Industrial floor scrubbers, built to keep running
Anyone can sell you a machine that cleans a floor on day one. The question that actually matters is what it costs you in year four — how many callouts, how many brush changes, how many shifts lost waiting on a part that has to come from overseas.
Hako Scrubmasters are built in Germany and supported here, from a parts warehouse in Rosedale and a service team that covers the country. That combination is why machines we sold a decade ago are still working, and it is the only claim in this business worth making.
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Find your machine by the floor you actually clean
Sizing a scrubber is not about horsepower. It is about how much floor you clean per shift, the tightest gap the machine has to fit through, and where you can charge and fill it. Get those three right and the machine disappears into the routine. Get them wrong and it sits in a corner.
Compact walk-behind — up to about 1,000 m² per shift
Scrubmaster B5 · B8 · B25 · B30
For kitchens, food prep areas, retail floors, workshops, gyms, showrooms and any space where a machine has to work around people and furniture. These are the machines that replace a mop and bucket — and the honest reason to make that switch is not speed, it is that a mop spreads dirty water while a scrubber-drier lifts it, leaving a floor that is clean, dry and safe to walk on within seconds.
The B5 in particular is small enough to carry and to store in a cupboard, which is usually what decides it for cafés, medical rooms and small retail.
Large walk-behind — roughly 1,000 to 5,000 m² per shift
Scrubmaster B45 · B70 · B90
The workhorse class. Warehouse aisles, manufacturing floors, schools, distribution areas, carparks and back-of-house in supermarkets. Wide enough to cover ground quickly, still narrow enough to work between racking and through standard doorways.
If your cleaner currently spends more than about ninety minutes a shift on floors, this is the class where the labour saving alone usually pays for the machine.
Ride-on — 5,000 m² and above
Scrubmaster B75 R · B120 R · B175 R · B260 R · B400 R
Once an operator is walking more than a few kilometres a shift, walking is the problem. Ride-ons cover large open floors — distribution centres, cold stores, food processing, airport and port facilities, large-format retail — at a pace a walk-behind cannot match, with tank capacities sized so the operator is not constantly stopping to refill and dump.
The step up in purchase price is real. So is the step down in cost per square metre. A site survey will tell you honestly which side of that line you sit on.
Autonomous — the same floor, every night, without an operator
Scrubmaster B75 i
The B75 i runs large, repetitive areas on its own and hands back manual control the moment you want it. It suits sites with big open runs that get cleaned the same way every night — and it suits sites that simply cannot fill the cleaning roster, which in New Zealand right now is most of them.
It is not a machine to buy sight-unseen. Ask for a demonstration on your own floor.
What separates these from a cheaper machine
Genuine German engineering. Hako has built cleaning machines since 1948. The tolerances, the steel, the seals and the electronics are specified for machines expected to work daily for a decade, not for a warranty period.
Parts on the shelf in Auckland. Brushes, squeegee blades, filters, batteries and seals are stocked locally. A machine waiting on a part is a machine costing you money.
Service that comes to you. Preventative maintenance agreements put your machines on a schedule so they are serviced before they fail. Nationwide — Northland to Southland.
Water and chemical you do not waste. Dosing systems apply the right amount of chemical rather than a capful and a guess, which shows up in your consumables bill and in your environmental reporting.
Training for the life of the machine. Not once at handover. Every time you have new staff, which in cleaning is often.
Buy, lease or hire
| Buy | Lease | Hire | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best when | Daily use, long term | You want the machine but not the capital outlay | Temporary, seasonal, project or covering a breakdown |
| Cost shape | Capital, then low running cost | Fixed monthly | Daily / weekly / monthly |
| Ownership | Yours | Structured term | Ours |
| Service | Add a maintenance agreement | Usually included in the agreement | Included |
Most customers who are unsure start with a hire. A month on your own floor tells you more than any brochure, and it de-risks the decision entirely.
See rental and leasing options
Trusted on the floors that cannot stop
Fonterra. Woolworths. Foodstuffs. Mainfreight. Fisher & Paykel. Alliance Group. Napier Port. The Royal New Zealand Air Force. Sites where hygiene is audited, where a slip is a notifiable event, and where a machine that fails on a Friday is a genuine problem.
Frequently asked questions
What size floor scrubber do I need? Match the machine to the area you clean per shift and to the tightest space it has to fit through. As a rough guide: under 1,000 m² suits a compact walk-behind, 1,000–5,000 m² suits a larger walk-behind, and anything above 5,000 m² is usually faster and cheaper to clean with a ride-on. Aisle width, doorway height, ramp gradients and where you can charge and fill the machine matter as much as raw area. A free site survey settles it in about half an hour.
Should I buy, lease or hire a floor scrubber? Buy when the machine will be used most days for years and you want the lowest lifetime cost. Lease when you want the machine long term but would rather keep the capital and have a fixed monthly cost. Hire when the need is temporary, seasonal, or you are covering a breakdown or a one-off project. Hako NZ offers all three, and a short hire is often the sensible way to prove a machine suits your site before committing.
Do you service machines outside Auckland? Yes. Hako NZ is based in Rosedale, Auckland and supports machines nationwide, including customers and councils from Northland to Southland. Preventative maintenance agreements cover scheduled visits so a machine is serviced before it fails rather than after.
Are genuine Hako parts held in New Zealand? Yes. Common wear parts — brushes, squeegee blades, filters, batteries and seals — are stocked in the Auckland warehouse so most jobs are completed on the first visit. Less common parts are ordered directly from Hako in Germany.
How long does a battery scrubber run for? It depends on the model, the battery specified and how hard the machine is working. Run time is listed on each model page. If your site runs two or three shifts, ask about lithium options and opportunity charging — it changes the answer considerably.
Let's match a machine to your site
No obligation, no pressure. We walk your floor, measure it, watch how your team currently cleans it, and tell you which machine fits — including when the honest answer is a smaller one than you expected.
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