Auto Scrubbing for restorative projects is a waste of time

[Mikey P]

It's been 10 plus years since I've used an AutoScrubber..

This LVP floor at my church could have been "wanded" but I chose to try their walk behind for the sake of evaluating the process.

Edges, nooks, around furniture, corners all needed cleaning by hand and the whole project took twice as long as I if had used my truck out and HS wand..

But as you can see, it worked well when I pre-moped an area with a heavy alkaline..

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Autoscrubbers make sense for regular cleaning and maintenance of larger facilities.

One need only look in the corners and edge in such buildings to see that few of those places ever see the amount of detail work that you performed.

 

[hogjowl]

I have a car dealership that has one for their janitorial staff to use. I have to deal with black edges that never get touched until they call me.

 

[Mikey P]

I have a car dealership that has one for their janitorial staff to use. I have to deal with black edges that never get touched until they call me.

Those 12" HS WP wands are amazing on edges, with no overspray, just sayin ..

 

[Kenny Hayes]

You need more practice! A foot on your mop will get the corners just fine. Along the edges as well if needed. Your scrubber looks to be a cylindrical brush model as well. They usually don’t have the head pressure to do as well as regular auto scrubber.

 

[Mikey P]

! A foot on your mop will get the corners just fine

Maybe to your standard...

 

[Mikey P]

They usually don’t have the head pressure to do as well as regular auto scrubber.

150#

the CRB actually worked well with the (very) deep faux wood groves

 

[Luky]

It's been 10 plus years since I've used an AutoScrubber..

This LVP floor at my church could have been "wanded" but I chose to try their walk behind for the sake of evaluating the process.

Edges, nooks, around furniture, corners all needed cleaning by hand and the whole project took View attachment 125913View attachment 125914View attachment 125915twice as long as I if had used my truck out and HS wand..

But as you can see, it worked well when I pre-moped an area with a heavy alkaline.. View attachment 125916

Rougly 2000 sqf. ? I'd love to hit it with my Tenant T1 with
IFT from Basic coatings, one tank if solution would suffice, na drying, no wiping, corners debatable. Maybe two hours in very slow pace. I love cleaning wood, laminate or LVP.
Auto srubber is more advanced than I -Robot, but nothing can compare to straight overlap passes of push- self propelled machine
I've seen Auto scrubbers in warehouses do a decent job.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Maybe to your standard...

My standard would be to keep the corners and edges cleaned daily so it’s not an issue.

 

[Mikey P]

My standard would be to keep the corners and edges cleaned daily so it’s not an issue.

great answer!


I never have that luxury.

 

[Condog]

The Kaivac Omniflex is a great piece of equipment that can solve the problem when you don't want to drag your hoses throughout a building, or it's too long of a distance.

It also is light weight, fits into trailers or vans easily.


View: https://youtu.be/jmP2-m8JWFk?si=98kkMV6-sDn8Xdjv



View: https://youtu.be/RHF-QM_IziQ?si=wlI4V5SvNNwBqm7_

These are old videos, they have battery opperated units now.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

I do use a Kaivac 28” floor tool for picking up slurry when stripping floors and not using an auto scrubber. I use a 10” sometimes in restrooms. They’re neat.

 

[Nate The Great]

I have a brand new one like the video shows.. Lmk who's interested in it.. I bought it cheap and haven't used it..

A janitorial franchise CoverAll I think is what they're called.. A sucker is born every minute..

It has its place and looks like it works..

 

[Kenny Hayes]

What’s cheap? Cheap is, is cheap does, sometimes My porty will do basically the same thing with the tools.

 

[Nate The Great]

You'd be able to get a $2 hooker a few times cheap..

The handle is the large part.. I have never done VCT and have no desire to ever want to do it.. But the ex-Navy guys we'd hire, love to strip & wax..

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Funny, I lost count long ago of all the people that did that in the military. Prison too for that matter The best one was the ex con that said they’d put a tshirt on a buffer and shine a floor like glass

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Funny, I lost count long ago of all the people that did that in the military. Prison too for that matter The best one was the ex con that said they’d put a tshirt on a buffer and shine a floor like glass

We had a guy try to convince us that urinating in the floor finish made for a better shine.

I asked him where he learned that....he told me an old janitor who "knew what he was doing"

I told him the guy probably got caught urinating in the finish bucket, and made the story up to stay out of trouble.

I'm convinced this is how a lot of the strange things people do in our industry got started.

 

[Mikey P]

Somebody suggested that I should have used a two pass (wa;l behind) process, one wiht the vac off but shower feeding and dual brush scrubbing, allow for some dwel time, then another pass wiht the vacuum on

That would have made a heck of a wet mess.....

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Somebody suggested that I should have used a two pass (wa;l behind) process, one wiht the vac off but shower feeding and dual brush scrubbing, allow for some dwel time, then another pass wiht the vacuum on

That would have made a heck of a wet mess.....

The individual that suggested this hasn't much field experience I'm sure...

 

[Kenny Hayes]

No, it’s true for a deeper scrub. It would be like stripping a floor. The only prob with that machine is the cylindrical brushes don’t do as well on an auto scrubber. Not enough head pressure. But, that person is correct.

 

[BIG WOOD]

No, it’s true for a deeper scrub. It would be like stripping a floor. The only prob with that machine is the cylindrical brushes don’t do as well on an auto scrubber. Not enough head pressure. But, that person is correct.

Maybe on VCT, but not LVT LVP. That’s literally flooding it and when water gets under it…

 

[Mikey P]

No, it’s true for a deeper scrub. It would be like stripping a floor. The only prob with that machine is the cylindrical brushes don’t do as well on an auto scrubber. Not enough head pressure. But, that person is correct.

Maybe the dual pass system would work on great big open areas with round corners but I see it leaving way too much standing water during the dwell time.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

You can control how much water you lay down, and how long it stays before vacuuming it up. However, since you’re more comfortable with your tm, by all means go with that. Personally, I’d use a regular auto scrubber and crb for corners.