Chicagoland's Premier Commercial Cleaning Company
Cortex Cleaning is based in Geneva, IL, and floor stripping and waxing is the service that resets a hard floor once years of foot traffic and old finish have worn it down.
It removes what’s built up, then rebuilds the shine and slip resistance a floor is supposed to have in the first place.
It’s tempting to think of this as routine maintenance, but stripping a floor properly takes specialized equipment and a fair amount of physical labor most in-house teams aren’t set up for.
Asking a janitorial crew or general maintenance staff to take it on usually means it gets rushed, done with the wrong products, or pushed down the priority list indefinitely because there’s always something more urgent. This is specialized work best handled by a crew that does it regularly, not an occasional task bolted onto someone else’s job description.
Not every floor needs the same treatment, and using the wrong one can do real damage.
A full strip-and-wax removes all the old finish down to bare floor before rebuilding it in fresh coats, the right approach for vinyl composition tile and most standard commercial flooring.
Screen-and-recoat is gentler. It lightly abrades the existing finish and adds a new coat without stripping everything away, which is what original hardwood needs, since a full chemical strip can damage century-old wood that a VCT floor would shrug off.
Getting this wrong in either direction either wastes money or damages a floor that took real investment to install.
Cortex Cleaning is genuinely based in Geneva, not dispatched in from another county. More than 10 years in business, every crew fully insured and certified.
Being local means scheduling an after-hours job, which most floor work requires, is a quick conversation rather than a scheduling negotiation with a company that isn’t actually nearby.
10+ Years
Fully Insured
Certified
Geneva Based
Same-Week Walkthrough
Stripping starts with a chemical stripper and a floor machine to lift old finish down to the bare surface.
Followed by a neutralizing rinse so the new coat bonds properly instead of yellowing or clouding early.
From there, multiple thin coats go on and get buffed to build a durable, non-slip shine that holds up rather than looking good for a week and fading fast.
Frequency depends on traffic: high-traffic retail and hospitality floors typically need a fresh coat every 6 to 12 months, while lower-traffic office floors can often go a year or more between full strips.
Talk to a real person about your floor type, your schedule, and the finish it needs.
Historic downtown storefronts often have original hardwood or unglazed tile that a generic strip-and-wax routine can damage, so identifying the surface correctly during the walkthrough matters as much as the work itself.
Warehouse and distribution floors need heavy-duty care sized for tens of thousands of square feet of concrete and epoxy, scheduled around shift patterns rather than a single overnight window.
Corporate lobbies expect a precisely finished, streak-free result that holds up to daily traffic without looking worn between visits.
Need floor care that keeps shared spaces looking professional between larger jobs.
Need floor care scaled to large concrete and epoxy footprints.
Need lobby and guest-area flooring that holds a polished first impression.
Need flooring that holds up under heavy daily equipment and foot traffic.
Need finish compatible with infection-control cleaning products.
Need common-area flooring that withstands constant tenant traffic.
Need fast turnaround between bookings.
Need locker-room and hallway flooring that resists moisture and heavy use.
Need hallway flooring that holds up to daily foot traffic between classes.
Routine daily cleaning that keeps a space presentable between other scheduled services.
Post-construction cleanup that gets a renovated or newly built space ready for occupancy.
Interior and exterior glass care, from storefronts to high-rise exteriors.
A daytime presence that handles real-time needs between scheduled cleanings.
Degreasing and sanitizing for commercial kitchens and break rooms.
A periodic reset that reaches what routine cleaning does not have time for.
Deep extraction that removes embedded dirt and stains from commercial carpet.
Cortex Cleaning is based in Geneva, IL and provides floor stripping and waxing to properties across a 50-mile Chicagoland radius. With more than 10 years in business, every crew is fully insured, certified, and trained on strip-and-wax chemistry for different floor types, from vinyl composition tile to original hardwood to warehouse-grade epoxy.
If a finish doesn’t hold up the way it should, tell us and we’ll make it right at no charge.
Fully Insured
Geneva Based
10+ Years
Certified
Yes, Geneva is our home base, which makes scheduling after-hours floor work straightforward.
A full strip-and-wax removes all old finish before rebuilding it, suited to vinyl tile. Screen-and-recoat is gentler and works better for original hardwood, which a full chemical strip can damage.
High-traffic retail and hospitality floors typically need a fresh coat every 6 to 12 months, while lower-traffic office floors can often go a year or more between full strips.
Yes, we schedule floor work after hours or during off-peak windows so the space is usable again before your next business day.
Yes, original hardwood gets a gentler screen-and-recoat approach rather than a full chemical strip, since aggressive stripping can damage older wood.
A locally based, insured, and certified crew trained on strip-and-wax chemistry for every floor type, ready with a free walkthrough.
