Cleaning large scale washrooms
October 1st 2003 What do stadiums, amusement parks, concert venues, race tracks, and international airports have in common? Huge crowds, for one thing, often eating and drinking to excess and large often busy washrooms to cater for them. In our bacteria-sensitive society, washrooms play a critical role in the perception of a facilitys healthiness. They are also costly to maintain, an issue, which becomes magnified in larger washroom settings for a number of reasons.
Firstly, they contain a large number of fixtures which can take a long time to clean. Its not unusual for a washroom in a large-facility to contain over 50 fixtures. Using the ISSA standard of three minutes per fixture for standard mops and wipes, that adds up to over two-and-a-half labour hours per washroom an expensive proposition. Secondly, visits to individual fixtures will be frequent and the evidence of this can be clearly seen by the visible soil and puddle patches surrounding them. Thirdly, many large applications such as airports are open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week with people constantly coming in and out of washroom areas, leaving less time for thorough cleaning activities. In such circumstances managers of large facilities desperately need those resources that will enable them to deep clean surfaces in as fast a time as possible. Besides being costly the traditional mop and bucket approach to cleaning is generally ineffective. Most buckets contain dirty water, which mops simply spread around, leaving surfaces dirty and wet with tight spots and grout-lines untouched. Consequently, only a portion of soil will be removed leaving a ring around the bathroom and a hotbed for germs. Workers usually end up touching contaminated surfaces or having to crawl on the floor to reach hard to get to places.
Recently, some new solutions have been developed that not only clean better, but also improve productivity by a third or more while reducing chemical usage by 30-90%. For example, several manufacturers offer no-touch cleaning systems that combine pressure washer, chemical injection and wet vacuum in a single machine. Workers simply spray solution on fixtures and floors, blast the soils to the floor, then vacuum dry, without ever touching contaminated surfaces. The dried surfaces are ready for immediate use, maximizing their use time while reducing the incidence of accidents.
The KaiVac No-Touch cleaning system from Kaivac UK is one of these new generation of cleaning machines. It is particularly suited to the cleaning of large scale applications such as stadiums, amusement parks, concert venues, race tracks, and international airports as it contains high horsepower levels and a large water and chemical capacity. The design has made the system very portable and enables easy access for the user to all the tools. Simple to use the KaiVac system can be operated with little or no training and provides the ideal solution for deep cleaning surfaces and leaving them hygienically clean. More articles from Kaivac UK Ltd: | 
