Nasty restroom smells come from a variety of sources. Some are the usual suspects, other may surprise you. No matter the source, malodorous restrooms make a bad impression.
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Best Tile and Grout Cleaning Products
Traditional mops and buckets can’t cut through the grease but they can spread it around the rest or your facility. Kaivac’s OmniFlex™ Dispense-and-Vac used with KaiPow™ degreaser gets rid of grease and saves time an
Kaivac Goes Unplugged with the Quick-Change Power Pack
Introducing the Kaivac Quick-Change Power Pack, offering cordless capabilities across all Kaivac cleaning systems.
School Reopening Resources – Clean Disinfect Sanitize
Resource Roundup: School Reopening With a new year in full swing, schools and universities all over the country are working to establish a new normal for maintaining school facilities. Information is changing daily, creating a logistical nightmare for administrators,...
Cleaning Public Toilets: COVID-19 Edition
Cleaning public toilets has never been more important to human health and economic stability.
Cleaning to Protect Athletes
Everyone is eager to restart sports, but no one wants to endanger health. Cleaning to protect athletes may let us get back to normal faster and that’s something to cheer about.
Pool Locker Room Cleaning
Pool locker room cleaning is essential for a safer summer, especially in the midst of a pandemic.
Clean Before You Disinfect
Pouring disinfectant on a dirty surface is a waste of time, money and effort. To get optimal results you must clean before you disinfect.
Veterinary Cleaning in the Age of Coronavirus: Keeping pets, their owners and employees safe
Now that counties in every state are slowly opening up, going to the vet’s office now will look quite a bit different as new protocols have been announced.
Preparing to Reopen Schools: Cleaning Tips to Keep Schools Safe
As administrators, teachers and maintenance staff adjust to new protocols, here are cleaning tips to keep everyone safe as schools reopen.
How to Clean with a Microfiber Towel
If used correctly, microfiber towels really can clean surfaces faster, better and more completely than cotton cloths.
How No-Touch Restroom Cleaning Protects EVERYONE’s Health
While the bulk of the nation is sheltering in place, essential custodial workers are still out there deep cleaning grocery stores, warehouses, hospitals and more.
Nursing Home Cleaning: Protecting the Immunocompromised
Nursing home cleaning has always been the first line of defense for the health and well-being of residents and staff alike. Now, the emergence of Coronavirus COVID-19 makes those cleaning protoco
Cleaning Public Transportation for Health
Transit agencies and airlines are stepping up their maintenance protocols to help protect their riders, employees and the general population. Here’s the best tips when cleaning public transportation for health.
Cleaning and Coronavirus: What to Know
Here's a primer on why cleaning works, where to focus cleaning efforts and what to use when combating viruses.
Floor Care in the Age of Coronavirus
Floors can harbor dangerous pathogens. Learn how to clean floors for health and help prevent the spread of disease.
Cleaning Tips for Healthy Schools
Follow these tips to prevent the spread of germs in school and keep your students, teachers and staff safe and healthy.
KaiTutor: The Cleaning Industry’s Most Effective Way to Train
The KaiTutor Personal Video trainer uses a Play-Pause-Practice method to make training easy, accessible and inexpensive.
Restroom Cleaning Tips
Restroom cleaning is vital but it doesn’t have to be expensive, difficult or time consuming if you use the right equipment.
How to Boost Grocery Spill Response Time
Learn about tools and techniques to boost your grocery store spill response time.
Tips for an Odor-Free Pet Care Facility
Customers judge the quality of a pet care facility with their nose first. A fresh smelling facility, however, signals a well-run business and trustworthy employees.
Tips for an Odor-Free Restroom
Nasty restroom smells come from a variety of sources. Some are the usual suspects, other may surprise you. No matter the source, malodorous restrooms make a bad impression.
Driving Performance with Daily and Diversified Use of Spray-and-Vac
Some tools, while not new, present opportunities for success not immediately apparent to the casual observer. An excellent example is the spray-and-vac machine―a popular tool for restroom care in schools and universities―pioneered and made famous by Kaiva
How to Clean a Grocery Store
Grocery store cleaning isn't easy. Stores are big, employees are busy and outside contractors are expensive. But with the right tools and techniques, grocery story cleaning can be quick, easy and effective.
How to Avoid Refrigerated Cooler Case Failure
Regular cooler case maintenance saves money in multiple ways, from extending equipment life to lowering power bills to cutting down on expensive, outside contractor costs.
Classroom Cleaning Checklist
Adhering to a classroom cleaning checklist will ensure that schools remain clean and fresh-smelling and help keep students, faculty and staff healthy into cold and flu season.
Kennel Cleaning Checklist
A kennel cleaning checklist can make, or break, your boarding business. Far from the most thrilling part of caring for dogs, cats and other pets, kennel cleaning is the most important.
Maintaining Cleaning Equipment
Well-cared for tools work better, clean faster and last longer. Kaivac designs state-of-the-art cleaning machines for simple, in-house maintenance so your equipment is always up and running at its peak.
Restaurant Floor Cleaning Made Easy
Restaurant floor cleaning is necessary but it doesn’t have to be hard. Read on for a list of common restaurant flooring types and cleaning methods.
Stay Cool: How to Clean Grocery Coolers
Knowing how to clean refrigerated display cases, and doing the work in-house, can give managers a leg up on their competition and boost the bottom line.
How to Clean an Industrial Facility
Cleaning an industrial facility is no small feat. These buildings are large with a diversity of spaces and functions.
Biohazard Cleaning: How to Clean Crime Scenes, Meth Labs and More
Biohazard cleaning professionals step in after the police, investigators and forensic specialists leave. Their job is to put the scene back to its original state by cleaning and sanitizing the home, business or vehicle.
Elementary School Cleaning: How to Make Your School Sparkle
Elementary school cleaning is a challenge. The buildings contain different hard and soft surfaces, lots of restrooms, tons of touchpoints and plenty of little kids coughing, sneezing, spilling and tracking in dirt, grit and microbes. As a result, elementa
How to Clean an Office to Stay Healthy and Productive at Work
Cleaning an office sounds pretty straightforward, but it’s not. There’s a variety of spaces with different uses, finishes, furnishings and fixtures to consider.
Clean Airport Restrooms: Make the Connection to Traveler Satisfaction
Clean airport restrooms are a huge part of traveler satisfaction and one of the biggest challenges to your maintenance staff.
How to Clean Your Warehouse Floor
Protect your people and your business. Know how to keep your warehouse floor clean and keep your facility running smoothly all season long.
Your Grout is Not Black
Grout, because of its unique properties, is nearly impossible to clean with a mop. Learn how to stop the mop and clean your tile and grout floor the right way.
The Best Cleaning System for a Building Service Contractor
Get great results and grow your business with the machine that can do it all.
Best Products to Remove Grease from Restaurant Floors
Traditional mops and buckets can’t cut through the grease but they can spread it around the rest or your facility. Kaivac’s OmniFlex™ Dispense-and-Vac used with KaiPow™ degreaser gets rid of grease and saves time an
The Best Way to Clean Large, Hard-Surface Floors
Good looking, well-maintained floors are a must for any business. Here is the best way to clean them.
How to Clean a Correctional Facility
Correctional facilities, jails and prisons face the same cleaning challenges as any other large, densely-populated facility. But their unique characteristics make the job harder and more crucial.
A Clean Restroom Means Repeat Business
Full Sweep Cleaning utilizes a system developed by Kaivac that are 60 times more effective at removing contaminants than mops and rags.
Healthcare Cleaning Best Practices
Healthcare cleaning demands attention, precision and a well-trained staff. A poorly-cleaned facility poses a risk to patients, medical staff and visitors, while cleaning the facility incorrectly poses a risk to your janitorial staff. Keep the public and y
The Best Commercial Kitchen Cleaning Hacks
Running a restaurant is hard work, but there are commercial kitchen cleaning hacks that can lighten the load. Keep your customers happy and employees healthy by following some simple commercial kitchen cleaning protocols.
How to Clean Kennels: The Definitive Guide for Kennel Cleaners
Kennel cleaning is definitely not the most glamorous part of running a pet business, but when it comes to setting your company apart, it is the most important. Keep your client’s dogs and cats healthy and help your business thrive by following a
How to Clean Restrooms: The Definitive Guide to Restroom Cleaning
Proper restroom cleaning is essential, no matter the building type . Well-maintained facilities protect the public from germs, viruses and other dangerous pathogens. But the benefits go even further. Clean, fresh smelling restrooms delight occupants and e
Clean Restrooms Better and Faster with No Touch
It’s long been documented that a business’s reputation lives or dies by the state of its restroom. Customers expect clean, odor-free restrooms in healthcare facilities, supermarkets, retail stores and even gas stations. Anything less will repel patrons an
Picker, Packer, Warehouse Cleaner: Cleaning Warehouse Floors
While customers probably never see or even think about them, an orderly, well-maintained warehouse fills a logistics manager’s heart with joy. Conversely, dirty, unkempt spaces can slow lines, harm workers and effect the bottom line. This makes
Award-Winning School District Models Effective Cleaning
This award-winning school district is helped in its effort to provide the best learning, living and working environment – in large part by adopting and modeling the best cleaning.
Starting a Cleaning Business? Here’s the Tools You Need to Succeed
Here’s all a cleaning business really needs to succeed.