Month: September 2016

rubber floors
Tags ,

Choosing the Best Cleaner for Rubber Floors

Rubber floors are unique in their composition and versatile in their use. Rubber floors can be found in a variety of facilities across many different industries. Because their application can vary per industry, one size doesn’t always fit all when it comes to choosing the best cleaner. Depending on where the rubber floors are and what context they are being used for, a different type of cleaner will be best.

Cleaners for Rubber Floors

Several factors go into choosing the best cleaner for rubber floors. Review the specifics of the following cleaners in order to choose the best product for your rubber floors.

Facility Disinfectant

  • Cleaner, disinfectant, detergent, deoderizer, virucide, fungicide, mildewstat
  • Designed for human use facilities
  • Specifically targets MRSA and other bacteria, viruses and fungus
  • Simple and economical solution for keeping facilities clean and disinfected
  • Ideal for gyms, stores, restaurants, hotels, offices and hospitals
  • Clean Break Facility – Disinfectant Detergent (EPA Registration No. 1839-169)

Multi-Purpose Disinfectant

  • Designed for the tough disinfecting challenges of animal facilities
  • Disinfects and acts as a detergent, mildewstat, deodorant, antibacterial and virucide
  • Concentrated and economical
  • Effective against Canine Parvovirus, Canine Adenovirus, Canine Coronavirus, Canine Parainfluenza, Infectious Canine Hepatitis virus, Feline Rhinotracheitis, and Feline Infectious Peritonitis
  • Clean Break Multi-Purpose Disinfectant – Detergent (EPA Registration No. 1839-100-82023)

Neutral pH Cleaner & Degreaser

  • EPA Green Design for the Environment Seal
  • Neutral pH, which is safe for human and animal use facilities
  • Cleaner and degreaser ideal for day care centers, offices, restaurants, hospitals, gyms and other facilities
  • Created with the aid of a chemist
  • Mild to the touch, easy on surfaces and tough on cleaning

Depending on your facility, one cleaner may be better for your rubber floors than another. For example, if you run a doggy daycare, we would suggest the Multi-Purpose Disinfectant. For gyms, restaurants, hospitals and other human use facilities, you should go with either the Facility Disinfectant or the Neutral pH Cleaner.

Clean Break offers rubber floor cleaners that work on both porous and non-porous surfaces.

neutral pH cleaner
Tags

The Many Benefits of Using a Neutral pH Cleaner

It’s important to consider pH when choosing a cleaner for human use and animal facilities. From gyms to doggie daycares, pH has an affect on the environment. Cleaners with a high or low pH can cause skin irritation, which is the last thing you want in your facility, be it for animals or humans. Choosing a neutral pH cleaner helps minimize the risk of skin irritation caused by contact with cleaning products.

A Quick Lesson on pH

In order to understand the importance of choosing a neutral pH cleaner, it’s essential to understand some of the science behind pH chemicals.

The pH scale ranges from 1 to 14 and measures a solution’s acidity or alkalinity. A pH of 7 is neutral, while numbers less than that are acidic and greater than are alkaline or basic. The human body is close to neutral at 7.4, which means neutral chemicals are a minimal risk for skin irritation. These are circumstances when a high or low pH cleaner should be used, but when it comes to human and animal facilities, a neutral pH cleaner is prefered.

The Benefits of a Neutral pH Cleaner

  • Close to human pH, which minimizes risk of skin irritation
  • Less likely to cause health effects and harm surfaces
  • Safer for users and the environment
  • Easy on surfaces, but tough on cleaning

Facilities that Can Benefit From a Neutral pH Cleaner

  • Gyms, yoga studios, crossfit, health clubs
  • Restaurants
  • Hospitals
  • Office spaces
  • Day care centers
  • Large or small animal facilities

Highly acidic cleaning products, such as those with a pH below 2, can prove to be corrosive and potentially damage materials they come into contact with. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a highly alkaline cleaner, with a pH of 12 or above, could also be corrosive and burn materials. Concerns over very high and very low ph cleaners include the health of the user and those who use the building. In addition to being corrosive, these cleaners can cause toxic fumes.

While it may be attractive to choose a cleaner with a high or low pH for advanced cleaning power, it could result in skin irritation for users and occupants. It’s important to choose a neutral pH cleaner in facilities used by humans and animals. Neutral pH cleaners are closer to the pH of the human body, which makes it better for our sensitive skin.  Call to learn more about the Neutral pH Cleaner & Degreaser from Clean Break.