The DIY Trap : The “Do It Yourself” craze has taken the world by storm. Home Depot built an empire on it, entire websites have been created to celebrate it, and things that have been beyond our ability for years have become possible just by typing them into the search bar on Pinterest. Could something this good, this empowering, ever really be bad? When it comes to commercial facility maintenance, your DIY approach could have you trapped in an endless cycle of repairs that cannot stop the damage taking place.
Picture this: You’ve just been hired to clean and paint the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s been a little while since anyone has paid special attention to its maintenance, and you have a bit of work ahead of you. You, or maybe you and your team spend the day cleaning, scrubbing and painting. You don’t have the proper specialized equipment on hand so things are taking a bit of time. Each day you make a little headway, but, by the time you get to the other side of the bridge and celebrate a job well done you realize that it took you so long to clean and paint, that the beginning of the bridge has eroded and you have to start over.
Your concrete floors are your facility’s Golden Gate Bridge. From the moment that the concrete hardens in your new facility, it begins to break down. These days, the break down is happening exponentially quicker as loads gets bigger and the lifts and trucks that carry them get larger. Once the erosion has begun, it never slows, it never reaches a pinnacle, entropy carries on and your bottom line pays the price.
As you’re reading this article you may have thought, “Well, it costs me practically nothing to have [insert employee name here] do floor repairs. By allowing you to fix our floors, you’re taking away his job. Why would I pay you to do something that we can do in-house?” Let me quell your fears and transform your perspective by informing you that allowing a professional team to come to your facility and repair your floors will not take away jobs, but allow your team responsible for your concrete floors to do their job properly. We don’t want to take the Golden Gate Bridge from you; rather, we want to use our experience and our specialized professional equipment to catch you up, so that maintaining it is possible. Instead of fighting a losing battle with your concrete floors, and watching the erosion get worse as the work becomes overwhelming, we want to see you win.
Your employee may repair anywhere from 40- 100 feet of cracked concrete and damaged joints in a day, but we can do thousands. Don’t fall behind, don’t let your floors get the best of you, don’t ignore the facts and get caught in the DIY trap. Get caught up, before the concrete is too far gone to save.
Let us repair your floors, so that your team can do what it was meant to do, maintain them.
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