If you clean buildings for a living, you are buying water and freight every time you buy ready-to-use product. Concentrate is almost always the better answer, and the arithmetic is not close.
Concentrate versus ready-to-use
A twenty litre drum of ready-to-use floor cleaner is roughly nineteen litres of water that somebody trucked across Nairobi. The same drum of concentrate might make two hundred litres at the site, where the water is free. The saving on a mid-sized contract runs into six figures over a year, and the storage space you get back is not nothing either.
The catch is dosing. Give a cleaner a drum of concentrate and no measure, and it will be used at four times the rate or one quarter. We supply marked dosing bottles and simple dilution charts with any concentrate order, which solves it.
What we supply for cleaning operations
Sodium hypochlorite for bleach and sanitising, pine and lemon disinfectant concentrate, benzalkonium chloride based disinfectant for food-contact areas, alkaline degreaser for kitchens and workshops, acid descaler for washrooms and boilers, glass cleaner concentrate, handwash and shower gel concentrate for washrooms, laundry liquid and powder for in-house laundries, and car wash shampoo and traffic film remover for vehicle bays.
Documents your client will ask for
Facility contracts increasingly require a Safety Data Sheet file on site, and hospital and food-sector clients audit it. We supply the SDS set with the order and can compile it into a single file for the store. Certificates of analysis are available per batch where a client requires them.
Supply terms for contractors
Established contractors buy on account against an LPO, with scheduled deliveries to site or to a central store. Rates on a defined basket can be held for a contract period. See bulk and tender supply for how that works in practice.
Making your own instead of buying finished product
A number of Nairobi cleaning companies have moved to blending their own disinfectant and floor cleaner from raw materials. At a certain volume it is clearly cheaper, and it gives you control over scent, which clients notice more than they admit. The break-even is usually somewhere around a few hundred litres a month. If you are near that, ask and we will do the sums with you honestly, including the ones that argue against it.
Do you accept Local Purchase Orders?
Yes. Send the LPO by email and it is acknowledged the same working day with a confirmed delivery date. Standard terms are thirty days for established institutional accounts.
Can you supply against a tender?
Yes. Send the bill of quantities and the closing date and we return a priced schedule on letterhead with pack sizes, unit rates, lead time and validity, plus the usual supporting documents.
What documents do you supply with a bulk order?
A signed delivery note, an ETR invoice, and the Safety Data Sheet set for every chemical supplied. For institutions we can compile the whole SDS set into one file for the store.
Can deliveries be scheduled through the year?
Yes, and for most institutions it is the better arrangement. Agree the annual quantity, take it monthly or termly, pay against each delivery. Peroxide, hypochlorite and enzyme products degrade in a warm store, so this is a real saving.
Do you deliver to the store or to the gate?
To the store. Our drivers are used to signing in at a gate and finding the storekeeper, and drums are not left at a reception desk.
Can you match a specification written around a brand?
We will state the equivalent we are offering and what it contains, rather than quietly substituting. If we cannot match a specification we say so.
Priced for your contract
Send the products and monthly volumes. We will quote concentrate equivalents and show what the dilution actually costs per litre in use.
