Most Snellville businesses do not run a procurement process, and there is nothing wrong with that. It does mean nobody has ever handed you a document explaining what you are actually paying for. So here is the floor stripping process Snellville owners are buying, in the order it happens on the night, from the moment the van parks to the moment the doors get locked. No jargon. No invented timings, because the real ones come from the products in use. Just the sequence, so that when a vendor tells you the price, you know which parts of the night that price is supposed to cover.

Arrival, survey and the test patch

The crew confirms which areas are in scope, checks the materials, and runs a small test patch in a corner to confirm the product releases the finish without harming the tile.

Then furniture and fixtures move on a plan, so everything comes back to where it started. That plan should already exist from the walkthrough, not get invented at 9pm.

The middle of the floor stripping process Snellville businesses rarely see

Signage and barriers go up. Stripper goes down in sections and dwells for as long as its label requires. The crew agitates by machine in the open field and by hand at edges, corners and doorways.

Then pickup, fast, before the slurry dries back down. Then the neutralize and rinse, repeated until the water runs clear. Then the floor has to actually dry.

Coats, then the part where everyone leaves it alone

Finish goes down in coats, with real drying time between each one, and the count comes from the manufacturer of the product being used rather than a tradition.

After the last coat, the floor cures. It looks finished and it is not, and traffic during that window causes marks nobody can buff out later.

Since nobody around here is running a bid process, one plain warning is worth more than a brochure. The common model is a price per square foot delivered by whoever came in lowest, and the stages that get quietly dropped are always the invisible ones: the edges, the rinse and the drying. IICRC industry standards make the same point about assessment and process. We scope from a walkthrough and send back the same crew.

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.

DBS Cleaning Services Group

Not every floor in your building belongs in this scope

Retail spaces along Scenic Highway and US-78, and the units around The Grove at Towne Center, often mix VCT with LVT. LVT usually should not be stripped, and the manufacturer instruction decides it.

A restaurant kitchen sits on quarry tile, which is degreased and left bare. An entry with terrazzo goes on a polish and seal path. One building, several answers, one honest scope.

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