Protect Your Commercial Floor Mats throughout the Holidays

The holidays are a busy time for consumers and businesses. Many people are out shopping for gifts for loved ones and friends and many others simply enjoy window-shopping this time of year. For whatever reason consumers are getting out more, it’s great for your business but it can be really rough on your floor mats.

The extra heavy foot traffic will increase the amount of dirt and grime tracked into your facility and if you don’t take extra steps to keep them clean, it’ll get ground into the mats. The more it’s ground in, the harder it will be to get them clean.

If it goes too long, you won’t be able to get all the dirt and grime out and this will make your mats wear out much faster than normal. As a result, you’ll have to replace your floor mats much sooner than normal but a simple change in your cleaning routine can help to protect your mats and compensate for the extra traffic.

Benefits of Increasing Your Routine Maintenance

Adding to your routine maintenance schedule may seem like a lot of extra work during an already stressful time of year but these few extra steps can help protect your investment. Any time of year that you see an increase in business, your flooring and floor mats will suffer the most.

By cleaning the mats more often, you’re removing a lot of the dirt and grime before it has a chance to do any damage. It will also remove the dirt trapped between your mats and the floor, which can scratch up and damage the flooring the more it’s walked on. It’s important to protect your flooring because you don’t want to replace it too often due to the expense.

Tips for Cleaning Floor Mats in High Traffic Areas

Working in an extra cleaning step is easier than it sounds. If you normally clean your commercial floor mats twice a day, you can add an extra cleaning time about halfway between the scheduled cleanings when business is at its slowest. This will help to pick up the access dirt on top of the mats before the next rush hits, which will prevent it from being ground in deeper from everyone walking on it.

Reducing the amount of ground in dirt makes it easier to clean the mats at the end of the night. This will save you a lot of time and aggravation later. At closing, rinse down the floor mats with a water hose and scrub any stubborn areas clean with a mild soap and scrubber designed for the type of mats you have. Rinse out all the soap and hang them up to dry overnight.

Be sure to clean under the mats at least once during the day to pick up any dirt that’s made its way through to the floor and then again during the final cleaning. Adding this extra step to your maintenance routine will help to extend the life of your commercial floor mats and reduce the damage the extra traffic can cause. It will keep them looking like new much longer and working in an extra cleaning step, only takes a few minutes.