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When encountering dirt or oil stains, how should you choose a cleaning agent for floor washing?
Release time:2022-10-13
Generally, when using a floor scrubber, there’s no need to add detergent. However, if the floor is heavily soiled or has oil stains, it’s advisable to add an appropriate amount of detergent to enhance the cleaning effect. So, what are the requirements and precautions when selecting a detergent for a floor scrubber? How should we choose a detergent for our floor scrubber?
1. Do not add solid detergents into the floor scrubber.
We’ve noticed that many customers use laundry powder instead of detergent in their floor scrubbers—a practice that’s highly discouraged. Since the water-dispensing pipes in floor scrubbers are very narrow, if the laundry powder doesn’t fully dissolve, it could easily clog the pipes, resulting in weak water flow or even no water discharge at all.
2. Choose a neutral detergent for your floor scrubber.
The water tank, suction hose, drainage pipe, water lines, and rubber seals of a floor scrubber are not made of corrosion-resistant materials. Therefore, we must select a neutral detergent. Otherwise, prolonged use of non-neutral detergents will accelerate the aging of these components.
3. Select the detergent based on the type of dirt on the floor.
Typically, two types of detergents are used in floor scrubbers: one for general cleaning of everyday dirt, and another specifically designed as an oil-dissolving agent for oily surfaces. When the floor has oil stains, we must use the oil-dissolving agent—only then can we effectively remove the oil stains from the floor.
4. After adding detergent, be sure to include an appropriate amount of defoamer in the floor scrubber’s wastewater tank.
All detergents, once thoroughly mixed and used, will produce foam. Eventually, this foamy wastewater gets collected in the floor scrubber’s wastewater tank. Since the floor scrubber’s water-suction motor is installed inside the wastewater tank, excessive foam could enter the motor and cause damage. That’s why we need to add an appropriate amount of defoamer to the wastewater tank as a precautionary measure.
Generally, when using a floor scrubber, we don’t need to add any detergent. However, for floors that are heavily soiled or have oil stains, it’s advisable to add an appropriate amount of detergent to enhance the cleaning performance. So, what are the requirements and precautions when choosing a detergent? How should we select a detergent for use with a floor scrubber?
1. Do not add solid detergents to the floor scrubber.
We’ve found that many customers are using laundry detergent powder instead of detergent in their floor scrubbers—a practice that is highly discouraged. Since the floor scrubber’s water-dispensing pipes are extremely narrow, if the laundry detergent powder doesn’t fully dissolve, it could easily clog the pipes, resulting in reduced water flow or even no water output from the machine.
2. Choose a neutral detergent to add to the floor scrubber.
The water tank, suction hose, discharge pipe, water pipes, and sealing strips of floor scrubbers are not made of corrosion-resistant materials. Therefore, we should choose a neutral detergent. Otherwise, prolonged use of non-neutral detergents will accelerate the aging of these components.
3. Choose a detergent based on the nature of the stains on the floor.
Two types of detergents are typically used on standard floor scrubbers: one is a general-purpose detergent for removing ordinary stains, and the other is an oil-dissolving agent specifically designed for oily surfaces. When the floor is heavily soiled with oil, we must use the oil-dissolving agent—only then can we effectively remove the oil stains from the floor.
4. After adding detergent, an appropriate amount of defoamer should be added to the floor scrubber’s wastewater tank.
Any detergent, once thoroughly mixed and used, will produce foam. Eventually, this foamy wastewater is collected into the floor scrubber’s wastewater tank. The floor scrubber’s water-suction motor is installed inside the wastewater tank. If there’s too much foam, it could enter the interior of the water-suction motor and cause damage. Therefore, we need to add an appropriate amount of defoamer to the floor scrubber’s wastewater tank as a precautionary measure.
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