Carpet cleaning companies can make extra money cleaning work stations, wall coverings, room dividers, office cubicles, cubicle walls and fabric office partitions!

What Are Office Cubicle Partitions and What Are They Made Of?

• Office partitions, also called wall partitions, cubicle walls, room dividers or wall coverings, are textile surfaced walls and partitions used to create a working space.
• Office cubicles are used frequently for the general office staff and are most commonly covered with padding and fabric.
• There are two types of installation: Adhesive or stretch wall (FabricTRAK^® acoustical wall covering and ceiling panel system).
• The materials used are essentially upholstery fabrics and, therefore, are cleaned pretty much the same as a sofa or suite.
• Most of the textiles used are olefin and nylon.

Why Clean Office Cubicle Partitions?

• Just as other fabrics and upholstery, cubicle walls capture and retain allergens, dust particles, chemical pollutants, smoke and lots of viruses & germs.
• Cubicle walls capture dust mites and other allergens that can cause allergy symptoms in the office employees, reducing their morale and efficiency and increasing their sick time.
• Clean cubicle walls make for a better, more professional appearance to visitors and make for happier employees.
• A clean environment is a healthy environment!
• The cleaned area will also smell better.

How to Clean Professionally Wall Coverings, Office Cubicles and Wall Partitions with an Extractor:

1. Check if there is any literature about the wall covering or if anyone knows the material of construction, type of adhesive used, etc.
2. Document any visible damage.
3. If a partition, it may have a cardboard backing behind the textile and extreme caution must be exercised when cleaning to avoid over-wetting.
4. Additionally, the wall covering may have been applied using a water-soluble adhesive!
5. DO NOT get the cardboard or adhesive wet!
6. Ask that before the night of the cleaning that the office staff remove any papers tacked to the cloth surfaces and store them in a safe place to avoid any damage and move all sensitive items off the desk.
7. Move furniture away from the wall so you can get to it easily. Clean the furniture once the walls are clean.
8. Cover any electronic equipment.
9. Brush dry stains off with a Furniture Brush VERY carefully.
10. Vacuum with a HEPA-FILTER equipped vacuum cleaner with an upholstery attachment to reduce allergens like dust mites, dust and pollen.
11. If a relatively smooth surface, the wall covering can probably be wet-cleaned.
12. Pretest for dye stability. If possible, check for effect on the adhesive.
13. Spot treat any stains that may not come off during the cleaning.
14. Pay special attention at the bottom of the walls where shoe scuffs may have left heavy soil and stains.
15. Lightly mist Preface^®at 1:10 where necessary to loosen the soil before cleaning.
16. If heavily soiled, brush in the prespray with a Furniture Brush.
17. Using your Low-Moisture Internal Spray Upholstery Cleaning Tool only, wet-extract the wall covering using PCA™ Formula 5, working from the bottom up to the top. This helps reduce streaking from cleaning solution running down on onto vertical surfaces not yet cleaned.
18. Apply Brown Out^®
19. Apply Sta-Clene^®, Bane-Guard™ or DuPont™ Advanced Teflon™ Carpet and Upholstery Protector.
20. Clean and treat the chair and the carpet chair protector, if present.
21. Clean and treat the carpet.
22. How often should office cubicles be cleaned? Ideally, office partition cubicle walls should be professionally cleaned every month or quarter, depending upon how heavily soiled the office cubicles are used. Yet, many companies put off cleaning them until they are not only filthy, but smelly and unhealthy and demoralizing to the office workers.

How to Clean Professionally Wall Coverings, Office Cubicles and Wall Partitions Using Hand Foam System:

1. Follow the above extraction cleaning procedure up until applying the prespray.
2. You will need a mild, foamy detergent such as Chemspec® Oriental Area Rug Shampoo or Natural Fiber Cleaner, a soft-bristle Furniture Brush and White Spotting Towels.
3. Mix a cleaning solution with warm water.
4. Mix so it becomes sudsy.
5. Dip the brush into the suds (not the soapy water) and lightly scrub the cubicle wall panels.
6. Gently scrub the panel in a circular motion, working from the top to the bottom of the wall.
7. To remove the suds, wipe with a clean wet towel.
8. Let dry completely before hanging anything back on the walls.

Testimonial from John Faginkrantz, Little Rock, Arkansas

“We just wanted to share a profitable idea with you. We have recently been contracted to clean 300 panels of office cubicles at the BlueCross^® BlueShield^® office building here in Little Rock, Arkansas. They are remodeling and will have many more for us to do as well. There are many office buildings with cubicles in every city, so this might be an idea for others.”

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