Commercial

Commercial Kitchen Floors &

Restaurant

Let us steam-clean, degrease, sanitize & regrout your kitchen floors; steam-clean your floor drains; re-set loose tiles; and replace broken tiles WHILE YOU SLEEP. That’s right–we perform all of our work between your closing and opening times. No need to shut down your business for our business.

  • Water damage repairs.
  • Eliminate foul odors instantly.
  • Eliminate standing water in your grout joints.
  • Our anti-splatter surface cleaner means that you don’t have to clean up our mess after we clean your floors.

Hotels, Office Building, Medical Facilities

Commercial Building

  • Restrooms
  • Lobby Floors
  • Cafeteria Floors
  • Guest Room Bathrooms

Cleaning & Sealing

Columbia Tile & Grout Services has invested in special equipment for cleaning and sealing. Large lobby floors and commercial restrooms. Our steam pressure washer generates steam at temperatures of 212° – 330° F. at 1,000 pounds per square inch. This combination of heat and pressure is capable of very rapidly removing gum, greasy, and sticky residues, paint drips, and a variety of surface coatings. It is especially good for cleaning and sanitizing restroom tiles.

We also use heavy-duty floor machines with tile and grout stripping brushes, wet vacuums with squeegees, and hand-held scrubbing machines for cleaning tile and grout. High-velocity floor driers move 3,000 cubic feet of air per minute so that we can seal the grout soon after cleaning it.

Since many stains cannot be completely removed from the grout, we often use penetrating colored sealers to return the grout to like-new condition. Colored sealers are available in all of the colors of the major brands of grout, so we can match your original grout color or completely change the color to coordinate with your new decor. Color-sealing results in a more uniform grout color than can be achieved by any other method, including the installation of new grout. The clear and colored sealers that we use are designed to last for 15-20 years with proper maintenance, and through our 10 years of experience working with them, it appears that they will.

Grout Repairs, Re-Grouting & More

Apartment Buildings

We understand the tight maintenance schedules between move-out and move-in and are ready to help. Columbia Tile & Grout attaches special priority to service requests from property management customers. For tub surround re-grout/re-caulk/seal projects, our turnaround time is generally under one week. One technician can usually complete two tub surround re-grouts in one day. You should allow additional time if water damage repairs are necessary.

Restore Tub Surronds & Showers

  • Re-grouting
  • Re-caulking
  • Cleaning
  • Grout Sealing & Color-Sealing

Grout Repairs & Re-Grouting

If the tiles are not loose, damaged grout can be removed and replaced, extending the life of the installation for many more years. If the grout is cracking because the tile is loose, the cause of the loose tiles must be determined before attempting repairs. In some cases, loose tiles can be left in place and re-bonded with epoxy injections.

Columbia Tile & Grout Services uses a variety of pneumatic and electric specialty tools for rapid removal of sanded, unsanded, and epoxy grout. We use HEPA filter vacuums as dust extractors on our grout removal tools. For larger projects, HEPA-filter air scrubbers will be set up to capture the dust that escapes the vacuums.

Dust Management Measures

Re-tiling projects invariably include at least some demolition to remove the existing tile installation. The breaking, cutting, and grinding of cement and masonry products are messy. But demolition debris is not just a housekeeper’s nightmare, it is also a serious health threat. Chronic long-term exposure and brief high-level exposure to the silica dust that is produced can cause silicosis, a horrible, disabling, and usually fatal lung disease. For people who suffer from asthma, emphysema, or other respiratory conditions, short-term low-level exposure to the dust can be life-threatening. Therefore, before we begin the demolition process, we prepare the work zone with project-specific dust control measures, that may include:

  • Installation of Zip Walls & Zip Doors to isolate the air in the construction zone from the rest of the building.
  • Sealing off the air vents and returns inside the work zone.
  • Deployment of one or two HEPA-filter air scrubbers, each capable of filtering 99.97% of all dust particles greater than 0.3 micron from 500 cubic feet of air per minute. When necessary, these can be set up as negative air machines outside the work zone by sealing the air intake port to a hole cut in a Zip Wall or Zip Door.
  • Running exhaust ducts from each air scrubber to outside the home, so that the clean, but powerful air streams do not stir up resident dust from the rest of the building.
  • Use of HEPA-filter dust extractors on tools which are fitted with vacuum extraction ports.
  • Use of HEPA-filter vacuums to capture fine dust when cleaning up demolition debris.
  • Use of sticky mats at entrances to containment zone.
  • Placement of drop clothes along the pathway between the work zone and the building exit.
  • Use of self-adhesive carpet protection film that can be vacuumed to remove dust. This prevents dust from getting down inside the pile of the carpet.

Additional dust control measures may be established, as appropriate for any specific project.