The cleaning trolley and organization
To choose the ideal cleaning trolley for your community, your cleaning company or your medical structure , you must first clearly define the scope of intervention of the agents.
The method before choosing the cart!
The first essential point is to define the cleaning method best suited to your sector of activity. Whether you represent a community, a hospital, or a tertiary cleaning company, the cleaning trolley model chosen will vary depending on the entity because the method is radically different for a different objective.
Storage capacity is one of the main selection criteria. You must ensure that the trolley offers enough space to store brooms, cloths , sprayers, etc., as well as products and consumables to be replaced, such as toilet paper , garbage bags , and paper towels.
Multiple compartments and well-organized shelves make it easy to store cleaning products and consumables that need to be restocked, whether in a hotel or community setting.
Robustness of the cleaning trolley
The robustness of the cleaning trolley depends on the materials used: for example, trolleys made of Rilsan, such as the Danish manufacturer DIT International , or high-quality recycled plastic, such as Numatic, are more resistant to chemicals, especially disinfectants commonly used for cleaning.
The ergonomics and maneuverability of the trolley are among the main elements retained by the agents that you will absolutely have to consult. Favor good quality swivel castors, to facilitate movement on all types of floors. If the trolley is to move on uneven surfaces, climb steps , go outside, etc., manufacturers like Numatic offer variations of cleaning trolleys in "large wheel" version .
The space requirement must be checked if you need to use corridors or elevators and plan for storage in a room suitable for the size of the trolley.
The different types of cleaning trolleys
There are many types of cleaning trolleys, and our Voussert catalog offers you a wide selection of models.
• The street cart is designed for cleaning outdoor areas such as parks, streets and sidewalks. It is sturdy and often equipped with large wheels to facilitate movement over uneven surfaces . This type of cart usually includes large waste bins, tool holders for brooms and shovels, as well as compartments for storing trash bags and other supplies needed for waste collection.
• The double-basin washing trolley , specifically designed for floor washing and disinfection operations with a tabbed mop that can be a microfiber mop or a cotton mop. It has two separate buckets : one for clean water and the other for dirty water. Note that a color code that is part of the unwritten rules is that clean water is the blue bucket and dirty water the red bucket. This separation helps keep the water clean longer, which is essential for effective cleaning and the most efficient disinfection. The double-basin washing trolley is often equipped with a mop jaw press to wring out the tabbed mop pads.
If your cart is configured without a press, you can also use the one-mop-per-area method . In this case, prepare your blue bucket of solution with all the mop pads you will need in the bucket, then as you use them, place them in the red bucket.
• The cleaning trolley with selective sorting . With the advent of selective sorting, trolleys have had to adapt. In this context, there are now trolleys with two or more waste collection streams . These models are designed to facilitate the sorting of recyclable and non-recyclable waste. It has several compartments or bags of different colors , each intended for a specific type of waste (paper, plastic, glass, organic waste, etc.).
What about high surfaces? Your trolley can be equipped for high surfaces with buckets placed on top of the trolley, generally 6 liters. Here too, the basis is to have a blue bucket and a red bucket, and the rule is to have clean cloths prepared in the blue bucket of solution and to collect the dirty or contaminated cloths in the red bucket.
Accessories and options on cleaning trolley
Cleaning trolleys are equipped with various accessories and options, which optimize cleaning depending on the type of environment.
Common accessories include storage bins for cleaning supplies and cloths, built-in trash bag holders, and broom and brush holders. On some cleaning cart models, shelves and shelves provide additional space for various equipment, while bucket holders make it easier to transport clean and dirty water.
On the more advanced side, closed compartments allow you to secure dangerous or expensive cleaning products . This option is often the norm in the hospitality industry to project a positive image without customers seeing the products and consumables. In addition, there are waste separation systems, such as sorting compartments.
You can also find cleaning trolleys with swivel wheels, equipped with brakes and easy to maneuver.
Cleaning protocol and cleaning trolley
The method defines your equipment
The choice of a cleaning trolley is based on the work method defined with the agents. In fact, it is based on the cleaning protocol that the cleaning trolley will be chosen, and not the other way around.
The first point is the floor washing system which will define the number and type of buckets on the cleaning trolley as well as the type of press (jaw press or roller press) if the method requires one. There are several types of floor washing methods and therefore several types of mop supports . Foldable tab support, foldable pressure support, foldable pocket support, mop mop, Velcro mop.
If waste collection is done on this cleaning trolley, a garbage bag holder must be provided (which can be 1 flow, 2 flows or more in the case of selective sorting).
The cleaning trolley can be equipped with surface buckets (usually one blue and one red) to hold the cloths, more specifically the blue bucket for the clean blue cloth solution and the red bucket for dirty or contaminated cloths.
The cleaning trolley can then be equipped with a product basket, a broom holder , shelves if there are two vertical uprights, etc.
In summary, you must always define your working method BEFORE defining the cleaning trolley . Custom assembly of the cleaning trolley is possible.
In the following paragraph, the most common compositions of cleaning trolleys are discussed.
Cleaning trolley its composition
The cleaning trolley for washing floors consists of a frame with two buckets. The buckets can have different capacities. The most common capacities are 15 liters to 25 liters. The buckets are color-coded blue for clean water and red for rinse water . The red bucket located below the press has the rinsing function.
The type of press can be of three types: jaw press (the most common), flat press, roller press (more efficient but much more expensive).
It is possible to fit a product basket to the trolley drawbar.
This type of trolley also comes in a compact version called a "bibac" that allows the two buckets to be combined into a large, two-volume container. This type of trolley is primarily intended for small spaces, cluttered or inaccessible areas.
The case of the medical / hospital / nursing home environment
The most common method is the so-called pre-impregnation method . This method consists of pre-impregnating mops in a disinfectant cleaning solution in a long, deep container specially designed for this purpose. A number of mops arranged on top of each other , associated with the quantity of solution, is used for the maintenance of rooms, areas, etc., with each time a clean mop impregnated with the necessary and sufficient quantity to act on the surface effectively.
No need to spin , the saturated mop at the end of the chamber, for example, is collected in the dirty mop bin or net. For this method, a pre-impregnation cleaning trolley with a suitable configuration must be chosen.
Rilsan coating on a household trolley: what are the advantages?
The Rilsan coating treatment process is a powder coating process used to protect metal surfaces against corrosion and wear. It is a technique of electrostatic projection of Rilsan powder on metal surfaces. On a cleaning trolley, this is a process that the Danish company Dit International has mastered since 1963. The main advantage is increased resistance to disinfectants, corrosion and premature wear , which makes this range of trolleys a reference in hospitals, retirement homes, nurseries and paramedical structures.
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