How to Clean Commercial Linoleum Floors

How to properly clean a linoleum floor

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Access to warm water
• Bucket
• nylon bristle brush/mop

1. Think back to your days filled with pestering your high school janitor.

2. Fill a bucket with warm water and a little bit of common dish soap. Ivory brand dish soap is a very readily available and cheap soap to use in this application.

3. Using either a mop or nylon bristle brush, scrub/apply the affected area thoroughly. Linoleum is a very hardy material, but it usually is a floor surface of a highly traveled area. Especially in commercial applications, equipment can cause deep grooves that really attract foreign bodies. Make sure to scrub these indentations thoroughly.

4. Rinse with a damp mop to pick up any excess soapy residue.
   For large surface areas, either use two buckets, one with warm soapy water and one with clean water, or use a hose to rinse the area once it has been scrubbed.

5. Admire your easily maintained flooring system.

Tips & Warnings

• Linoleum is a low cost, natural material and was designed to be easily maintained. This is why it is so readily used in public schools (which are low-bid), warehouses, social service offices, etc. Low cost, low maintainance makes it a winning combination for an owner/operator.
• Be careful of All-purpose cleansers and solvents can destroy the coating and can leave behind a sticky residue, so avoid these, especially since warm water and some dish soap will do the trick.