RETAIL & DAYTIME CLEANING
RETAIL THERAPY Shopping centres can present a myriad of different challenges to cleaners, from washrooms to
escalators to the various different floor types, so it helps to have a sound knowledge of these different areas. Here, Kärcher offers some advice on how best to care for each of them.
Sand, Dust And Treadmarks –
Efficient Cleaning For All Floors The millions of square metres of UK shop floor space pose a daily challenge to building cleaning and place a high demand on operator and machine.
Floors in shopping centres are subject to one thing in particular: high load. Every day during opening hours, several thousand visitors and diverse types of dirt dictate maintenance cleaning requirements. Work is carried out mainly outside opening hours, but there are also situations where cleaning has to be carried out within the shortest time and the surfaces must dry as quickly as possible.
The types of dirt found on floors in shopping centres are diverse: dust, sand, fluff and scuff marks from shoes as well as bits of paper, cups and cans. In addition, during the winter months, there is also moisture, sludge and road salt. In restaurants, leftover food or sticky marks from drinks are commonplace.
For cleaning companies, it is therefore important to clean quickly and effectively, and efficiently remove all types of dirt in order to keep shopping centres looking attractive and offer visitors a clean and pleasant environment. Everywhere in the building – in corridors, shops or toilets and washrooms.
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Corridors And Aisles: Cleaning Hard Floors
Effectively And Efficiently Floors in shopping centres today are mainly made of natural stone such as granite or fine stone tiles, each of which may have different types of surfaces – from structured to smooth or polished.
The following applies to floor cleaning in general:
- Observe the manufacturer’s cleaning and care instructions
- Dose cleaning agents depending on the degree of soiling according to the manufacturer’s instructions
- Adjust cleaning intervals depending on the degree of soiling (e.g. summer/winter)
- Adjust the machine settings to suit the particular type of floor covering, soiling and environment
- Observe machine care and service intervals (e.g. battery charge, tank rinsing, inspection of squeegees and brushes for wear and tear)
In addition to cleaning floors thoroughly on a daily basis, the general appearance, for example the shine and, in particular, the slip resistance, plays an important role. These are guaranteed if the tips set out above are followed.
For coarse dirt such as paper cups, hair, scraps of paper or splinters of glass, it is recommended to sweep before wet cleaning – a scrubber drier that is suitable for the area and surface to be cleaned can subsequently be used to remove any further dirt – dust- free. Scrubbing and vacuuming take place in a single pass for a clean and immediately dry surface.
Scrubber driers can be equipped with a disc scrubber head as well as a roller scrubber head including presweep unit. The disc version is suitable mainly for smooth or shiny surfaces subject to light soiling, the roller version mainly for structured surfaces with numerous crevices. This ensures that the surface structure is cleaned efficiently deep into the crevices. Contra-rotating roller brushes transfer the coarse dirt into the sweep bin using the throw-over principle.
Furthermore, the noise level of the machines must always be taken into account for maintenance cleaning in shopping centres, so as not to disturb customers. Cleaning machines with an ‘Eco’ mode are particularly suitable for this working environment: the suction power is adjusted to the degree of soiling so that operation takes place at a low noise level.
Ride-on scrubber driers are recommended for large, open areas
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