Disk Scrubbing: Disk scrubbers wash, or strip wax from the floor. Disk machines offer easy to change, variably aggressive, pads or brushes. These features make disk scrubbers ideal for retail applications where pads are not only inexpensive, but offer a great deal of surface contact for scuff mark control and floor shine. When aggressive pads are coated with the stripped wax, they can be conveniently thrown away.
For industrial applications, disk brushes make sense because they accept greater down pressure than cylindrical brooms, when heavily soiled floors require it. A typical example is when your sales person will stand on a disk brush (in our case this is up to 250 pounds of pressure) and the brush bristles do not deflect. For this reason, you see them on machines that offer great down pressure such as the Advance and American Lincoln combustion engine cleaning machines. But you will note, these combination machines still include sweeper brooms to collect the solid debris.
Cylindrical Scrubbing: In modern manufacturing facilities in the United States, you rarely see an extremely dirty floor any more. This is because many of the "heavy industrial" applications have gone to overseas locations. In Virginia's "high tech" plant operations we see a lot of epoxy coated floors and "hardened" floors that eliminate concrete dust, and keeps the tire marks and dirt on the surface. In these applications, we recommend a simple cylindrical scrub brush system which can sweep small amounts of solid debris into a tray while also washing the floor. You eliminate manual pre sweeping of the floor for greater productivity and fewer clogs in the squeegee section of the scrubber. Plus there is often no need for an additional separate sweeper or even a combination machine when a cylindrical machine will do the job. Cylindrical scrubbers often turn their brushes at a speed that is three times the rotation of a disk brush. This will offset the greater surface area advantage that disk scrub decks offer. There are fewer bristles on the floor, but what is there is striking the floor three times as often.
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