More cleaning solutions

Our search for technological solutions is bringing us to remote regions. Yesterday we visited the far-flung showroom of Klenco, which is quite an established name in the cleaning industry.

Klenco has a nice building located in Tuas, which is somewhere right at the edge of the Universe.

Entering their showroom, we are greeted by a mind-boggling array of really interesting cleaning machines. It's possible though that people who do the actual cleaning work might not quite share the same enthusiastic sentiments. Great! Just the machine I need to clean more floors (cue rolling eyes).

This little fellow is what we're here to see - the Lava 351B floor scrubber and dryer. No more lugging around a broom, dustpan, mop and a pail of water from room to room. The Lava is a self-contained machine that replaces the manual processes involved in the daily cleaning of the classroom floors.

We are looking at the baby bear of the Lava family, but even this tiniest unit weighs in at a hefty 40 kilos when fully equipped. So, while there are no doubts regarding the effectiveness of this machine, unfortunately the classrooms on the ground floor are 2 steps up from the Hall area, so we'll have to get around this obstacle if we were to acquire this piece of equipment.

But Klenco wouldn't be the professional cleaning company that they are, if they didn't have other solutions. Their helpful Senior Sales guy proceeded to recommend the alternative Duplex series of floorwashers cum carpet cleaners, which at 28 kilos supposedly provides greater maneouvreability. Can't see Aunty jumping for joy.

Here's how the underside of the machine looks like. The machines generally work on the same principles. In a nutshell - water or detergent is squirted from the clean water tank onto the floor. The brushes on both sides scrub the floor, push the wet dust and dirt inwards, to be carried up by the rollers and deposited in another recovery tank, which can be emptied afterwards. Fascinating?

Besides machines, the Klenco showroom contains many other interesting innovations, such as a steam cleaner (hot!) and a flat floor mop that holds disinfectant/detergent along the entire length of its handle (quirky!). Also, a range of floor mats with different functions and different colours to suit any occasion.

A great introduction to the world of professional cleaning technologies. Many thanks to Ranald of Klenco for patiently explaining and demonstrating the various products. We leave today with just the liquid soap dispensers for our two adult toilets, but we'll likely be back for one of those cool machines.