Floors that make an entrance.

Floor care from Continental.

Floors take more abuse than any other surface in a building, and they’re the first thing visitors see. A planned floor care program keeps them bright and protects a costly investment.

We care for VCT, tile, marble, terrazzo, bare concrete and carpet, with scheduled scrubbing, burnishing, strip-and-wax refinishing, stone polishing and carpet extraction timed to your traffic.

Floor care fits neatly alongside janitorial and porter service in your Continental program, so lobbies and corridors look polished all year.

Care by floor type

Each surface needs its own routine. VCT in corridors and breakrooms holds up best with regular scrubbing and burnishing, plus a strip and refinish when the finish wears through: crews strip the old wax down to the tile and lay fresh coats that buff to a hard shine. Tile and grout need deep scrubbing to lift soil out of the grout lines. Bare concrete in warehouses and loading areas gets machine scrubbing that lifts tire marks, grit and spills out of the surface. Marble and terrazzo lobbies get stone care: pH-neutral cleaning that protects the surface, then polishing that brings back the reflective finish visitors notice first. Carpet in suites and corridors needs extraction and spot care.

Mixing methods across one building is normal. An office property often pairs a stone or tile lobby with VCT in back corridors and carpet in suites, and each gets its own line on the maintenance calendar. That is why the assessment step matters: a floor plan with every surface type marked keeps the right work on the right floor.

Floor care pricing across the region

Stripping and refinishing resilient floors is priced per square foot, with a minimum charge on each visit. Published 2026 pricing puts the usual band across our service area at $0.41 to $1.00 a square foot, lower in Nevada and the Central Valley and higher in Bay Area cities such as Mountain View. Large open corridors price below that band, and small, detailed or heavily built-up jobs can reach $3.00.

Take a Walnut Creek medical office building with 6,200 square feet of VCT across its corridors and ground-floor lobby. A full strip and refinish at $0.72 comes to $4,464 per job. Done once a year, with regular burnishing in between, that is the whole yearly refinishing cost; stripping twice a year doubles it to $8,928.

Old finish that has yellowed and built up takes extra passes to remove, and every room full of furniture the crew has to move adds labor. Small rooms slow the machines, which is why the minimum charge makes a single break room cost more per foot than a long corridor. In downtown towers, freight elevator bookings and loading dock rules shape when equipment can come in, and overnight or weekend work keeps a lobby open but costs more than a weeknight slot. Stone, terrazzo and carpet extraction use different methods and carry their own pricing. We look at the floors during the property walkthrough and break the work out by area in a written quote.