About Us

Cleaning Ideas Corp. was started when Joe Davis founded Davis Manufacturing Company in 1929. Joe's first product was a toilet bowl cleaner that he would go business to business taking orders on Monday, mixing the product on Tuesday and make deliveries on Wednesday. As his business increased his customers asked for more types of cleaning products. The company continued to add various cleaning products and janitorial supplies as the years would progress. 

              As the 1940's progressed, Cleaning Ideas Corp. continued to expand to keep up with the growing demand for their exceptional products. In the 1950's one of the company's sales persons made a sales call on a dairy in Falfurias, Texas. The customer had several automatic milking machines that were developing calcium deposits when the milk would dry during the filling process. The customer could not find any product to remove the calcium deposits from the filling heads. Upon hearing of the customers needs, the company's chemist developed a product that would sanitize the vacuum filling heads, thus the name of the product Sanivac was decided.

The product called Sanivac Lime Remover was such a success the company convinced a local grocery store chain to carry Sanivac on their shelves in quart containers. The product became the best selling lime & hard water cleaner on the shelf and distribution was expanded to additional grocery stores throughout the state of Texas.

             Present day, Cleaning Ideas Corp is a company comprised of two divisions : retail chain sales and wholesale direct sales. The company occupies a 60,000 square feet of space to house all our operations. Cleaning Ideas Corp. stocks over a thousand janitorial supplies such as paper goods, cleaning products, trash can liners, floor mats , floor machines , and vacuums. Cleaning Ideas Corp. is now in it's third generation of family stewardship, thus providing for a future which will continue to SHINE.