The night crew works alone
Instructions get left as a note in English, or as a voice message the lead has to relay. What was actually done shows up in the morning walk-through.
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Strip, scrub, burnish — said right, done right.
Floor care, restrooms, chemicals and dilution, equipment, waste and recycling, glass and detail — ChambaTalk knows that “strip the floor” means decapar, that a mop is trapear, and that the dilution ratio is the one line nobody can get wrong.
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What goes wrong today
Chemicals do not forgive mistakes
Bleach and ammonia. A quat at the wrong dilution. A secondary bottle with no label. The safety data sheet is in English and the person holding the jug may not be.
Same words, different trade
A cleaning crew strips finish; a concrete crew strips forms. A general translator picks one. ChambaTalk knows which crew is talking.
Words a general translator gets wrong
- “Strip the floor”
- Decapa el piso
- never “despojar”
- “Mop the hallway”
- Trapea el pasillo
- not “fregar el suelo”
- “Wet floor sign”
- Letrero de piso mojado
- the sign, and where it goes
- “Dilute it 1 to 64”
- Dilúyelo 1 a 64
- the ratio stays a ratio
- “Never mix chemicals”
- Nunca mezcles químicos
- safety-critical, said as a rule
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The cleaning glossary
Free, no account needed. Floors, restrooms, chemicals, equipment, waste and detail work, with how to say each term and an example from the shift.
Articles
For cleaning supervisors
Strip, scrub, burnish: floor-care words in Spanish
The floor-care words a cleaning crew uses in Spanish — strip, scrub, burnish, finish, pads, the auto-scrubber — and a strip-and-wax night, phrase by phrase.
Chemicals and dilution: what to tell a cleaning crew in Spanish
How to read a dilution ratio, why bleach never meets ammonia or bowl cleaner, what the SDS is for, and the Spanish phrases that keep a cleaning crew safe.
How to run a toolbox talk when half the crew speaks Spanish
What OSHA expects on language, why one hazard beats five, how to say it, show it and hear it back, and a 12-line bilingual opening script.
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