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Where complaints start, and almost always because something ran out rather than because something was dirty. High-capacity tissue and matched dispensers buy you the most margin for error.
Facilities Maintenance Supplies
The Supply Closet Behind Every Clean Building.
Tissue, towels, liners, chemicals, floor care, safety — everything your building burns through, from a family-owned Cleveland distributor that's supplied operators since 1950.
1950Founded in Cleveland, OH
75+Years serving operators
3rdGeneration family-owned
B2BOperator pricing available
1 Source for Facilities
Why Dean Supply
Your Entire Building. One Distributor.
Most facilities managers are juggling a paper vendor, a chemical vendor, a safety catalog, and a run to the club store when something falls through. That's four relationships to maintain for one supply closet.
- Restroom paper, dispensers, seat covers and receptacle liners
- Cleaning chemicals, disinfectants and degreasers in commercial pack
- Can liners in every duty grade, 10-gallon through 60-gallon
- Floor care — finishes, strippers, pads, mops, buckets and wringers
- Safety supplies, spill kits, wet floor signs and winter rock salt
- Tax-exempt purchasing for schools, churches and municipalities
Shop by Category
Everything the Building Runs Through.
Stocked in commercial case packs, not retail counts. The tissue that fits your dispenser. The liner that fits your can. The chemical your crew already knows how to use.
Master Catalog
The Full Janitorial Line
Over a thousand items across chemicals, paper, liners, tools, dispensers and floor care. Start here if you're stocking a closet from empty — or call and we'll build the list with you.
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Restroom
Tissue & Paper
Jumbo roll, standard 2-ply, seat covers, waxed bags.
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Hand Dry
Paper Towels
Multi-fold, C-fold and hard-wound roll for high traffic.
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Waste
Can Liners
Light through heavy duty, 10 to 60 gallon.
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Floors
Floor Care
Finishes, strippers, neutral cleaners, machine pads.
Shop Floor Care →
Wet Work
Mops & Wringers
Loop-end heads, handles, buckets, side-press wringers.
Shop Mops →
Safety
Safety & Spill
Wet floor signs, pathogen kits, first aid, rock salt.
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Hands
Gloves
Disposable poly, synthetic and nitrile, plus reusable.
Shop Gloves →Trusted Brands We Carry
Shop by Zone
A Building Isn't One Closet. It's Four Different Problems.
Consumption, complaint risk and who notices a failure all change room to room. Stocking by zone rather than by category is the fastest way to stop run-outs in the places that actually generate calls.
Breakrooms
The zone nobody owns, which is why it runs out first. Roll towels, surface cleaner, deskside-size liners and enough soap that the sink area doesn't become the reason people stop eating there.
Reception & Meeting Rooms
Low consumption, high scrutiny. Glass, dusting and entrance matting do most of the work here — a visitor forms an opinion in the lobby before anyone shakes their hand.
Back of House & Whole Building
Floors, waste, dock and the janitor closet itself. This is where labor hours live, and where an organized closet with a real par sheet saves more money than any single product swap.
Shop by Facility Type
Every Building Burns Something Different.
A warehouse and a law firm both need a supply closet, but almost nothing in them overlaps. Here's what actually moves in each kind of building — and where to start if you're stocking one from empty.
Office Buildings
Offices & Professional Suites
Steady, predictable consumption: restroom tissue and towels, breakroom paper, deskside liners, glass cleaner for conference rooms and entry doors, and entrance matting that keeps the lobby carpet alive. The closet is usually managed by someone whose actual job is something else, which is why a standing order matters more here than anywhere.
Legal & Financial
Law Firms & Financial Offices
Low traffic, high presentation standard. Volume is small but nothing is allowed to look worn — glass has to be streak-free, restrooms have to read as premium, and dust on a conference table gets noticed before a proposal does. Buy quality grades in small case packs rather than bulk grades in large ones.
Healthcare
Medical, Dental & Clinics
Disinfection frequency drives everything. Surface disinfectants get used at a rate no other building type matches, gloves are consumed by the case, and a bloodborne pathogen spill kit needs to exist before it's needed. Restrooms in patient-facing space get serviced multiple times a day.
K–12 Education
Schools & Districts
Enormous paper volume nine months of the year, then a summer deep-clean cycle where floor finish and stripper consumption spikes. Gym floors, cafeteria floors and corridor floors each want different chemistry. Tax exemption applies, and purchase orders are usually mandatory.
Higher Education
Universities & Campuses
Multi-building par sheets with different consumption profiles in the same order — residence halls, lecture buildings, athletics, dining, labs. Central purchasing wants one account that individual buildings can draw against, and the summer turnover window compresses a year of floor work into eight weeks.
Transit
Airports & Transit Facilities
Restroom throughput is the whole problem. Standard tissue rolls can't keep up, so jumbo roll and high-capacity dispensers stop being an upgrade and start being a requirement. Entrance matting at every door, continuous floor service, and odor control that works on a schedule instead of on complaints.
Retail
Malls & Retail Centers
Common-area restrooms carry the reputation of every tenant in the building. Add glass storefronts that need washing on a visible cycle, food-court waste volume that fills containers faster than anyone plans for, and matting at entrances that has to survive a Cleveland winter.
Logistics
Warehouses & Distribution
Floors measured in acres, not square feet. Push brooms and sweepers do more work than mops, dock areas need degreasers and heavy-duty liners that survive banding and shrink wrap, and the restroom-to-headcount ratio is usually tighter than the building was designed for.
Industrial
Manufacturing Facilities
Degreasers, absorbents, heavy-gauge liners and gloves in real volume. Waste streams have edges and weight, so this is the one building type where heavy duty liner everywhere is actually the right call. Safety supplies aren't a line item here — they're a compliance requirement.
Faith
Houses of Worship
Consumption concentrates around one or two days a week, with volunteers often running the closet. That means product needs to be obvious to use and hard to get wrong — ready-to-use over concentrate, clearly labeled, stored simply. Tax exemption applies and is worth setting up once.
Fitness
Gyms & Fitness Studios
Odor is the review-driver, and it comes from surfaces and drains rather than the air. Equipment wipe-down happens constantly, locker rooms need restroom-grade service plus humidity management, and matting takes abuse from shoes that were outdoors five minutes ago.
Residential
Apartment & Condo Communities
Two different jobs sharing one budget: common-area maintenance on a weekly rhythm, and unit turnover cleans that consume a burst of chemicals, liners and floor product with no warning. Winter adds ice melt at every entry and matting that has to be swapped mid-season.
Restroom Systems
The Room That Gets Judged
The Restroom Is Your Reputation.
Nobody writes a review about a clean lobby. They write one about a restroom that ran out. It's the one room in the building where a supply failure becomes a complaint the same day — and it's usually the room with the least planning behind it.
Getting it right is mostly about matching three things: the tissue to the dispenser, the towel format to the traffic, and the reorder cycle to how fast the building actually consumes. We stock the paper and the cabinets it loads into, so you can standardize one building at a time instead of all at once.
Jumbo Roll Tissue
The high-traffic answer. Fewer changeouts per shift means less custodial labor spent walking back to the closet, and far fewer run-outs between services. Pairs with a jumbo cabinet.
12 rolls/case · $36.71 · $3.06 per roll
Standard 2-Ply
500 sheets per roll, 96 rolls to a case. The right call for buildings with existing standard dispensers or lower-traffic single restrooms where a jumbo roll would sit half-used.
96 rolls/case · $56.63 · 59¢ per roll
Multi-Fold Towels
4,000 to a case and the cheapest hand dry we stock. Check the cabinet before switching — a C-fold cabinet will jam on multi-fold and your crew will quietly reorder the old one.
4,000/case · $29.23 · 0.73¢ per towel
Seat Covers
Half-fold, 5,000 to a case. Cheap insurance in any public-facing building — schools, clinics, gyms, houses of worship — and one of the first things visitors notice is missing.
5,000/case · $57.17 · 1.14¢ per cover
Can Liners
Photo: Pitt Plastics
Duty-Rated, Not Guessed
Your Liners. Matched to the Waste. Not One Size for the Whole Building.
A 40 × 46 liner fits the same can whether it's light, medium or heavy duty. What changes is what goes in it — and most buildings buy one heavy-duty bag and run it everywhere, including the office cans that hold paper.
On our current case pricing, medium duty 40 × 46 runs 16.1¢ a liner against 28.4¢ for heavy duty. Same can, same fit, roughly 43% less. Keep heavy duty where there are edges — kitchens, compactors, shops — and put medium everywhere else. Deskside and restroom cans should be on a 24 × 32 light duty at 5.3¢, not a 45-gallon bag folded over the rim.
And mil isn't a strength rating. It measures thickness, not resin quality or how the film is drawn — two liners at identical mil can perform completely differently. Buy by duty rating and by how the bag holds up in your building.
Can Liner Selector
Tell Us What the Can Is. We'll Tell You What Fits It.
Liner sizing is the single most common ordering mistake in facilities buying, and it's entirely avoidable. Pick your container, tell us what goes in it, and this gives you the exact size, material and gauge — plus the product if we stock it.
Sizing follows Pitt Plastics' published container specifications. If more than about four inches of bag hangs over the rim, the liner is oversized and you're paying for film that gets tied off and thrown away.
Liner Specification Reference
HDPE or LLDPE, and How to Read a Gauge Chart.
Two resins, two different jobs
Every commercial can liner is one of two materials, and picking the wrong one is why bags fail in ways that look random. High density resists puncture; linear low density resists tearing and stretches instead of splitting. That difference decides which one belongs in which room.
| Resin | Best for | Strength profile |
|---|---|---|
| HDPE High density |
Paper, packaging, non-sharp waste under normal handling. Offices, classrooms, corridors. | Excellent puncture resistance, moderate tear resistance. Uses the least material for the strength, so it's the cost-saving choice where it fits. |
| LLDPE Linear low density |
Sharp, wet, heavy or irregular waste, and anything dragged across a dock. Kitchens, shops, labs, construction. | Greater tear resistance and good puncture resistance. Stretches under load rather than splitting, which is what you want when a corner catches. |
Rule of thumb: if the waste can cut the bag, use LLDPE. If it can only weigh it down, HDPE will do the job for less.
Gauge is a spec, not a strength rating
This is the part that costs buildings money. Film thickness alone doesn't tell you how much a bag will hold — modern resin formulations produce thinner liners that outperform older, thicker ones made from lower-grade resin. Lifting strength is the honest measure; gauge just tells you where a product sits in the range.
The two resins are also measured on different scales, which is why cross-comparing numbers between them is meaningless. HDPE is quoted in microns, LLDPE in mils.
| Grade | HDPE (micron) | LLDPE (mil) |
|---|---|---|
| Light | 6–9 | 0.35–0.44 |
| Medium | 10–12 | 0.45–0.57 |
| Heavy | 13–14 | 0.58–0.69 |
| Extra heavy | 15–17 | 0.70–0.89 |
| Extra heavy plus | 18–24 | 0.90–1.14 |
| Super plus | — | 1.15–1.39 |
| Super heavy | — | 1.40 and up |
Two other things worth knowing: a star-seal bottom distributes weight evenly and pulls out of the receptacle cleanly, and coreless interleaved rolls dispense one bag at a time instead of unspooling half a case onto the closet floor.
Window Cleaning
Glass & Storefront
Window Washing Is a Rubber Problem, Not a Squeegee Problem.
Buy a professional channel once and it lasts years. The part that wears out — and the part that causes every streak your tenants complain about — is the rubber, and it costs a fraction of the tool. Most in-house crews replace the whole squeegee when they should be replacing a $6 blade.
Size the channel to the pane, not to the biggest one you can find. A 12" or 14" channel handles most storefront and office glass in a single pull; an 18" is for large curtain wall and gets awkward fast on mullioned windows. Brass channels hold their shape under pressure better than stamped alternatives, which is why professional window cleaners have run Ettore for decades.
Ettore 1324 brass squeegee handle$11.30
Ettore 1135 14" brass channel with rubber$14.30
Ettore 51014 14" Golden Glove washer cover$12.54
Complete pro kit, buy once$38.14
Replacement rubber — the only recurring cost$6.35
Channels also stock in 10", 12", 16" and 18". Quick-release and extension-compatible handles available for pole work.
Floor Service
Mopping & Sweeping
The Two Jobs That Eat Most of Your Labor Hours.
Sweeping first, always — mopping a floor that still has grit on it grinds that grit into the finish and shortens the recoat cycle. In big open floor plans a push broom or a sweeper covers ground a mop never will, and dock and washdown areas want a floor squeegee rather than either.
Mop head sizing. A 24 oz head is right for corridors, classrooms and most office floors — light enough that a crew can run it all shift. Move to 32 oz for large open areas where fewer dips into the bucket saves more time than the extra weight costs. Loop-end heads launder and last; cut-end are cheaper per unit and get thrown away sooner.
Wringer choice. Side-press is easier on wrists and faster in tight spaces. Down-press gets more water out, which matters when you're mopping ahead of a floor machine. Splash-guard buckets are worth the premium anywhere the public walks past your cart mid-service.
Winco MOP-24W 24 oz loop-end head$7.47
Winco MOP-32W 32 oz loop-end head$9.62
Winco MPB-36 36 qt bucket & wringer$89.40
Rubbermaid 7580-88 WaveBrake 35 qt$128.53
Waste & Material Handling
Recycling Is a Liner Problem Before It's a Container Problem.
Most buildings think starting a recycling program means buying new containers. In practice the separation happens at the bag, and haulers usually care more about being able to see what's inside than about what the can looks like.
Clear liners are the workhorse
Many municipalities and private haulers require or prefer clear liners on recycling streams so contents can be verified without opening the bag — and a mis-sorted load that gets rejected at the transfer station costs more than the bags did. Clear on recycling, black on landfill is the cheapest, fastest separation scheme there is: no new containers, no new signage budget, and custodial staff can tell at a glance which bag goes where.
We stock Pitt Plastics Vu-Thru clear liners across the same size range as the black line, so you can mirror your existing can inventory exactly rather than redesigning around what's available.
| Clear liner | Case | Per liner |
|---|---|---|
| 24×26 — 10 gal | 250 | 8.5¢ |
| 30×36 — 20–30 gal | 250 | 11.4¢ |
| 33×39 — 33 gal | 250 | 13.6¢ |
| 40×46 — 40–45 gal | 100 | 28.4¢ |
| 38×58 — 60 gal | 100 | 34.0¢ |
Per-liner figures are case price divided by count. Deskside recycling at 8.5¢ a bag is usually the cheapest program improvement available to a building.
Sizing the containers around the stream
Once separation works at the bag, containers follow the actual volume rather than a guess. Recycling fills faster by volume and slower by weight than landfill waste — paper and bottles take up room without getting heavy — which usually means a larger recycling container serviced on the same schedule, not a second identical can.
Deskside is the opposite problem. A small landfill can beside a larger recycling can changes behavior more reliably than signage does, because the path of least resistance becomes the correct one.
- Slim receptacles for corridors and copy rooms where floor space is the constraint
- Round containers and dollies for dock, kitchen and high-volume back of house
- Lids matched to the container — open-top invites contamination on recycling streams
- Clear liners on recycling, black on landfill, consistent building-wide
Dispensing Systems
The Paper Is Only Half the Decision.
Dispenser and consumable are one system, and the dispenser is what decides your real cost per use — how much paper gets pulled per hand dry, how often staff walk back to refill, and whether a roll stub gets thrown out half used.
High-Capacity Towel
Compressed and continuous-feed systems hold far more towel in the same cabinet footprint, which is the whole game in airports, schools and stadium-scale restrooms where refill labor costs more than the paper.
Call to spec — 216-325-0994
San Jamar Cabinets
Jumbo and twin-jumbo tissue dispensers and lever-action towel cabinets — the workhorse hardware in most commercial restrooms. In stock and priced on the site.
Jumbo tissue dispenser — $41.26
Tork Consumables
OptiServe coreless high-capacity tissue, Premium Multifold towels, hard-wound roll in kraft and white, Xpressnap napkins and foam hand soap. We stock the Tork paper line deep.
OptiServe coreless, 18/case — $56.93
Match Before You Switch
A C-fold cabinet jams on multi-fold. A coreless system needs its own dispenser. Standardizing a building means changing paper and hardware together — do it one building at a time and the crew stays with you.
Ask us to audit your dispensers
Full Category Depth
Every Room. Every Surface. Every Shift.
Restrooms, floors, waste and the tools that service them. Each area has its own consumables cycle — and its own way of quietly costing you money when it's stocked wrong.
Photo: San JamarRestroom
Paper, Dispensers & Hygiene
Tissue and towel in every commercial format, the cabinets they load into, seat covers, receptacle liners and the odor control that keeps complaints out of your inbox.
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Floors
Floor Care & Machine Pads
Finishes, strippers and neutral cleaners, plus the pads, squeegees and sweepers that do the work. Floors take the most labor hours in most buildings, so they take the most equipment.
Shop Floor Care →
Photo: RubbermaidWaste
Liners, Cans & Containers
Every duty grade from deskside to compactor, plus slim receptacles, round containers, lids and dollies. Sized so the liner matches the can instead of hanging over the rim.
Shop Waste →Tools & Safety
Everything the Cart Carries
Mops, brooms, buckets, wringers, dusters and gloves — plus the wet floor signs, spill kits and first aid that keep an incident from becoming a claim.
Shop Tools →Browse by Product Type
Cleaning Chemicals
Degreasers
Housekeeping
Tissue & Paper
Paper Towels
Towel Dispensers
Tissue Dispensers
Odor Control
Can Liners
Trash Cans
Waste Containers
Floor Care
Floor Pads
Floor Mats
Mops & Wringers
Buckets
Brooms & Dustpans
Squeegees
Dusters
Vacuums & Sweepers
Gloves
Cleaning Gloves
Safety Supplies
First Aid Kits
Window Squeegees
Dispenser Napkins
Pest Control
Fly Traps & Glue Boards
Housekeeping Carts & Supplies
Rubbermaid
Libman
O-Cedar
Pitt Plastics
Hospeco
All Janitorial
Seasonal Supply
Two Problems That Show Up on a Calendar.
Most of a facilities budget is steady. Two line items aren't, and both are cheaper to solve in advance than in the middle of the week they hit.
October → March
Ice Melt, Matting & Slip Prevention
Northeast Ohio winters turn every entrance into a liability. The sequence that works: rock salt down before the storm rather than after, matting deep enough that shoes are dry by the third step, and wet floor signs staged where people actually enter instead of where the closet happens to be.
Matting is the part buildings under-buy. A three-foot mat inside a door does almost nothing — you want enough runway to take moisture off the sole before it reaches hard floor, which usually means scraper matting outside and absorbent matting inside.
Ordering note: our 50 lb rock salt is $9.99 a bag with a three-bag minimum, and it's local pickup or local truck delivery only — it doesn't ship parcel. Order it before the first forecast; that's when it goes.
May → September
Pest Control & Odor
Warm months bring the two complaints that reach building management fastest: something flying near a food area, and a restroom that smells before it looks dirty. Both are supply problems long before they're contractor problems.
We stock the supply side — glue boards and fly ribbon, fruit fly traps and replacement cartridges, and food-safe aerosol insecticides rated for use around food-handling areas. Straight talk: this is breakroom, cafeteria and dumpster-adjacent control. It does not replace a licensed pest control contractor for structural or rodent work, and we won't pretend otherwise.
On odor, chase the source rather than masking it. Drains, urinal traps and waste containers cause most of it. Metered dispensers help hold a baseline once the source is handled — they don't fix it on their own.
75+
Years Supplying Working Buildings
We've been stocking supply closets since before most facilities departments had a budget line for them. That history means we know what fails, what lasts, and what's worth the price difference.
B2B
Operator Pricing & Tax Exemption
Schools, churches, municipalities and nonprofits get exemption applied at checkout once the certificate is on file. Set the account up once and stop chasing it on the back end.
1
Distributor. Every Category.
Paper, chemical, liners, floor care, safety — consolidated under one PO, one relationship, one phone number. Fewer vendors means fewer problems when something lands short.
Facilities-First Philosophy
You Run the Building. We Run Supply.
When the tissue runs out on a Monday morning or the liner shipment lands short before an event, you don't need a website. You need somebody who picks up the phone. That's been the promise since 1950.
The Dean Difference
Why Facilities Managers Buy From Dean.
01
We Stock Commercial Pack, Not Retail Counts
A club store sells you 12 rolls when your building needs a case of 96. Commercial case packs cost less per use, and the difference compounds across the forty line items sitting in a supply closet. We sell the sizes buildings actually consume.
02
Send Your Invoice. Get a Real Comparison.
The honest answer to "are we overpaying?" is a line-by-line look at what you're buying now. Email a recent invoice to info@shopatdean.com and we'll price it back — including the lines where we can't beat you, and the ones where you're buying a grade you don't need.
03
Our Own Trucks. Our Own Drivers.
Routes run Monday through Friday across roughly forty miles of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, $150 minimum, $2.99 fuel surcharge under $500, commercial addresses. Outside the routes we ship nationwide. Same faces, same schedule you can plan a cleaning shift around.
Par Sheet Estimator
Not Sure How Much Your Building Actually Burns?
Four inputs. Ten seconds. We size a starting monthly order off our real case prices so you have a number to argue with instead of a guess.
Estimated monthly baseline
Jumbo roll tissue—
Multi-fold hand towels—
Can liners — 40×46 medium—
Can liners — 24×32 light—
Mop heads — 24 oz loop end—
Estimated monthly spend
on these five items—
on these five items—
Planning factors: 1.5 restroom visits per person per open day; 2 towels per visit; one jumbo roll per restroom per week at moderate traffic; one large can per 2,500 sq ft plus one small can per restroom and per 12 people, emptied daily; one mop head per 5,000 sq ft every six months. Chemicals, dispensers, gloves, floor pads and safety stock are not included. Case prices are pulled live from the store, so this estimate moves when our pricing does. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Common Questions
Facilities Buying, Answered Plainly.
Do I need a business account to order?
No — anyone can order from the site. An account is worth setting up if you're tax-exempt, need purchase orders, or want a standing order. Apply through the business account form.
What's the minimum for local truck delivery?
$150. Our own routes run Monday through Friday across about 40 miles of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Orders under $500 carry a $2.99 fuel surcharge, and truck delivery goes to commercial addresses only.
Can you ship outside Northeast Ohio?
Yes, we ship nationwide. A handful of items — bulk rock salt, certain chemicals, some oversized goods — are local pickup or local delivery only, and those are flagged on the product page before checkout.
How do I know which can liner size to buy?
Measure the can or check the gallon rating printed inside it. As a rule a 40–45 gallon can takes a 40 × 46 liner and a 10–15 gallon can takes a 24 × 32. If more than about four inches of bag hangs over the rim, the liner is oversized and you're paying for film that gets tied off and thrown away.
Is a heavier-mil bag always stronger?
No. Mil measures thickness, not strength — resin blend and how the film is manufactured matter as much or more, so two liners at the same mil can perform very differently. Buy by duty rating and reserve heavy duty for the waste streams that need it.
Do you sell to contract cleaning companies?
Yes. Cleaning contractors, property management companies, schools, churches, gyms, clinics and municipal buildings all buy from us. If you service multiple buildings, call 216-325-0994 and we'll set the account up so each site can order against it.
How do I figure out which can liner size I need?
Use the can liner selector above — pick your container type and it returns the correct bag size, material and gauge, plus the product if we stock it. If you'd rather do it by hand: measure the can's height and circumference, or match it to a standard receptacle. A 40–45 gallon can takes a 40 × 46, a 12–16 gallon wastebasket takes a 24 × 32, and a 56 gallon outdoor container takes a 43 × 47. If more than about four inches hangs over the rim, the bag is too big.
What's the difference between HDPE and LLDPE liners?
High density (HDPE) resists puncture and uses the least material for the strength, which makes it the cost-effective choice for paper and non-sharp waste — offices, classrooms, corridors. Linear low density (LLDPE) resists tearing and stretches under load instead of splitting, which is what you want for sharp, wet or heavy waste in kitchens, shops and docks. The short version: if the waste can cut the bag, buy LLDPE. If it can only weigh it down, HDPE will do it for less.
Is a thicker-gauge liner automatically stronger?
No, and this is the most expensive misconception in liner buying. Gauge measures film thickness, not carrying capacity — modern resin formulations produce thinner liners that outperform older, thicker bags made from lower-grade resin. Lifting strength is the honest measure. Note also that the two resins use different scales: HDPE is quoted in microns, LLDPE in mils, so the numbers aren't comparable across materials.
Do you carry clear liners for recycling streams?
Yes — Pitt Plastics Vu-Thru clear liners in 10, 20–30, 33, 40–45 and 60 gallon, the same size range as our black line so they drop into the cans you already have. Clear on recycling and black on landfill is the simplest separation scheme that works, and most haulers prefer clear so contents can be verified without opening the bag. Deskside clear liners start at about 8.5¢ each. Browse can liners.
Do you sell dispensers as well as the paper?
Yes. We stock San Jamar towel cabinets and jumbo and twin-jumbo tissue dispensers on the site, and we carry the Tork consumable line deep including OptiServe coreless tissue. For high-capacity or continuous-feed dispensing systems, call 216-325-0994 and we'll spec it with you — format and cabinet have to be matched, since a C-fold cabinet will jam on multi-fold towels.
Do you carry professional window cleaning supplies?
Yes — Ettore brass channels in 10", 12", 14", 16" and 18", squeegee handles including quick-release, Golden Glove washer sleeves and replacement covers, and replacement rubber. Replacement rubber is the consumable; the channel and handle should last years. Browse Ettore window tools.
Do you sell rock salt or ice melt for winter?
We stock 50 lb rock salt at $9.99 a bag with a three-bag minimum. It is local pickup or local truck delivery only — it can't ship via FedEx, UPS or USPS. Order early in the season; it moves fast once a storm is in the forecast. Entrance matting and wet floor signs are in safety supplies and floor mats.
Do you carry pest control products?
We carry the supply side: fly ribbon and glue boards, fruit fly traps and replacement cartridges, and food-safe aerosol insecticides rated for use around food-handling areas. Browse pest control. To be straight with you, this is breakroom, cafeteria and dumpster-adjacent control — it doesn't replace a licensed pest control contractor for structural or rodent work.
Should I buy 24 oz or 32 oz mop heads?
24 oz for corridors, classrooms and most office floors — light enough to run all shift. 32 oz for large open areas where fewer trips to the bucket saves more time than the added weight costs. Loop-end heads launder and last longer; cut-end are cheaper per unit and get discarded sooner.
Do you work with property management companies running multiple buildings?
Yes. We set the account up so individual sites can order against it while billing stays consolidated, which is usually the sticking point with multi-property portfolios. Call 216-325-0994 and we'll structure it around how your buildings actually order.
Can you tell me whether I'm overpaying now?
Send a recent supplier invoice to info@shopatdean.com and we'll compare it line by line. We won't publish competitor price tables here — those go stale within weeks and we can't stand behind them.
Start Your Order
Ready to Stock Your Building?
Browse the full janitorial catalog online, or call the Cleveland team directly. We'll make sure you're getting the right grade at the right price the first time.
Questions? Call 216-325-0994 — Mon–Fri, 8am–5pm EST — or email our team.
Facilities Maintenance & Janitorial Supplies for Commercial Buildings
Dean Supply Company is a family-owned, third-generation wholesale distributor headquartered at 3500 Woodland Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, supplying commercial operators since 1950. Our facilities maintenance catalog covers the full consumable and equipment stack a working building runs on: restroom paper and dispensers, cleaning chemicals and disinfectants, can liners and waste containers, floor care and machine pads, mops, brooms and sweepers, window cleaning tools, gloves, safety supplies, pest control, odor control and winter ice melt. We serve building owners, property management companies, facilities directors, custodial supervisors and the contract cleaning companies and building service contractors that service them.
Janitorial Supplies for Office Buildings and Professional Offices
Office buildings and professional suites — law firms, accounting practices, insurance agencies, real estate offices, architecture and engineering firms — run a predictable consumable cycle built around restroom tissue and towels, breakroom paper, deskside can liners, glass and all-purpose cleaner, and entrance matting. Presentation standards are high relative to traffic volume, so grade matters more than bulk. Start with tissue and paper, paper towels and cleaning chemicals.
School, District and University Custodial Supplies
K–12 schools and college campuses consume paper at volume during the academic year, then compress a year of floor work into the summer. Gym floors, cafeteria floors, corridor terrazzo and classroom VCT each want different chemistry and different machine pads. Universities typically need multi-building par sheets that individual facilities can draw against under one account. Tax-exempt purchasing applies to public districts and most private institutions. Browse floor care, mops and wringers and all janitorial supplies.
Medical, Dental and Clinical Facility Supplies
Healthcare and clinical facilities consume surface disinfectants and gloves at a rate no other building type matches, service patient-facing restrooms multiple times daily, and need a bloodborne pathogen spill kit staged before it's needed. See disinfectants and cleaners, safety and spill supplies and first aid kits.
Warehouse, Distribution Center and Manufacturing Supplies
Warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing plants measure floors in acres. Push brooms, sweepers and floor squeegees do more work than mops, dock and production areas need degreasers and heavy-gauge can liners that survive banding and shrink wrap, and safety supplies are a compliance requirement rather than a line item. Restroom-to-headcount ratios in industrial buildings are usually tighter than the original design assumed, which pushes toward jumbo roll tissue and high-capacity dispensers.
Airport, Transit, Mall and High-Traffic Public Facility Supplies
Airports, transit centers, shopping malls and other high-traffic public buildings live and die on restroom throughput. Standard tissue rolls can't keep pace, so jumbo roll dispensers stop being an upgrade and become a requirement. Add entrance matting at every door, continuous floor service, food-court waste containers, storefront glass cleaning on a visible cycle, and odor control managed on a schedule rather than in response to complaints.
Apartment, Condo and Property Management Supplies
Property managers run two budgets out of one closet: common-area maintenance on a weekly rhythm, and unit turnover cleans that consume an unpredictable burst of chemicals, liners and floor product. Winter adds ice melt at every entry and matting that gets swapped mid-season. Multi-property portfolios can order against a single consolidated account — call us and we'll structure it around how your sites actually buy.
Restroom Supplies, Toilet Tissue and Dispensers
We stock jumbo roll and standard 2-ply toilet tissue, half-fold toilet seat covers, waxed sanitary napkin receptacle bags, and paper towels in multi-fold, C-fold and hard-wound roll formats, plus the towel cabinets and tissue dispensers they load into, including San Jamar jumbo and twin-jumbo hardware and the Tork consumable line. Format and dispenser have to be matched — a C-fold cabinet will jam on multi-fold towels — so standardizing a building means changing paper and hardware together, and the dispenser is what actually sets your cost per hand dry.
Cleaning Chemicals, Disinfectants and Degreasers
Our commercial cleaning chemical line covers disinfectants and germicidal cleaners, all-purpose and glass cleaners, restroom and toilet bowl cleaners, and degreasers in both concentrate and ready-to-use. Concentrate costs less per diluted gallon but assumes a crew that dilutes correctly; ready-to-use costs more per ounce and removes that variable. In volunteer-run or high-turnover buildings, ready-to-use is usually the cheaper answer once mistakes are priced in.
Can Liner Sizing Chart by Container
Liner sizing is the most common ordering error in facilities purchasing, and it is entirely mechanical. Standard receptacles map to standard bag dimensions: a 3.5–4 gallon wastebasket takes 17 × 18; a 7 gallon takes 20 × 22; a 7–10 gallon takes 22 × 25; a 12–16 gallon wastebasket takes 24 × 32; a 15 gallon torpedo takes 26 × 43; 22, 23 and 25 gallon round, Slim Jim and square containers take 29 × 44; a 20–30 gallon can takes 30 × 36; a 32 gallon step-on takes 30 × 46; a 32 gallon round receptacle takes 33 × 44; a 32–33 gallon drum takes 33 × 39; 28 gallon square containers and 40–45 gallon cans take 40 × 46; 35 gallon indoor square and 44 gallon round receptacles take 37 × 50; a 55 gallon round receptacle takes 41 × 54; a 56 gallon outdoor container or Glutton takes 43 × 47; a 60 gallon can takes 38 × 58; and a 65 gallon King Can takes 50 × 43.5. Our can liner selector returns the size, material and gauge for any of these and links the stocked product where we have one.
Two things beyond size save real money. Match duty grade to the waste stream instead of running heavy duty building-wide — mil measures thickness, not strength, since resin blend and film manufacturing matter as much or more. And on recycling, use clear liners: most haulers prefer or require them so contents can be verified without opening the bag, and clear-on-recycling with black-on-landfill gives custodial staff an unambiguous rule that needs no new containers and no new signage. We stock Pitt Plastics Vu-Thru clear across the same 10 through 60 gallon range as the black line.
Serving Cleveland and Northeast Ohio
Dean Supply delivers on our own trucks with our own drivers, Monday through Friday, across roughly forty miles of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio — including Lakewood, Parma, Euclid, Shaker Heights, Strongsville, Westlake, Mentor, Akron and the surrounding communities. Local truck delivery carries a $150 minimum and a $2.99 fuel surcharge on orders under $500, and goes to commercial addresses only. Outside the routes we ship nationwide; local-only items are flagged on the product page before checkout.
Why Buy Facilities Supplies From a Distributor
Two reasons, neither of them a slogan. Commercial case packs cost less per use than the consumer packs a club store sells, and that gap compounds across the forty-odd line items in a supply closet. And the supply run itself — sending a maintenance tech to a big-box store twice a month — costs more in labor and vehicle time than most buildings ever put on paper, while guaranteeing you're out of whatever the store was out of.
The honest way to check is a line-by-line comparison. Email a recent invoice from your current supplier to info@shopatdean.com and we'll price it back — including the lines where we lose. Tax-exempt purchasing is available for qualified schools, churches, municipalities and nonprofits. Call 216-325-0994, Monday through Friday, 8am–5pm EST.
