About Scrubber Guide
Scrubber Guide exists to answer one question well: how do you get clean, dry, safe floors from a commercial floor scrubber at the lowest real cost?
Floor scrubbers are expensive machines bought infrequently, often by people who have never bought one before, and then run every day by operators who were shown how to use them in ten minutes. Most of the information online comes from manufacturers and dealers who sell a particular line, or from short listicles that never get past the brochure. We wanted a reference that explains the whole machine, system by system, and stays useful after the purchase, when the squeegee starts leaving water or the batteries stop lasting the shift.
Who we write for
- Facility and operations managers choosing machines, sizing fleets and building floor care programs.
- Building service contractors who need productivity figures they can bid on and machines that survive several sites.
- Supervisors, operators and in-house technicians who keep machines running and need to diagnose problems quickly.
- Procurement teams comparing quotes, lease terms and service agreements.
What makes our guides different
- Organized by system. Batteries, solution delivery, scrub decks, squeegees, vacuum recovery, drive and chemistry each have their own deep section, because that is how machines fail and how technicians think.
- Symptom-first troubleshooting. Diagnostic sequences start with the quickest and most likely causes, the way an experienced technician works.
- Transparent numbers. Where we give productivity, labor, runtime or cost figures, we show the formula and assumptions so you can rerun them with your own inputs. Our calculators use the same models as our articles.
- Vendor neutral. We cover every major brand and machine type on the same terms. No manufacturer pays for coverage, reviews or placement, and none reviews our content before it is published.
Our editorial team
Our guides are researched and written by the Scrubber Guide editorial team, drawing on manufacturer documentation, operator and service manuals, industry standards and guidance (from bodies such as ANSI, OSHA, the CDC and ISSA), and the practical experience of people who run and repair cleaning equipment. Every guide is checked against our editorial standards before publication and reviewed again when we update it.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections and suggestions are welcome. See our contact page.