A floorcloth, or floor-cloth, is a household furnishing used for warmth, decoration, or to protect expensive carpets. They were primarily produced and used from the early 18th to the early 20th century and were also referred to as oilcloth, wax cloths, and painted canvas. Some still use floorcloths as a customizable alternative to rugs, and some artists have elected to use floorcloths as a medium of expression. Most modern floorcloths are made of heavy, unstretched canvas with two or more coats of gesso. They are then painted and varnished to make them waterproof.
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Floorcloth in the context of Cleaning tool
Cleaning tools include the following:
- Acoustic cleaning
- Air blaster
- Air knife
- Besom
- Broom
- Brush
- Building maintenance unit
- Camel-hair brush
- Carbon dioxide cleaning
- Carpet beater
- Carpet sweeper
- Chamois leather
- Cleret
- Cyclone dust collector
- Dishwasher
- Dry-ice blasting
- Feather duster
- Floor scrubber
- Floorcloth
- Hataki
- Hot water extraction
- Ice blasting (cleaning)
- Laundroid
- Laundry ball
- Lint remover
- Melamine foam
- Microfibre cloth
- Mop
- Mop bucket cart
- NAV-CO2 system
- Needlegun scaler
- Parts washer
- Peg wood
- Peshtemal
- Pigging
- Pipe cleaner
- Pith wood
- Posser
- Pressure washing
- Propane burnisher
- Pumice
- Reason washing machine
- Scrubber (brush)
- Shaker broom vise
- Silent butler
- Soap shaker
- Sonic soot blowers
- Sponge (material)
- Squeegee
- Steam mop
- Strigil
- Swiffer
- Tawashi
- Thor washing machine
- Tongue cleaner
- Turk's head brush
- Vacuum cleaner
- Vacuum truck
- Vapor steam cleaner
- Wash rack
- Washing machine
- Wire brush
Floorcloth in the context of Scrubber (brush)
A scrubber (German: Schrubber), is a type of wide brush with a long shaft used for cleaning hard floors or surfaces. Unlike a broom, which has soft bristles to sweep dirt away, a scrubber has hard bristles for brushing. It may therefore be used wet, with water or cleaning fluids. Around the head of the brush there may also be a removable floorcloth or mop, either soaked in water for cleaning or dry for wiping dry. However, these days other cleaning implements tend to be used for such purposes.
In North Germany and in sailor's language, a scrubber is also called a Leuwagen, hence in large firms or offices a cleaning party is sometimes jokingly called a Leuwagenballett ("scrubber ballet").