Cleaning Service Blog

The Original Yellow Bucket – Your industrial big yellow mop bucket and wringer is associated with Rubbermaid brand but it doesn’t matter who makes the handle and wringer set.  The wringer and handle mopping set have been used for mopping large areas for a long time and have some advantages:

• • If cleaning quality isn’t paramount they are a very fast way to clean large flooring areas.
    
    
  • They “flush” the floor with a larger amount of water which is handy with real bad accidents such as vomit/large spills/etc
    
    
  • They are inexpensive – very inexpensive.  A few mop heads can last a long time for cleaning and you use less chemicals because you reuse water until it turns dark.
    
    

Disadvantages

• The very first time you wring your dirty mop your cleaning water/solution is contaminated and you are spreading dirty water across the floor even if you can’t see it at the moment
  
  
• You are more likely to leave film on the floor
  
  
• Drying time is longer because you flood the floor
  
  
• Cross-contamination is very difficult to avoid
  
  
• Few cleaning personnel – janitorial or maids – empty the bucket often enough, and if they did, it would take all day to clean floors

While there are some advantages they all rely on a willingness to compromise the cleaning quality level as just the concept of using dirty water to mop floors is ridiculous.