Bebrite offers highly experienced “Hard Surface Cleaning” and “Rejuvenation” for most types of porous and non porous hard surfaces, including; vinyl, unsealed ceramic tiling, porcelain, concrete and brick surfaces, form-crete, pavers, sandstone, granite, marble, slate, quarry tiles, travertine and all laid pool surrounds including the popular pebble-crete, Bebrite can also clean stone and masonry surfaces.

Home Washing or Office Exterior Washing

Ignoring the environmental effects to the wall surfaces of your home or office exterior will significantly reduce not only the appearance of the asset, but the long-term life of the exterior finish will be lessoned, and may lead to maintenance costs, that can be greatly reduced, or even avoided.

Bebrite’s approach to Hard Surface exterior home or office cleaning, whether it be; house washing of walls, cleaning eves, cleaning window surrounds, cleaning barge boards, cleaning under eves, or removing a build up of mould and mildew, is to approach the cleaning with the least aggressive method and using only Bebrite approved environmentally safe, highly efficient cleaning products.

Bebrite uses only the latest least aggressive cleaning equipment to compliment its exclusive to Bebrite environmentally safe cleaning products.

Bebrite’s exclusive to Bebrite cleaning products are all independently certified as being safe to use and application specific. Bebrite does not use abrasive or harmful to the environment cleaning products, or materials. Bebrite’s long lasting Anti- Microbial treatment will deter the reoccurrence of mould and or mildew for up to 12 months, and at the same time deter spiders from re- inhabiting those areas treated.

Bebrite’s House Washing and Office exterior washing, - specific areas

• External wall surfaces home or office, painted, treated, timber, brick, rendered,
• Grout,
• Eaves and barge board faces,
• Window surrounds, and windows,
• Window screens
• Most roofing, tiles, steel, slate,
• Timber railings, decorative fence palings, gates,
• Any exterior surface that has deteriorated through the effect of weather, including mildew and mould, environmental pollution, spiders, age.

Bebrite’s House and Office exterior washing, - equipment and cleaning products

• Preferred equipment will be to soft wash exterior surfaces,
• When high pressure equipment is proposed Bebrite’s technicians will always test an area first, and adjust the pressure required to avoid damaging the surface being cleaned,
• Bebrite’s technicians will first provide the home or office owner an obligation free quotation for the cleaning required. Each quote will be job specific, and will include the Bebrite cleaning products to be used, and the cleaning method proposed.

Low to High Pressure Cleaning of Concrete, Cement, Pebble Crete, Stone, Slate, Tile, and hard ground surfaces

Bebrite’s approach to cleaning hard laid exterior surfaces is always application specific. There is no one-way to do this. Careful consideration of the surface, the Bebrite cleaning product, if necessary to use, and the type of equipment, should be firstly discussed with the home or office owner.

Bebrite technicians use the latest equipment, application specific, and combine this with exclusive to Bebrite cleaning products. The cleaning equipment used will range from rotary washers, the latest one-pass scrubbers, and high-pressure cleaners, for those areas where a deep penetration of the surface is required.

Bebrite’s House and Office exterior hard surface cleaning, - specific areas

• Cement, concrete driveway entries, tiled or pebble crete pool surrounds, BBQ areas, pergolas, timber decks, tiled and or slate home and or office walk ways, pave ways,
• Grout, and re-sealing.

Bebrite’s House and Office exterior hard surface cleaning, - equipment and cleaning products;

• Preferred equipment will be to use one-pass scrubbers for the least aggressive approach, and to provide a no waste water result,
• Rotary cleaners will be used where medium pressure is required and where the water being used can be directed to waste safely,
• High pressure cleaning equipment will be proposed where Bebrite’s technicians have first tested an area to be cleaned, and adjusted the pressure required to avoid damaging the surface, or using excessive water, which must be directed safely to waste.

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Industry Trends

According to figures recently reported ceramic tile sales have increased 61.5% in the five-year period from 1991 to 1996. The increase of more than 15% per annum since then sets ceramic tiled flooring at around 11% percent of the total hard-surface sales.

What is causing this increase in demand for tile? One explanation is the now well-known impact of the “baby boom” generation. Most of the tile sold is going into residential applications, and much of that is for remodeling. The remodeling segment is especially important as the new home starts are predicted to slow in growth over the next five years. Other forces which drive the demand for tile include ease of maintenance, cost over the life of the product, the high degree of sanitation, design flexibility, the availability of new styles and designs, and an increasing consumer awareness of the product.

Along with this major market increase and the plethora of new products, has come a serious challenge for the installers, and especially for the cleaning and maintenance industry, as the grout and new textures trap dirt making it impractical using just a mop. Another trend is toward “fastrack” construction. Builders are operating on a short time schedule, which shortens the curing time allowed for concrete, and may create too much moisture in the building as it is closed in. The resulting effect is grout color mottling, weak grout joints, and poor adhesion to slab creating the need for future repairs. Thus, the tile installer “and maintenance cleaner” is faced with increasing demand from better-educated and more demanding customers, different and untested installation situations, many different sizes and types “and textures” of tile, and an expanding market.

Is ceramic tiling a trend or fad? Does it really matter? Within the residential market alone there is a higher demand for indoor hygiene. Odour in the kitchen and bathrooms just won't be tolerated and the restaurant standards have been pulled higher than ever due to the health and safety push from poor control of odour and bacterial growth. Bathrooms in the accommodation, hospitality and food industry have also become more highly focused towards better hygiene. More odour masking strategies have been used to put a quick fix for a serious odour problem. Battery operated deodorant dispensers and plug-ins for the home are being sold in record number - and, all they are doing is putting a continuous shot of perfume on the armpit of a worsening problem found largely in and on the surface and in the grout.

Flooring designers are creating larger and larger tiles in order to reduce the number of grout lines but they still need to be cleaned and better yet sealed. The textures are getting more aggressive to appear like natural stone and more importantly reduce the chance for liability and growing lawsuits from slippage injury. Many consumers are opting for more tile than carpet. Hygiene, indoor air quality, and when one looks at the full picture, less money and more longevity, is realized from choosing tile over carpet. With the improved economy consumers are spending more money on ceramic, porcelain, and quarry tile as well as marble, slate, limestone, sandstone and granite. While these natural floorings are beautiful they each have different ways to restore and maintain them properly.

There are three major classifications we will be dealing with:

• Ceramic: Hard high-fired clay, tile glazed on the surface - some textured, some smooth glass-like.
  
  
• Porcelain: Hard high-fired clay, containing character color within the clay, no glaze, tight porosity.
  
  
• Italian quarry (found in commercial kitchens, bakeries and meat processing) hard red, brown, tan, gray.

• Sedimentary;

Sandstone: Colorful, layered, textured and porous.

Limestone: Usually many holes filled with un-sanded grout, one piece can have soft and hard sections.

Travertine: Another class of limestone sometimes solid without holes to fill, cream to beige. This class of stone can be rough, matte or highly polished.

• Metamorphic;

Marbles: Usually solid, no holes, soft, easily scratched, slippery, many colors from a matt to a highly polished sheen.

Slate: Layered, gray to tan, several types.

• Igneous;

Granite: Hardest of the naturals, many colours, tightly pored, but still porous.

• Mixtures;

Agglomerate: Man-made of natural materials tiny gravel sized pieces honed level and smooth.

Terrazzo: Man-made of marble chips mixed with colored Portland cement poured, tooled and honed level and smooth.

• Saltillo: Many grades of hardness, quality and shapes (hexagonal), extremely Porous. Watch out for efflorescence. Twice fired and glazed: Usually wall or countertop tiles, harder but still easily chipped.



• Terra cotta: More like cement with a fired glaze.

Grouts

1. Sanded lime-based Cementious

The most common of grouts to be found on Saltillo ceramic tiles and quarry tile as well as natural stones. The grits can vary in size giving rough or smooth textured grout.

2. Unsanded lime-based cementious

Less common, but almost always used where grout joints are tight and narrow as found in Marble, Travertine, Granite and smaller porcelain mosaic tiles (commercial rest rooms and shower pans). Countertop and wall tile often have grout joints that are unsanded.

3. Sanded epoxy-based

Very uncommon and used where the general appearance of sanded grout is desired. Usually found in narrower grout joints. It is expensive, but non-porous and easier to clean.

4. Un-sanded epoxy-based

Commonly used on granite countertops where joints exist and in marble and granite flooring. Again, this grout is only practical in narrow joints due to the tendency to shrink.


Choose Bebrite Hard Surface Cleaning services for all - Exterior house washing, Home Washing, Concrete Cleaning, Driveway Cleaning, Graffiti Removal and all High Pressure Cleaning.