Thursday, July 17, 2014

Using The Local Janitorial Distributors Will Keep You Up To Date

By Coleen Torres


A professional custodial company needs things and information that makes it easy for them to perform their duties. This includes tools, chemicals and information for the training needed for all of these. A facility manager, required to maintain a cleaning and maintenance department will also need these things. The best source of this assistance is the janitorial distributors available throughout the area, regardless of where the cleaners are.

Information is a big part of what every cleaner needs. The chemical mix will change over a fairly short period of time. Getting a new cleanser that will help minimize danger to the environment or make their job easier is an important piece of information to have. Knowing that MSDSs are available at these locations also helps provide valuable information in the case of a spill or accidental ingestion.

Having a location where these various solutions can be tried out, before purchase, helps. New concentrations will be put on the market and a sample of that can be applied to a test surface. The means of application can be adjusted and a short training session will benefit all. This may not be rocket science but it will boost time savings for those who listen and learn.

Floor machines can also be looked at. The need to try them out can also be exercised. The distributors will have a back room where the carpet cleaners can be used to see how they work. This can be a cost saving measure as these fairly expensive machines all work a bit differently and the correct one for the firms applications is important.

Upright vacuums as well as backpack units can be examined up close and personal. Comparing these as in side by side demonstrations is always helpful when thinking about a basic cleaning tool. Checking the effectiveness of a bagged model against one that has no bag can be very informative. This makes you understand the difference between clean and not so clean.

Mops can seem like a mundane subject until you see what can be accomplished with the correct model and the proper way to use it. String mops, sponge mops and the popular flat mops are all there to see. Buckets, containers and recovery systems are necessary for each mopping system. They can be compared and matched up for the way each company trains.

One of the things or activities that will make the learning about the right tools, equipment and supplies easier is the ability to talk with leaders in the local cleaning industries. Knowing people, by sight and reputation, will be easy when you are talking with them face to face., They are usually a fairly sharing sort, even if it is just to brag. It is also a motivating source of mutual strength in a field that is greatly misunderstood.

Staying up to date in a field that, believe it or not, changes every several months is important as a cleaning professional. Nurturing a relationship with the employees of one of these distributors will see that you get information before, or at least at the same time as, other professionals in your area. A last benefit is that you will also get indications of contracts just about to be negotiated and will have a line on that next big account.




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