Hotels Maintaining & Cleaning Tile, Marble, and Stone Floors and the Grouting! Protect the Environment! Use StoneClean Concentrates for Residue Free Cleaning!

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 29, 2008 -- Hotels & Finer Homes: Successfully Maintaining / Cleaning Tile & Stone Floors and the Grouting! Plus Granite Counter Tops

What makes Tile and Stone floors (and grout) so hard to clean? There could be several reasons:

1. Using daily cleansers that can't float the dirt /grime out of the more porous grout & tile and stone surfaces

2. Using cleansers that contain detergents that resettle in lower grout joints and deposit some of the dirt with each cleaning the resulting “soap scum” created by cleansers containing Potassium or Sodium Salts. These environmentally unsound cleansers can create more problems than they solve.
3. Periodic waxing and build-up of wax residues in the grouting-typical waxes tend to trap and weld in dirt so the build-up only makes the problem worse
4. The past use of "grout sealers" that contain silicone- silicone based sealers can actually trap and weld in dirt/grease into silicones that are "free"(not bound to the grouting) Also some contain additives that over time whiten or create a haze that is difficult to remove
5. Not using the proper equipment to clean with that can agitate into the joints

6. The past use of acidic grout cleaners that make the grouting more porous and easier to re-soil (acids don't clean they etch).

What is needed then is proper /right cleaning chemistry to help both deep clean and to maintain the tile and stone & grouting.


CLEANING CHEMISTRY - BASIC OVERVIEW


Proper cleaning chemistry is the backbone of your cleaning efforts! Equipment and elbow grease can only do so much!
A brief overview of cleaning chemistry will help you understand your cleaning tasks. This is not intended to be a "scientific" report. It is just good information about cleaning
Cleaning pH- What is it?

pH is a symbol for the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution. pH is measured in a scale between 0 and 14. The smaller the number, the more acidic the solution. A pH of 7 is neutral like water. Some common solutions have the following pH:

SOAP & DETERGENT CHEMISTRY

Liquids have a property called surface tension. A thin razor blade floats in water because of high surface tension. Add a few drops of soap to the water and the razor blades instantly sinks to the bottom.

High surface tension inhibits the cleaning process. Reducing the surface tension increases the cleaning effectiveness. Surfactants (surface active agents) reduce surface tension. They make water "wetter." Surfactants perform other tasks. They loosen and emulsify (dissolve into water) and suspend dirt and oils in solution to be rinsed away.

Surfactants are classified by their ionic (electrical charge) properties in water: anionic (negative charge), nonionic (no charge), cationic (positive charge) and amphoteric (either positive or negative charge). Most soaps are anionic. StoneClean Concentrates are nonionic!.


Why Hard Water Affects Cleaning Action of Most Soaps

This is the bane of janitorial firms and the like. In several parts of the country the water is "hard" (containing minerals). Although soap is a good cleaning agent, its effectiveness is reduced when used in hard water. Hardness in water is caused by the presence of mineral salts- mostly calcium & magnesium, but also iron and manganese. The mineral salts react with the soaps to form an insoluble precipitate recognized as soap film or scum.
Soap film is not easy to clean either!

THE StoneClean Concentrate Difference: No Residues
StoneClean Concentrates are crafted in an exacting way to avoid the common "pitfalls" of basic cleaning chemistry. They are able to accomplish a wide variety of cleaning tasks SAFELY without using caustic chemistry and without leaving cleaning RESIDUES.

StoneClean & Strip (pH of approx. 10) often removes coatings that high pH strippers can't. Some strippers have a pH of 11 (1,000 times more alkaline) or higher.

The higher the alkalinity, the more care is needed to prevent damage to the surfaces! (Use of pH 11 or higher on polished marble is not recommended!)

Hard Water? No Problem!
Since the StoneClean concentrates do not rely on high concentrations of typical soaps, they are effective even in hard water! No high levels of potassium salts or sodium salts will react with minerals to create soap film! Often the comment on floors cleaned with StoneClean concentrates is: "It makes our floor look like new."
With polished granite floors, the most often heard comment is "It makes our floor look shinier - does it have any polishing agents?"

The answer is "Now you are seeing what the floor looks like without any residues!" This is especially true in areas with hard water!


Non- Caustic & They Work!
A common complaint of products is that they don't work as well as the more caustic common cleaners. Some Cleaners breakdown the grease and dirt effectively but fail to float and transfer to give total removal. Some can even allow the dirt to get driven deeper into the stone or grout.

Not so with StoneClean cleaners! The special blend of surfactants are proportioned to aggressively grab the contamination and then to float it up and out! Then, the contaminates stay in solution longer than most cleaners to allowing better TRANSFER into a MOP or AUTO-SCRUBBER!
No Chlorides, No Detergents to leave residues, No d-limonenes, and are pH safe.

Chemistry Summary: When it is RIGHT, You will know it!
If it’s safe and effective on a wide range of surfaces then the chemistry is right! Right chemistry does make a difference! These trade secret formulations can give your trade a secret weapon in the cleaning battle.
Use StoneClean Concentrates to win your clients approval and expand your business!

StoneClean CONC. BENEFITS

GENERAL BENEFITS: SUPERIOR TO OTHER CLEANSERS IN DOING

Grabbing the contamination & then FLOATING it up & out
Then TRANSFERRING the dissolved dirt/grime into the MOP!
RESIDUE FREE CLEANS since they contain no d-Limonene, no phosphates, or other soapy residues.
SAFE for a wide range of surfaces from polished marble to concrete. Also will not damage surrounding surfaces such as carpets & other fabrics.


StoneClean"60"
This is the best DAILY CLEANSER! WHY?

In addition to the four basic listed benefits, StoneClean "60" contains an extremely small amount of an insoluble organic which sinks to the surface of the stone. This substantially alters the hydroscopic (water extracting) effect of cleaning on the surface & leaves a very, very slight, totally clear moisturizing layer. Thus cleaning is achieved without dehydration of the stone/tile!

It is this same chemistry, which also generally eliminates the need for rinse because the water evaporates from above the stone/tile instead of from inside the pores of the stone/tile.

This gentle yet effective cleaning action makes StoneClean "60” a must for floors with coatings/waxes. The dirt is lifted out of the finish so when buffed later the shine is not compromised by embedded dirt that has gotten "buffed" in to the floor.

StoneClean 60 used on a daily basis or weekly for home use will help maintain the clean look to the floor grout. Since it is effective even in high dilution ratios, it is also very cost effective!


StoneClean & Strip

Ideal for initial deep cleaning of stone, tile, grout, & concrete! WHY?

StoneClean & Strip contains a wide spectrum of surfactants that are geared for the widest range of contamination. How can it clean so well without harsh chemicals or without being acidic or high on the pH scale?

StoneClean & Strip uses a sophisticated formulation that is comprised of chemicals which create a three step cleaning process to "bite" the contamination and carry it off the surface

Two of the formulation chemicals, brought down to the surface of the stone/tile through the water solution by a "heavy" molecule ingredient, provides "bite" on oil based substances. (breaking surface tension with the heavy ingredient is key to letting the ingredients do their job)
The blend of surfactants takes the oils plus a total spectrum of contamination & brings them into solution with the water.
The surfactant-bound particles then tie in a packet or "micelle" with the ingredient added that then floats them away from the substrate. An additional chemical serves to keep the bound particles in solution so that they can be mopped away!
The exacting way in which these ingredients are blended together allows them to do the work in this three in one step cleaning action!!

StoneClean 104 & StoneClean Hard Surface Cleaner

Neutral pH aggressive degreaser and deep cleaning final rinse cleanser. HOW?

The patent pending new surfactant used bites aggressively into oil based contamination. Even at high dilutions such as 1 to 128 it can still clean effectively. (Heavy grease/oil use 1 to 40) Since it doesn't use the typical degreaser d-Linonene, it won't leave a residue that actually attracts oils!

StoneClean 104 is also a "salt-free" cleanser which is important when applying any type of coating or wax. It better prepares the surface to be treated by allowing the wax/sealer to have complete contact with the substrate!

To Order these fine cleansers please visit my web site for more details. Click on Marble Shine Services on the left menu bar.

More information can be found online at http://www.wellnesswaterandsalt.com

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