Commercial Floor Scrubbing in Boise, Idaho
We deep clean hard floors with commercial auto scrubbers, across Ada and Canyon counties. Concrete, sealed concrete, epoxy, tile and terrazzo. This is for floors that get mopped regularly and still look dirty.
Who this is for
- Warehouses and shops with tire marks, oil and forklift traffic ground into the concrete.
- Retail and grocery with large hard floor areas that a mop cannot keep up with.
- Restaurant and commercial kitchens where grease has built into the floor and the grout lines.
- Gyms, schools and clinics where the floor is cleaned nightly and still looks grey.
- Post-construction cleanup, where the floor is under drywall dust and adhesive residue.
Why mopping stops working
A mop does not remove dirty water. It moves it.
You dip, you spread, the bucket gets dirtier, and every pass lays a thin film of soil and detergent residue back onto the floor. That film is slightly tacky, so it holds the next round of dirt better than bare floor does. The result is a floor that gets dirty faster after each cleaning, which is why a floor mopped every night can still look worse in month six than it did in month one.
An auto scrubber does three things in one pass. It puts down clean solution, agitates it with a pad or brush, and vacuums it straight back up behind a squeegee. What comes off the floor goes into the recovery tank. It does not go back down.
That difference is most of the reason a scrubbed floor looks different from a mopped one.
How we do it
- 01
We sweep or dust mop first. Running a scrubber over loose grit just grinds it into the floor and wrecks the pads.
- 02
We pre-treat the bad areas by hand. Oil spots, tire marks, grease near fryers and prep stations. These do not come up on a single pass and pretending otherwise wastes everyone’s time.
- 03
We match the pad or brush to the surface. Smooth sealed concrete takes a pad. Textured concrete and anything with grout lines needs brushes, because a pad rides over the low spots and leaves the dirt sitting in them.
- 04
We scrub, usually in overlapping passes, and let the machine recover the solution as it goes.
- 05
We go back over anything that did not release the first time. Heavily soiled floors sometimes need two passes and a longer dwell.
- 06
We detail the edges and corners by hand, because no ride-on machine reaches them.
Downtime
Much less than strip and wax. The floor is dry behind the machine within minutes, so we can work in sections and keep the rest of the space open.
For most warehouses and shops we can scrub during operating hours by working around traffic. For retail and food service we usually still schedule after close, but the floor is ready long before you open rather than curing overnight.
If you have been putting off a floor because you cannot afford the shutdown, this is the service to ask about.
One-time deep clean, or on a schedule
Both, and they are genuinely different jobs. A one-time deep clean is for a floor that has been neglected, or is changing hands, or is coming out of construction. It is heavier work, it takes longer, and it is priced accordingly.
Once a floor is back to a good baseline, keeping it there costs a fraction of getting it there. Recurring schedules cost less per visit than one-off calls, and the floor never gets bad enough to need rescuing again. If your floor is currently in rough shape, the honest sequence is one deep clean followed by a maintenance schedule. We will price both so you can see the difference.
What it costs
Priced by square footage and by condition. A warehouse that has been scrubbed monthly for two years and a warehouse that has never been scrubbed are not the same job, even at identical square footage.
We walk commercial spaces before quoting. Square footage over the phone is a guess, and floor condition cannot be described over the phone at all.
What we need from you
- Access, and whatever that involves: keys, codes, a contact who knows the alarm.
- Pallets, racking and equipment moved off whatever we are scrubbing, or a clear agreement about what we work around.
- A water source, power, and somewhere to dump recovery tanks.
Getting started
Serving Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle, Kuna, Star, Garden City, Middleton, and the rest of Ada and Canyon counties.
Or call (208) 985-6206.
Nick answers his own phone, daily 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM.