Entrance matting is just one approach to keeping floorcare simple

posted by Marketing

Mats at every entrance from the great outdoors, or from dirty factory or workshop areas into offices, showrooms or demonstration suites undoubtedly help to protect the floor from abrasion and make cleaning more straightforward.  Well-chosen entrance matting can reduce the risk of slipping or tripping, so increasing safety, and can reduce infection risk by improving control of bacteria and other pathogens.

The trick is to always identify the risks of trodden-in dirt, given the types of flooring inside the entrances and the uses to which the areas outside your offices are put, and then to discuss with expert suppliers of entrance matting which of the many types available will best help protect the types of floors inside each entrance.

For example, some types of entrance matting are treated with antimicrobial agents to reduce or eliminate bacterial or fungal accumulation. These types of mats are great in kitchen areas, food service areas, cafeterias and other environments that must be kept free of contaminants.

But getting the entrance matting right is only the start of the task of protecting your floors and controlling dirt and infection.

You need the right types of floorcare machines too

There are many different varieties of floorcare machines, and many variants of specification and capability within each broad group.  Different types of floor and floor covering – concrete, terrazzo, hardwood, vinyl compositions – need different specifications of scrubber, polisher, burnisher and vacuum cleaners.

Few people are better at working out the nature of a floor and its problems than experienced janitorial supplies companies, who are used to avoiding the pitfalls of using the wrong cleaning material for a given type of floor, and floorcare machine sales engineers.  Machine sales people have been trained to diagnose problems with floors, to recommend machines and techniques for improving a floor and for stopping the problems from happening again.

The sales team at Truvox International, for example, view working with building management teams and contract cleaners to refine their decisions on floor care equipment as a routine part of the job.  Many contract cleaners see their primary task with a hard floor as being making it shiny.  But if nobody can see what colour it is supposed to be, that shiny dark floor is not making the contribution to décor and comfort that it was originally supposed to make.  The murky finish may simply be layers of engrained dirt, sealed in place by endless coats of sealant.  A good floorcare machine sales person knows how to spot such problems and what to recommend for their solution.

Truvox sales engineers know that contract cleaners achieve greater efficiency only by doing a better job in less time.  That can be achieved only by using machines that are most efficient at removing soil and improving floor condition in the prevailing conditions.

Productivity on hard floors

The Truvox Multiwash washes, mops, scrubs and dries on both hard and soft floor coverings in a single pass and leaves floors ready to walk on in minutes.  Good at ‘difficult’ floors like non-slip safety floors, low pile carpets, entrance matting and escalators, it has quickly interchangeable brushes and easily accessible and removable tanks.  With four models available the Multiwash machine offers cleaners the ability to achieve greater speed, improved cleaning efficiency and drier floors immediately after cleaning to reduce the risk of accidents.

Then there are tiled floors, which retain dirt in the grouting.  To tackle these, cleaners need machines that scrub deeply into the recesses, so you should always ask a machine supplier the depth to which a scrubber scrubs. Deep scrubbing produces more effective cleaning.  Machines with cylindrical brushes, like the Multiwash, exert greater pressure on floors and can dig more deeply into tile and grout areas.  Less use of chemicals can also reduce costs.

So take a look at www.truvox.com or email sales@truvox.com for more information and demonstrations of equipment.  Let experienced sales people guide you when determining the most cost-effective way to solve a problem.