| Are you tired of cleaning grimy fingerprints | | | | refill, the quicker your cleaning crew can |
| off restroom faucets and soap dispensers? | | | | get the job done and move on to other tasks. |
| Indeed. One of the major sources of customer | | | | Avoid using dispensers that need threading |
| complaints is restroom cleanliness. The | | | | the towels through a series of rollers.To |
| reasons for this go beyond the abilities of | | | | minimize the items a visitor has to touch, |
| your cleaning staff. The more traffic a | | | | many buildings are now installing automatic |
| building gets the harder it is to keep high | | | | toilet flushing mechanisms. These allow |
| cleaning standards, especially if you are | | | | toilets and urinals to flush automatically |
| cleaning the building only once or twice a | | | | after use. Some systems are even designed to |
| week. Restrooms can have problems with | | | | flush periodically when not in use to keep |
| odors, general appearance, empty dispensers, | | | | fresh water in the bowl at all times. To |
| leaky soap dispensers and wads of paper | | | | help minimize bacteria and reduce odors, |
| towels stacked up on the floor. Besides not | | | | consider adding an automatic disinfectant |
| looking clean, this leads to a perception | | | | dispensing system.Installing touchless soap |
| that the restroom is not sanitary. Installing | | | | dispensers and automatic water faucets cuts |
| touchless dispensers can help to control | | | | down on what visitors' touch and saves on |
| these problems.Touchfree technology not only | | | | soap and water use. If the restroom is |
| helps keep restrooms clean, but also helps to | | | | heavily used, be sure to order soap |
| reduce the spread of germs and cuts down on | | | | dispensers that are large enough so frequent |
| your staff's cleaning time. Using touchfree | | | | refills are not necessary.Restroom cleaning |
| soap dispensers, water faucets, toilet paper, | | | | in itself can be very labor-intensive - from |
| and paper towel dispensers, restroom visitors | | | | wiping down counters to scrubbing toilets, it |
| do not have to touch handles, buttons or | | | | requires a big time commitment. There now |
| levers. The fewer the objects visitors' | | | | touchless cleaning products that can save you |
| hands touch, the less dirt and grime your | | | | time and money. These systems are designed |
| staff will have to clean off fixtures.You may | | | | to allow your staff to clean without having |
| think of a touchless system as expensive | | | | to touch any surface in the restroom with |
| because it's controlled by a sensor. But | | | | their hands.One type of system includes a |
| touchless systems do not have to be | | | | cleaning cart, bucket and series of extension |
| complicated or expensive. There are toilet | | | | handles with specialized mop heads and |
| paper systems that hold individual | | | | attachments. The cart itself includes storage |
| interleaved sheets of paper. The user easily | | | | space for cleaning supplies and paper |
| takes the sheets they need and do no have to | | | | products.Steam and vapor cleaning is also |
| "fish around" the inside of a potentially | | | | growing in popularity. The steam cleaning |
| dirty dispenser looking for the end of the | | | | system uses a tank that superheats water as |
| toilet paper roll. This provides a much | | | | opposed to using chemicals. The steam is |
| cleaner and more sanitary system than the | | | | applied to dirty areas through a special wand |
| traditional toilet paper roll dispensers. | | | | and an applicator, which includes an |
| Another low-cost hygienic choice is a folded | | | | attachment for cleaning towels. To use the |
| towel dispensing system. Towels are | | | | equipment the operator "wipes" all surfaces |
| dispensed one-at-a-time and restroom visitors | | | | with the superheated water and changes the |
| only touch the towel they need.The more high | | | | cleaning towel as it becomes soiled.Another |
| tech type systems are sensor activated. | | | | alternative to use in restroom cleaning is |
| These are devices that flush toilets, turn on | | | | the microfiber mopping system. This is a |
| water faucets, dispense hand soap, and | | | | self-contained system. It cleans faster and |
| dispense paper towels. No touch technology | | | | more efficiently than a traditional bucket |
| is extremely important with paper towel | | | | and mop. For restroom cleaning, the |
| dispensers as towels are used after hands are | | | | microfiber is a more hygienic as the mop |
| clean.When deciding on a touchless paper | | | | water is not reused.Public restroom users are |
| towel dispenser, keep the following in mind:- | | | | concerned about how clean and sanitary |
| Power source. Most paper towel dispensers | | | | restrooms are. Using touchless dispensers |
| work off battery power. Look for dispensers | | | | not only helps to control the spread of |
| that run off normal D-cell batteries as | | | | germs, they help to conserve water, soap and |
| opposed to ones that need a special and | | | | paper towels, and provide the convenience of |
| expensive battery packs. Those special | | | | requiring less action from the user to get |
| battery packs may not be available locally | | | | the job done. Touchless dispensers also help |
| and have to be ordered - which will be a | | | | to keep cleaning costs down as your staff |
| problem if the batteries die unexpectedly.- | | | | will spend less time cleaning the restroom |
| There are several different types of | | | | and refilling dispensers. Less time spent |
| dispensing components. Several studies have | | | | cleaning restrooms means more profit for your |
| shown that users prefer a system where the | | | | cleaning business!Steve Hanson is co-founder |
| dispenser is triggered when hands are placed | | | | of TheJanitorialStore.com, an online |
| directly under the dispenser.- Refilling. As | | | | community for owners of cleaning companies. |
| with any dispenser, the easier it is to | | | | |