Floor cleaning machine: effortless and hygiene cleaning
Kärcher’s professional floor scrubbers are engineered to meet the rigorous demands of commercial and industrial cleaning. Whether it's a sprawling warehouse, or a busy airport, Kärcher machines ensure floors are thoroughly clean, safe, and hygienic. These machines deliver powerful scrubbing combined with efficient water pick-up, leaving floors dry and immediately ready for use. Kärcher’s ride-on floor cleaning range includes solutions for every cleaning need, from daily cleaning to deep cleaning for large areas.
Scrubber driers offer a faster, more cost-effective, and thorough alternative to manual floor cleaning across all floor types. They save time and reduce the use of cleaning agents, benefiting both employees and budgets. Easy to operate and low-maintenance, Kärcher offers a machine for every application, tailored to the type, size, and specific requirements of your floors.
Key Features of Floor Scrubbers
- Efficiency: Faster cleaning process, covering more area in less time.
- Consistency: Ensures uniform and thorough cleaning with each pass.
- Water Savings: Significant reduction in water usage compared to a bucket.
- Chemical Control: Precise control over detergent usage, minimizing waste.
- Improved Hygiene: More effective removal of dirt, grime, and germs.
- Enhanced Safety: Reduced risk of slip and fall accidents due to dry floors.
- Time Savings: Increased productivity and quicker turnaround for spaces.
- Maintenance: Easy maintenance and minimal machine wear and tear.
- Environmental Impact: Lower environmental footprint due to reduced water and chemical use.
- Professional Results: Achieve professional-level cleanliness effortlessly.
Regular cleaning guarantees safety
Unlike inefficient mopping that leaves hazardous wet surfaces and risks cross-contamination, Kärcher scrubber driers provide an instant, hygienic clean that ensures floor safety and protects high-stress industrial environments from costly structural damage and workplace accidents.
A key distinction here is made between the one-step and the two-step method of floor cleaning:
- Maintenance cleaning with One-step method: First, the floor is scrubbed with cleaning agent; then, in the same work step, the loosened dirt is cleaned off again. This is done in a single pass with the same machine
- Depp cleaning with Two-step method: The first step is to cover the entire area with water and cleaning agent, then the second step is to suck the solution up again with a cleaning machine.
Maintenance cleaning: Removing light soiling
Maintenance cleaning is carried out using the one-step method. To clean away light soiling, the scrubber drier is fitted with red scrubbing brushes. The scrubber drier works with a lower contact pressure and lower roller brush speed. The cleaning agent is diluted to between 0.5 and 3% (RM 69 ASF) depending on how dirty the surface is. We also recommend equipping the machine with the automatic cleaning agent dosing function (dose). Postwiping or rinsing is not required – the floor can be walked on again immediately.
If the cleaning job does not require wet cleaning, maintenance cleaning can also be carried out using a vacuum sweeper.
Removing skid marks and tyre tracks
To remove the skid marks left by forklift trucks or the abrasion from tyres, use RM 776 – a cleaning agent that is NTA-free and has been specifically developed for this purpose. Apply it undiluted to the dirty areas using the RM sprayer or spray bottle, leave it to work for a few minutes, then go over the area with a scrubber drier. The roller scrubbing head should be fitted with green roller pads or roller brushes depending on the structure of the surface (smooth or textured respectively). The next step is to remove the dirty water and then rinse with clean water (one-step method).
Please note: Do not use this method on polymer-based or wax coatings, as the cleaning agent will remove them.
Deep cleaning: Removing heavy soiling
Deep cleaning uses wet scrubbing to remove oil and grease marks and encrusted dirt. If the floor covering allows, cleaning is carried out using the two-step method at full contact pressure with black disc or green roller brushes. The procedure should always be performed step by step to avoid the floor getting too wet or the cleaning fleet drying out again quickly.
Step 1: Use a scrubber drier to cover the surface that needs cleaning with cleaning agent and then scrub it two or three times until all the dirt has come loose.
Step 2: Remove the dirty water using the squeegee and the suction device on the machine. Then cover the entire area with clean water again and proceed using the one-step method: Cover with water – scrub – suction.
If protective films need to be removed in addition to oil and grease, we recommend using RM 754, the alkaline all-round deep cleaner. The RM 69 ASF floor deep cleaner could also be used. The cleaning agent is diluted to between 5 and 10% depending on how dirty the surface is.
Please note: Only the one-step method is recommend for deep cleaning of industrial floors that have not been treated or surfaces that are not water-resistant (see screed types), as otherwise the floor will get too wet and consequential damage could occur.
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