Restroom Maintenance

Simple tips to help make restroom maintenance easy.

Quick Tips: How to Make Restroom Maintenance Easier

Your plant’s restrooms: are they a source of pride or a source of continuous headaches and complaints? According to the 2000 Cleaning & Maintenance Management In-House Survey, restrooms are cleaned just over once a day for all facility types. Industrial plants tend to be around-the-clock operations. Therefore, cleaning personnel are more likely to be cleaning on weekends and holidays. Perhaps that’s why, according to the survey, that industrial plants rank second lowest on the restroom complaint scale, at slightly more than 20 percent. The survey’s authors posited some reasons for the lack of complaints, such as users are satisfied with restroom cleanliness, they may be unable to complain, or they may have lowered expectations.

In the restroom maintenance business, time is money. Reduce the amount of time you spend, and you’ll cut costs and increase profits. But at what price? Does less maintenance result in dirtier restrooms, disgruntled employees, and worse, loss of business? Or, can you have it both ways: less time and money spent on maintenance and a better restroom in the process? The answer is yes, if you follow some simple rules.

High-Capacity Means High Satisfaction

We’ve all been there, you enter a restroom and find no toilet paper, no soap, or no paper towels. Perhaps the cleaning staff is a little behind on its change-out/refill rotation. Or maybe they’re not taking advantage of the many high-capacity systems on the market today. The goal with high-capacity systems is to allow longer time between refills while meeting user needs for products that don’t run out.

High-capacity restroom systems were invented back in the mid-1980s with the introduction of the first Jumbo Roll toilet paper. Today, these massive rolls are ubiquitous, but did you know you can squeeze even more toilet paper into that Jumbo Roll? Coreless Jumbo Roll toilet paper fills in the hole in the center of the roll with more toilet paper. The coreless option is even available in a standard roll format, if that’s what your facility requires.

For towels, high-capacity usually means roll towels. While 800-foot rolls used to be the norm, today it’s possible to see rolls of up to 1,000 feet in length. And the good news is that these longer rolls can be made to fit the exact same diameter as the 800-foot rolls.

Soap, too, is available in high-capacity formats. In fact, you can purchase some formulations in dispensers that contain up to 8 liters of sudsy stuff. That’s a lot of handwashes before the soap runs out.

At the end of the day, high-capacity systems can lead to quicker maintenance, less supply run-out and a reduction in labor costs, helping to improve your bottom line and reduce or eliminate recurring supply issues in the restroom.

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