How to Clean a School Restroom

Clean school restrooms create a safe, welcoming environment. Students, staff, and parents expect sanitary conditions, especially in the restrooms. Anything less immediately effects morale and impacts learning.

Studies prove that dirty restrooms reflect right back on the school administration. Students feel disrespected. Absenteeism spikes. And janitors are frustrated that their efforts are not enough to keep restrooms clean and fresh smelling.

The right restroom cleaner can make the difference in servicing these heavily-use, heavily soiled spaces. Here’s how a proven bathroom cleaning machine creates a fresh, inviting space that students, staff, and parents appreciate.

Mops: The Wrong Restroom Cleaner

Trying to service any restroom floor with a mop and bucket is challenging. Cleaning K-12 school restroom floors with a mop and bucket is a losing battle. School restrooms take an incredible beating every day. Between heavy usage, accidents, and deliberate damage, soils persist and build up. Eventually tiles look dingy, grout is stained, and malodors persist.

It’s not that janitors are not trying. They just have the wrong tools. Mops and buckets can never fully remove the dirt, soils, and pathogens that pollute restrooms. Mops and buckets, unfortunately, are good at spreading the mess around depositing dirt and germs onto porous grout and into corners.

Students have opinions about these conditions. “I’d say that the school should clean the bathrooms out more often, or maybe more thoroughly because there are some spots of the bathroom that are seemingly always dirty,” says sophomore Stephanie Zou in this article in the Francis Lewis News, an online student newspaper. “We always notice the floor having dirty water and it makes us feel grossed out.”

Instead of fostering pride and a sense of community, these conditions create an atmosphere of disrespect. Students may stop using the restroom, which can lead to bad outcomes. Or they can add to the mess with acts of vandalism. At the very least, students will feel a little worse about their school, and themselves.

Find the Right Bathroom Cleaning Machine

The right bathroom cleaning machine can positively impact outcomes. Tools like the No-Touch Cleaning® system from Kaivac turn this laborious, and ultimately unsatisfying job, into an easy task that yields great results.

Here’s how to clean a school restroom with the No-Touch Cleaning system. Janitors simply:

Spray all surfaces with automatically diluted cleaning solution

Scrub problem areas and grout lines

Power rinse surfaces with clean water spray

Vacuum the cleaning solution, soils, and pathogens away

School maintenance professionals from all over the country trust the No-Touch Cleaning system for their restrooms. The restroom cleaner removes 60x more soils and works three times faster than mops. Spaces are left clean, dry, and fresh smelling.

Students, teachers, and parents notice, and appreciate, the difference. Ready to learn how a commercial restroom cleaning system can improve health and hygiene in your school? Find out more here.