Mopping it up
August 1st 2010 Vileda's UltraSpeed mopping
system has proved its green
credentials at Queen's University
in Belfast.
Cleaning the University is a
huge task for estates manager
Keith Halliday and his 75-strong
team of domestics."We're on a
city centre campus with over 250
buildings of which nearly 100 are
listed," says Halliday."On a daily
basis we clean 250,000 square
metres."
The university was also looking
to improve its environmental
credentials. "We'd already
successfully introduced
microfibre cloths some time ago,
so it was a natural progression to
move to microfibre mopping,"
continues Halliday."We looked at
the environmental cost of
laundering mop heads, rather
than replacing them.The results
showed that laundering mop
heads had far less impact on the
environment and an overall cost
saving too."
UltraSpeed uses less water to
cover the same area
of floor space and a
flat mopping system
proved lighter and
faster for the staff to
use. Feedback on the
trials also gave
UltraSpeed the
thumbs up for ease
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