Cleaning Solution Examples

Elgee Vacuums and Sweepers are versatile and durable for attacking the toughest of jobs. The list below identifies different cleaning applications and illustrates the use of a specific product and model for each application.

In many cases, however, the model or product is not limited to the one shown. Local situations and preferences may dictate the use, for example, of an electric vs. a gasoline-powered vacuum. Click on the respective Application “Learn More” button to see in detail how the specific product indicated offers a cleaning solution, the Testimonial link to see what others say, and the View Clip link to see the product in action.

Airport FOD Control

Regional or local airports need cleaning equipment that is efficient and cost-effective for their size and traffic.

The Elgee Power Vac (Gasoline or Propane powered) is equipped with the following:

• Instant Action Hose
• Magnetic Bar Assembly
• Brush Assembly
• Auto Baffle Assembly
• Crack Funnel

The airport facility can ensure they control FOD issues in hangers, gate and passenger embarking areas, aircraft parking aprons, around jet-blast barriers, etc.

Clean up Foreign Object Damage from the ground and within cracks and crevices. Pick up metallic objects with the magnetic bar attachment.

Recommended Models: Lithium-Ion, Gasoline, and Propane.

Plastic Pellet Control

The Power Vac’s suction will extract plastic pellets from pavement and floor crevices, door slide rails and other recesses while also picking up a variety of shape and sizes of litter.

Time & Money – Manual brooms are labor intensive, disperses more than is swept up and does little to pick up debris including plastic pellets and litter in cracks and crevices. Removing plastic pellet debris ultimately prevents the plastic resin from getting into waste water outlets, surrounding facility brush and plants, and possibly airborne, depending on the pellet size.

Manufacturers and other handlers of plastic resin pellets need cleaning equipment that is efficient and cost-effective for maintaining a clean environment. Pellets can be an annoyance getting under and around equipment, in floor cracks, crevices, corners, and indoor runners. You can take control of the mess with the Elgee Power Vac equipped with the following:

• Auto Baffle Assembly
• Instant Action Hose
• Brush Assembly

Recommended Models: Lithium-Ion, Gasoline, Propane, and Electric Powered.

Horse Stables & Barns Cleaning

Power to pick up varied debris (wet sawdust, manure chunks, nails, glass, maneuverable, etc. Great on concrete and rubber matting overlays and wood flooring.

A Clean Environment is Essential to Prevent Injury and to Ensure Healthy Surroundings. Maintaining your facilities for your boarders and patrons is very important for your business. So the equipment you use must meet your cleaning needs and must be dependable, durable, and cost-efficient.

Whether the barn or stable is at a small private facility or at a racetrack, straw, dried caked debris, and litter needs to be regularly addressed but it can be time-consuming.

Benefits

Using a broom takes time, is dusty, and labor intensive and has to drag along a wheeled disposal container.

Brushing the litter onto the loading dock or out onto the ground solves your immediate need but is inefficient. All of which add to manual steps, overhead, and time.

• provides wide surface cleaning, and with the attached hose, get into tight areas and corners.
• provides one cleaning unit for stalls, tack rooms, aisles or alleyways, etc.
• picks up more debris with its large capacity collection bag (11 cu ft) .
• controls dust with the screened vent filtered collection bag (not recommended for fine or powdery dirt) .
• relatively quiet so as not to spook the horses.

Recommended Models: Lithium-Ion, Gasoline, Propane, and Electric Powered.

Paint Chip Clean Up

Power to pick up paint chips, wood scraps, and similar wastes associated with painting or renovation applications. Vacuum up the paint chips and easily empty them into dumpsters or other receptacles. Create much less dust and potentially harmful particles made airborne than brooming.

Painting Contractors and Damage Re-mediators need cleaning equipment that is efficient and cost-effective for cleaning up after paint scrapping and ensuring a clean environment. Paint chips can be an annoyance getting under and around equipment, in floor cracks and crevices, corners, indoor runners, and in shrubs.

Benefits

Time & Money – Manual brooms are labor intensive, disperses more than is swept up and does little to pick up all the paint chips and grainy particles including that left in cracks and crevices. Removing paint chips ultimately prevents the paint chip from getting into waste water outlets, neighboring properties, and possibly airborne, depending on the paint flake size. The Elgee Power-Vac:

• 10 times faster than using a manual broom.
• Reduces the manual effort, thus saving time and money.
• Provides the suction necessary to pick up the paint chips and particles out of floor crevices.
• The Instant Action Hose keeps the operator from using two or more pieces of equipment to clean open and congested (hard to reach) floor areas.

Recommended Models: Lithium-Ion, Gasoline, Propane, and Electric Powered.

Truck & Trailer Beds

Elgee can offer the appropriate solution for your cleaning needs: the Elgee Power Vac driven by a 6 or 10 HP Briggs & Stratton gasoline engine or a 5.5 HP Honda gasoline engine.

Distribution Centers and Warehouses have a mired of cleaning requirements: storage aisles, staging & packaging areas, loading docks and the individual trailer beds of the delivery trucks.

More importantly, is the turnaround of unloading and loading the trailers. A trailer sitting at the dock is not productive. This requires that the trailers be cleaned out so it can be loaded as soon as possible. Do not let the debris and litter removal be the bottleneck

Benefits

• Using a broom takes time, is dusty, and labor intensive and having to drag along a wheeled disposal container.
• Brushing the litter onto the loading dock or out onto the ground solves your immediate need but not very efficient. All of which adds to manual steps, overhead and time.

Recommended Models: Lithium-Ion, Gasoline, Propane, and Electric Powered.

The Elgee Power-Vac:

• 10 times faster than using a manual broom.
• Reduces manual effort, thus saving time and money.
• Provides the suction necessary to pick up the pellets out of floor crevices.
• The Instant Action Hose keeps the maintenance personnel from using two or more pieces of equipment to clean open and congested (hard to reach) floor areas.