Ranging from 6" to 24", the Blue Standard Floor Pad is a versatile cleaning pad designed for everyday floor care and maintenance. Used with rotary floor machines and scrubber dryers, these mid‑grade pads are ideal for wet scrubbing, surface cleaning and light polishing preparation on hard floor surfaces in commercial and institutional settings.
The Blue Floor Pad provides reliable performance for general floor maintenance tasks. Constructed from synthetic fibre with a moderate abrasive profile, the pad offers an effective balance between cleaning strength and floor surface protection.
Designed for use with standard speed rotary floor machines and automatic scrubber dryers, these pads are compatible with machines operating up to approximately 600 rpm. Their mid‑weight construction and flexible fibre blend help remove light soil, scuff marks and residue while preparing floors for further care stages such as polishing or sealing.
The flexible pad design conforms to slight surface irregularities, ensuring even cleaning contact across the floor. A push‑out centre hole helps maintain airflow during operation, which reduces the risk of pad overheating and extends useful life. Additionally, pads can be used on both sides, doubling service life for better value.
Whether you’re performing routine cleaning in busy corridors or prepping floors for finishing, these blue standard pads offer a dependable solution for general floor care.
Mid‑grade cleaning pad for general floor maintenance
Suitable for wet scrubbing and surface cleaning
Works with rotary machines and scrubber dryers
Designed for machine speeds up to 600 rpm
Dual‑sided use extends lifespan
Flexible construction for even floor contact
Push‑out centre hole to reduce overheating
Comes in multiple sizes to suit different machines
Blue floor pads are typically used for:
Routine wet scrubbing and removal of light soil
Cleaning vinyl, stone, tile and sealed flooring
Preparing floors prior to polishing or sealing
Everyday maintenance in offices, schools and retail environments
Material: Synthetic fibre cleaning pad
Colour: Blue (mid‑grade cleaning)
Use: General floor maintenance and light soil removal
Machine compatibility: Standard speed rotary machines and scrubber dryers
Floor pads are colour-coded to indicate their cleaning strength and purpose. Choosing the right pad helps ensure effective cleaning while protecting the floor surface.
Black – Heavy-duty stripping of polish and wax
Brown – Aggressive scrubbing and floor preparation
Green – Intermediate scrubbing for regular deep cleaning
Blue – General cleaning and routine floor maintenance
Red – Light cleaning and spray buffing
Tan – Polishing and dry buffing to restore shine
White – Final polishing for a high-gloss finish
Using the correct floor pad colour with your rotary floor machine helps maintain hard floors safely and efficiently in commercial and professional cleaning environments.
Ranging from 6" to 24", our Red Standard Floor Pad is designed for light cleaning, spray buffing and routine floor maintenance on sealed hard floors. Used with rotary floor machines or scrubber dryers, these pads help remove light scuff marks and restore shine without damaging floor finishes.
Ranging from 6" to 24", the White Standard Floor Pad is a non-abrasive polishing pad designed for finishing and maintaining the shine of sealed hard floors. Suitable for rotary floor machines and scrubber dryers, these pads are ideal for final polishing, buffing and restoring gloss after cleaning or spray buffing.
Ranging from 6" to 24", the Tan Standard Floor Pad is a fine-grade polishing pad designed for light cleaning, dry buffing and maintaining the shine of finished hard floors. Suitable for use with rotary floor machines and scrubber dryers, these pads help remove light scuffs, dirt and marks while restoring a high-gloss finish.
Ranging from 6" to 24", our Standard Floor Pad is designed for intermediate floor cleaning and wet scrubbing on hard floor surfaces. Suitable for use with rotary floor machines and scrubber dryers, these durable pads help remove surface layers of wax, dirt and scuff marks while preparing floors for further maintenance or polishing.
When cleaning a hard floor, there are lots of options in terms of how you can go about cleaning them. Whether you want to strip, clean, buff or polish a floor a floor pad is the way to go about it - especially on wooden floors.
High traffic areas require more attention and need a more hard working floor solution, but finding the right solution can be really challenging for many of our customers.
However, we are here to give advice and support and have a great deal of knowledge and expertise here at Astral Hygiene so if you do have any questions please just give us a ring! Every floor has it's own set of factors and needs specific instructions and specific care.
To get the best results you do need the right floor pad, and the right cleaning product but with the right combination of equipment to achieve the best results.
It's fitting all of this together and making the right selections that make caring for your floor much easier.
From stripping existing floors to spot cleaning, it is vital to consider the type of floor (marble/wood) you are working with to achieve optimum results.
Floor pads can be used for both Scrubber Dryers, and we do sell an awful lot of Numatic Scrubber Dryers here because they are very compact, provide a good level of coverage and the customer service we receive from them is second to none. Usually unless you are trying to scrub a floor that is concrete or another type of hard surface you would use a high speed single disk machine such as a Hurricane which can be used for buffing, stripping, polishing and scrubbing.
There are a range of machines which can be used for a range of purposes, and this blog is not intended to explain that in detail, but to demonstrate you would use the Numatic Scrubber Dryer for places where you would like to introduce water to the surface, perhaps with a little chemical which will break down the dirt without creating too much foam, such as Low Foam Heavy, so you can use the floor pad (probably a red floor pad - but we're coming to that!) to agitate the dirt from the floor without actually damaging the floor at a speed of 150rpm. With a scrubber dryer like this one, you begin pushing your machine along the floor, water/chemical is the automatically introduced, is agitated by your red floor pad lifting the dirt and soil, and is then channeled by the squeegees towards the extractor at the back of the machine - leaving your floor completely clean and dry as you walk behind it! These machines have to be seen in action, so if you'd like a free demonstration, e-mail us at sales@astralhygiene.co.uk and we'll send out an engineer to demonstrate the machine for you.
If you are looking for a machine that will strip your floor polish off and buff your floors to a high shine, then something like the Hurricane HFT15306 would better suit your requirements. These single disc machines operate at a high rpm, which means they will buff to a very high shine.
So in essence, your floor pad needs to be the correct colour which will dictate the texture as each floor pad is engineered for a particular task. Simply guessing which floor pad you need is not the most scientific of methods, and you are unlikely to get the desired result.
Getting a good quality floor pad is important, as you need to make sure your floor pad is uniform in shape and thickness, but will also stand up to the job you need it to do. Getting a good quality floor pad will mean that it will strip your floor much more quickly than other pads.
As a rule of thumb, the darker the colour, the more the pad will agitate, so when using a dark pad (black, brown) you need to keep a close watch on how your pad is performing to make sure you aren't damaging the floor. Day dreamers beware, you need to focus on the task in hand! So lets break down what each of the colours do:
A very dense and heavy duty pad, great for cleaning uneven surfaces and in particular stone floors. This will agite the dirt out of the floor and will begin to lift your floor polish.
A good solid floor pad, strong and mighty enough to remove 2-4 coats of polish, but won't damage your floor when it meets the floor itself. For excessive layers of floor polish, use a black pad to take off the first few layers of polish and then downgrade to the brown to finish the job.
The green pad is a middle of the road pad, a mildly aggressive pad, which will prepare your hard wood floors for re-coating and stripping floors of some polish to allow a quick re-application of polish with a less aggressive pad. The green pad can also be used for daily wet scrubbing of unprotected (non varnished/waxed) floors with a scrubber dryer.
Your blue floor pad is great for regular wet maintenance of unprotected floors, but is also used on a single disc machine for medium soiled floors and dry stripping of soft floors. This pad will easily remove soil, heel marks and ground in dirt.
One of the most commonly used pads in a wet scrubber drier, this pad will bring up unprotected floors surprisingly well due to the speed the ad moves over the floor. This pad will also produce a soft shine to a varnished polished/waxed floor.
The last pad in the arsenal is the white floor pad. Great for everyday maintenance, passed over any floor this one will burnish it up to its former shine, but also superb for putting down another coat of polish prior to those special occasions.
To keep your pads in tip top condition, follow the three golden rules!
If you'd like any more information on floor machines and floor pads, give our offices a call.... because if we don't know the answer, we'll find out for you!
