Greyhound Auto Retail supplies brooms and brushes for workshops, warehouses, yards, factories and household cleaning, along with handles and related cleaning equipment.

Bristle type is what to look at. Stiff, coarse bristles suit outdoor yards, rough concrete, workshop floors and anywhere you are shifting grit, swarf and heavier debris. Soft bristles are for smooth indoor floors, fine dust and finished surfaces, where a stiff broom simply throws the dust into the air rather than gathering it.

For a workshop it is worth having both, plus a squeegee for wash-down areas. Keep a broom used on oil and chemicals separate from one used in clean areas, rinse bristles after wet work and hang brooms up rather than standing them on the bristles, which bends them permanently and shortens the life of the head.