Building Your Commercial Cleaning War Chest....

[TheCleaningDude]

What's your ideal commercial floor cleaning equipment and accessory list?

What would you include in order to clean most any type of floors?

Floor types being in most important order:

1. Carpet
2. Tile and grout
3. Wood/laminate
4. VCT

[leofry@1966]

1. Carpet = cimex + DS2
2. Tile and Grout = SX12+ PROCON TILE AND GROUT CLEANER

I don't offer the other two cleaning services

simple is better to me..

[Jamie]

Agree with Leo

Carpet with Cimex + DS2 any day of the week.

But I would also add Punch for the traffic areas.

Cheers

Jamie

[ebarnett]

Here's what I have. Pretty happy with most of it:

1. Carpet:
19" Cimex (excellent)
Hos Orbot Spayborg (excellent)
Penguin cordless sprayer (excellent)
Certified Pile Brush (good)
Mytee speedster portable extractor (ok)
Rotovac powerwand (ok)

2. Tile and grout
Cimex with tile brushes and weight kit (good)
Hyroforce sx12 spinner (excellent)
Cleanstorm 1200 psi extractor (good)

3. Wood/laminate (I dont service except to scrub in commercial settings)

4. VCT
21" pioneer eclipse buffer (excellent)
21" eagle buffer (good)
20" viper auto scrubber (good)
24" onyx propane tri strip (excellent)
Viper shovelnose wet vac (excellent)
Cimex with strip pads and weight kit (good - strip brushes would be excellent)

As you can see, the cimex is playing an important role in a lot of my work

[Hoss]

Orbot with weight kit and tile brush.
Micro-Orbot.
Steamin Demon.
Oreck 550.
Backpack Vacuum.
Oreck Vacuum.

With the obligatory chemicals, racks, mops and attitude - all surfaces, all sizes of projects can be managed.

[CleaningConcierge]

19" cimex (soft and heavy duty brush...big boy wheel kit)
Mytee LTD5
Air hog
Water otter
Hydroforce sx-15 spinner
20" general buffer with 46 lbs weight ring
17" Tennant buffer
Tennant wet vac w/squeegee
Hawk 20" burnisher 2000 rpm
21" propane burnisher
20" advance autoscrubber
Mytee speedster 1001 modified...no heat....stronger vacs
Xtra grit stripping brush
6 Ridgid air movers

Dead weight items
Sanitier pull behind extractor
Rotovac powerwand
Powr-flite wet vac 20 gal



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[TheCleaningDude]

The Cleanstorm is a Sandia, correct?

How are you liking it?

Here's what I have. Pretty happy with most of it:

1. Carpet:
19" Cimex (excellent)
Hos Orbot Spayborg (excellent)
Penguin cordless sprayer (excellent)
Certified Pile Brush (good)
Mytee speedster portable extractor (ok)
Rotovac powerwand (ok)

2. Tile and grout
Cimex with tile brushes and weight kit (good)
Hyroforce sx12 spinner (excellent)
Cleanstorm 1200 psi extractor (good)

3. Wood/laminate (I dont service except to scrub in commercial settings)

4. VCT
21" pioneer eclipse buffer (excellent)
21" eagle buffer (good)
20" viper auto scrubber (good)
24" onyx propane tri strip (excellent)
Viper shovelnose wet vac (excellent)
Cimex with strip pads and weight kit (good - strip brushes would be excellent)

As you can see, the cimex is playing an important role in a lot of my work

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Counting the Air Hog, it looks like you have three porties?

What are you using the LTD5 for? Strictly carpet?

Is the Air Hog/Water Otter for tile and grout? Is it the basic Air Hog? How are you liking the set up?

19" cimex (soft and heavy duty brush...big boy wheel kit)
Mytee LTD5
Air hog
Water otter
Hydroforce sx-15 spinner
20" general buffer with 46 lbs weight ring
17" Tennant buffer
Tennant wet vac w/squeegee
Hawk 20" burnisher 2000 rpm
21" propane burnisher
20" advance autoscrubber
Mytee speedster 1001 modified...no heat....stronger vacs
Xtra grit stripping brush
6 Ridgid air movers

Dead weight items
Sanitier pull behind extractor
Rotovac powerwand
Powr-flite wet vac 20 gal



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[Mark H]

Wow guys you people have so much of information.
I also use cimex plus DS2 for carpet and Cimex with tile brushes and weight kit for tiles.

[CleaningConcierge]

Speedster is the back up.

Air hog is basic, single vac model. It is a good little machine. Use it for T&G and water extractions in hard to reach areas or when I am too tired to pull out the LTD 5.

Air hog/water otter - good...setup time is the killer with hooking up water hose and drain hose...gets the job done

Ltd 5 carpet mostly but I will use it for t & g. Its a beast for a porty auto dump/fill are a must on a porty.



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[TheCleaningDude]

Cool.

I know you do mostly commercial. Is the Hog and Otter able to take on tough tile and grout?

How does it do on carpet in terms of dry times?

Thanks

Speedster is the back up.

Air hog is basic, single vac model. It is a good little machine. Use it for T&G and water extractions in hard to reach areas or when I am too tired to pull out the LTD 5.

Air hog/water otter - good...setup time is the killer with hooking up water hose and drain hose...gets the job done

Ltd 5 carpet mostly but I will use it for t & g. Its a beast for a porty auto dump/fill are a must on a porty.



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[ebarnett]

Yes the cleanstorm is the same as the sandia. I like it ok. Just too many hoses and cords!!! I would much rather have a truckmount for tile and grout.

[David-Hebert]

we have
3 Steamin Demons
2 Cross American Extractors and Booster
1 Orbot
5 Buffers One of them is made to do wood only one is for stone.
1 Viper wet pick up vac
1 auto scrubber
1 gas power washer up to 3000 psi
1 generator 8000 running watts another on its way
CRB Master Blend

Floor fans and air path type fans Id would have to go and count
lots of various types wands and other tools for doing T&G stone wood

[TheCleaningDude]

Great answers.

Do any of you feel that not owning a TM has been a hindrance to your business?

Again, speaking strictly commercial....