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Maintain your new home
Posted on Thursday, January 08 @ 02:06:57 EST by goong |
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Some of the most important things to think about before, during and after a property is built are energy consumption, space requirements, assets, water and waste management systems and the day-to-day service delivery that the building will employ once it is ready for use.
These considerations are often not taken on board early enough in the design and development stages. Identifying the building´s ultimate purpose, tenant requirements or expectations and foot traffic patterns, for example, require the kind of foresight that can make all the difference to the long-term success and value of a particular development.
The battle of effective management in the latter stages of construction and the early stages of the management of a facility is waged on several fronts – ranging from security to general mechanical maintenance and includes both pre- and post-construction, day-to-day and/or programmed maintenance, which is carried out throughout the life of the building.
Cleaning, whilst often overlooked or undervalued in the development stages, is essential for every facility throughout the world and is actually a science in itself.
Often architects and designers are very creative in their plans and the materials they use; but one thing that needs to be considered and catered for it that the facility has to be cleaned and kept clean throughout is existence. Either daily, weekly or monthly cleaning, which is necessary to maintain the image of the facility and also protect public health.
In Thailand we have a problem. We’ve got a lot of dust, monsoon rain, pollution and grit or sand on the streets. So if you use the wrong material to start with, the dust, sand and dirt settle and if not cleaned and removed frequently enough can cause irreparable damage.
That’s why it’s important for the cleaning and maintenance professionals to work closely with architects and designers so that when they actually design a building they think about these considerations and factor in solutions to the design and construction stages.
This cooperation then moves from the design stage to assisting further once a facility has been constructed. Starting off as ‘a builder´s clean’ to remove all the major dirt and debris from site to a more ‘detail clean’ which means getting the facility ready to be occupied, often at short notice, and this means having an eye for detail.
It’s important to be proactive in the early days, as tenants will often call in a service provider to fix a problem after the event – a scratched or damaged floor for instance, which can be costly.
This can be caused by many things but sometimes we see that a builder will have used the wrong floor surface in a building to start with – perhaps attempting to save construction costs by opting to go for cheaper tiles, often made in countries such as China. Unfortunately these types of surfaces are not suitable for long-term maintenance and can be damaged very easily, particularly when you have many builders and other tradesmen working on site.
We also see issues once a building is in full operation. In high-traffic areas such as lobbies, foyers and corridors, tiles or poor floor surfaces will get dirty and scratched very easily. Because of their poor composite, you can’t really polish them well and bring back the shine. Unfortunately, once deeply scratched it can be a long and costly process to bring the floor back to a nice glossy finish; one way to do this is by employing a diamond grinding and polishing technique.
Using a diamond grinder and polisher literally means you have to grind the floor using several grades of diamond pads. Starting from a very course grain pad until you have all the scratches out and then reducing the grain until you finish with a smooth surface, this then needs to be polished.
It’s a very slow process. It’s very labor intensive and it’s expensive too. Cost-wise it’s sometimes better to pull up the area affected, lay new tiles and start again.
Ultimately it’s like most things; if you use good quality products in the first place, you normally achieve long-term benefits and cost savings in the long run. Cut too many corners and it will eventually lead to headaches.
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