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21:38 Jun 9, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Furniture / Household Appliances / Cleaning products/tools
French term or phrase: raclette/aspirateur
This is a term from a table that provides instructions to a cleaning firm on how to go about cleaning various parts of a building. After scrubbing the floors, they have to:

"Eliminer l’eau avec raclette/aspirateur"

What would we call this in (UK) English? I'm guessing a "suction squeegee", but can anyone confirm this, please? As we're talking about cleaning floors, I imagine it's a squeegee tool on a long handle - could this be right?

Many thanks in advance!
Alan Campbell
Local time: 12:30


Summary of answers provided
5 +1Remove the water with floor squeegee/wet vacuum cleanerShopForWords
4vacuum squeegee
Sheila Wilson
4 -1(industrial) steam cleanergallagy2


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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Remove the water with floor squeegee/wet vacuum cleaner


Explanation:
I'd put this. See link below for the vacuum cleaner.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_cleaner
ShopForWords
Local time: 13:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  xxxBourth: Yes, I think it's two different things, not a combination machine. Squeegee the water into pools, then suck it up.
47 mins
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
(industrial) steam cleaner


Explanation:
yep!

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Note added at 28 mins (2011-06-09 22:07:18 GMT)
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adding "industrial" brings up the same type of images as the French term but may not be necessary at all as context will assume this is a larger version!

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Note added at 55 mins (2011-06-09 22:33:32 GMT)
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so could rather be a wet/dry vacuum cleaner

Shop-Vac Pump Vac. Wet/Dry utility vac with built-in pump ... Larger Unit Designed for Heavy-Duty Cleaning; Offers a Lightweight and Portable Cleaning ...
www.shopvac.com/ - Cached - Similar

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Note added at 57 mins (2011-06-09 22:35:25 GMT)
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The Ghibli AS 7 is a solid compact industrial wet & dry vacuum cleaner. Its has an 11 litre (usable capacity) stainless steel container mounted on a solid ...
www.aquaclean.ie/.../Vacuum Cleaners: Ghibli ASL 7 I Dry We... - Cached

gallagy2
Ireland
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  ShopForWords: Problem is, steam cleaners don't suck up the water ...
16 mins
  -> yeah, probably wet/dry vacuum
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
vacuum squeegee


Explanation:
Lots of piccies here for home and professional use:

http://www.google.fr/search?um=1&hl=fr&client=firefox-a&rls=...

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Note added at 16 hrs (2011-06-10 14:34:30 GMT)
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Although it might be more precise to pad that out a bit:

Wet/dry vacuum with squeegee

Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 12:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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