Troubleshooting Your Auto Floor Scrubber

[@barmanfreeman-lb9dp]

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[@andybetz8820]

Great video lots of good information. Very detailed. I don’t think you missed anything. The only thing is if have one that is community. Everybody needs to be on the same wave about understanding it, and taking care of it. It only takes one person to ruin your day. When you start to use it and find out somebody did not take care of it. Like leave dirty water in the top bay. Or possibly leave it all clogged up. I always left it, cleaned up and ready for the next person. Thanks again for the great video

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

Yes absolutely getting everyone on same page is key. I blew my stack more than once. Go get one and it hadn’t been charged.

[@andybetz8820]

@@mrjeffthecustodian yes sir that’s the most common problem with them come in in the morning, and the Night Shift did not plug it in to charge. It can drive you crazy sometimes.

[@arlyjade9344]

Thank you SO much for these super informative videos I’ve worked in the schools in the kitchen for 8 years now I’m floating I’m able to do kitchen work and custodian work. School starts up next week and I’m very interested in accepting the custodian work much better pay than kitchen work😅 thanks again for these helpful videos 🙏

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

I started out being a CNP custodian.

[@juanduque7983]

Using a Dayton model 460U42 that looks just like that one in the video. The bracket holding the disk drive also came off and now having issue putting back on

[@MapSpawn]

I think you helped me solve my problem, thank you.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

That’s Awesome!!!!!

[@michaeldalsoglio3770]

I’m a head custodian for an elementary school. I also have a walk behind auto scrubber so once a week I check and Maintence the auto to make sure to check the pads, squeegee, hoses, batteries, etc.. are in good shape. Luckily our district has a fantastic mechanics team, and they get to our stuff pretty quickly when it needs to be fixed. They tell me the biggest biggest things on the machines that are important to take care off are the batteries, as they can be extremely expensive. If they ever as for your input on a auto scrubber to buy, you should tell them to get a Tomcat walk behind auto scrubber. These are awesome. You can also dry strip the floor. I remember that video you did with the square scrub. It’s like that, but a walk behind Version and you can scrub with it. I’ll include a link if your curious. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGXdi5Sri9pjb6c Sorry this is long. I’m a custodial nerd lol.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

Where for 19 years we had one of those big square tomcats walk behinds. We absolutely wore it out.

[@ellisbrown7908]

Mr. Jeff I work for A middle school as A Custodian and I have A big prob. How do I stop kids from flooding the restrooms toilets and putting poo on the stall walls?

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

That is a problem I never could solve when I Worked in public schools. I tried to always narrow it do to a time frame when it was happening. Actually I would catch them I. The act. Then I would match them up to the office. Very hard to police bathrooms when you have other things to do. I know how flustering it is. Wish I knew of a true solution. Sometimes I would get principal to send out and email to teachers. To get other kids to watch out for the ones that where doing the mess. Getting kids on board help more than anything. But still at times It was hopeless.

[@jshanks8365]

I've been doing overtime at another school this week and I had to take the squeegee off the scrubber dryer and clean it out before I could use it. The pipe was full of dried up dust balls, pieces of mop and plastic straw wrappers. It's just complete laziness when machines get into that state.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

Many times I have worked in other folks areas . Sometimes I’m like you got to be kidding.

[@jshanks8365]

I had to strip the machine apart and pour clean water down the waste pipe to flush out all the gunk that was blocking it. The floor was noticeably cleaner after. This is one of the reasons why I prefer to work on my own.

[@andybetz8820]

I completely understand what you’re saying at our district they will hire anybody you do not have to have any communication skills or knowledge of the work that needs to be performed. There’s no training or leader ship. They just hand you a piece of paper with your area and rooms. I’m sure it’s not this way in all the districts. I hope.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

When I got hired 21 years ago. I was handed a badge a set of keys and a radio. No training, sink swim or drown. I had to learn to swim.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

I’m a loner also.

[@icoston15]

I can’t get the driver pad to drop so I can change the pad. I can tilt the machine to change the pad, just can’t get it to drop completely off. Thanks!

[@tonyahammond3865]

How do you draw the fresh water tank please? I’m having trouble with my machine.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

If you take the filer off and turn water value to open it will drain. It’s slow But it will drain. Take it outside on side walk. Just make sure to put pad down so It wants to roll off.

[@tennesseegirl5539]

I have the yellow one

[@zacharysnyder5325]

We just had our minuteman e20 sport serviced and batteries replaced unfortunately they are water based batteries I check the level all the time and fill as needed but the machine dosent give me a full run time I’m gonna say like maybe 3-4 hours tops. Is this normal?

[@user-RyandaLion]

yes, the machine running at %80 for 4 hours is usually pretty close to standard run time for walk behind scrubbers

[@Tapoutime79]

How much is a scrubber like yours? We are looking for a new on to replace are MinuteMan Eride 26 that's 13 year's old. If you have a link? Thank's

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

Around 6 to 8 thousand.

[@liamthemarchingbandguy4063]

How often do y’all run the auto scrubbers at the college? I work at a grocery store and we run ours daily.

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

I run in t as needed. The floor I run it on is LVT. So about 2 times a week. When I worked at school it was 3 to 4 times a week in halls and daily in lunchroom.

[@jesusimposter9603]

Great video my friend mr @Jeffthe custodian

[@mrjeffthecustodian]

Thank you kindly