About Floor Cleaning Machines

Q1. What's the type of floor cleaning machines?

1. Floor scrubber dryer machine, it's also called auto floor scrubber or floor scrubbing machine. Designed for daily cleaning, scrubbing or light-duty deep cleaning. Normally, the RPM (Rotation Per Minute) is 130-500, depending on what kind of brushes they're using.
2. Single disc machine, also called floor polisher or floor buffer machine. Used for floor renovation and polishing/buffing, to remove scratches and bring shine back. The RPM ranges from 150 to 600, and they can carry extra weights to add pressure.
3. Floor orbital machine, they're not working like single disc machine, the rotary way, they're clean and shine floor by oscillating movement. They have a typical single disc one and a square orbital one, it's also called square orbital machine. Excellent for heavy-duty floor stripping and renovation works to remove the old coating layers, finishes, scratches and hard stains. They're not rotary so it's not RPM, it's oscillating times per minute, 1000 to 3000 times/m, very powerful machine.
4. Floor burnisher, also called floor burnishing machine. Designed for high-speed burnishing works to bring high shine. If it's 1000-2000RPM, it's high-speed burnisher, if it's above 3000RPM, it's called UHS (Ultra-high-speed) floor burnisher. Usually, the UHS one is not electric, the're powered by gasoline and used for concrete floor burnishing.
5. Floor sweeper machine, designed for pick up solid rubbish like leaves, bottles, rocks, debris, sands, food residues...Usually they can fit for indoor and outdoor sweeping case.

Q2. What's the type of floor scrubber?

They have different partition criteria.

By operation way, they have upright one, walk behind one, step on one and ride on one.

By size, they're compact ones to clean the floor within 200㎡ , small ones to clean 300 -500㎡, medium ones to clean 500 -2000㎡, big ones to clean 2000-6000㎡, and powerful ones to clean the floor over 10,000㎡

By scrubbing heads, you can read more in our blog "3 Kinds of Scrubbing Heads You Should Know". They have disk brush one, roller/cylindrical brush and orbital one. 

Q3. How to choose floor scrubber quickly?

List 3 things, your floor area, your budget, your target.

The floor area decides how big a floor scrubber machine you need.

Budget decides the brand and service you can have.

Target decides the cleaning result you can have and chooses the right functional machine.

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Q4. Could I use the floor scrubber to pick up papers, leaves, sands, debris these rubbish?

No, it's not suggested. If your floor scrubber has cylindrical brushes, they can pick up small debris but don't expect they can work as floor sweeper machine.

Q5. Could I use the floor scrubber outdoors? What kind of floor can I use?

It can be used but is not recommended for use on outdoor floors. Generally, outdoor floors are mostly rough granite floors or rough stone floors. The rough floor will cause a lot of wear on the squeegee rubber and brushes or pads of the machine, and the stains on the outdoor floors are more stubborn. It is generally recommended to use special machines like single disc or square orbital floor machine for special deep cleaning projects. The floor scrubber can clean a variety of floors including concrete, cement-based floor, stone, PVC, Linoleum and other resilient and hard floors. 

About Consumables (Pads, Chemicals, Brushes, Squeegees)

Q1. Could I use detergent on floor scrubbing machine?

For neutral detergents or specialized one designed for scrubber dryer machines, they can be added to the solution tank and use. For other acidic and alkaline detergents, you need to contact after-sales personnel for confirmation and use them under guidance and recommendations to avoid corrosion or adverse effects on machine components. Unsuitable products can create foam in the recovery tank, which can damage components.