Floor Maintenance

Preserving the Life and Value of Your Facility’s Surfaces

Your flooring is one of your building’s most expensive and highly used assets. Standard cleaning often fails to remove the deep-seated grit and abrasive soils that lead to premature wear. At Indy Cleaning Solutions, we provide industrial-grade maintenance tailored to your specific flooring types, ensuring they look professional and last for years to come.

Technical Flooring Expertise

We utilize specialized chemistry and equipment for a wide range of commercial surfaces:

Commercial Carpet Cleaning (Glue-Down)

Glue-down carpet is built for heavy commercial traffic, but it has one weakness: water. Traditional steam cleaning saturates the backing, and over time that moisture works its way into the adhesive — causing edges to lift, seams to separate, and bubbles to form in the middle of the floor. Repairs are expensive, and full replacement is worse.

We clean glue-down carpet with a low-moisture encapsulation process designed specifically for direct-glue commercial installations. A crystallizing polymer solution is worked into the fibers with a counter-rotating brush machine, surrounding each soil particle and locking it into a brittle crystal. Your regular vacuum then removes it over the following days. No flooding, no wicking, no risk to the adhesive bed underneath — and the carpet is walkable in about an hour and fully dry in two.

Where this process works best:

  • Corporate offices and cubicles — cleaned around furniture with minimal disruption

  • Retail floors and showrooms — dries fast enough to clean after close and open on time

  • Medical and dental offices — low moisture means no lingering damp smell in patient areas

  • Schools, churches, and community buildings — safe, low-odor chemistry for occupied spaces

  • Hotels, apartment common areas, and corridors — high-traffic lanes restored without downtime

  • Carpet tile and modular installations — cleaned without lifting or shifting tiles

Encapsulation also leaves behind a soil-resistant residue that keeps carpet looking cleaner longer, which means fewer cleanings per year and a longer service life out of the carpet you already paid for. For traffic lanes, entryways, and spot damage, we pretreat with targeted solutions before the machine ever touches the floor.

We work nights, weekends, and around your operating hours anywhere in Indianapolis and the surrounding communities — Carmel, Fishers, Greenwood, Avon, Plainfield, Noblesville, and beyond. Ask about our quarterly and semi-annual carpet subscriptions for discounted rates, included spot-treatment visits, and priority scheduling.

Want your carpet to last as long as it should? Request a free floor assessment or call (463) 202-3476.

Traditional Carpet Cleaning (Hot Water Extraction)

Some carpet needs more than a surface refresh. When soil has been ground into the base of the fibers over years of traffic, when spills have soaked through to the padding, or when a space simply smells like it’s been lived in too hard, hot water extraction is the only thing that truly resets the floor.

Our truck-mounted and high-powered portable extraction systems inject heated cleaning solution deep into the carpet pile under pressure, then immediately vacuum it back out along with the soil, allergens, bacteria, and residue it lifted. It’s the most thorough carpet cleaning method available, and it’s what the majority of carpet manufacturers specify to keep a warranty valid.

Best suited for:

  • Stretched-in carpet over padding — apartments, offices, clubhouses, and common areas

  • High-traffic hallways, stairwells, and entryways — where soil is ground in rather than sitting on top

  • Turnover and move-out cleaning — resetting a unit to rent-ready condition between tenants

  • Odor and pet-related issues — extraction pulls contamination out rather than masking it

  • Allergen-sensitive spaces — removes dust mites, dander, and pollen trapped in the pile

  • Restaurants, break rooms, and food-service areas — grease and food soil that encapsulation alone won’t release

Every job starts with a thorough vacuum, followed by targeted pretreatment on traffic lanes and individual stains, then extraction, then a grooming pass to set the pile so it dries evenly and looks uniform. We can also use high-velocity air movers to accelerate drying, and most commercial spaces are back in service within four to six hours.

Which method is right for your building? Hot water extraction goes deeper; low-moisture encapsulation dries faster and protects glue-down adhesive. Many of our clients use both — annual extraction for a full reset, encapsulation quarterly in between to hold the line. During your free assessment we’ll identify your carpet’s installation type and traffic level and tell you honestly which approach fits, or whether alternating the two will save you money over the life of the carpet.

Serving commercial properties throughout Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Greenwood, Avon, Plainfield, Noblesville, Westfield, and surrounding communities.

Ready to reset your carpet? Request a free floor assessment or call (463) 202-3476.

Strip and Wax

Even the best-maintained hard floors eventually hit a point where buffing won’t help. Layers of old finish trap dirt, yellow under UV light, and hold onto scuffs no mop can lift. That’s when a full strip and wax makes sense — and the difference is dramatic enough that most of our Indianapolis clients tell us the floor looks newly installed.

Our crews strip the old, discolored finish down to the bare surface, neutralize and rinse the floor so nothing interferes with adhesion, then lay down multiple coats of commercial-grade floor finish. The result is a deep, even, high-gloss shine that resists scuffing, repels spills, and gives your building the kind of first impression that quietly tells visitors you run a tight operation.

Floor types we strip and wax:

  • VCT (vinyl composition tile) — the most common commercial floor in schools, clinics, and retail, and the one that benefits most from a full restoration

  • Sheet vinyl and LVT — cleaned and finished with the right chemistry for the surface

  • Linoleum — stripped with pH-safe products that won’t dry out or discolor the material

  • Sealed and polished concrete — deep scrubbed, resealed, and finished for warehouse and industrial spaces

Not every floor should be waxed. Some LVT and factory-finished surfaces are designed to stay finish-free, and we’ll tell you upfront if your floor is better served by deep scrubbing, polishing, or a recoat instead of a full strip. You get the right treatment, not the biggest invoice.

We schedule strip and wax work around your schedule, including overnight, and on weekends, so your Indianapolis facility never loses a business day — and we can put your floors on a recurring burnishing and recoat schedule afterward so you don’t need another full strip for years.

Ready for floors that make the right impression? Request a free floor assessment or call (463) 202-3476.

High-Speed Burnishing

A strip and wax gives you a beautiful floor. Burnishing is what keeps it that way. Between full restorations, the finish on your hard floors takes a steady beating — scuff marks from shoes and cart wheels, dulling from grit, and a gradual loss of gloss that most people notice long before they can name it. High-speed burnishing removes those marks and restores the reflective, wet-look shine, usually in a single overnight visit.

Our technicians run high-RPM burnishers with the correct pad for your finish type, generating just enough friction to soften the top layer of wax and re-level it into a smooth, glass-like surface. Scuffs disappear, micro-scratches close up, and the topcoat is tightened so it resists future marking. We dust mop, damp mop, and tack the floor beforehand so nothing abrasive gets driven into the finish, and we use dust-control systems to keep airborne particulate out of your space.

Ideal for:

  • VCT in schools, clinics, and retail — the classic high-gloss commercial look, held between strip-and-wax cycles

  • Sheet vinyl and linoleum — brought back to an even sheen without aggressive chemistry

  • Medical, dental, and veterinary offices — where a spotless floor is part of how patients judge the practice

  • Retail showrooms and auto dealerships — reflective floors that make the whole space read brighter

  • Corporate lobbies, corridors, and elevator banks — the first thing every visitor walks across

The real value is financial. A stripped and re-waxed floor is a significant project; a burnishing pass is a fraction of the cost. Facilities that burnish on a regular schedule routinely stretch three to five years out of a wax job that would otherwise need redoing annually — and the floor looks better every day in between, not just the week after a restoration.

We build burnishing into a schedule that matches your traffic — monthly for busy entrances and retail, quarterly for lower-traffic offices — and we work nights and weekends so your Indianapolis facility never loses floor time. It’s included in our Hard Floor Maintenance Subscription along with scheduled deep scrubbing and priority service.

Want floors that look freshly waxed year-round? Request a free floor assessment or call (463) 202-3476.

Questions? Check out these FAQs!

Most commercial VCT floors need a full strip and wax every one to three years, depending on traffic. Schools and medical offices typically do it annually over summer or a holiday break; lower-traffic office suites can stretch it much further. If your floors are on a regular burnishing schedule, you’ll go significantly longer between full restorations — which is the whole point of a maintenance program.

For most spaces, we’re in and out overnight. Square footage, the number of finish coats, and how much furniture needs moving all affect the timeline, but we schedule nights, weekends, and holiday closures specifically so you don’t lose a business day. Floors need to cure before heavy traffic and cart use, and we’ll give you a clear timeline before we start.

With low-moisture encapsulation, carpet is walkable in about an hour and fully dry in roughly two. Hot water extraction is deeper but wetter — expect four to six hours with air movers running. If you have a hard reopening time, tell us and we’ll build the method and schedule around it.

It can. Saturating direct-glue carpet drives moisture into the adhesive bed, which over time causes seam separation, edge lifting, and bubbling. That’s why we use low-moisture encapsulation on glue-down and carpet tile installations. Stretched-in carpet over padding doesn’t carry that risk and handles extraction well.

Buffing runs at lower speeds to clean and lightly restore a floor’s appearance. Burnishing runs at high RPM to generate friction that re-levels the finish into a reflective, wet-look shine and removes scuff marks. Burnishing is what maintains the gloss between strip-and-wax cycles.

No — and we’ll tell you upfront when yours shouldn’t be. Some LVT and factory-finished surfaces are designed to stay finish-free, and applying wax to them creates problems rather than solving them. Those floors do better with deep scrubbing, polishing, or a recoat. We identify the surface type during the assessment before recommending anything.

Yes. Nights, early mornings, weekends, and holiday closures are standard for us. Most floor work is genuinely better done in an empty buildi

We serve commercial properties throughout Indianapolis and the surrounding communities, including Carmel, Fishers, Greenwood, Avon, Plainfield, Noblesville, Westfield, Zionsville, Speedway, Danville, Mooresville, Greenfield, Shelbyville, Bargersville, and New Palestine.

Square footage, floor type, current condition, and how much prep is required. Facilities on a recurring maintenance plan pay less per visit than one-off restorations, and subscription clients get priority scheduling. Every quote starts with a free on-site assessment.

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