A3 Floor Cleaning Machines

A Shropshire Secondary School called us in recently to repair a Cleanfix RA 431 Scrubber Dryer which had developed a fault. We quickly booked one of our cleaning machine engineers to attend the school the next day and make a repair. Scrubber dryers are ideal for cleaning school flooring, they are effective and always provide a much more intensive and quicker clean than a janitor’s mop and bucket. Assessing a Faulty Cleanfix RA 431 Scrubber Dryer Our engineer made the journey to the relatively short journey to the school in Shropshire to inspect the machine; I say relatively short as our engineers cover the whole country and so it makes a nice change to stay within our home county. After running some tests on the scrubber dryer, it was clear there were some serious problems with the machine including the machine’s brush which had stopped spinning. He decided that the machine would benefit from a full strip down and test to get to the bottom of the faults. As a result, our ...

If you need help clearing leaves and other debris from a large area, it’s well worth looking at the Billy Goat Leaf Collector . We had the opportunity to demonstrate a Billy Goat MV650SPH to a local farm shop for use in their car park and for general clean-up duties across the farm where it’s sure to make light work of the job. They were very impressed with the effectiveness of the powerful vacuum and decided to purchase our demonstration model. Billy Goat Industries Founded in 1967, Billy Goat Industries are a US company based in Kansas City. They have a reputation for innovation, productivity and quality and are widely seen as a premier manufacturer of specialty turf products. Acquired by the Briggs & Stratton Corporation in May 2015, the company now features a complete line of product solutions for residential, commercial and municipal needs serving rental, contractor and retail markets. The MV650SPH Billy Goat Leaf Collector The heavy-duty c...

The party season is over, the tree is coming down and the decorations are being put away. However, this usually leaves behind a mess of pine needles, glitter and other associated items leaving you in need of a sticky floor cleaner. After Party Sticky Floor Cleaner This was the case with a privately-owned country house in Shropshire, where after celebrating the new year in style, the owners discovered that the party revelers had left them with a very sticky conservatory floor along with the remains of hundreds of party poppers. The trail of destruction continued outside onto the terrace where more party poppers, streamers and a few broken champagne flutes remained.  Having found our website using Google, the house owner gave our office a call on 2nd January 2019. He told us about his predicament and then having discussed the size of the conservatory and terrace area, we were able to give the home owner a quote for two short term hire machines, which we were able to deliver the ...

Recently we received a call from a packing company requesting assistance with their scrubber dryer which had stopped dispersing detergent onto the floor being cleaned. Potential causes for this could be a solenoid failure, pump failure, electrical issue, blocked hose or filter however we wouldn’t know for sure until an engineer had paid them a visit. The packaging facility was located in Telford , Shropshire which conveniently is only 16 miles from our base of operations in Market Drayton. Telford is actually a relatively new town, comprised of smaller industrial settlements that merged in the 1960’s and 70’s. The town is named after Thomas Telford, who you may recall is a famous an engineer that developed numerous rail and road projects that linked places in the area together. Scrubber Dryer Fault Finding With his service vehicle stocked with spare parts we sent one of our engineers to the company headquarters in Telford, to troubleshoot the machine and get it fully operational ...

A3 Machines received an enquiry recently from a company in Telford who specialise in selling and servicing high-performance cars  from makers such as Audi and BMW. Their customers are used to a premium service experience and so the company has high standards which includes showroom and workshop floor cleaning. Ideally, they needed a floor scrubber that could make light work of the job, especially in the workshop where it would need to deal with stubborn stains and other debris that comes with the movement and servicing of cars on a daily basis. Before carrying out a demonstration we felt the best approach would be to visit the site, speak to the staff and carry out a free no obligation survey. The workshop floor comprised of ceramic tiles in a beige colour which showed every little mark and scuff; we were also able to talk to the staff and ascertain that staining was a common issue and with engine oil, break fluids and rubber tyre marks to deal with, the cleaning team needed as ...

Earlier this month, we provided a school in Ellesmere , Shropshire with a demonstration of a Viper Fang 24T floor cleaning machine which you can read about on  http://sales.a3machines.info . Impressed with how easy the machine was to use and how effective it was at cleaning the floors they went ahead and purchased the machine. I’m pleased to report that since then the head of maintenance at the school has been back in touch to arrange for the long-term hire of two more floor cleaning machines. Cleaning Machine Hire As we reported previously, the school has been refurbished in recent years and thanks to its academy status, was furnished with the funding for a whole new block for the sciences. However, all this expansion meant cleaning with just one machine wasn’t practical and two more machines would be needed if they were to experience the same cleaning efficiencies enjoyed in one part of the school across the rest of the academy. Fact is modern cleaning machines make the job...

Last month we published an article called “ Planning for the Big School Holiday Clean ” discussing how schools and colleges up and down the country will soon be making classroom floor cleaning and maintenance plans for the summer recess. With no students using the facilities it’s an ideal time to carry out a deep clean.  Many establishments still employ old fashioned (mop and bucket) methods for cleaning their floors and we are always more than happy to pay them a visit and demonstrate how a modern scrubber dryer can do the same job more effectively and quicker. This point was not lost on the head of maintenance at the at Lakelands Academy in Shropshire who had requested a demonstration to see what these machines can do. Classroom Floor Cleaning at the Lakelands Academy Situated at the edge of the rural town of Ellesmere, in the beautiful 'Lake District' of Shropshire, Lakelands Academy caters for children between the ages of eleven and sixteen and has a capacity for 58...

A3 Machines recently received a call from a distribution warehouse in Telford who distribute refrigerated food for a well-known supermarket. Besides needing to keep the floor of the distribution center clean, they also had an issue with "puddles" of water forming in the pedestrian walkways caused by condensation from the cooling fans dripping down the metal roof supports onto the floor. Understanding the Floor Cleaning Requirements Many of these areas where the problem was occurring were in less accessible parts of the warehouse which were difficult to get close to using their current floor cleaning machine. This was health and safety concern for the company who for many years they had been using a rather dated scrubber dryer in the main area of the warehouse and relying on a mop and bucket to mop up the puddles. Ideally, they wanted a machine that would handle both tasks and a combination of events prompted the company to act. First their current machine was quite old ...

We service floor cleaning machines across the UK so its always nice to receive calls from customers who are close to our base of operations in Shropshire. This was one such case, where we were asked to send an engineer to repair a viper floor buffer just twenty miles away.  The customer had reported to our staff in the office that one of the wheels on their Viper floor buffer was not turning at all which was making it tricky to move around. The customer was based in a cafe in Shrewsbury , Shropshire . Shrewsbury boasts a decent visitor and tourist industry, so cafes there tend to be busy with travellers and commuters alike. Repairing a Viper Floor Buffer As the customer was based in Shropshire, it didn’t take too long for one of our engineers to make the trip to the cafe, where hygiene and cleanliness are, for obvious reasons, extremely important. This means the floors have to be kept very clean at all times. For this reason, the customer had purchased a Viper VE 17P Floor Buffe...

Helping customers to select the right factory floor cleaning machine is a speciality of A3 Machines and we are more than happy to make a site visit to ensure we understand your needs completely before making a recommendation. We are also able to provide a number of flexible payment options to match your financial requirements as well. A good example of this is Poseidon Pharmaceuticals who as you will read below found that our recommended hire of a medium sized scrubber dryer met their needs well. Factory Floor Cleaning Hire Poseidon Pharmaceuticals have a large 1,160 m2 factory in Telford where they build and service machinery that is used in the production of pharmaceutical products such as those blister packed tablets you buy in the chemist. They also provide spare parts, lubricants and consumables for their customers. Naturally being in the machine industry ourselves we found these large machines which have been carefully designed and engineered extremely fascinating. I...

Having a good reputation for hygiene is paramount for any businesses operating in the food industry and ensuring you have the right factory floor cleaning machinery in place to manage that is an important part of maintaining a high standard. Factory Floor Cleaning Swancote Foods of Telford are one such company who understand the need to maintain high standards very well and contracted the hire of a Tennant T7 Ride on Scrubber Dryer from A3 Machines to ensure their factory floors are kept clean. The firm was established in 1995 after an opportunity was identified in the production of cooked potato ingredients. Their impressive factory is highly automated and produces fresh ingredients for use by other food manufacturers in the creation of pies, fish cakes, soups and salads etc.  Maintaining a high factory floor cleaning standard in a factory of this size is a demanding task for any cleaning team and that is why they chose to hire the Tennant T7 . With long lasting battery p...

Last week we received a call from a sports club in Shrewsbury about their ISAL PB106 Ride on Sweeper which had developed a fault. Normally our engineers hit the road in the early hours to get to jobs around the country at a decent time so one of them was treated to a lie that day as the sports club is only 15 minutes drive away from our headquarters. The club has a variety of facilities available however in this case the machine was in use primarily to keep their Tennis courts clean and with regular use and a very active events program they soon accumulate dirt and debris. The customer had mentioned that the ISAL PB106 had stopped sucking up any debris and so was now out of action. Assessing the Machine Our engineer made the short journey to the club to take a look at the machine and discuss the problem with the facilities manger. Upon inspection, our engineer had noticed that the motor that controls the vacuum/central brush was not working. To understand the problem further he ...

Our service department received a service request for a  Viper AS710R from one of our customers at a packaging company in Telford , which is only twenty miles south of our base of operations in Market Drayton . Telford is a relatively new town, comprised of smaller industrial settlements that merged in the 1960’s and 70’s. The town is named after Thomas Telford , who was a civil engineer that developed many rail and road projects that linked places in the area together. These days, it is home to manufacturing sites of numerous Japanese industry giants such as Fujitsu, Nikon, Hitachi and Ricoh. Assessing the Machine Our engineer hit the road to travel the short distance to Telford, in order to assess the fault with their floor cleaning machine, which the customer reported was “not working as well as it had been”. As a packaging warehouse, lots of loose shreds and bits of plastic and other material that the staff work with would get scattered around the floor. Not to mention the...

On this occasion we received a call from a retail store who informed us that a wheel had fallen off their Viper AS510B floor Scrubber machine. The store was located in Telford , Shropshire – just a few miles away from our base of operations. Telford is a relatively new town, comprised of smaller industrial settlements that merged in the 1960’s and 70’s. The town is named after Thomas Telford, who you may remember was an famous civil engineer who developed numerous rail and road projects in the area. Assessing the Floor Scrubber As a large store in the town, it had a vast amount of tiled floor space , which, as a result of regular customer foot fall and trolley traffic, needs consistent cleaning to meet store and hygiene standards. Thus, it was very important for the engineer to assess the machine and remedy the issue. The customer reported that a wheel had fallen off the machine, which of course rendered it unusable. However, as the problem was so noticeable, it was easy for the en...

A large-scale retailer of food and fresh goods were expecting a high-profile visitor and as such, wanted to give their store a thorough clean. However, after not being used for some time, the floor cleaning machines were in need of servicing and repairs. Our engineer was called to the retail store to carry out the servicing and make any necessary fixes. The store was located in Market Drayton , Shropshire , not too far from our base of operations. By the way did you know that Market Drayton gets its name from the fact that King Henry III decreed that a charter be granted for a weekly Wednesday market in the town in 1245AD; that market continues to this day. Assessing the Machine Our engineer arrived at the large discount retail store in Market Drayton to carry out diagnostic tests and isolate any problems the customer may encounter with their machines, then the necessary repairs could be made. As a large store in the town, it had a vast amount of tiled floor space , which, becaus...

We were contacted by a renowned German car manufacturer regarding one of their showrooms located in an enterprise park in Shrewsbury , Shropshire, the birthplace of biologist Charles Darwin and quite close to our base of operations, also in Shropshire. The company were expecting a high-profile visitor to this particular showroom and wished to hire a machine to clean the showroom floor in preparation. Choosing the right cleaning machine It’s a large showroom that is used to display some very prestigious vehicles and so gets a lot of foot fall from customers, not to mention the odd rubber tyre. They also have a garage area where they do servicing, vehicle health checks, MOT’s and repairs however this machine was specifically for the showroom so was unlikely to encounter the heavy soiling you might expect in the garage area. The floors in the showroom itself were mainly Porcelain tiles although the reception and sales desk area was laid with laminate flooring . We therefore...