Cleaning With BOOST

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Focus® II Rider With Chemical-Free Finish Removal Provides Increased Productivity for Floor Cleaning Applications

The cost-efficient Focus® II Rider with BOOST® delivers simple operation while meeting green cleaning requirements. Available with a 28- or 34-inch disk deck or a 28-inch BOOST® deck, the Focus II Rider satisfies diverse cleaning applications, ranging from university entryways to floor finish removal in healthcare facility hallways.

Featuring Clarke’s innovative BOOST® technology, the Focus® II Rider 28-inch BOOST® deck delivers quality cleaning with the ultimate in green benefits.

BOOST® eliminates costly chemicals, slippery floors and undesirable odors with easy floor finish removal without the use of chemicals. With BOOST®, the Focus® II Rider uses up to 70 percent less solution, extends equipment pad life by 40 percent, provides longer battery runtime and cuts labor time in half.

With diverse performance features, the Focus® II Rider is ideal for a variety of applications, ranging from education and healthcare facilities to hospitality facilities and government buildings. Larger cleaning applications, such as automotive dealerships and entertainment and sport arenas also benefit from the Focus® II Rider’s highly-productive cleaning capabilities.

Focus® II Rider

The Focus® II Rider provides increased productivity, while reducing cleaning costs, through the following benefits:

• Chemical-free floor finish removal eliminates costly chemicals, slippery floors and undesirable odors, while saving labor and cleaning costs
• Up to 155 minutes of continuous scrubbing without a dump or refill minimizes downtown, while enhancing productivity
• Increased down pressure of up to 225 pounds allows for one pass cleaning of heavy soils
• Best-in-class maneuverability and water pickup with a wide turning radius and heavy-duty steel side skirts provide superior wiping and water containment

Orbital Floor Machine

The Clarke BOS-18 offers operators our powerful BOOST® technology in a floor machine. Available in a low-speed and a high-speed model, the BOS-18 is the ideal orbital floor machine for small areas and detail work that larger autoscrubbers cannot reach. BOOST technology is ideal for the chemical-free removal of floor finish in preparation for finish recoats.

The BOS-18 Low Speed cleans at 1,725 ¼ inch orbits per minute. With a totally enclosed motor, and lower speed, this model is ideal for cleaning noise sensitive areas. An optional solution tank will feed cleaning solution directly to the pad.

The BOS-18 High Speed will clean at 3,600 ¼ inch orbits per minute and is ideal for the toughest cleaning projects where noise is not an issue. The 4 gallon solution tank is included and feeds cleaning solution directly to the pad.

Clarke BOOST® Auto Scrubber

 The Ultimate Green Machine!

Check out how the BOOST® orbital scrubber technology from Clarke removes floor finish without chemicals.

Focus® II MicroRider™

The Clarke Focus® II MicroRider™ is a small, easily maneuverable machine that is designed to clean the areas that are inaccessible with larger riders—including those with limited access or tight corners. Yet, with a 26 or 28 inch deck, the Focus II MicroRider offers a wide cleaning path for maximum productivity in your larger cleaning areas.

The low-profile SatetyGlide™ deck eliminates wasted time and money spent on side skirts, and irritating watermarks. Simply turn the steering wheel; as the machine turns, the deck automatically moves in line with the path of the rear squeegee, resulting in 100% water pick-up. With a spring-loaded safety design, you no longer have to worry about accuracy or accidental contact for edge cleaning. The deck ensures precise, straight edge cleaning without additional labor-intensive detail edge mopping.

Enhanced with BOOST® Technology, the Focus II MicroRider is available with a 28 inch BOOST deck, delivering high levels of cleaning with the ultimate in green benefits. Say goodbye to costly chemicals, slippery floors and undesirable odors. BOOST allows for easy floor finish removal without the use of chemicals. Plus, this efficient technology uses up to 70% less solution, extends equipment pad life by 40%, provides longer battery runtimes and cuts labor time in half.

The Focus II MicroRider is an equipment contestant in ISSA's 2012 Innovation Award Program. To vote, visit http://www.issa.com/vote.

Clarke Rider Autoscrubber® Features Superior Scrub System to Maximize Cleaning Performance

The Clarke Focus® II MicroRider™ is the newest compact rider addition to the company’s line of autoscrubbers®. Available with a 26 inch disc scrub deck or 28 inch BOOST® scrub deck, the Focus II MicroRider delivers flexible operation to meet diverse cleaning requirements.

The Focus II MicroRider models feature a low-profile SafetyGlide™ deck, which automatically moves in line with the path of the rear squeegee—resulting in 100 percent water pick-up and eliminating the need for side skirts. With a spring-loaded safety design, the deck ensures precise, straight edge cleaning without additional labor-intensive detail edge mopping. In addition to superior scrub capabilities, users can experience enhanced operation with the 28 inch BOOST model, which delivers simple floor finish removal capabilities without costly chemicals, slippery floors and undesirable odors. With BOOST technology, operators use up to 70 percent less solution, extend equipment pad life and increase battery runtime, all while reducing labor and cleaning costs.

Learn more at: http://www.clarkeus.com/products/autoscrubbers/focusiimicrorider.aspx

BOOST® Your Cleaning Benefits: Increase Efficiency and Battery Runtimes

With conventional disc floor scrubbers, as much as 30 percent of an operator’s time during a shift is spent emptying the recovery tank and refilling the solution tank. Since these disc scrubbers can use twice the amount of solution, more dump and fills are required during a cleaning shift.

With BOOST®, you’ll experience a 15 to 20 minute labor savings for each dump and refill that’s eliminated. The BOOST’s unique pad shape also allows for close-edge cleaning without overspray, virtually eliminating additional labor steps in cleaning operations.

The reduced water usage coupled with the reduced pad pressure enables the BOOST machine to utilize the motors and battery pack more efficiently, which translates into an increased run time of up to 25 percent compared to similar disc scrubbers. By using BOOST, you can reduce the cost of battery replacement and reduce the environmental impact of battery recycling.

BOOST® Your Cleaning Benefits: Reduce Floor Pad Consumption

Because BOOST® Technology cleans at orbits 10 times that of a conventional scrubber and attacks dirt from multiple directions, less pad pressure is required to achieve the desired cleaning result. With the combination of high RPM orbital action and reduced pad pressure, the life of floor pads is extended by up to 40 percent.

Just think about this. An average 40-store grocery store chain in the Midwest that spends $30,000 in floor pads a year will now save over $12,000 per year in pad costs, just by implementing Clarke’s BOOST® Technology cleaning method.

Next week we will discuss the last BOOST benefit in this blog post series.

BOOST® Your Cleaning Benefits: Chemical-Free Floor Finish Removal

Save the money and just use water! That’s all you need to remove floor finish. Just put on a surface preparation pad, fill the tank with clean water and reduce your speed. Using only water also helps to reduce the chance for slip and falls, as chemicals can cause slippery floors, keeping floors dry, safe and ready for recoating. BOOST® Technology is not only an ideal choice for removing floor finish, but is also great for evenly deep scrubbing floors. Chemical-free removal of floor finish with BOOST is ideal for diverse applications, including use in education and healthcare facilities when air quality and daytime cleaning is critical.

Stay tuned next week for the next post on cleaning benefits.