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Hard Floor Cleaning Course
Hard floor cleaning along with carpet cleaning are the most diverse and technically challenging aspects of cleaning. We can all pick up and mop and bucket and learn to clean a floor within 30 minutes, there is a lot more to know about hard floors and a lot more to learn than just mopping a dirty floor.
This introductory course for hard floors covers all the basic processes and machinery involved in cleaning hard floors. Stripping and refinishing of hard floor finishes and recoating hard floor finishes is covered in the course “Replace a hard floor finish”.
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE COURSE
Course Outline
Module 01: Understanding hard floors
- Identify types of flooring materials
- Resilient Floors
- Non Resilient Floors
- Timber Floors
- Identify condition of hard floors
Module 02: Preparing for Cleaning
- How to organise your access
- Using barricades and warning signs
- Preparing chemicals & PPE
- Safety problems with electrical equipment
- Hard Floor Cleaning Equipment
- Hard Floor Cleaning Process
Module 03: Cleaning Loose Soils
- Sweeping with a Broom
- Sweeping with a Friction Drive Sweeper
- Dust Mopping
Module 04: Cleaning Oily Soils
- Small Areas – Damp Mopping
- How to mop
- Replacing dirty mop water and mop heads
- Cleaning with microfibre
- Large Areas – Auto-scrubbing
- Auto-scrubbers – Important daily maintenance
- Maintaining batteries on auto-scrubbing machines
Module 05: Buffing, Burnishing and Deep Scrubbing
- Polished floors
- Buffing/Burnishing polished floors
- Using a buffing/burnishing machine
- Swing Polishers (Buffers)
- Swing Polisher – some additional tips:
- How to use a swing polisher
- Spray Buffing
Module 06: Floor Cleaning Pads and Brushes
- Floor Cleaning Pads
- Floor Cleaning Brushes
Module 07: Restore work area, clean and store equipment
- Restore work area to its original layout
- Clean & store equipment
- Prepare for the next shift
- Unit code name Hard Floor Cleaning
- Pre-requisite None
- Delivery 100% online, No Classroom or Assignment
- Enrolment in 3 Minutes to Enroll
- Learning Time 4-6 Hours - Self Paced
- Payment Via PAYPAL, Mastercard/Visa or our E-Way Internet payment facility
$29.50+GST
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