CAF Outdoor Cleaning Blog

Cleaning the outside of your facility during the winter can be difficult. With rain, snow, ice, and freezing temperatures getting in the way, it can be easy to forget about cleaning. However, if you stop cleaning the outside of your facility during the winter, then you run the risk of losing new and existing customers to competitors that do keep up with cleaning during the wintertime. Make sure your store is clean and safe during the winter months by learning how to use CAF products and maintain a clean facility with the fluctuating temperatures.

With the holidays approaching, many individuals are taking their cooking outside where they dunk their turkeys in frying oils or roast them on grills. It is advised that you should always take precautions when deep frying a turkey because it can have dangerous results. There is also another unfortunate result that can occur from these cooking methods: cooking grease and oil leaving stains on your concrete.

Winter weather conditions are well known for creating icy sidewalks that can be a slipping hazard for many people. A common method for combatting icy sidewalks is usually rock salts. However, using rock salts and other chloride-based de-icers is a messy process that is corrosive to metal and concrete, unreliable at providing uniform coverage across walkways, and harmful to the environment. Thankfully, there is now SAFE PATH™ Liquid De-Icer and Pretreat, new from CAF. SAFE PATH is an easier and faster de-icing solution that can help prevent as well as remove ice after it has bonded to a surface.

Retailers are constantly trying to get in the minds of shoppers to know what they value and how their customer experience measures up against expectations.  Online purchasing and Amazon have changed the way consumers make decisions.  Publicly available and un-censored customer reviews are now the number #1 resource in making a choice.  According to a recent 2021 study, 67% of all customer reviews are written on Google Review (Birdeye.com), making Google the go-to resource for customer research and retailer insights.

Diesel and oil stains can be stubborn to clean off concrete, especially if the residue has formed a tough barrier. If you normally use EXIMO® to clean your fuel stains, it can take a while for microorganisms to clean through thick fuel buildups. To break up these heavier clusters of fuel and obtain a deeper clean, use this Heavy Duty Cleaning Process that combines OTIS Multi-Surface Cleaner and EXIMO® Waterless Concrete Cleaner.

With various world conflicts like labor shortages, supply chain issues, and inflation impacting your business right now, it can be daunting to try to have a consistent cleaning checklist for your store. But even in these stressful times, it is essential to your business to have a proper cleaning checklist in place to clean everyday messes. By having your team relearn the value of clean and refer to a cleaning checklist, you will be investing in your store’s appearance which can help increase sales. To get back to basics in cleaning, read these tips on how you can clean and prevent common messes that happen in your business.

Stickers and decal residue can be stubborn and a pain to remove. If left alone and not cleaned off, the sticky residue from stickers and decals can attract dirt and grime which can make your business’s appearance look unclean. Fortunately, there is VIVX Graffiti Remover which is great at removing stickers and decal residue.

When a customer comes to your fuel station, one of the first items that they will interact with is the gas pump. If the pump is dirty, covered in grime and the surrounding concrete is speckled with fuel drips, then they may take their business elsewhere. To prevent having an unhappy customer, we recommend regularly cleaning your gas pump top to bottom, to ensure a positive customer experience. To learn how to get a clean gas pump, follow the steps below.

As electric vehicles (EV) increase in popularity, more and more EV charging stations are popping up. However, many public charging stations are located outside without a canopy to protect them from the elements. Some EV charging stations are already showing signs of damage like scratched screens, mildew accumulation, and even cracked plastic and discoloration caused from harsh UV rays. To extend the life of your EV charging station, use this top to bottom EV charging station cleaning method.

Although it might not be as popular as spring cleaning, fall cleaning is an important chore that should not be skipped.