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 often make sense because they
can accept
greater down pressure than cylindrical brooms, and heavily soiled floors
benefit from heavy down pressure. Example: A demonstration person can 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, your 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 separate dry sweeper brooms to collect the solid
debris.
Cylindrical Scrubbing: A cylindrical scrub
brush system will (wet) sweep small amounts of solid debris into a removable tray while
also washing the floor. You eliminate the manual pre sweeping of
your factory or warehouse
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 usually turn their brushes at a speed that is
three times the rotation of a disk brush. This will often offset the greater
surface area advantage that disk scrub decks offer. Cylindrical scrub
brushes do keep less bristle surface in contact with the floor, but the
these revolving line of bristles will rotate on the floor with three times
the rotation frequency of disk brush bristles.
Which is better?
I give both versions a good rating on cleaning performance. Both will
clean your floor!
Pro Disk: Disk scrub brushes have the advantage on the issue of
lower initial cost and simplicity of maintenance. A disk brush will last
longer and a replacement brush usually will cost less.
Cylindrical decks (as an option) will typically increase your scrubber
cost by $500 to $1000.
Plus you really need to add side brooms to cylindrical systems to steer
the debris into the path of the of the scrub deck and out of the outer edges
of the squeegee.
Pro Cylindrical: cylindrical scrub decks eliminate the need to pre
sweep your floor and may save the expense of true combination
sweeper/scrubber machines or separate dry sweepers.
