There are two main categories of housekeeping equipment: electrical equipment and non-electrical equipment. Electrical equipment includes vacuum cleaners, polisher machines, blowers, shampoo machines, steam machines, air compressors, and foggers which are used for various cleaning tasks like vacuuming carpets, polishing floors, drying surfaces, shampooing carpets, removing dirt and mildew, cleaning hard to reach areas, and eliminating odors. Non-electrical equipment consists of brooms, dust pans, mop sets, dusters, extension sticks, pads, mops, squeezers, brushes and pads for manual cleaning tasks.

1. HOUSEKEEPING EQUIPMENTS

2. There are two kind of equipment that constantly used in
Housekeeping department. Most of them are cleaning
equipment and some of them are tools to help housekeepers
providing better services to the guest. They are; Electrical
Equipment and Non-Electrical Equipment.
Housekeeping
equipment
Electrical
equipment
Non electrical
equipment

3. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
1. Vacuum Cleaner.
Mainly used to clean carpets or soft surface furniture, such as sofa, vinyl wall, etc.
There are vacuum with nozzle and also without nozzle (although not popular now).
Based on the function, there are two types of vacuum that are very important in the department:
- Dry Vacuum: Typical vacuum cleaner to suck dust out from the carpet.
- Wet Vacuum: Also called as Extractor Machine, because mainly to extract the liquid out
from a wet surface (carpet, floor, decks, etc...)

4. 2. Polisher Machine / Floor Polisher.
This machine has so many function; stripping, brushing, buffing, and scrubbing. Need a special training to
handle this machine. There are some kind of pads that always used along with this machine;
- Black Pad: To strip the polish out from the polished floor.
- Red Pad: To scrub the surface of the floor with a heavy stain.
- White Pad: To maintain the polished floor (to make it shiny).
- Brush Pad: To brush the rough surface of the floor (around the pool, bathroom, kitchen, etc...).
- Cloth Pad: To brush carpets during shampoo process.

5. 3. Blower
This kind of equipment is mainly used to dry a wet surface of the
floor or carpet. Usually we use it in the last step of cleaning or
maintaining process. Blower is used to fasten the drying process
for safety reason.

6. 4. Shampoo Machine
Like the name, we use this machine only to shampoo carpets.
Using a special chemical, we have to use it after the pre-
cleaning process. This machine sprays the chemical to soften
the dirt, scrubs the carpet, and sucks the dirt up to complete the
process. All using the same machine on different mode.

7. 5. Steam Machine
This machine turns water into a high temperature and high-pressure
steam to remove dirt or mildew on the grouts or corners of a
bathroom or swimming pool wall.

8. 6. Air compressor
This machine is very useful to clean unreachable dirt or dust on
narrow spaces by blowing high-pressured air.

9. 7. Fogger
With a special chemical, we use this equipment to clear out odor
from a specific room. This machine will turn the chemical into a
steam and eliminate bad odor.

10. NON ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT:
-Broom & Dust Pan
- Mop Set
- Duster
- Extension stick & Pad
- Hall
- Mop
- Squeezer/Wiper
- Brush
- Green/Blue Pad
- Etc...