I Didn't Want It... but Now I Love It Life can be funny, even in the cleaning world. The facility manager at a Ohio college decided to toss out the mops, buckets, brooms, and sprayers and switch to the No- Touch Cleaning system developed by Kaivac. With this system, cleaning solution is applied to surfaces. The same areas are then blasted clean, and a built-in wet/vac picks up moisture and soil. 'At first there was a lot of resistance to these [No- Touch] machines,' says the facility manager. 'The custodians even thought [the machines were] being purchased to eliminate their jobs.' It took some convincing for the custodial workers to realize the machines were being purchased to improve their work, not end their jobs; they started using the equipment only reluctantly. 'Well, it's

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