Walk into almost any building in Technology Park Atlanta and the floor will show you where people go. There is a darker stripe from the front door to the elevator, another to the break room, and a third out to the dock. Those stripes are the whole story behind stripping vs burnishing Peachtree Corners. A floor is rarely worn evenly, which means one blanket treatment for the entire footprint is usually wrong in two directions at once. Read the lanes first. They tell you which rooms need real work and which ones have barely been touched since the last visit.

Traffic lanes are a map of your building

The stripe is where the finish has been worn thinnest and where soil has been ground in hardest. Everything either side of it is usually in decent shape and does not need the same intervention.

That is good news. It means you can often restore a building by treating the lanes properly and leaving the quiet areas on a light cycle, instead of shutting the whole floor down.

How we call stripping vs burnishing Peachtree Corners, aisle by aisle

Look at the lane in low light. If it is hazy but even, polish it. If it is gray and streaked, it has embedded soil, and that has to come out before any coating goes on top.

Coating over ground-in soil is the classic own goal. The new finish seals the dirt in place, the lane still looks dark, and now removing it means a full strip that you did not need last week.

Embedded soil will not buff out

Burnishing heats and levels the top of the finish. It does not lift anything out of the film. If the darkness is inside the coating rather than sitting on it, speed alone will not help.

A deep scrub with the right pad and solution is what pulls that out, and then the fresh coats go over a clean base. ISSA industry resources resources cover this sequence well, and the order it describes is the order that works.

Most of this work gets sold as a line item on a rate sheet and staffed by whoever was near that night, which is how the same treatment ends up on every floor in a park. We are about five minutes up Peachtree Parkway from our office on River Exchange Drive, so we would rather come look at your lanes first.

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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One flex building can hold three floor types

Front office carpet. Old vinyl composition tile in the corridor. Sealed concrete or epoxy in the back. Newer suites near The Forum and Town Center often have vinyl plank instead, which usually wants no finish at all.

Each one gets its own line in the periodic schedule with its own method. Treating plank like old vinyl tile is the mistake we see most often around Holcomb Bridge Road, and it is not a reversible one.

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