Floorcare efficiency from Truvox technologies

Hospitals must meet ever-increasing NHS cleaning standards, usually without increased resources. Cleaners can meet higher standards only by achieving greater efficiency, which usually means doing a better job in less time.  That can be achieved only by using machines that are more efficient at removing soil.

Hospitals have large areas of hard floor, but usually also areas of carpet.  Keeping both clean is labour and energy intensive and NHS cleaning and facilities management teams need to know about all developments that help their budgets and objectives.

Encapsulating soil

A significant development where there is carpet is encapsulation technology.  This encapsulates soil from among carpet fibres so that, instead of trying to vacuum unmodified oily grime or tar residues from carpet, the cleaners vacuum hard brittle encapsulated dirt which is easy to pick up.

The Cimex Encap system, from Truvox, is a complete carpet cleaning system that makes soil easy to vacuum, and also shampoos the carpet, leaving it nearly dry to the touch.  To use the system you need a powerful upright vac, a Cimex Cyclone triple-brush scrubber with its accessories and a supply of Cimex-Encap Low Moisture Carpet Cleaner.  Both efficient and effective, the system from Truvox has a unique formula which gets down into the pile of the carpet and encapsulates the soil into a brittle residue that can be vacuumed up all in one go. The cleaned carpet repels soils and stains after treatment, no rinsing is required, there is no wicking and spots and stains do not reappear.

High-speed productivity

Hospitals try constantly to eliminate the risks of wet or damp hard floors, which result in accidents and claims for compensation. 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 – essential for health and safety compliance.  The Multiwash is good at ‘difficult’ floors like non-slip safety floors, low pile carpets, entrance matting and escalators.  Easy to use and manoeuvre, the Multiwash has quick interchangeable brushes, with different brushes available, and easily accessible and removable tanks.  It offers NHS cleaners the ability to achieve greater speed, improved cleaning efficiency and dryer floors after cleaning.

For tiled floors, particularly, NHS cleaners need to look for machines that scrub deeply – always ask the supplier the depth to which a scrubber scrubs. Deep scrubbing uses less water and a smaller quantity of chemicals than shallow scrubbing to remove grit and soil.  Machines with cylindrical brushes, like the Truvox Multiwash, exert greater pressure on floors and can dig more deeply into tile and grout areas.  Less use of chemicals means lower costs; deeper scrubbing means cleaner results.