Answering your Questions about Industrial Floor Scrubbers and Sweepers in Los Angeles, CA.

Q. What are the types of flooring cleaning equipment that I would want to consider?

A. There are basically 3 different types of automated floor cleaning equipment you will want to consider, depending on your application.

1. Automatic floor scrubber

2. Mechanical broom sweeper

3. Combination sweeper/scrubber

Q. What does a floor scrubber do?

A. It is a powered machine that distributes solution to the floor, agitates it with a set of brushes to loosen the soil or debris stuck to the floor and then picks up the solution and debris with a squeegee. It can be designed with 2 different types of brushes, one design is with disc brushes and the other is with cylindrical brushes. We will get into the advantages and disadvantages a little later in this guide.

Q. What is involved with a mechanical broom sweeper?

A. It is a powered machine that sweeps up loose debris on a hard surface, with a cylindrical broom, while controlling the dust in the process and then loads that debris in a trash hopper on the machine. It is best suited for dust, dirt, and bulky type of debris.

Q. What are the types of sweeper scrubbers available?

A. There are 2 types of systems to pick from on a sweeper/scrubber. The first type of combination machine has set of designated brushes doing the scrubbing and then a separate broom, doing the sweeping. A typical way to design the machine is to keep the sweeping portion in the front of the machine and the scrubbing portion in the back of the machine. The other type of design is having a pair of cylindrical brushes, do both the scrubbing and sweeping and the light debris is loaded into a small tray next the brushes.

There are 2 types of scrub systems to pick from when choosing an industrial floor scrubber:

Disc scrubbing brushes

Advantages:

They work great when you want the option of heavy duty scrubbing action and there is no need for any type of sweeping. They do really well on floors that have a lot of dips or waves in the floor because there is a lot more bristle contacting the floor. In case you were not aware, there is not a floor made, that doesn't have some slight dips or waves to them.

Disadvantages:

You always have to sweep before you scrub, otherwise the debris will get caught in the squeegee and leave streaks in the floor.

Cylindrical brushes

Advantages:

They work great as a dual sweeper/scrubber, because the brushes can do light sweeping while it's scrubbing and depending on the type of bristle of the brushes, you might get a little bit of a polish to the concrete you are cleaning.

Disadvantages:

They can sometimes miss the dips in the floor

due to the long brushes that are the unit and give you a inconsistent look on the floor. The cylindrical brushes are getting to be more popular due to less grease and grime on the floors that would require disc scrubbing. A lot of people don't have time to sweep the floor before it gets scrubbed, thus

eliminating a separate step in the cleaning process and improving the overall productivity.