How to clean large car parks and yards?

Whether public or private, for cars or heavy goods vehicles, parking lots inevitably occupy large areas and play a key role in modern urban landscapes and in determining people’s habits.

Keeping them functional, safe, clean and pleasant to use makes a major contribution to people’s perception of these spaces.

An abandoned-looking car park has no appeal, makes it impossible to establish new contacts, generates a feeling of negativity and drives the public and customers away. Proper maintenance and cleanliness of these places are therefore indispensable.

There are, however, many different types of car park, and surfaces can be made from a variety of materials: outdoor areas are normally surfaced in asphalt or gravel while covered parking tends to be surfaced in concrete; multi-story and underground car parks require routes for bicycles and pedestrians. The type of dirt found in these places therefore varies significantly, so there is no such thing as a single cleaning solution that works well in every situation. To achieve the best result, you need professional floor cleaning machines that are specially designed to work in each specific context.

Eureka has an extensive range of sweepers for car parks, and many different versions and options are available too. It is easy to find the perfect machine in such a range.

Special technologies and solutions that are particularly useful for car park cleaning

All Eureka machines boast excellent productivity, strength and ease of use, but certain specific features improve the performance of Eureka car park sweepers even further.

• HIGH-LEVEL HYDRAULIC EMPTYING: When cleaning large car parks it is easy for a sweeper’s debris hopper, however large, to fill up more than once during the same cleaning session, especially when there are lots of leaves on the ground. High-level hydraulic emptying allows the operator to empty the hopper quickly and resume work immediately, without having to get off the ride-on sweeper. The benefits in time saved and reduced operator fatigue are obvious.
• SHARKCAP: Especially in industrial car parks near packaging and goods handling areas, wire, string and pieces of nylon are often found on the ground. If these wind around a rotating brush, they can seriously impact its effectiveness and even damage the brush mounting pins. SharkCap uses a serrated ring to tear these materials before they can affect the functioning of the machine.
• MULTIBRISTLE: Eureka Multibristle brushes use bristles of different diameters arranged in a chevron shape to remove dust and debris of different weights in the same pass. Different types of dirt, varying in shape, size and weight, are frequently mixed together. With Eureka’s Multibristle brushes, you avoid having to make multiple passes and continually change brushes to pick up different types of dirt. This is because Multibristle brushes have bristles of different diameters and stiffness and are therefore effective with all kinds of dirt. The chevron-shaped pattern of the bristle rows also guides dirt towards the centre of the machine, facilitating pick up and preventing dirt from escaping as the machine turns.
• MULTIPOCKET FILTERS: The great effectiveness of Eureka Multipocket filters makes all Eureka vacuum sweepers suitable for intensive use. The filtration system does not allow fine dust to become airborne, improving cleanliness and the breathability of air where the machine is used. The top-quality results achieved by Multipocket filters is due to large filter surfaces, washable anti-static materials, and a filter design that avoids the acute angles that cause clogging. A practical shaker device also facilitates filter cleaning without the operator having to come into direct contact with the filter and dust.
• BLUE HEADLIGHT: Warning people that a floor cleaning machine is approaching, especially in busy covered parking lots where users are not expecting to find machines at work, is a simple but effective way to reduce accidents. Eureka machines have a Blue Headlight that projects coloured light onto the ground a few metres ahead, clearly warning others that a machine is approaching.