New dawn of daytime cleaning
August 1st 2010 Is daytime cleaning the way it's going? Gordon McVean, sales and marketing director
of Truvox International offers some analysis
It seems to be becoming more and more acceptable to
organisations, large and small, to have cleaning done during the
day. If your cleaning business is flexible enough to provide a team
ready to start at say, 8am – when the first of the customer's office staff
are arriving – and work around them during the early part of the
normal business of the day, you have a significant advantage in
bidding for contracts.This is particularly true if you have a range of
machines particularly suitable for daytime cleaning conditions.
Cordless, battery powered machines have a lot going for them in
terms of daytime cleaning, because it is best not to have trailing
power leads that the people working might trip over.The Orbis
Battery Scrubber, introduced by my company this year is a scrubber
dryer that any contractor moving to more daytime cleaning should
get to know, because it is compact, unusually manoeuvrable, easy to
transport and store, and very cost-efficient.
A little help from your friends
Few people are better at working out how to equip a cleaning team
for a specific task than experienced floorcare machine sales
engineers.The sales people at Truvox International view working with
cleaning contractors to refine their decisions on floor care equipment
as a routine part of the job.
They know how cleaners can do a better job in less time and
thereby achieve greater competitiveness.They can help define the
equipment that will give a contract cleaner the greatest versatility for
a given budget and the means of tendering competitively for a wider
range of work.
For example,many buildings have large areas of hard
floor – often assembly areas, open-plan offices or
showrooms. Most also have large areas of carpet.
Keeping both clean is labour and energy intensive.
Cleaning contractors therefore need to know about
all developments that can help their budgets and
objectives.
An important recent development for cleaning
carpet is encapsulation technology. This
encapsulates soil from among carpet fibres so
that, instead of trying to vacuum
unmodified oily grime or tar residues from carpet, the cleaners
vacuum hard brittle encapsulated dirt which is easier to pick up.
The Cimex Encap system is a complete carpet cleaning system that
makes the soil easily vacuumed, and also shampoos the carpet,
leaving it nearly dry to the touch.The cleaned carpet repels soils and
stains after treatment, no rinsing is required, there is no wicking and
spots and stains do not reappear.
Efficiency on hard floors
Wet or damp hard floors can cause accidents and claims for
compensation, so contract cleaners have to avoid leaving floors
damp, especially when cleaning by day. Here again, cleaning machine
manufacturers have a key role to play and Truvox has an effective
range of scrubber dryers that leave the floor dry after cleaning.
The Truvox Multiwash washes,mops, scrubs and dries both hard
and soft floors in a single pass and leaves floors ready to walk on in
minutes – an essential capability for health and safety compliance. It
has quickly interchangeable brushes and easily accessible and
removable tanks. It offers cleaners the ability to achieve greater
speed, improved cleaning efficiency and drier floors immediately
after cleaning to reduce the risk of accidents.
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