This Standard describes the procedures to be followed when performing professional cleaning and maintenance of resilient flooring. It is the purpose of this Standard to define the methodology to be used by professional floor care providers for inspection of resilient flooring for the purposes of identifying and applying appropriate cleaning and maintenance processes. Further, this Standard describes methods to be used for cleaning and maintenance of common resilient flooring materials.

Stakeholders include flooring manufacturers, chemistry manufacturers, maintenance equipment manufacturers, commercial maintenance service providers, professional maintenance technicians, flooring inspectors, sales and support professionals, architectural specifiers, building managers, distributors, and end users.

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