Times are Hard

You know that everybody is looking for value for money at the moment and this is totally understandable. We are in a recession after all and it does not matter what the economists suggest otherwise this is the worst time to do any form of business other that companies that look after people in debt that is!

So how does the state of the economy and cleaning and hygiene supplies have any form of relationship? Well it’s quite obvious to us that there has been a shift in the market place. Let’s be fair there are fewer companies out there so there are fewer customers for us however we have seen a steady incline in new customers. And the ones that are left have shed staff and as such they do not use so many toilet rolls, hand towels or use as much soap or black bags. Ok they still use the same amount of floor cleaners, multi-surface cleaners, hover bags and of course latex gloves as most companies still have the same amount of floor and surfaces just less staff.

So what is my point to this? Well you would have thought that hygiene as a whole is and would be something most people would take as a given however we have noticed another shift in the type of toilet rolls, paper hand towels and soap that companies are buying. Years ago they would be buying brands such as Kimberly Clark, Lotus, Tork and all the other well known brands. They would also look at environmentally friendly products. However many people are looking to buy our quality but less known brand Esfina and our standard range of toilet rolls and hand soap.

The environmentally friendly products are not as popular now as they are a little more expensive compared to other ranges and times are tough. Now there will be a number of readers that would disagree with those statements however I would urge them to speak to their local schools and council buildings and ask if they are using 100% environmentally friendly products and I would wager they are not!

Touch Free Dispensers

I came accross this piece on a website named Hulana blog and I wondered what your thoughts where?

People aren’t always as sanitation minded as we would like them to be. They don’t wash their hands or if they do, they don’t use soap. Then they go over to a paper towel dispenser, put their hands all over it and then leave it for the next person. That next person is you. You washed your hands like you were supposed to (with soap) and now you have to touch that dispenser. How clean are your hands after you’ve finished handling the dispenser?

Enmotion paper towels are much better because they come in a dispenser that is motion sensored. All you have to do is wave your hand in front of the dispenser and the paper towels come out – no touching involved. This is great for germophobes or even people who just want to know that their hands are really as clean as they think they are.

Shopping for paper towels for public spaces is actually easier than you may think. Many times, you can get the dispenser for free if you agree to buy so many rolls of Enmotion paper towels. You can set the settings on the dispenser to release as much of the paper as you want – a little or a lot, it’s up to you.

Whether Enmotion paper towels go in a bathroom or in a shop area, they are very useful. Think about it in a mechanic shop. Oil hands need paper towels. After the first pair of hands touch the dispenser, it’s totally trashed. Technology has come a long way, so it makes sense that it’s utilized in a smart way.

Public spaces have hand washing sinks to be used. There’s soap and a way of drying hands. That’s the two rules. Dryers are ineffective many times because people don’t want to stand there that long. And what if the door pushes in and not out?

Many people simply like to have the paper towel around to be able to open the door (or to turn on the sink, if it’s not motion sensored).

As a result, Enmotion paper towels are the preferred choice in public spaces to ensure that hands are cleaned the way they should be without spreading germs. Bathrooms are filled with germs and it’s best to avoid as many as possible. When paper towels are dispensed by sensor instead of having to touch anything, it’s better for everyone involved.

So would you prefer to use a touch free system? For more information visit our website www.dwsupplies.com

 

 

Is Your Soap Good for You?

Which is the best form of soap to use both at work and at home? Well this is a hot topic of debate and one which I will help lend some useful information for you to make your own decision.

I think it important to start with describing the two main soap types before deviating off into other avenues of anti bacterial and such like. Ok so for me there are two different soap types liquid soap and the traditional “bar soap”. Now there is much evidence to support the argument that soap bars are in fact not a hygienic way to wash your hands in fact they can be quite unhealthy.

The research suggests that a bar of soap comes into regular contact with users some of which have some quite “nasty” germs on their hands. How if whilst using the  soap the user does not fully remove those germs (children especially as they do not rub off a decent layer of soap as they simply swap the bar from one hand to the next and do not wet and spin the soap) the germs get embedded into the soap and the soap is then replaced on a “dirty sink” and left open to the atmosphere.

Now many would argue that soap has antibacterial properties and as such it should be able to “kill the germs” left on the soap and should be ready for the next user. Now I will share this with you. Tea has many “cleansing properties” Tea tree in its pure form is extremely good antiseptic properties and so does boiling water so why does a partly drunk tea cup only take a few days before mold starts to grow on it and within a week it’s taken over the whole cup! Well it’s down the fact it has been touched by humans and unfortunately we are covered in bacteria.

So with that in mind would you like to use a bar of soap which could have sat on the side of a dirty sink for a number of days that may have had a previously germ ridden user that is probably now covered in even more germs due to being left to the atmosphere ? So would you prefer to use a liquid soap which has a dispenser and soap which is hygienically held in a sealed container? I will leave that for you to decide! For more soap options here at www.janitorialsuppliesonline.co.uk

Of for a totally hygienic individually wrapped guest soap @ www.hotelguestsupplies.co.uk

How Does Christmas Affect You?

There is something I do not understand about businesses in this country. We supply to the hospitality trade via our website www.hotelguestsupplies.co.uk they purchase the miniature guest toiletries and we also supply too all the other business types such as schools, hospitals, solicitors, factories and just about any type of business. They purchase everything from white bin liners up to full pallets of centrefeed and industrial rolls.  

Now it’s Christmas and more importantly the run up to Christmas is the bit I do not understand and concerns me. Ok so I haven’t made much sense so far all will become clear soon I assure you. What concerns me is that every year our sales go down a couple of weeks before Christmas. Now surely everybody still needs to wash their hands and clean their offices probably more so with all the decorations and Christmas trees etc however this does not seem to be the case they simply hold put until January.

January is one of our busiest months it simply goes crazy for us as everybody then catches up on their ordering and want everything ASAP as they have either just run out or just about to run out. Now I can sort of understand the residential customers working in this way as they have lots to think about and the money is probably required to buy Christmas presents and not essentials but why is this the case with businesses?  

So my conclusion is that because businesses are run and manned by people it must be their “standard mindset” that is accidently bought into the work place perhaps; they feel that the toilet rolls and soap will be on some form or Christmas sale or something there is hopping as this will simply not happen. Don’t get me wrong we do have sales and they happen all year round not at Christmas!

What Four in a Bed?

I wonder how many Hotels Bed & Breakfasts are as clean as they should be let alone could be. Have any of you seen that new series on the TV called four in a bed? If you haven’t watched it they get four hospitality owners to go and stay in each other’s guest houses, hotels etc and then rate the accommodation, hospitality, food etc. They then “pay the host” what they feel they deserve not what the host may price the room at.

It’s  pretty enlightening programme as they all want to win some more than others so they are extremely critical of each other and the first thing that everybody on the programme does is look for dust, hairs and areas that have not been cleaned correctly.

Now it’s the cleanliness bit that really bothers me on the programme. Now these people have obviously written in or being invited to take part so they know what is in store for them. They know when the guests will be arriving but many still do not clean the room to a respectable standard. Now this is all being filmed and shown on national TV.

How many guests do they think they will be getting moving forward when the TV guests found unsightly hairs in the bed and thick layers of dust on the wardrobes and under the bed had not been hovered for months and there is mould growing in the bathroom?

I just do not understand why these hospitality owners do not pay hundreds of pounds employing external commercial cleaners to go over the whole property from top to toe three times over as a matter of course even if you keep the best accommodation it’s just plain business sense right?

Not even taking into account this should be done as standard as people are expected to pay £100+ a night for most of these rooms with some of the rooms being £175+ I have stayed in accommodation at £50 a night that have been better prepared than some of them it beggars belief.

And that’s before we get onto the subject of what guest soap or shampoo they offer.

More next time or if you want to view the whole range of our hotel supplies at www.hotelguestsupplies.co.uk

Whats in your Dispenser?

So what is in today’s blog of interest for you and importantly why should you continue to read?

Well the reason you should continue to read is because this is a compelling story and you want to know more about c fold paper towels. Ok so you are probably asking what a c-fold paper hand towel is and this is a very good question.

A c-fold paper hand towel is as the name suggests a towel made from paper designed to dry hands you know the ones you find in public toilets in schools, restaurants, bars and probably at work too. Now what you probably do not know ( unless you are the care taker the cleaner or the person that orders these products that paper hand towels come in many colours shapes and sizes.

So how many shapes do they come in and why are they different shapes. Well to be fair shape is the wrong word as all towels start with one shape (well all except the roller hand towels and that’s a different story all together) Each paper towel is a square/ oblong sheet of paper which is folded in a unique way ( hence the c fold part of the name). They are “folded” into different designs as each design has a different purpose and has a different name to denote this purpose.

There are three main types of folded paper hand towels with a few new products coming to the market place. There is the C-fold the Interfold (V-fold S-fold and I-fold) and the slightly older design of Z-fold. Now as we already suggested each type is folded differently for a reason and the c-fold is folded the way it is as it is the largest paper towel when fully unfolded so is folded multiple times to try not to take up too much space in the paper towel dispenser.

The c-fold paper hand towel is one of the most common towels you will come across as they are cheap to buy however do not represent the best value in money and this will be discussed in further blogs.

The Coventry Telegraph Talks Toilet Roll & Why We Should NOT Use it!

SINCE flushing toilets were invented in the 18th Century, we’ve benefited in Britain from better sanitation and hygiene.

But with the water waste and energy consumption of our sewerage system – and with many other parts of the world sanitation in poorer parts of the world still lagging far behind – is it time to rethink our loos?

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WITH World Toilet Day approaching, the World Toilet Organisation (yes, really) says now is the ideal time to take a look at toilet use across the globe and ask how it could be improved.

 

Each one of us across Coventry and Warwickshire gets through an average of 28lb of loo roll every year.

That’s two stones of paper, per person, just for visiting the smallest room in the house.

So if you’re wanting to cut your carbon footprint, switching to recycled toilet tissue can make a significant difference with claims it takes between 30 and 70 per cent less energy to produce recycled loo roll than virgin tissue.

So for every virgin roll that’s swapped for a recycled roll there’s a saving in water, electricity and pollutants.

And if your delicate derriere demands a triple-quilted, aloe-infused, bleached toilet tissue you can look for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) logo on your loo rolls to make sure the wood pulp used to make your toilet paper has come from well-managed woodland.

But the carbon footprint of your trips to the temple of convenience doesn’t end with your loo roll.

As well as the water used to make our toilet tissue we use a staggering amount of water flushing our lavatories. And most of us agree that using clean drinking water to flush toilets is a waste.

Between 30 and 40 per cent of the water we use at home is flushed down the loo.

 

But one alternative is to harvest rainwater to use in toilets, just like connecting a water butt to collect the rain that falls on your roof to water your plants.

Called ‘greywater’, the untreated water is used to flush your waste.

While this cuts the carbon footprint of sourcing, treating and transporting water pre-flush, post-flush ‘blackwater’ (waste water) still has to be treated.

But another option takes away the need for water in the loo entirely.

Some festivals have started greening up their act by swapping chemical portable loos for dry composting toilets.

The loos look like standard Portaloos but instead of having a bowl and water beneath the toilet seat, there’s a long drop and a bed of straw below.

They don’t use any water at all and work by providing an enclosed environment to allow natural decomposition. Many suggest throwing a handful of sawdust down afterwards as it covers unpleasant smells.

While portable composting loos at festivals might resemble an outdoor pit, the concept of composting loos has come a long way and if you’re prepared to splash the cash on your water closet, you can even have them installed indoors to work just like a standard loo in a standard bathroom.

The composting space beneath the loo can be rotated so a full chamber can be emptied as a new one is started.

And because they don’t rely on water to transfer waste to a treatment system, manufacturers reckon they could help to cut water use at home by up to 60 per cent. And because composting toilets aren’t linked up to the sewage system they avoid effluent being released into watercourses and don’t need pipelines to be laid.

You can even recycle your water, using it as “humanure” around the garden to fertilise your plants.

Many of us turn our noses up at this as being a step too far. But US tycoon and philanthropist Bill Gates is taking this idea to the heart of his new £26 million project to develop a loo that needs no water, or electricity, or sewage treatment – and costs next to nothing.

And unlike most composting toilets, Gates doesn’t want his new loo to take up much space.

Around the world 2.6 billion people have to live without adequate toilets, having to rely on pit latrines.

Read More http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/lifestyle-news/go-green/go-green-news/2011/11/15/why-a-trip-to-the-toilet-is-so-bad-for-the-planet-92746-29778927/#ixzz1dnFmtltY

 

If you want to go green and do your part you can buy your recycled toilet paper from either of these two companies:

http://www.dwsupplies.com/100-recycled-paper-products-137-c.asp

http://www.janitorialsuppliesonline.co.uk/eco-friendly-products-136-c.asp

What Will You be Doing?

Ok I have decided that I want to run a bit of a competition. The competition comprises of:

The silliest, most unusual and most bizarre thing you can do with a toilet roll or a pallet of wholesale toilet rolls. Ok so its not the most interesting of items to talk about and it does not have well a sexy image and that is what makes it even more fun right?

So what do you have to do and more importantly what do you get to win? Well to enter the competition you either write into us with your suggestions, post them on the blog or on another blog and let us know. Or if you are super cool and have the imagination and the video equipment then video your idea or video yourself telling us your ideas. Again just let us know send an e-mail or post a comment.

So what are you going to win well this is what it’s all about right, the chance to win a prize? Well as we are talking about toilet rolls how about a year’s supply of them? On top of that for the winner we will supply the toilet rolls you need for your wacky ideas and if you don’t have the equipment to video it we will sort that too.

Now think of the notoriety you will get for such an inspirational idea and all the associated viral links you will get from You tube and other social networking sites the end video will be showed on and talked about on.

So will you rise to the challenge will you be the winner of such a fantastic prize? Will you be the person or people most admired on the social networking sites be the envy of all the You tube views? Or will you simply just read this and think I cannot think of anything and continue your same old boring life?

Email me at glenn@dwsupplies.co.uk

Whats Waiting in Your Room?

Ever stopped in a hotel and had a free gift or a service that was well a little bit different from the norm? Well I have stopped in a number of hotels and to be honest I have only had a few “out of the norm” experiences and I can count them on one hand. I can also tell you which hotel, B&B or guest house these experiences where had in.

If anybody where to ask me a nice place to stay in **** place, I would reply firstly with the hospitality accommodation I had received the most memorable extras. As it stood out for me at the time and I can still remember the experience. Ok secondly would be the cheapest place I stayed or the place where I had the best barging as cheap is not always good!

So if you own a hotel, B&B or guest house what will you provide for your guests that makes their stay well that little bit more memorable? Well there are many things you can do some will cost money, some will take energy and some will just take time. However whichever ones you chose I assure you it will definitely be worth the effort.    

So a quick rundown of some of the things you can do for free that make a huge difference. The biggest and most memorable “treat” we received was a crocodile no not a real one however it did a great job of guarding the beds! The crocodile was made from two towels and two little sweets for its eyes: see the picture.

Now this would take a little practice to do and may take an extra 5 mins per room however think of the impact it would make on somebody the first time they saw it! You could do a different design every few days or everyday if the guests are only with you for a weekend. And if you cater for children it would go down a storm.

Watch out for the next blog where I will discuss some other cool treats you can give your guest for free or little money.

Just for You Hotel toiletries could be next or is it the quality of the toilet rolls.

Suprising News!

This may seem a bit of an odd blog post today however I thought I would share this with you as I found it to be quite interesting. I was trawling through the reports you can do with Google Analytics on our website www.dwsupplies.com. Now I was surprised to find out what the most searched for keyword phrase was and the most popular page on our website due to this.

Now before I start to tell you I would like you to think what page that may be. Ok so I will give you a fighting chance thinks about what “subject” it may be then and we can take it from there.

So what have you got as a subject to chose from I hear you cry, well there is paper hand towels, guest supplies, hand soap, dispensers, black bags,  toilet rolls, mops & brushes, gloves, cleaning chemicals oh and the list could go on.

So there you have it the most popular page is amongst the above list so what are your thoughts? Well you may have been right if you thought it was toilet rolls however would you believe it when I tell you that it wasn’t  just toilet rolls that was being searched it was wholesale toilet rolls. Yes wholesale toilet rolls trumps all the other searches however dispensers and guest supplies ran a quit close 2^nd and 3^rd .    

So the question I would like to ask you is have you searched for wholesale conventional toilet rolls? Or a deviation of it such as toilet rolls wholesale? If you haven’t why not as everybody else seems to search for toilet rolls that way and to be fair I do understand why they do as it works out much, much cheaper to buy in quantities we sell in.

So don’t miss out on a bargain and have a look at the rest of our wholesale deals to see how much you can save.