Scrubber dryers - design, types and features of choice
Floors polished to a shine and sparkling clean are the calling card of a good housewife. If there are several rooms in the house, small children, and even a couple of cats and a dog, you simply cannot do without a floor washing machine. Fortunately, today choosing scrubber drying equipment in accordance with cleaning conditions, room characteristics and budgetary possibilities is not difficult. To restore order in supermarkets, airports, hospitals and other public institutions, professional floor cleaning equipment is used. To purchase a suitable model, you have to take into account a number of parameters and characteristics.
Power type
Scrubber drying equipment can be powered by electricity or a built-in battery. Both cases have their pros and cons.
The largest number of devices have batteries installed, from which the working parts are powered: suction motor, brush drive, motion drive and others.
Design features
Most often, scrubbing equipment is operated by a pedestrian operator.The cleaner walks behind the unit and, using a special handle, sets the machine in the desired direction. Moreover, compact models with a 4-liter tank, and quite spacious ones with a 150-liter tank are produced in this design. There are scrubber drying units with an electric drive, when the operator does not have to push the heavy device forward, since it moves under the action of the engine.
Rider scrubber dryers have a seat and steering wheel for the cleaner. At first glance, such devices resemble a small open car. Operating the rider is very easy and convenient, especially when you need to wash large areas free of furniture. Similar equipment can be found at the airport or train station; it is useful when cleaning warehouses. During a shift, the rider is able to travel more than 10 km and at the same time clean up to 3000 sq. m. floor.
Way to travel
Based on the method of movement, scrubber dryers are divided into two categories:
- non-wheel drive pushed;
- electrically driven.
In the first case, the apparatus is set in motion with the help of the operator’s muscular force. Simply put, a person pushes a car in front of him. This is not too difficult, since moving a device with a tank capacity of up to 50 liters along a horizontal surface requires very little force. If you plan to wash floors on inclined surfaces, it is better to select equipment with tanks with a volume of no more than 20 liters.
Devices equipped with electric wheel drive are driven by pressing a button or a special lever. Such machines have a fairly large water tank and are capable of moving both forward and backward. Motorized scrubber drying equipment is the most convenient compared to cordless ones even if you have to clean sloping areas.But such “helpers” are much more expensive.
Types of brushes
At the bottom of the scrubber unit there is a brush, which is used to clean the floor covering.
There are two types of brushes:
- disk;
- roller
In the first case, the brush has the shape of a disk. When the machine moves, the brush assembly rotates in the same plane with the floor, in a circle, which allows you to perfectly wash any, even not very smooth (with bumps and depressions) surfaces.
The roller brush rotates perpendicular to the floor plane.
Dirt collection method
The most popular way to remove dirt in scrubber dryers is to use a turbine, which sucks dirt particles into a tank. This mechanism is used in devices of different classes - with tanks from 3 liters to 200 liters or more.
Excellent cleaning quality on hard and soft surfaces is demonstrated by devices with mechanical dirt collection, when sand and small debris from the brushes enter the drum and are then transported to a tank with dirty water. Machines with this design are characterized by efficiency and high productivity when cleaning anti-slip surfaces.
When choosing scrubbing equipment for a store, warehouse or office, you need to pay attention to the brand name, the presence of a service center in the city and the possibility of purchasing spare parts. Otherwise, after the first breakdown, expensive equipment may be scrapped as unnecessary.
Scrubber dryer for a house or apartment
It should be noted that neither a rider nor a scrubber with disc brushes is useful for use at home.
Home models are simpler in design and mainly consist of the following elements:
- electric motor;
- vacuum pump;
- containers for clean and dirty water;
- hoses for water distribution;
- brushes;
- scraper
In its actions, a scrubber dryer resembles a washing vacuum cleaner. The work is carried out in several stages:
- Clean water is poured into a special tank and detergent is added.
- As the machine moves, the solution flows onto the brushes, which distribute it evenly over the entire floor surface.
- Rollers remove dirt.
- The scraper does not allow dirty water to spread; it is quickly captured by the roller and directed upward.
- The hose takes the waste solution from the roller and drains it into the appropriate tank.
Along with other household appliances, a floor washing machine makes the life of a housewife much easier, freeing up time for more interesting activities. And for companies providing cleaning services, such equipment is simply vital.