What is a Floor Scrubber?

There was a time when scrubbing floors required plenty of water, soap, and a strong back. The only way to really scrub a floor effectively was to get down on hands and knees and slowly work across the entire floor. Fortunately, the floor scrubber was invented and took a lot of the labor out of the process. As a tool that is used daily in all sorts of public buildings, the floor scrubber is a great way to take care of an essential job in a fraction of the time it would take to do the work by hand. Here are some examples of different types of floor scrubbers and how they work. Automated floor scrubbers made their appearance around the middle of the 20th century. With a basic design that was somewhat like a push lawn mower, these early models of the floor scrubber contained a well for water and soap and jets that could squirt the cleaning mixture onto the floor. A set of rotary brushes worked the cleansers into the floor facing, effectively lifting dirt and scrubbing the floors clean. ...  more