A Healthy Shine

When Dennis Clark, owner of Clark’s Janitorial, Santa Rosa, CA, decided to start a cleaning company 10 years ago, he wanted to specialize in cleaning doctors’ offices, clinics, and healthcare centers.

“Medical facilities have several things in common,” says Clark, regarding his facility type of choice. “[For example,] they all want their tile floors glistening. But recently, many have indicated they want the shine, but not if it harms indoor air quality [IAQ].”

The problem is that when conventional buffers or burnishers polish a floor, they are “sanding” the floor’s top surface, which removes marks and stains and restores the shine but also releases quite a bit of dust into the air.

“The dust is not healthy for the cleaning worker, and if it is contaminated, the germs and bacteria can become airborne—potentially creating a serious problem for all building occupants,” explains Clark.

To protect indoor health and meet his customers’ requests, Clark turned to his local distributor for help. Although several floor machines are now available with vacuum systems to trap dust and contaminants, his distributor said one topped them all: the Ultra High Speed Glazer 2000™ from Tornado Industries.

The Glazer 2000 has a deck shroud and twin filters for dust-free operation to protect IAQ. And, the filters are easily removed for cleaning.

But the Glazer 2000 is not only good for health—it’s good for floors too! With variable rpm (700 to 1,500), these machines clean and polish all types of hard-surface floors. “With the Glazer 2000, all my customers’ floors have the ‘wet look’ medical facilities want,” says Clark. “And, [the Glazer 2000 does] it with health and the environment in mind.”