Floor scrubber is a floor cleaning device. It can be simple tools such as floor mops and floor brushes, or in a form of walk-behind or ride-on machines to clean larger floor areas by injecting water with cleaning solution, scrubbing, and lifting the residuals off the floor.

One of the easier positives to draw from using a floor scrubber is that it is far superior to using a mop and bucket. Manual cleaning is very low tech and while in some cases the old ways are best, in this case they are definitely not. Wet mopping means exactly what it says, the floor is left wet after cleaning and will remain so for some time after. As we all know this poses a significant slipping or tripping hazard as well as the hard labour for the operative doing the mopping. Another problem is that the action of manual floor mopping can spread dirt and germs around the floor, and dirty water is reapplied from the bucket – so while the floor might look clean, it probably is not hygienically clean after traditional mopping.

The efficiency of manual cleaning compared to a scrubber drier does not bear scrutiny – a floor scrubber can clean approximately twice the area in the same time, wetting the floor, removing the dirt and drying the floor in one pass, so it is possible for work to continue while cleaning is being carried out.