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Compared to traditional floor-mopping methods, automatic scrubbers provide a more efficient and effective way to clean floors in park and recreational settings. Fully automatic floor scrubbers are designed to apply cleaning solution to the floor, agitate or scrub it, strip it (when called for), wet-vacuum it, and then squeegee it dry--all automatically in one pass.
It is the agitation, along with the cleaning chemicals, that loosens and helps remove soils. The end result is that floors are cleaner than those cleaned using traditional methods, and the floors dry faster, which allows immediate access and protects building-occupant safety. And because the equipment is designed to carry out floor-care procedures quickly, the use of automatic scrubbers can be cost-effective. In many situations, the machines pay for themselves in a matter of months because worker productivity is enhanced significantly.
However, automatic scrubbers cannot just be turned on and used like a vacuum cleaner. These are heavy machines--each weighing approximately 350 pounds--sometimes more. Because of their substantial mass, maneuvering, turning, and operating automatic scrubbers can be difficult--even dangerous--without the proper training.