and returned after stripping, sealing, and refinishing the floor? Contract Cleaning - Dean Vlisides [Monday, June 01, 2009] Would you be able to help me find out who I should contact regarding cleaning up our school? I work for a Chicago Public School that really needs HELP making our school environment clean, safe, and healthy. Our school has a dedicated principal and staff that care deeply about our students. We would like to make a change at our school to help the students and the community. We actually had a retreat this weekend where teachers met together and talked about how serious we are about making this school WORK. Although we are all very committed in doing this, I do believe that if the school had a fresh, clean look it would only make it better. The school terribly needs to be cleaned; the smell alone is distracting to the students. Cleaning for Health & Safety - Susan phelan [Monday, June 01, 2009] Is there any completely dry method (no water) of cleaning carpets? If using the HOST method should an annual HWE still occur? Does the Rotovac have a detrimental effect on carpets? What is the cleaning method recommended by most experts? Carpet/Furniture Care - Janice Haney [Monday, June 01, 2009] I have just faux painted my concrete floors. I used a Behr wet look sealer, but after curing for 24 hours when I slid furniture across the floor the paint peels. What can I do to prevent this? Hard & Resilient Floor Care - Liddie Pannell
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