Extended-stay and select-service properties around Technology Park Atlanta share a trait: a lot of hard floor and not much carpet. Lobbies, breakfast rooms, corridors on the ground level, laundry rooms, back halls. That makes the floor section the heaviest part of a hotel cleaning checklist Peachtree Corners managers put together, and the part most often written as a single word. “Floors.” That word covers vinyl plank, sheet vinyl, porcelain tile, sealed concrete and terrazzo, and every one of them wants something different from you. We are five minutes up Peachtree Parkway, so we see the results of guessing pretty regularly.

Name every floor type before you write frequencies

Walk the property with a notepad and label each area by material. Luxury vinyl plank in the corridor. Porcelain in the breakfast area. Sealed concrete behind the laundry door. Tile and grout in the public restrooms.

Now the frequencies write themselves, because each material has its own routine and its own periodic cycle. One line called “floors” hides all of that and guarantees somebody uses the wrong pad.

The hotel cleaning checklist Peachtree Corners floor section should specify

Daily: dust mop or vacuum, then damp mop or auto-scrub with the right solution strength. Weekly: edges, corners and the base of every wall, which is where a machine never reaches.

Periodic: burnish, deep scrub and recoat, or strip and refinish, depending on material and traffic. Put dates on those. A recoat that lives in somebody’s memory does not happen.

Products matter more on new floors than old ones

Newer buildings around The Forum and Town Center tend to have plank and porcelain rather than old vinyl composition tile. Plank does not want a stripper, and porcelain does not want a wax.

Choosing the right chemistry is also a sustainability question that guests and corporate travel programs ask about, and EPA Safer Choice is a straightforward reference when you want a defensible answer instead of a marketing one.

A slick floor near a breakfast station or a laundry door is the one that hurts somebody, so traction belongs on the checklist next to appearance. They are not the same goal.

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

Being close changes what a program can promise

Our office is on River Exchange Drive, minutes away along Holcomb Bridge Road. That means a walkthrough this week and the same crew back every visit rather than whoever happened to be nearby.

It also means periodic work does not have to wait for a heroic all-night push. We can split a refinish across two short visits and keep your lobby open the whole time.

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