The Buford Highway corridor holds hundreds of independent kitchens, and almost all of them share one floor story. Somebody scrubs it hard every night, it still looks gray, and eventually a vendor suggests replacing the tile. Dull VCT floors Chamblee owners are told to tear out are usually recoverable. The finish is saturated with cooking oils and worn to nothing along the line from the door to the range, but the tile below has not failed. Restoring it happens after close and is done before the first delivery. Replacing it means a closed kitchen, and in this corridor a closed week is a serious problem.

Nightly scrubbing is not the same as removing the film

A deck brush and degreaser take the fresh grease off the top. What stays is what soaked in when the floor was warm and the kitchen was busy.

Layer that up over a couple of years and the coating turns permanently gray. It also gets slick, which is a bigger deal than the appearance, because a kitchen floor is somebody safety equipment.

What restoring dull VCT floors Chamblee kitchens have involves

Take the loaded coating off completely. Neutralize and rinse so no stripper residue remains, because residue is what causes new finish to cloud and peel about three weeks later.

Then rebuild in thin coats with cure time. In a kitchen we also talk about how much gloss is appropriate, since a high-shine finish is not always the right call on a wet route.

Georgia food service rules from the state Department of Public Health are the reference point for what a kitchen floor surface has to do, and it is not the same as what a dining room floor has to do.

Quarry tile is a different animal

A lot of kitchens here have quarry tile rather than VCT. It is not waxed. It gets deep cleaned and the grout gets attention, because the grout is where the grease actually lives.

Anyone offering to put finish on quarry tile has not looked at your kitchen. A vendor who names your floor type before quoting is telling you something useful for free.

Most commercial cleaning gets sold on price per square foot, then quietly handed to whoever was cheapest and free that night. That’s why quality slides after month two — the scope was never real to begin with. We build yours from an actual walkthrough of your actual building, on your actual hours. Then we send the same crew who learned it. Boring? Completely. It’s also the only thing that makes month five look like month one.

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Flex space, Antique Row and everything between

Chamblee is not only kitchens. The Chamblee-Tucker industrial belt has flex suites with sealed concrete, and the rail district shops near Antique Row have older tile worth saving.

Buildings near PDK airport and along Peachtree Boulevard run every kind of floor we handle. One walkthrough sorts out which routine each one belongs on.

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