How to Remove Mastic and Carpet Glue with a Floor Machine
Removing stubborn mastic or carpet glue from your concrete floor can be a daunting task, but with the right tools and techniques, you can get the job done like a pro. In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of using a floor machine to grind away those pesky adhesives, so you ... read more
How to Strip and Wax Floors Even If You’re a Novice
This six-step guide on how to strip and wax floors helps to achieve a high-quality, professional wax finish for your floors, covering everything from initial preparation to aftercare and ... read more
How to Set Prices for Commercial Cleaning Jobs Without Missing Important Costs
Discover the art of setting prices in the commercial cleaning business with our comprehensive guide. This guide offers unique insights, practical examples, and advanced strategies to help you navigate this critical aspect of your ... read more
How to Restore Your Stone Floor’s Shine, Even a Beginner Can Follow
Revive the beauty of your stone floors! Discover the transformative power of diamond polishing pads in our comprehensive guide. From understanding the magic behind these pads to step-by-step polishing instructions, we've got you covered. Dive in and learn how to turn your floors from drab to fab, ... read more
The “Lung Protection” Vacuum System: Ideal For Disposing Hazardous Dust & Debris
When you’re cleaning someone else’s space, and you don’t know what you’re picking up, you have to be careful about how you handle what you’re throwing ... read more
Overhead Dusting 101 – What Every Professional Cleaner Should Know
Typically, when cleaning and dusting surfaces in different facilities (offices, warehouses, industrial spaces, etc.) – we clean what we can see and reach. However, locations such as overhead pipes, fixtures, vents, raceways etc., that are hard to reach, or out-of-sight often get ignored and ... read more
Vacuum Filters 101 – What Every Professional Cleaner Should Know
Here are some important things to consider when thinking about selecting and caring for vacuum filters. Why are vacuum filters so important? Filters are a critical component of a vacuum system. Together, with a good motor and effective seals, good filtration is essential to the performance of a ... read more
How To Restore & Prepare Concrete Floors
Here are some important things to consider and keep in mind when restoring and preparing concrete floors: Typically, customers will want their concrete flooring restored when it starts looking dull, scratched up, and worn out. When taking on a concrete floor polishing job, the 3 most important ... read more
What You Need To Know About ASTRO Diamond Pads
Here are some important things to consider and keep in mind when using ASTRO Diamond Pads: ASTRO diamond pads are high-quality buffing pads that are infused with tiny diamonds so they become more abrasive and allow you to clean a floor mechanically, without using harsh chemicals or cleaning agents. ... read more
How To Strip Floors in HALF The Time Without Overworking Yourself
Stripping floors is a time-consuming and tedious job, but it doesn't have to be. Centaur Floor Machines has developed the perfect solution for commercial cleaners - using our revolutionary 40 lb horseshoe weights, you can now strip your floors in half the ... read more
Baseboard Cleaning 101: How to Use The Scrub Jay
What is The Scrub Jay? The Scrub Jay is Centaur’s baseboard cleaning innovation that lets you clean, scrub and strip baseboards in 90% to 96% less time. How Is the Scrub Jay Designed to Work? The Scrub Jay works in FIVE different ways as follows: Using blue pads on the Scrub Jay, you can use ... read more
Are You or Your Cleaners Exposed to Any of These Health Hazard “Blind-Spots” When Cleaning Baseboards?
Cleaning baseboards in any facility is a necessary job to maintain the overall cleanliness of places people walk. So, any time someone goes to work cleaning baseboards, it’s a good thing. Yet, the “old ways” of cleaning baseboards are: inefficient and have potential health hazard consequences ... read more
With an Integrated SplashGuard You…
REDUCE TIME and WORK spent on each job AND… INCREASE your profit margins, as well. Here’s why: What is the SplashGuard? The SplashGuard is a device that you find on every Centaur machine like the Rabbit-1, the Rabbit-3, and the Stonechat. The SplashGuard, like its name suggests, is ... read more
What Are Tynex Brushes and Why Are They Better Than Floor Cleaning Pads?
What is a Tynex Floor Scrubber Brush? Tynex floor brushes are made from silicon carbide impregnated nylon bristles. Why is that important? This is important because these types of bristles first maintain their shape and second maintain their aggressiveness through the life of the brush. This means ... read more
How To Use Weights To Get Jobs Completed In LESS Time
Remember the days when small 5 to 7 year old kids were part of your floor care “crew”? You know… when you’d take your kid to a floor stripping job and get her (or him) to sit on your floor machine to “weigh-down” the machine? It was more fun for the kids than anything else. ... read more
SIMPLE invention that will change how you clean floors
There have been some great inventions that changed the world. The wheel. The compass. Automobiles. Concrete. The telephone. Railways. Airplanes. The Internet. Etc. But if you’re in the floor care / cleaning business or your job is to maintain floors… This one invention will mean more to ... read more
The Best Ways to Take Out “Even Impossible to Remove” Glue from Floors
Imagine this scenario… You’re a commercial flooring company. You’ve just landed a decent job to replace the old carpeting with brand-new modern looking vinyl tiles in a 5000 sq. ft. commercial building. So, you and your crew get to work early on a Saturday morning, knowing you’ve got the ... read more
How to Restore Your Concrete Floor in 8 Simple Steps
Revitalize your concrete floor with our simple 8-step guide! Perfect for beginners, this article walks you through everything from safety gear to the final seal, making it easy to refresh any space. Whether it’s a garage, basement, or commercial area, learn how to clean, repair, and finish your ... read more
How to remove stubborn glue from floor surfaces
When removing glue from floor surfaces, there are some important things to consider and keep in mind. More specifically, here's what you need to know before removing any type of ... read more
Carpet Cleaning Tools Every Commercial Cleaner Should Consider
When cleaning commercial carpets, the first question to ask yourself is: How much time do you have, and how much money do you want to spend? That’s because each method of carpet cleaning requires specific equipment and tools, uses different processes and can take different amounts of time to ... read more
The Top 6 Vacuum Tools Every Professional Cleaner Should Consider
We often find that commercial cleaners tend to use one, maybe two tools on their vacuum cleaners to do every job. And while that is efficient, in some ways, the reality is that there are a variety of tools available for different types of work. Using the right tool for the right job is not only ... read more