CM/Spotlight: Carpet Care Selecting Certified Carpet Care Equipment By: Bob Abrams To ensure efficient, effective cleaning, look for third-party certified machines. F Bob Abrams is a product manager with Nilfisk-Advance, responsible for commercial vacuum cleaners and carpet cleaning equip-ment. With over 25 years of business development experi-ence in both equipment and chemicals for professional carpet care, Abrams is one of the cleaning industry’s foremost experts. For more information, please visit www.Advance-US.com. Facility managers are tasked with the challenge to not only keep their building looking clean and visually appealing, but also to implement sustain-able cleaning practices that maintain a facility’s health and flooring longevity. One component of maintenance procedures is carpet cleaning, which significantly impacts the overall appearance of a facility. Dirty, worn carpet can negatively affect a patron’s first impression and satisfaction, and indicates an unkempt building. Carpet is an expensive investment for any facility, making it crucial to maintain with regular vacuuming and annual deep cleaning. This not only adds to a carpet’s longevity — which increases a facility manager’s bottom line — but also increases the building’s physical condition. Carpet acts as a filter to capture and hold air-borne particles, including dust, dirt and harmful chemicals. Routine carpet cleaning minimizes exposure to these contaminants, improving indoor air quality for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Carpet Care . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select SUPPLIER SEARCH from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: CRI . At a facility where appearances are of the utmost importance, third-party certified carpet cleaning equipment can be worth its weight in gold. 16 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • June 2012 Image courtesy of Nilfisk-Advance
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