Commercial cleaning products giant JohnsonDiversey says its ProSpeed floor-finishing tool has helped customers save an estimated 71,400 gallons of water since its launch in the North American market in June.

The company calculated the savings based on sales of 31,276 gallons of floor finish for the tool, which JohnsonDiversey calls a floor-finishing system, in the 10 weeks since the product was launched.

The ProSpeed does not require water for cleanup, so the company considers the three to four gallons of water that it says would have been used with a conventional mop and bucket as a savings.

JohnsonDiversey also figures that its tool helped customers save 8,200 gallons of floor finish because of the product’s design. According to the firm, in traditional cleaning methods as much as a third of the floor finish poured into a bucket is wasted because it isn’t used or it’s left in the saturated mop head at the end of the job.

The ProSpeed is a handheld tool that serves as an applicator and has a holster for a removable box containing floor finish. A line feeds the floor finish from the box to the business end of the tool.