Sunday, 14 June 2015

Janitorial Distributors Are There To See You Get What You Need To Clean

By April Briggs


As you are starting a new cleaning business, whether for commercial properties or private homes, you will need to have a lot of things to work with. You will need employees, of course, and you will also need equipment. The largest group of items you need will be dusters, chemicals, cloths, sponges and most of all, information. For all of those reasons, you need to contact and do business with the local janitorial distributors available.

A good portion of these operations are set up to provide a store front for the major manufacturers of cleaning products. They will also offer shelf space for some of the other makers products to provide a complete mix of products. Some of them will be independents that will offer all makes and models as well as brands so their customers will have access to more products than ever.

Chemicals are one of the most important items you can purchase. There is no cleaning done unless you have a chemical, working on a soil to break its bond from the surface. You will need a hard surface cleaner, a disinfectant, glass cleaner and something for harder to remove soils. That will get you started and this location will assist in finding the right ones, in concentrated forms.

One other thing that you know you will need, for all chemicals you use, is a Material Safety Data Sheet, or MSDS. Federal and local regulations require you to have one of these for each chemical. These list hazardous ingredients, if any, and have emergency first aid measures in case of contamination. This store will have access to them for all of the chemicals they offer and many will have access, online, for many others.

All of the various floor machines will be represented here as well. Vacuums, carpet cleaners and buffers make up the lions share of these pieces of equipment. You will be able to read the printed information and ask questions of the employees to find out which is which. The ability to try each piece out, in the back room, will enable you to make an educated decision before purchase.

Information is one of the main thing people come in here for. They are looking for the information about the processes they want to improve. They need information about which tool or supply is the best for what task. They are interested in learning what items can be used for two or more processes or tasks. They also need to know what must be done before other things can be attempted.

Some of the best information comes from the other clients, standing around. Most of them are probably drinking coffee or water and, possibly eating popcorn that is always cooking. They are often quite anxious to share all about what works for them and, specifically, what does not work. They can help you understand what items are best for some things, regardless of what they are advertized for.

There are a great many things that can be found that can be used to satisfy your clients. The time it takes to experiment with all of them will make it hard to actually get started on your new enterprise. By using this distributor to wade through all of the conflicting data, you save time, money, trouble and have a higher learning curve for all that comes next.




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