Boot-Cleaning Stations and Boot Scrapers

Manual boot brushes and scraper bars in a custom frame, for trailheads, schools, sports fields, worksites and building entrances, built around replaceable brushes.

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TrussMetal is a metal fabrication shop in North Vancouver that works across Metro Vancouver. This page is for parks and trail operators, schools and sports clubs, golf courses, farms and nurseries, construction and industrial sites, and strata or commercial entrances.

Each station is made for its users and their footwear, where it stands, how it is fixed and how it is cleaned out. We fabricate and supply the frame, the scraper bars and the holders the brushes sit in. The brushes are bought-in, replaceable parts chosen for each order. These are manual stations: no powered washing, and no disinfecting function is claimed.

Configurations

Scraper bars

Steel scraper bars bolted across an open frame at a door or path, for knocking mud off soles. The bars unbolt to be replaced.

Brush stations

Bottom and side brushes held in holders in a welded frame, with a grab rail where the design includes one.

Scraper and brush combined

Scraper bars and brushes in one frame, so mud comes off before boots reach the brushes.

Fixed or freestanding

Anchored to a slab or pad where the surface allows. Freestanding only where a base sized and weighted for scraping and brushing at that site is agreed, not as a default where anchoring isn’t possible.

Concept drawingBoot brush station (front elevation)Front elevation of a welded frame holding a bottom brush and side brushes in channel holders, with an optional grab rail shown dashed. The brushes are bought-in replaceable parts chosen per order. Concept only.Side brushes inchannel holdersGrab rail,if specifiedBottom brush, replaceable
Concept drawingReplaceable strip brush in its holder (detail)Detail of a strip brush with a metal channel back sliding into a holder welded to the station frame, so a worn brush is replaced without cutting or welding. Concept only; brush and holder sizes follow the brush chosen for the order.Holder welded to the frameBrush slides outto be replacedDetail
Concept drawingScraper bars over an open frame (section)Section through a boot scraper: replaceable scraper bars bolted across an open frame so mud and grit drop through and can be hosed or shovelled out; the pad or slab is by others. Concept only.Bolted scraper barsPad or slab by othersOpen belowfor cleaning
Concept drawings, illustrative only: not a tested design, a shop drawing or an installation detail, and not a photograph or record of completed TrussMetal work. Dashed parts are by others. Parts marked “if specified” are included only where the project’s approved details call for them.

Replaceable Brushes

Brush type
Industrial strip or block brushes from a brush maker, chosen for each order: the filament, such as polypropylene or nylon, and its length and density for the mud and the footwear. Strip brushes made with a metal channel back sit in matching holders. A maker’s listing shows what is made, not that a brush suits boot cleaning.
Agreed before the order
Before an order that uses brushes is accepted, we confirm the exact brush model, that it suits the use, how it mounts, that it is available and how it is replaced. The quote names that brush and the holders are made to it. We don’t stock brushes or publish a standard one, and can’t promise a maker will keep a model available.
Replacement
Worn brushes slide out of their holders or unbolt from the frame, without cutting or welding.

Stability, Fixing and Cleaning

Stability
People lean on a boot station and push and drag one foot at a time against the brushes and bars, so the frame is detailed for that use at its site, with a grab rail where the design includes one.
Fixing
Anchored to a slab or pad built by others where the surface allows; anchoring into an existing slab is checked for what is in it before drilling. A freestanding station needs a base whose size and weight are agreed for that use and site. Where it can’t be anchored and a freestanding base won’t stay put, we’ll say so rather than supply one.
Cleaning
The frame is open underneath or has a lift-out tray, so mud and grit can be shovelled or hosed out, with no closed pockets that hold dirt.
Materials and finish
Hot-dip galvanized steel, galvanized and coated steel, or stainless steel. Scraper edges wear coatings first, so bars are made to be replaced. Galvanizing and coating are done by specialist applicators.

Not part of this page: powered boot washers and disinfecting or biosecurity stations, boot trays for indoor meltwater (see boot trays), entrance mats and their frames (see mat-well frames), and drainage grates (see trench drain grates).

Who Does What

Responsibilities that affect the quote

TrussMetal: the frame, scraper bars, brush holders and any grab rail; the brushes bought in for the order and named in the quote; finishes through specialist applicators. Supply only.

Owner or operator: where the station goes, how many people use it at once, the brushes when they wear out, and cleaning.

Others: the slab or pad, anchoring into it, and installing the station.

Related Work

See site furnishings and metalwork for landscape architects.

Questions

Can we get replacement brushes?

The brush model is named in the quote so it can be reordered from its maker, and the holders take that brush. We don’t stock brushes and can’t guarantee a model stays available; a substitute is checked against the holders before it is used.

Do you make powered boot washers?

No. These are manual stations, and no disinfecting function is claimed.

Can you make a scraper without brushes?

Yes. Scraper bars alone in a fixed or freestanding frame.

Can it be fixed down?

Yes, anchored to a slab or pad built by others. Freestanding is an option only where the base is agreed to stay put in use.

Do you install it?

We fabricate and supply it. The slab, anchoring and installation are by others.

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Send the site and how it will be used.

What to include in your message

  • Where it goes and what it stands on, with photos
  • Scraper bars, brushes, or both, who uses it (adults, children, work crews) and how many at once
  • The footwear and the mud: trail, field, worksite or entrance
  • Whether the surface can take anchors, and whether a grab rail is wanted
  • How it will be cleaned out, and by whom
  • Finish, quantities, timing and who installs it

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