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Solution control: the versatile towel: floor maintenance is the act of maintaining a floor surface utilizing various cleaning methods to remove soil. Dry particulates are easily removed with sweeping, dust mopping, micro fiber cloth systems and vacuuming, but as the soil becomes more difficult, so too does the cleaning methodology.

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Wet services will be incorporated to remove these soils. Damp, wet and aggressive mopping will remove light, moderate and heavy soiling, while embedded and encapsulated soil can be effectively removed by machine scrubbing or stripping the floor. The common denominator for the wet service function is that a cleaning solution will be used to remove the soiling condition. An often-overlooked segment for cleaning is in solution control.

Water always seeks the path of least resistance to settle in the lowest point. Because water is a primary element in most cleaning and coating formulations, the same rules of gravity apply. It is important for the technician to know how to control the solution to keep it where it is needed.

Solution control is not about the chemical/water mixture so much as it is about where the solution goes....

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