Protocol & cart
The Juniper Cart: what I actually carry
People ask what my cart holds, expecting a rack of neon bottles. It holds a lot less than that. My rules come from health-and-safety training and from thirty-one years of noticing what is theatre and what is work.
- Hydrogen peroxide (3%): my main disinfectant. An oxidizer; EPA-registered; breaks down to water and oxygen. No residue to rinse off on food-contact surfaces.
- Carbonated water: for glass and mirrors. Fizzes out light mineral haze without streaky film from a spray bottle.
- A neutral floor soap and two buckets — one wash, one rinse. The second bucket is the whole skill.
- Microfibre cloths in rotation: a clean corner each pass. Dirt carried away, never dragged.
- White vinegar for hard-water rings on fixtures; a paste of baking soda for the stubborn scale in the staff kettle.
Nothing on that cart is a wonder. The wonder is the order and the patience, the same as a watercolour: wait for the wash to dry before the next one. That argument — that clean is restoration, not attack — is the whole subject of my essay, "The Honest Chemistry of a Clean Floor" →, and of the film I made about it.
The film: the mop as a reveal of the floor's true colour →
