How to Clean a Cleanroom: Using Our Multiple Buckets Technique
Implementing a standard operating procedure (SOP) for cleaning your production area or cleanroom is imperative for maintaining your operation’s cleanliness standards. Staying on top of cleaning helps reduce outside contaminants, extends the life of your manufacturing equipment, and ensures that your facility is meeting your industry’s operating regulations and standards. However, this cleaning process can be more confusing than it appears. Below are two efficient cleaning methods that Flow Cleanrooms recommends.
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Instructions for Cleaning a Cleanroom with a Two-Bucket System
1. Clean Solution Bucket – Add your cleaning solution to the first bucket and saturate your mop in the solution.
2. Waste Bucket – Wring excess cleaning solution from your mop into the second bucket – the waste bucket. Do not submerge the mop into this bucket at any time.
3. Mop – Apply the cleaning solution with your mop to the desired surface, using your preferred method of mopping*.
4. Waste Bucket – Wring the wastewater from the mop into the waste bucket for the second time. Again, do not submerge the mop into the wastewater. Repeat this process until your surfaces are sparkling and contaminant-free!
Instructions for Cleaning a Cleanroom with a Three-Bucket System
1. Clean Solution Bucket – Add your cleaning solution to the first clean bucket. Saturate your mop in the solution.
Waste Bucket – Wring excess cleaning solution from your mop into the second bucket – the waste bucket. Be mindful to not saturate the mop in any of the wastewater within the bucket.
3. Mop – Apply the cleaning solution with your mop to the designated surface, using your preferred method of mopping*.
4. Waste Bucket – Wring the wastewater into the waste bucket for the second time. Do not saturate the mop in the wastewater.
5. Rinse Bucket – Rinse your mop in the third bucket, filled with rinsing solution.
6. Waste Bucket – Wring excess rinsing solution into the waste bucket, then begin the process again by saturating the mop in the cleaning solution of the first bucket. Repeat the listed steps until the cleanroom surface meets your industry’s quality standards.
Purchase Cleanroom Supplies from Flow Cleanrooms
Flow Cleanrooms proudly supplies all of the necessary tools and products needed to keep your cleanroom shining. We offer a wide variety of different cleanroom cleaning solutions, so you can ensure that the material of your cleanroom’s surface can be safely sanitized. We also supply various cleanroom mops and buckets so our customers can select which options work best for them.
*For guidance on mopping techniques, check out our guide on how to mop a cleanroom.