diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a3fc0957cc..5334ea64c5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
     "grunt-hashres": "~0.4.1",
     "grunt-karma": "~0.6.2",
     "gulp": "^3.9.0",
-    "gulp-clean": "^0.3.1",
     "gulp-eslint": "^1.0.0",
     "gulp-grunt": "^0.5.2",
     "gulp-imagemin": "^2.3.0",
@@ -122,6 +121,7 @@
     "mongoskin": "~0.6.1",
     "protractor": "~2.0.0",
     "rewire": "^2.3.3",
+    "rimraf": "^2.4.3",
     "shelljs": "^0.4.0",
     "sinon": "^1.17.2",
     "sinon-chai": "^2.8.0",
diff --git a/tasks/gulp-sprites.js b/tasks/gulp-sprites.js
index a5777af9ce..18c289f47c 100644
--- a/tasks/gulp-sprites.js
+++ b/tasks/gulp-sprites.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import gulp from 'gulp';
 import imagemin from 'gulp-imagemin';
 import spritesmith from 'gulp.spritesmith';
-import clean from 'gulp-clean';
+import clean from 'rimraf';
 import sizeOf from 'image-size';
 import mergeStream from 'merge-stream';
 import {basename} from 'path';
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ gulp.task('sprites:largeSprites', () => {
 });
 
 gulp.task('sprites:clean', (done) => {
-  gulp.src(`${DIST_PATH}spritesmith*`)
-    .pipe(clean());
-
-  done();
+  clean(`${DIST_PATH}spritesmith*`, done);
 });
 
 gulp.task('sprites:checkCompiledDimensions', ['sprites:main', 'sprites:largeSprites'], () => {