Floor Care Stories

Use Less, Clean More with AutoVac™ Stretch™

Maintaining wide-area, hard surface floors can be fast, simple and efficient. Learn how to stretch your cleaning resources without losing any cleaning effectiveness with the Kaivac AutoVac Stretch.

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 Clean an Industrial Facility

Cleaning an industrial facility is no small feat. These buildings are large with a diversity of spaces and functions.

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

Finish Strong: Gentle Cleaning will Protect Finished Floors

Gentle, daily cleaning is the secret to well-maintained hard surface floors with lots of shine.

True Cost of a Spill: How to Clean Spills, Keep your Customers Safe and Protect Your Bottom Line

Knowing how to clean spills quickly and completely will save your business time, money and big headaches.

New Year’s Resolution: Stop the Mop for Really Clean, Really Safe Floors

If you’re ready to improve the appearance of your facility, increase the health and safety of its occupants and get your floors really clean, then it’s time to get serious and stop the mop.

Retail Cleaning: How to Wow Your Customers, Crush the Competition and Stay Relevant in the Age of Online Shopping

A clean store creates the right impression. Shoppers enjoy the experience and workers feel valued. But getting and keeping stores clean presents some challenges.

Clean Machines: Car Dealership Cleaning

Car dealership cleaning can be complicated. There’s lots of surfaces, different materials and a variety of soils to clean. Luckily, there are tools and techniques to get job done quickly and completely.

Audi and Toyota of Ft. Lauderdale Embrace Kaivac’s Floor Cleaning Systems

The auto dealerships have been very satisfied with the new technology because they’ve seen an immediate improvement in results.

What Correctional Facility Administrators Need to Know About Hospital Floorcare

To ensure proper inmate health services correctional administrators must keep floors clean and healthy.

Cleaning to Stop Restaurant Pests

Follow these protocols and start cleaning to stop and prevent restaurant pests.

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.

Cleaning Tips for Healthy Patient Rooms

There is a better way to protect patients and staff from infections in the hospital, clinic and doctor’s office. Here are cleaning tips for healthy patient rooms.

Restaurant Cleaning Tips for the Best First Impressions

Follow these restaurant cleaning tips for the best first impressions.

How to Clean a Recreation Center

Recreation centers are complex, but cleaning them doesn’t have to be.

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.

Why Do Restrooms Smell Bad?

Hint: It’s probably not what you think.

The Dirt Road

Understanding how dirt, soils and contaminants travel through your facility is the first step in keeping clean floors clean.

AutoVac at Aurora Public Schools – Making the Complicated Simple

Cleaning floors using the Kaivac AutoVac instead of an auto scrubber is the trend in a growing number of APS primary schools. The district has replaced four to date, with perhaps a dozen more coming in the future.

The Best Cleaning System for a Building Service Contractor

Get great results and grow your business with the machine that can do it all.

The Best Way to Clean Locker Rooms

Dirty locker rooms are more than smelly and unpleasant. They can be downright dangerous. Keep your team’s space in great shape by cleaning the right way.

How to Clean Brewery Floors

Small brewers, distillers and winemakers are creating products that directly reflect their environments. Lots can go wrong before your product gets to the bottle, can or glass if your facility isn’t clean.

Best Custodial Training Tool—KaiTutor™

KaiTutor™, delivers the expert, hands-on training right on the job site. The pre-loaded media player mounts directly to the Kaivac cleaning system and delivers critical operational and educational information.

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.

A Guide to Cleaning Chemicals

This guide to cleaning chemicals will help janitorial crews make the right choice and provide best practices for using a variety of products.

Success with Kaivac: An Interview with Michigan State University (MSU)

A Q&A with Paul Manson of MSU about their cleaning success with the use of Kaivac equipment.

Mops, Health, Daycare Centers, and Children

Mopping is simply no longer recommended for cleaning floors because so many reports have been published documenting the problems mopping causes.

Your Guide to Maintaining Commercial Floors by Type

Keeping floors in top shape is important, but different materials require different tools, techniques and approaches. Here is a guide to maintaining floors by their type.

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.

UNLV Student Recreation and Wellness Center (SRWC): Empowerment Through Knowledge, Health, and Cleaning

William Mattos, SRWC Custodial Supervisor, a 30+ year cleaning veteran, applies the empowerment mindset to the cleaning staff of 15 that maintains SRWC facilities comprising 184,000 square feet – with health and safety as top priorities.

Commercial Kitchen Cleaning Hacks to Keep Your Business Strong

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.

Kaivac Cleaning Equipment Maintenance Tips

Cleaning equipment maintenance is too important to overlook, especially for your Kaivac No-Touch Cleaning or OmniFlex system. Well-maintained machines last longer, perform optimally and even smell better.

Stairway to Heaven: Make Stairwell Cleaning Easy

Stairwell cleaning is one of the most difficult jobs in any facility but particularly problematic in schools where stairs get heavy use.

Cleaning Up After a Norovirus Outbreak

Dealing with norovirus and norovirus outbreaks and what cleaning contractors should know to clean-up a vomiting incident caused by norovirus.

What Makes This Cleaning Company “Irreplaceable”

Velstand facility management has made itself irreplaceable by using the Kaivac OmniFlex crossover cleaning system

Preventing Slip-and-Fall Accidents in Commercial Kitchens

Slip-and-fall accidents are all too common, sending 8 million Americans to the ER each year and costing more than $20 billion. Mistakes happen, but preventing them in commercial kitchens protects workers from harm and employers from liability.

Holiday Cleaning for an Event or Party

The Holidays can get pretty busy with parties and events in schools, offices, and other types of facilities. This often means the typical cleaning routine can be in for some significant changes.

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

Holiday Rush: Retail Cleaning Tips in Time for Black Friday

Shoppers are making their list, checking it twice and deciding if they should shop on-line this holiday season or got to an actual brick-and-mortar store. Attract shoppers with these retail cleaning tips in time for Black Friday.

The Big Chill: Winterproofing Floors

We may be smack in the middle of Autumn, but winter is coming. For facility managers and building maintenance professionals that means winterproofing floors.

Get Healthy, Stay Healthy: Cleaning Hospital Floors to Prevent Hospital Acquired Infections

The strategy for fighting HAIs includes disinfecting frequently touched hospital surfaces; think bed rails and call buttons. But what about the floor? Studies show that cleaning hospital floors is key to preventing hospital acquired infections.

How to Maximize your Restroom Investment

Not only are they expensive to build, restrooms are expensive to maintain. They must be deep cleaned daily and, depending on use, stocked and spot cleaned several times a day, adding hourly costs to you bottom line

Mr. Robot: How to Automate Your Cleaning Program

With cleaning representing 20 to 30% of the total maintenance and operation budget for nearly any type of organization, janitorial professionals can benefit from automation as well. Are you ready to work smarter and safer? Here’s how to automate your clea

Safety Tips When Cleaning Up After a Hurricane

Before jumping in, here are a few things you should know about cleaning up after a serious storm.

Harvey, Irma and You: Flood Recovery Cleaning

We’re only a few months into hurricane season and the country has already experienced two major storms. While the damage from Harvey and Irma was devastating, the truth is floods happen everywhere and in every season.

Starting a Cleaning Business? Here’s the Tools You Need to Succeed

Here’s all a cleaning business really needs to succeed.

Battery-Powered OmniFlex™ Certified by Intertek

Kaivac announces that its lithium-ion battery-powered OmniFlex™ cleaning systems have been certified and found to meet all applicable Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and Canadian Standards Association (CSA) safety requirements.

The Walking Dread: How Dirty Restrooms Soil EVERYTHING!

Dirt never takes a holiday. You may stop and admire a newly-cleaned space, but don’t get too comfortable. Soils and pathogens will be back soon; constantly reintroduced to freshly-washed floors and newly-shined surfaces and then redistributed throughout t

Hospital Acquired Illness and Our Pets

Human patients are not the only victims of HAI. Cats and dogs and other household pets get them too, but in this case, they acquire them in veterinary hospitals.

Stop the Mop: The True Cost of Mopping

Mops are relatively inexpensive to buy, but a quick look beyond the price tag reveals hidden expenses that eat into your bottom line.

Stop the Mop: Telltale Signs that “Clean” Floors are Actually Dirty

Old fashioned cleaning tools like mops don’t actually clean. They leave hard floors looking worn and dingy. More importantly, they don’t remove soils and pathogens completely. Is it time to stop the mop at your facility? Here’s some telltale signs.

High-Tech Tools: How Vacuums Keep Changing the Cleaning Game

These high-tech tools keep changing the cleaning game by making it faster, easier and healthier.

Corrections Cleaning for Health, Safety and Well Being

Proper corrections cleaning will keep inmates, staff and visitors healthy.

Test Your Knowledge on Floor Spills

We’re going to test your knowledge on what to do when you see a spill on a floor

The Double Dipping Connection Between Dips and Chips and Mops and Floors

Are you comfortable dipping chips into a dip that has indirectly been exposed to a dozen mouths at a party? If not, then don’t risk your health or the health of others by dipping a mop in contaminated water and spreading it all over the floor.

In the Swim: How to Clean Pool Locker Rooms

Swim season is almost here and while everyone loves splashing in the pool nobody wants to change in an unpleasant locker room. Keeping these areas clean isn’t just about aesthetics.

School Project Cleaning: Planning for Success

Effective project cleaning requires planning, coordination and a hard accounting of available tools, supplies and personnel. Are you prepared for the school project cleaning crunch?

What’s Cooking? A Buffet of Restaurant Floor Cleaning Tips

Here’s some restaurant floor cleaning techniques to keep each material safe, sanitary and looking its best.

Restaurant Stops the Mop and Switches to Kaivac OmniFlex System

Jake Hibbett faced a cleaning challenge. As assistant Manager of Buffalo Wings & Rings in Greendale, Ind., he needed to create a clean and inviting environment for diners. However, the combination of the dining room’s wood-look tile floor and the mops

That’s the Ticket: Public Transportation Cleaning

Routine public transportation cleaning is important for the health and comfort of commuters. Check out these tips to keep the system from running off the rails.

Beyond the Restaurant Inspection Checklist

Don’t sell the importance of a checklist short. A good one sets clear expectations between management and staff, outlines protocols and priorities and helps train managers and staff on food safety techniques.

Bad Back? Ten Reasons Why You Should Blame It on the Mop

Mopping is not too healthy for our bodies, especially when it comes to our backs. Here are ten reasons why.

March Madness: How to Clean a Basketball Court Floor

Here are ways to keep a basketball court floor safe and looking great on event day and every day.

Convenience Store Cleaning: Focus on Floors

Maintaining convenience store floors isn’t especially challenging but there are some nuances. Master them to boost sales.

High Maintenance: How to Clean High Rise Offices

Knowing how to clean high rise offices the right way will protect your investment and impress tenants.

Back to School: The Importance of Custodial Training Programs

A well-trained crew will do their job better, faster and stick around longer. Are you taking training seriously?

Who Swings Your Mop?

Mike Ward’s first book teaches custodians how to get hired, get along and get promoted.

Better Stronger Faster: New Cleaning Technologies Ring in the New Year

Want to know the difference between a flashy add-on and a real upgrade? Here are three new cleaning technologies that are worth the investment.

Four Questions to Ask When Planning a Floorcare Strategy

Floorcare is too time consuming, too complicated, has too much impact on the environment, and too important to the overall health, appearance, and safety of a facility for it to be based on trial-and-error. This applies to large and small facilities but

Technology Company Stops Using Mops to Clean Floors

At its headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, BTG Labs researches, innovates, and manufactures specialized surface analysis equipment.

Science of Salt: How Road Salt Melts Ice and Ruins Floors

Salt corrodes cars and trucks, kills plant life and burns the paw pads of dogs and cats. Just imagine what tracked-in road salts are doing to your floors.

Hospital Cleaning to Prevent Infection

Better hand hygiene and consistent, targeted hospital cleaning promise to cut down on HAIs and limit their human and financial costs.

Naughty or Nice: Mall Cleaning Makes the Holidays Brighter

Whether consumers are there to shop or play, mall cleaning plays an important part in the success of any property. Look around. Is your mall ready for the holidays? Here are some tips to help you get ready.

Odor Patrol: Tile and Grout Cleaning

Successful tile and grout cleaning will ensure that restrooms will always pass the sniff test.

Three Tips: How to Clean House Like a Pro

Try these tips and tools to clean house like a pro.

Ten Tips to Help Prevent a Slip and Fall Accident this Winter

Slip and fall accidents can happen any time of year, but they are more prevalent in the winter, especially in the many areas of the country that experience adverse weather. This means that we must take extra steps to help ensure the health and safety of t

Cafeteria Cleaning: Serving Up a Healthy Environment

Effective cafeteria cleaning made easy.

Grand Entrance: Entryway Cleaning for Business Success

Entryway cleaning boosts business success.

Winter is Coming: Tools for Winter Cleaning

the right tools for winter cleaning will keep your business clean and healthy right through spring.

The Morning After: Flood Cleanup

Considering how common flooding is, and how dangerous floodwaters can be, proper flood cleanup is paramount to business owners needing to bounce back from disaster quickly.

A spill response program can help prevent slip and fall accidents

Slip and fall accidents often occur due to spills. Having a spill response program and using a Kaivac AutoVac system can help eliminate them.

That New Car Smell: Car Dealership Cleaning

Car dealership cleaning makes the showroom sparkle.

Best Floor Cleaning Tips on How to Stop the Mop

Myths about floor cleaning abound. Consider the following myths and corresponding truths.

Why It is Time to Stop Floor Mopping

After more than a century, by adopting better ways, it’s time to move beyond traditional floor mopping and to stop the mop.

Slip and Fall Accidents in Restaurants are on the Rise

New guidelines to help reduce slip and fall accidents are extensive, but they can be adopted fairly easily with the right tools, training, and equipment.

Retail Report: Clean Stores Boost Back-to-School Sales

Clean Stores Boost Back-to-School Sales.

Endless Summer: Floor Maintenance Tips to Extend that Summer Clean

Floor Maintenance Tips to Extend that Summer Clean

Fall Sports Demand Thorough Locker Room Cleaning

Locker room cleaning for fall sports is serious business.

Do Mops Spread Disease?

Building managers should become aware of some of the studies available on how the tools we use to clean surfaces—specifically, cleaning cloths and mops—can sometimes spread disease and cause cross-contamination.For instance, a study published in 2004, "Household Cleaning and Surface Disinfection: New Insights and Strategies"

Why Cleaning Professionals Must Pay Attention to Floor Drains

For most cleaning professionals, floor drains, especially those in commercial kitchens, only come to mind if they get clogged and stop working. When this happens, cleaning them can be a messy, very unpleasant job.

Top Three Reasons Why You Should Replace Your Mop with a Wet/Dry Vacuum

Stop the mop with a state-of-the-art wet/dry vacuum

Top Tips for Cleaning a Commercial Kitchen Floor

Let's face it, cleaning a commercial kitchen floor is one of the most difficult jobs in the professional cleaning industry. 

Why Conduct a Floor Care Audit?

The goal of the floor audit is to evaluate the overall needs of the floors so that managers and cleaning professionals can prepare an appropriate floorcare maintenance plan.

What’s The Problem with Mopping Floors?

A 2004 study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, found that in situations where the cleaning procedure fails to thoroughly eliminate contamination from one surface and then the same cloth is used to wipe another surface, “the contamination is transferred to that [new] surface.”

Abandon Your Cleaning Cart and Stop the Mop

How smart is your cleaning cart? New technology disrupts the maintenance space.

Summer School Cleaning Tips

Everyone benefits from summer school cleaning.

Cutting the Fat: Restaurant Grease Removal

Proper and thorough restaurant grease removal keeps kitchens safe and business owners happy.

Microfiber Cleaning Cloths–The Rest of the Story

Microfiber cleaning cloths work like magic. At least, that is the story marketing tells. However, that is just Part of the Story. Knowing the Rest of the Story is essential to better cleaning.

Cleaning Spills and Why it Matters

Cleaning spills to protect your business.

An Office Cleaning Checklist With Efficiency in Mind

The variety of environments make office cleaning particularly challenging. An office cleaning checklist can organize the tasks for your team.

Pro Tips on How to Clean Fast

Whether you're part of a professional cleaning crew or just like a tidy home, knowing how to clean fast can make the job quick and fun.

Should You Dust or Vacuum First for Better Air Quality?

Custodians wondering whether to dust or vacuum first finally have a clear answer. But it may not be what you think.

How to Protect Wood Floors during Cleaning

Wood floors give your business a softer look, but the wrong cleaning techniques can ruin the surface. Learn how to protect wood floors during cleaning.

Cleaning in Food Processing Requires Precision

Cleaning in food processing plants is serious business.

Better Cleaning, Better Efficiency: What ISSA Interclean Offers Business Owners

The annual ISSA Interclean show brings business owners the latest in cleaning equipment innovation. Your path to more efficient operations starts here.

Dance Floor Cleaning: Tips for Cleaner Spaces in Less Time

Cut down on drying times and maintain floors longer with a better system of dance floor cleaning for studios, clubs, and restaurants.

How to Clean Scuff Marks From Commercial Floors

Scuff marks can be a cleaning challenge, no matter what type of commercial flooring you have. Here's how to clean scuff marks on all kinds of floors.

A Guide to Truck Cleaning

Truck cleaning is important. Knowing how to maintain your vehicle's appearance protects your investment.

Commercial Restroom Cleaning: Tips to Boost Customer Loyalty

Quality commercial restroom cleaning is essential to boost loyalty, improve employee morale, and enhance the overall shopping experience.

Knowing How to Keep Your School Clean Can Keep It Safe

Recess is important for growing children, but it creates extra mess. Knowing how to keep your school clean can help keep everyone happy and safe.

How to Get Shiny Floors

It can be a challenge learning how to get shiny floors for your commercial establishment. Different floors need different solutions. Here are some tips.

The Hangover: How to Clean a Bar or Restaurant After a party

Busy nights mean extra mess. Does your staff know how to clean a bar or restaurant after a party?

How to Stop the Spread of Germs to Prevent Office Outbreaks

With cold and flu season lasting a majority of the year, it's critical to know how to stop the spread of germs in the workplace.

Hot Mess: How to Keep Yoga Flooring Clean

Keeping the yoga flooring and equipment clean can mean the difference between a successful studio and a practice that ties your patrons in knots.

Kaivac – Hygienic Rehab for Facilities

“Rehab for facilities”

A Cleaning Plan for Complicated Spaces

Every commercial space needs an occasional thorough cleaning, but without a logical cleaning plan you can waste hours of labor. Here's a better way.

Waterworks: How to Clean Up after a Flood

Knowing how to clean up after a flood can get your business up and running again quickly and safely.

Tips to Tackle Spring Break Cleaning at Any School

Spring break cleaning is the perfect time to deep clean schools. It enables maintenance staff to wash away sludge from winter and get read for spring.

How to Clean a Basketball Court during a Tournament

Here's how to clean a basketball court when you have multiple games as part of a tournament.

Concession Stand Tips: How to Clean during Shows and Sports Events

Here are concession stand tips for keeping operations clean before, during, and after events at a busy venue.

How to Clean an Airplane Restroom Quickly and Thoroughly

An airplane restroom must be cleaned in between flights, but your cleaning crew has only a few minutes to finish the job. Here's how to handle it.

Mall Cleaning: A Guide to Keeping Floors Safe and Spotless

Effective mall cleaning, especially floors, is essential to creating a positive atmosphere and protecting customers from slip and falls.

Kaivac Forms New Company to Serve Growing Market Overseas

Kaivac, Inc., developer of the No-Touch Cleaning® and award-winning OmniFlex™ Crossover cleaning systems, announces the formation and launch of Kaivac EMEA GmbH, a new company based in Neumarkt am Wallersee, Austria.

Are Automatic Floor Scrubbers Right for Your Business?

Cleaning large floors in any business can be a major challenge. Find out how automatic floor scrubbers can save you time, energy, and money.

Pre-portioned Cleaning Chemicals Save Time and Money

Pre-portioned cleaning chemicals are easy to use, efficient and surprisingly green.

Taking Preventive Measures to Ensure Customer Safety in Your Store

Floor safety is a hot button issue right now. Are your floors a liability?

Ice Hockey Locker Rooms: The Stink in the Rink

Nothing smells like ice hockey locker rooms. Luckily, the rubber floor is easy to maintain.

Furniture Store Cleaning: How to Keep Displays Looking Great

To do furniture store cleaning right, your team has to tackle many special challenges these businesses pose. Here's how to get it done.

Trade Show Cleaning: Who Cleans for the Cleaners?

As convention centers become more sophisticated, trade show cleaning practices have to follow suit.

The Problem with Mopping

Cleaning science and newer technologies expose the problem with mopping.

Salon Cleaning: Looking Good through the Holidays

The beauty business can get pretty ugly. A strict salon cleaning regimen keeps customers safe and profits healthy.

Outdoor Shopping Mall Winter Cleaning Challenges

Outdoor shopping mall stores have unique challenges when it comes to keeping clean during the holiday season. Learn how to stay on top of the mess.

Converting Hard Floor Cleaners into Carpet Cleaning Machines

Investing in carpet cleaning machines gets expensive when you need a separate solution for hard floors. Here are options that cover all the bases.

Restaurant Equipment Repair: Not Just Fryers and Fridges

Every restaurant owner knows the importance of effective restaurant equipment repair. Your cleaning equipment is just as crucial. Find out more.

Ski Lodge Restroom Cleaning: Let It Snow

Restroom cleaning: Ski lodge restrooms poses specific challenges.

Large Event Cleaning for Restaurant Staff

Event cleaning for large parties can put extra challenges on restaurant cleaning staff. Find three overlooked areas to concentrate on.

Pet-Friendly Environments Require Extra Cleaning Care

It's no wonder pet-friendly establishments are popping up everywhere. While this makes for an adorable experience, it also creates cleaning challenges.

Healthy Schools and Clean Floors Go Hand-in-Hand

If you're in charge of keeping clean and healthy schools, the floors might be the least of your concerns. Learn why they should be a larger priority.

Holiday Shopping Craziness: Keeping Your Store Clean

Holiday shopping poses additional cleaning challenges for retailers. Learn how to keep up and keep it clean.

Winter Floor Cleaning: Are You Protecting against Damage to Your Facilities?

Winter floor cleaning tools and techniques have a big impact on how long your floors last. Here's what you should know about the risks of winter.

How Risk Prevention and Better Cleaning Equipment Go Hand-in-Hand

For companies concerned with risk prevention, investing in better cleaning equipment may be the answer to your problems.

How to Realize Sustainable Cleaning without Sacrificing Quality

You never have to compromise on effectiveness with sustainable cleaning systems. Here's why going green makes sense for any operation.

Warehouse Store: Cleaning Challenges from Inside the Big Box

Because the average warehouse store is so large, several things can complicate your cleaning process. Here are the most important tasks to address.

Hard-Surface Floor Cleaning in a Pinch

On the days when you don't have time for detailed hard-surface floor cleaning, automatic floor cleaners can save you time, money, and labor.

Employee Education for a Cleaner Workplace

Set your business up for success and keep your workplace looking great with an employee education plan. Here's how to get started.

Cleaning a Subway Car: A Never-Ending Challenge

No matter what you call it??”train, metro, or tube??”a subway car is tough to keep clean. Here's how cleaning crews work to get it right.

5 Ways the Right Cleaning Equipment Will Improve Your Business

Cleaning tools matter. Here are five ways the right cleaning equipment can improve your business.

Slip-and-Fall Accidents: A Preventable Problem

Slip-and-fall accidents happen, but you can take steps to prevent them. Here's how.

How to Do Spill Removal Right

Handle spill removal safely, quickly, and effectively to reduce safety risks. Here's what your operation needs to know about how to get the job done right.

The Evolution of Cleaning: Top Cleaning Innovations of Yesterday and Today

Cleaning innovations have popped up over the years to make life better for us and our environment. Here's a look back at some tops ones leading to today.

Grocery Store Cleanliness: Why Salad Bars and Hot Food Bars Need Your Attention

If you add a salad bar or hot food bar to increase your grocery store's traffic, grocery store cleanliness will become an even bigger issue. Here's why.

Buyer Behavior: Why Store Cleanliness Matters!

Influencing buyer behavior is a top priority for any business owner. According to recent studies, store cleanliness affects your bottom line.

The Challenges of Auto Shop Cleaning and How to Tackle Them

When your cleaning crew is charged with the tough job of auto shop cleaning, here are some of the many challenges you'll want to address.

Keep Your Convenience Store Clean with Less Hassle

Many convenience store jobs have a high turnover rate. Easy-to-use cleaning tools are best for this type of business where cleaning is a top priority.

Formulating a Floor Care Plan: Six Pointers

Six pointers for formulating a commercial floor care plan.

Keeping Boardwalk Food Establishments Clean Amid the Sand and Surf

Here's some help tackling the challenge of cleaning boardwalk food establishments.

How to Keep Your Sorority House Clean

The average sorority house combines an apartment building with a public area, making for a large cleaning challenge. Using the right tools can help.

Stadium Cleaning: A Huge Job for a Small Crew

With thousands of people moving through stadiums each day, stadium cleaning is one of the biggest challenges around. Here are some helpful strategies.

How to Clean College Dorms in Preparation for the New Semester

Summer is coming to an end, and students will soon be heading back to college. Here are some tips on how to clean college dorms quickly and efficiently.

School Cafeteria Cleaning: How to Prepare for the New Academic Year

Here are some tips on how to clean a school cafeteria quickly and effectively before the new academic year begins.

Mall Food Court Cleaning: Food Counters, Dining Areas, and Floors

A high-traffic mall food court can be a breeding ground for bacteria. Here are some tips on food court cleaning.

School Floor Cleaning: Best Practices for the Academic Year Ahead

Here's an overview on the best practices for school floor cleaning.

Summer Camp Cleaning for Busy Staff

Take the various types of messes in the average home and multiply them by 100—that's what you get with summer camp cleaning. Kaivac's tools can help.

The Challenge with Pool Locker Room Summer Cleanliness

Once the kids get out of school, they want to hit the pool. This means more pool locker room cleaning every day. Kaivac has a system that can help.

Amusement Park Cleaning during the Summer

Follow these tips on amusement park cleaning to keep your facilities in tip-top shape during the busy summer months.

Microfiber Pros and Cons

Here's a list of microfiber pros and cons that will help you determine whether or not these types of cleaning products are right for you and your team.

Cleaning at the End of the School Year

School's out! Here's a guide to cleaning at the end of the school year.

How to Keep Your Bowling Alley Lanes Clean

As summer progresses, bowling alley lanes get busier and need to be cleaned more often. Here are some tips on keeping your bowling alley clean.

Nightclub Cleaning: How to Make a Dance Floor Look Like New

In nightclub cleaning, you have to keep the dance floor clean and safe for dancing. Here is how you can restore your floor's shine after a busy weekend.

Office Spring Cleaning: How to Make Your Workplace Sparkle

Winter's long gone, and it's time to get serious about office spring cleaning. Here's how you can remove all the dirt and sand that has accumulated.

A Grocery Store Cleaning Checklist

This grocery store cleaning checklist focuses on all of the areas in a grocery store that need to be cleaned regularly.

Floor Maintenance Habits That Will Extend the Life of Your Floors

Good floor maintenance habits can extend the life of your commercial flooring. Here are some tips and techniques for preserving the look of your floors.

Advanced Cleaning Systems: A Great Improvement Over Past Methods

Throughout the years, advanced cleaning systems have transformed the cleaning industry. These effective new tools save you time and energy.

Warehouse Floor Cleaning: Are You Wasting Money on Tools and Labor?

Warehouse floor cleaning can be difficult for business owners. Here's how to clean floors in a quick and effective manner.

Cleaning Up Spills Quickly and Safely

Cleaning up spills is a major challenge in grocery stores and eating establishments. Here's how to clean up spills as quickly and safely as possible.

Airport Cleaning: Unique Challenges, Creative Solutions

Airport cleaning involves unique challenges because of the large areas and high levels of foot traffic involved. Kaivac has solutions for these challenges.

Spring Cleaning Techniques to Brighten Your Business

In much of the country, winter means grime and salt. Kaivac's got the tools to do a thorough spring cleaning job on your establishment.

Low-Cost Floor Cleaning System Helps BSC Achieve High Performance Results

Jancoa, a leading Cincinnati-based BSC, leverages an innovative low-cost floor cleaning system to deliver superior results for its customers.

Marble Floor Cleaning: How to Get Better Results in Less Time

Marble floor cleaning can be time-consuming and expensive. Kaivac's AutoVac cleans your marble floors quickly, safely, and efficiently.

How to Deal With Dirty Grout for Cleaner, Healthier Restroom Floors

Dirty grout between floor tiles can make a restroom look and smell bad. Here is how to address the problem for cleaner, healthier facilities.

The Worst Cleaning Products You Already Own

The worst cleaning products for commercial spaces are also some of the most common. Learn what to use instead for effective cleaning.

Fast Food Restaurant Cleaning: How to Be Quick and Effective

With fast food restaurant cleaning, employees have to move quickly without sacrificing effectiveness. Here are tips on maintaining a safe environment.

Restaurant Floor Safety Tips: Slip-and-Fall Edition

Restaurant floor safety is an important consideration. Here are four tips for cutting back on slips and falls in your food service operation.

Entranceway Cleaning: How to Keep Customers Coming Back

First impressions are important, so it's critical to keep the entranceway to your building looking good. Here's how to keep up with entranceway cleaning.

Purchasing Cleaning Equipment? Here Are Some Important Considerations

Things to consider before purchasing cleaning equipment that is expensive, requires regular maintenance, and wastes time with necessary training.

Best Techniques for Terrazzo Floor Cleaning

Covering large areas during terrazzo floor cleaning is a big challenge for your maintenance crew. Here is an inexpensive alternative to floor scrubbers.

Lobby Floor Cleaning for the Best Customer Impressions

Your lobby is the first thing customers see of your business. Find lobby floor cleaning methods to keep your lobby clean and dry all day long.

Reduce the Cost of Cleaning Floors in Your Restroom

Restroom cleaning can take a toll on your business' budget, but you can reduce the cost of cleaning floors with Kaivac's No-Touch cleaning system.

Effective Tile Cleaning to Keep Your Restroom Odor-Free

The walls and fixtures in your restroom may be spotless, but if your tile cleaning isn't effective, you'll have restroom odors. Kaivac's system can help.

Gym Floor Cleaning: How to Protect the Finish

Traditional gym floor cleaning leaves floors still dirty, dangerously slippery, or both. Kaivac's new cordless OmniFlex AutoVac is a better solution.

Restroom Drain Cleaning for a Better Customer Experience

Restroom drain cleaning is the key to keeping your commercial restroom smelling fresh and free from bacteria.

Maintaining Floor Finish without the Expense

Maintaining floor finish is an important aspect of the cleaning regimen for any business, as dirty or dull floors create an unappealing atmosphere.

Gym Floor Safety: What You Need to Know

Gym floor safety is critical for the health of both employees and customers. Here's what you need to know.

How to Remove Mold in Restroom Tiles and Grout

Getting rid of mold in restroom tiles and grout is extremely important for the health and cleanliness of your business.

Fruit Fly Control in Your Restaurant Kitchen

One of the most difficult pest problems in restaurants is fruit fly control. Kaivac's Dispense-and-Vac system can help stop fruit flies from multiplying.

Effective Grout Cleaning in Your Restaurant Kitchen

Restaurant grout cleaning is ineffective with brushes and mops. Kaivac's Dispense-and-Vac system does a better job.

How to Stay on Top of Salt Cleaning during the Winter

Salt and sand can really do a number on your floors during the winter. Here's how to stay on top of salt cleaning.

Cleaning Hardwood Floors During the Winter

Hardwood floors can give schools, stores, and restaurants a great look, but cleaning hardwood floors during the winter can be hard.

Restaurant Carpet Cleaning: Easily Overlooked, but Crucial

Restaurant carpet cleaning usually involves expensive cleaning services. Kaivac's No-Touch cleaning system eliminates the problem.

School Cleaning Techniques to Deal with Stomach Flu

School cleaning methods by Kaivac remove more dangerous bacteria than other cleaning methods when dealing with a stomach flu epidemic.

Maintaining a Clean Gym through Effective Cleaning Methods

Maintaining a clean gym is one of the hardest maintenance jobs in any school. Kaivac's innovative cleaning systems do the job better.

Proper Stairway Cleaning: How to Avoid Slip-and-Fall Accidents

Here's how proper stairway cleaning can help you avoid accidents and all the trouble that comes with them.

Proper Restaurant Floor Cleaning for Different Types of Floors

Restaurants have many different types of floors, so restaurant floor cleaning requires a system that can handle all different types of surfaces.

Cleaning School Cafeterias to Avoid Lingering Odors

Lingering odors plague school cafeterias when floors and surfaces aren't cleaned correctly. Kaivac's system makes cleaning school cafeterias simpler.

Restaurant Grease Removal: Make Your Floors Safe

Restaurant grease removal has always been the key to safe kitchen operations. Follow these tips for a grease-free floor with improved traction.

Restaurant Health Inspection Hints and Tips

A restaurant health inspection will often focus on a few common, seemingly insignificant details. Focus on these points to increase your scores.

Spend Less Time Cleaning Floors by Preventing the Dirt from Coming In

Cleaning floors is a crucial part of keeping customers happy, and the best way to keep the floor clean is by preventing dirt from entering to begin with.

Commercial Kitchen Floor Cleaning: Are You Doing It Right?

Commercial kitchen floor cleaning should always be a priority on your cleaning list. Here are some best practices for your restaurant.

Commercial Cleaning Products: How Much Is Too Much?

More isn't always better, especially when it comes to commercial cleaning products. Here's why "just enough" is the best option.

Avoiding Costly Slip-and-Fall Accidents

Considering how much slip-and-fall accidents can cost a business, it's no wonder why many are looking toward advanced methods to keep their floors clean.

Dirty Restaurant Restrooms Will Cost a Business

No one likes a dirty restroom, but some restaurant owners may not fully understand how important cleanliness can be to their bottom line.

How Kitchen Cleanliness Affects Liabilities Business Owners Face

Every business owner operating a commercial kitchen has a duty to ensure public health and employee safety.

Tile and Grout Cleaning Tips To Save Time—and Your Back

Tile appears in restroom floors everywhere, since it is durable and almost universally perceived as easy to clean.

The Connection between Floors and Health

Some cleaning professionals might be shocked to learn about the results of a study conducted by Canada's University of Ottawa examining floor contamination—despite the fact that it was first published by the American Society of Microbiology in 1971.* This study found that traditional floor cleaning methods, specifically mopping, were actually responsible for the contamination of floors.

Clean and Safe Commercial Kitchen Floors

Grease, food and drink spills, and heavy foot traffic bombard commercial kitchen floors daily, all adding up to an accident waiting to happen. To make matters worse, the cleaning tools and equipment that most kitchens rely on can actually perpetuate the p

No-touch Restroom Cleaning Machine Saves Time and Labor

Scores of BSCs and ISPs dream of finding a restroom cleaning machine that can solve their problems, speed up cleaning, and be so cost effective that this "dream" machine pays for itself in just a few months, or less.

Unexpected Pathways and Slip and Fall Accidents

Fish have a tendency to travel in schools, moving together in large groups in the most unexpected directions.

New Floorcare Guidelines Designed for Safety

According to ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association, more than three million foodservice workers and more than one million guests of foodservice facilities are injured each year as a result of slip and fall accidents.

Kaivac Receives Patent for OmniFlex Crossover Cleaning System

Hamilton, OH - Kaivac, Inc., developer of the No-Touch Cleaning®

OmniFlex Helps Prevent Slip-and-Fall Accidents for Franchise Operator

The restaurant industry spends more than $2 billion each year on slip-and-fall accidents. Sadly, many of these accidents could be prevented with the right cleaning equipment.

Independent Laboratory Tests Kaivac's OmniFlex Cleaning System

The TURI Surface Solutions Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, in Lowell, has reported the results from a series of tests that compared the cleaning effectiveness of Kaivac's new AutoVac Cleaning System with more conventional floor cleaning methods, such as using a microfiber mop and an autoscrubber.The AutoVac, which is part of Kaivac's OmniFlex™

TURI OmniFlex AutoVac Testing

Kaivac Enters AutoVac System into ISSA Innovation Contest

Kaivac, developer of the OmniFlex™

Kaivac Introduces New AutoVac System

Kaivac announces that the latest "link" in their popular OmniFlex™

National Restaurant Association Announces 2012 Kitchen Innovation Award Recipients

Award recipients will be showcased in the interactive Kitchen Innovations Pavilion in its new central location on the exhibit floor (booth 2440 ) at the 2012 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show, set for its new dates May 5-8 at Chicago's McCormick Place.

Clean, Safe Floors are a Priority at Riverbank Cafe

Clean, Safe Floors are a Priority at Riverbank Cafe

Kaivac Equipment NFSI Certified

The National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI) has awarded "High-Traction" product certification to Kaivac's No-Touch Cleaning®

The Mechanics of Slip-and-Fall Accidents

Most of us assume we know what a slip-and-fall accident is. However, legally, medically, and scientifically, it is an amazingly complex occurrence. The following discussion gives us some simplified insight into how we walk and how a slip-and-fall accident

Floor Health and Phasing Out the Mop

A study released in September 2010 regarding cleanliness and kitchen floors may have more sweeping ramifications than anticipated when it comes to protecting human health, especially in facilities such as corrections buildings that have large populations living in relatively small quarters.

OmniFlex™ Crossover Cleaning Systems Now Available

Kaivac is pleased to announce the availability of the initial components of its revolutionary OmniFlex Crossover Cleaning System.

Unexpected Floor Safety

Unexpected Floor Safety

Unnoticed but Dangerous

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Restroom Care

Restroom care: public restrooms have more "high-touch" contamination points than any other area of a facility.

Cleaning for Health: A Comparison of Cleaning Methods

The results of this cleaning for health study were presented at the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) symposium on May 2, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV. The purpose of this paper and investigation was to apply a scientific methodolog

Removing Contamination from Grouted Floors - Back to Back Studies Find Similar Results

Removing contamination from grouted floors and areas presents a serious problem for cleaning professionals.

How to Prevent Flies From Plaguing Your Restaurant

Before you have to deal with pest control, learn how to prevent flies from infesting your restaurant in the first place.