Crew Good; Old Tools Bad Bill Ringeman, the Colorado Academy School District 20 Supervisor of Building Modification and Custodial, believes his custodians provide ample attention to maintaining his school district's restrooms. "But they just were not coming clean," he says. "I did not think my crew was to blame for this; [I blamed] the outdated cleaning systems and tools [such as traditional cleaning cloths, buckets, brooms, mops, and sprayers] that we were using." Looking for an alternative, Ringeman saw the Kaivac No-Touch CleaningTM system demonstrated at a tradeshow. He was so impressed, he purchased a KaiZen machine--a smaller version of the full-sized KaiVac--as soon as he got back to work. ?"From the start we noticed an improvement," he says. "Using the NoTouch system, we can deep c

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