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Encapsulation Carpet Cleaning: 5 Best Practices to Achieve Best Results
Five tips you need to effectively perform encapsulation carpet cleaning. Each of these tips are geared towards saving you time, labor, and costs.
How to Maintain an Autoscrubber in 10 Easy Steps: An Operator’s Manual
Keep your automatic floor scrubber in peak condition by following these 10 key autoscrubber maintenance steps.
5 Benefits of Preventive Maintenance for Janitorial Equipment
An essential part of being able to clean and maintain your facility is keeping your janitorial equipment in working condition. Not only will your cleaning staff need to perform basic maintenance procedures before and after each use, but your machine...
6 Best Carpet Extractors of 2025: What’s The Best For Your Facility?
Carpet extractors are an important piece of janitorial floor maintenance equipment that can be used to deep clean the commercial carpets in your facility. Commercial carpet extractors differ in size, type, power source, and other factors that will...
How To Change a Floor Pad or Brush on an Auto Scrubber
Is it time to change the floor pad or brush on your auto scrubber? The pad driver or brush on your machine needs to be removed and stored after each use. Pads also need to be changed regularly in order for you to achieve the most effective clean possible....
How To Use An Auto Scrubber To Clean Your Commercial Hard Floors
Knowing how to use an auto floor scrubber is key to cleaning commercial hard floors safely and more efficiently. With an automatic floor scrubber, cleaning your commercial hard floors can be done with just one pass. An auto scrubber can be used in...
Auto Scrubber Maintenance: How to Maintain a Floor Scrubber After Use
Keeping your auto scrubber in peak condition will make sure that your team is able to clean your floors thoroughly and efficiently throughout the year.
How To Change An Auto Scrubber Squeegee Blade To Get Clean, Dry Floors
Have you noticed that your auto scrubber isn’t leaving your floors clean and dry after use? You may need to check your auto scrubber’s squeegee blades. The squeegee blade on an auto scrubber is used to collect water and cleaning solution from your...
Commercial Floor Buffers: How Do You Use a Floor Buffer?
A floor buffer is commonly referred to as the “workhorse” of hard floor maintenance.
Disc Scrubber vs Orbital Floor Scrubber: Which Auto Scrubber is Best?
You can choose between a traditional disc or an orbital scrubber when choosing an automatic floor scrubber for your facility.
4 Signs You Need to Change the Floor Pad on Your Floor Cleaning Machine
Floor pads that are used on commercial floor cleaning machines have a limited life expectancy. When floor pads aren’t changed when necessary, it can lead to damage on your hard floors and equipment as well as reduced worker productivity. Damaged floors...
How To Remove Stains From Carpet Using a Commercial Carpet Extractor
When you have people constantly walking through your facility, stains on your commercial carpet are unavoidable.
Auto Scrubber vs Mop and Bucket: What are The Benefits of an Auto Scrubber?
Floorcare is the most time-consuming part of your commercial cleaning program. During daily cleaning procedures, your cleaning team should be cleaning your floors at least once a day. This can be done with either a mop and bucket or using an automatic...
What is Burnishing?: How to Keep Your Commercial Hard Floors Looking Great
Having floors with a robust shine is important to having a great-looking facility and happy guests. Many times, your guests, tenants, or the other people in your building associate the appearance of your floors with the overall health and cleanliness...
What is a HEPA Filter?
Did you know that poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can lead to negative health effects for the people in your building?
Electrostatic Disinfection: 3 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Sprayer
As the need for frequent disinfection grows, high volume disinfection is becoming increasingly popular. The most popular and effective high-volume disinfection method is electrostatic technology. Electrostatic sprayer technology applies an electric...
Calculating the Cost Benefits of an Autonomous Cleaning Equipment Purchase
The cost of labor can account for up to 85% of the cleaning costs for your facility.
How to Fix Foam in Your Commercial Carpet Extractor
Carpet extractors are a powerful tool for cleaning and maintaining the carpets in your facility. Like with any janitorial equipment, there may be some issues that require extra attention from you and your cleaning staff. One of the most common and...
What is an Orbital Scrubber? 3 Key Benefits
If you’ve been looking for a way to make your cleaning program safer, more efficient, and more sustainable, an orbital floor scrubber may be a good investment for your facility. Orbital scrubbers use advanced technology to make the process of cleaning...
4 Key Ways To Reduce Your Facility’s Commercial Cleaning Costs
The cleanliness of your facility is a priority, especially given the value placed on cleaning and disinfecting during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, keeping your facility clean can be expensive, especially during labor and product shortages.
5 Benefits of Adding Autonomous Cleaning Equipment to Your Cleaning Program
Over the last several years, autonomous cleaning equipment has continually risen in popularity as businesses seek ways to increase cleaning efficiencies and boost staff productivity. Labor shortages, tight budgets, and the battle against COVID-19 and...
How To Eliminate Odors From An Auto Scrubber Tank: 9 Steps
Auto scrubbers are valuable in speeding up the process of cleaning the floors in your building. Unfortunately, while using a floor scrubber, you may have noticed a bad odor coming from the machine. When this happens, it may be difficult to know exactly...
5 Benefits of Autonomous Vacuums
Businesses in every market are faced with increased and more intensive cleaning requirements today. As a facility manager, you are likely challenged to find new ways to meet these demands without adding more cleaning staff. This calls for innovative...
Auto Scrubber Buyers Guide: Steps to Determine Which Auto Scrubber is Best For your Facility
There are dozens of automatic floor scrubbers on the market today, and choosing the best one will require some thought and consideration. First, you’ll need to identify why you’re looking to invest in a new machine. Then, you’ll need to narrow down...
The 2 Best Commercial Floor Buffers of 2025 [VIDEO]
Adding a commercial floor buffer to your facility’s cleaning and maintenance program will increase worker productivity, improve cleaning results, and extend the life of your floor.