What brand do you stock in terms of cleaning machines?
Astral Hygiene Ltd are a recognised distributor for many leading cleaning machine brands. These include, Taski, Numatic, Truvox and Sebo. We generally only stock professional level cleaning machines rather than domestic cleaning machines.
What is the difference between domestic and professional cleaning machines?
The difference is really the way in which there are used. Professional cleaning machines are brought out of the cupboard every single day and are used for long periods of time. This mean that the motors in them must be able to accomplish this continued unyielding use. Whereas domestic cleaning machines are generally pulled out of the cupboard once, twice or potentially three times per week and used for short bursts of time, which generally means the domestic usage is more forgiving on the motor.
So, for examples, when the cleaning operative is using a large cleaning machine to scrub or buff along the corridor in a hospital, this machine is generally battery powered, and can generally go far as 5, 10 or 15 hours per day (depending on the model).
Obviously with the domestic cleaning machine you’re not going to get one that is battery powered which will go for that length of time – so that is in essence the difference. The way in which these machines undertake the task is also a difference, the scrubber dryer in a large hospital would have to introduce water, scrub, and then suck the water up in one pass of the machine to prevent anybody from falling or tripping or slipping on the water. You would never get that in a domestic machine, so that is another difference.
So what kind of machines do Astral Hygiene provide?
Astral Hygiene provide various different kinds of machines from regular professional vacuums, to silent vacuums with whisper technology (great for care homes!), to lightweight buffing and polishing machines, to heavyweight ride-on scrubber dryers, to single disc machines, to slow or high speed machines – so lots of different options. Even if you’re looking for a combination vacuum cleaner / carpet shampooer we can certainly help with that also.
Do Astral Hygiene provide training on the cleaning machine has been sold?
Yes; Astral provides training and a question and answer session, as a matter of course with every single machine that we sell regardless of the UK location. As we partner with and distribute for large global organisations, our partnership has put an infrastructure in place that allows us to send the Subject Matter Expert from the manufacturer to do the training directly with the customer.
This allows us to extend our knowledge to every single end user ensuring they know exactly what the machine can and can’t do, what it’s great at and what you shouldn’t be using it for so that everybody knows exactly how to get the best out of this machine. And importantly how every customer can extract every piece of value this machine can offer to your premises.
Do you do a machine specifically for difficult to reach areas?
We do a few ranges of backpack machines, which are absolutely great for cleaning stairs in particular; or potentially for the corners of rooms, where the operator is doing several rooms. The Taski Dorsalino is one of the ranges we supply, or we have an alternative Numatic Machine RSV130-11 which is another option. Both are good professional level machines and are excellent in terms of ergonomics and suction.