COMPARISONS
Buying vs Hiring a Floor Scrubber
Hire suits short projects, seasonal peaks and trials. Ongoing daily cleaning usually favours ownership, but the comparison should be made over a realistic period rather than a single month.
Hire tends to suit
- Short-term projects and fit-outs
- Seasonal or one-off deep cleans
- Trialling a machine format before committing
- Cover while an owned machine is being serviced
Ownership tends to suit
- Daily or near-daily cleaning
- Sites where the machine must always be available
- Operations standardising equipment across locations
- Contracts long enough to amortise the purchase
Compare like with like
Put hire charges and ownership costs on the same timeline. Ownership includes purchase, consumables, maintenance, parts and eventual battery replacement; hire includes charges, delivery and availability risk.
Talk it through with someone who knows the machines
Tell us about the floor, the cleaning window and the constraints. We will tell you what suits the site — including when a smaller machine is the better answer.