Concrete Areas: Where we have concrete it cleans the white buildup that gets on the edges. It seemed to do this with ease. Also when we have a spill that damages the surface, they have concrete polish pads for the powerbug that did an amazing job at blending in the damaged area. We had a bunch of these now you can hardly tell. 

Tiled Areas:

1. Even without using stripper it performed better than I expected the floor was very clean and looked 100% cleaner with very little effort.

2. I had zero training and I can clean 80 feet plus the endcaps in 5 minutes or less.

3. The machine is very easy to guide it knows what to do and it basically does the work by itself.

4. When we used just the cleaner the powerbug still softened the old stripper and it scrubbed off the floor with ease.

5. The pad gets inside the spill stations at the ends of the aisles which is one area that we could never get into.

6. Battery life is good we can do several depts on one charge.

The Pros.

1. It is a huge time saver, we can increase the amount of area stripped and waxed by almost double.

2. Ease of use, simple I can train anyone in under 10 minutes to use it so on low freight nights it can be used by anyone to continue the cleaning process.

3. It is very clean to use, no splashing of stripper so less to wipe down afterwards

4. I cannot stress enough how well it cleans the floor I was amazed at the job it does, the dept we cleaned with it looks fantastic huge improvement to the hands and knees way.

5. The simple design makes it a long lasting product with few parts to breakdown.

6. It really gets the hard to reach areas improving the overall look of my floors.

7. I have seen an improvement in morale already, the associates like using the machine.

8. Shrink prevention, it forces us to keep the counters clean underneath helping directly with shrink because no merchandise is missed it’s impossible to use the machine and not find the products kicked under there.

Overall it will save use 80-85% on labor time cleaning under the counters.

9. I can think of many other uses other than under sidecounters,

Cash office, we can get in there with this machine and clean around the safe and the tables in there, under the desks in the back offices. In the TLE bay I can clean around the machines and pits greatly improving the customer’s impression when they walk in to get their cars serviced. In the narrow doorways, we just can’t get those spaces really clean and the powebug gets in there easily. It even fits under the lockers in the hallways finally getting to the areas that before only a hand doodlebug could get. Up front inside the registers where the cashiers stand. Vestibules around the vending machines

Around the bunkers in frozen and dairy. Around the poles, this is an area that other machines just can’t clean.

Cons-only 2 issues and I have already covered these with PowerBug

The brush needs lowered 1/4 inch to get under the endcaps 

Lock the head so it only pivots about 15 degrees, 90 really puts pressure on the user

I cannot see any reason why every store could possibly use this and not want one! I can see us using it everyday just to raise the overall standards in our stores.

Updated Testimonial 2022: The cons were addressed by PowerBug with their new 300 model. Now the machine is even more amazing. Way quieter, we can use it in the day time, and is more productive than the last model which we had no complaints about it’s productivity anyway.