Best method for maintence tile cleaning

[Jeremy N]

I've got a commercial customer who has open areas of tile that is cleaned twice per week with a mop. They are looking for a better way to clean this area. Is there a machine or method that you would recommend besides mopping.

 

[Jeremy N]

By the way, I do know how to spell...dang, I screwed up the title...

 

[Bee Busy]

I recommend to my commercial customers to invest in a wet vac from Home Depot, 175 RPM floor machine with a nylon grit brush attached, stand up grout scrubbing tool and neutral cleaner

 

[Jeremy N]

That doesn't seem more convenient than what they are doing twice per week.

 

[Nate The Great]

Doesn't VersaClean have there version with the tile spinner on it instead of the Hoss 700 head.....? But then they wouldn't need you......

 

[clean image]

Depends on how many square foot they are mainanining.

Auto scubber for large areas

Crb for tile, like powerflte unit for small areas

 

[Mikey P]

Are they dunking the mop in the contaminated water?

 

[Jeremy N]

Are they dunking the mop in the contaminated water?

They are mopping about 3000sqft of tile twice per week. They change the mop bucket water twice during this process.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

Changing the mopping solution is key. 2X for 3000ft is not enough for a relatively clean floor.
The tile surface might look cleaner but the grout joints are collecting all the dirt.

 

[Jeremy N]

They want to find an easier faster way to do this other than using a mop bucket.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

Flat mops. Get several flat mops, pre soak them in the solution. Exchange the mops frequently putting the soiled ones in a bag as you go.
That will eliminate changing the bucket all the time which is a time consuming pain.

 

[Mikey P]

Ray beat me to it.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Are they dunking the mop in the contaminated water?

HUGE HUGE HUGE issue....

The tracking of this filth/detergent blend onto adjacent carpet gives carpet cleaners fits and they don't always know it

 

[Mikey P]

I send this out to the clueless..

http://www.santacruzclean.com/blog/hey-mike-what-do-you-reccomend-to-use-to-clean-our-with/

 

[Goomer]

What kind of business is it?

 

[Shane Deubell]

Depends how open the areas are and how much money they want to spend.

They can buy a small autoscrubber like this http://www.globalindustrial.com/g/j...-care/scrubbers/global-electric-auto-scrubber
Really are endless different sizes and features. Have them google auto scrubbers or small auto scrubber.

Forget about mopping 3k sqr ft...

 

[dealtimeman]

It just depends...

 

[Jeremy N]

What kind of business is it?

A church.

 

[NobleCarpetCleaners]

www.theheavyweight.com

there are thousands of commercial customers using this cost effective scrubbing tool and reversing the effects of mopping. Mopping is what keeps floors polluted. They can use a mop to soak up the dirty water that forms when scrubbing the floor with this tool or the best way to be to vacuum it up.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

If you correctly mop on a regular basis, you don't need to scrub. A brush does not pick up dirt.

 

[Jeremy N]

So flat mop without using dirty water? That's what I got out of all of this.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

An automatic floor scrubber or mopping with a clean mop are your choices

 

[kingjoelking]

The QT convience stores all run a small autoscrubber over there floors 2-3 times a day. Personally I think its genius. Their floors always look clean.

 

[sweendogg]

http://www.jondon.com/minuteman-port-a-scrub-14-inch.html