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Post by System4 on Oct 1, 2007 16:43:08 GMT -5
Just finished a 1,200 s.f. scrub and recoat job. There were three areas: retail sales area and two office areas. I had been told prior to doing the job that the floors had been stripped in June of this year. I noticed that one of the office areas looked as if it had not been stripped and that a coat of wax had been placed down. The floors are white commercial tile. When I finished the job, I noticed that the retail store and one of the offices looked great-clean and shiney! The other office floor didn't look as bright. Any suggestions on how to get this "not so shiney" floor looking like the others???
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Post by ECBS Clean Team on Oct 1, 2007 20:50:34 GMT -5
Sounds like you already know the answer.
It needed to be stripped. You can now have a shinier dirty floor or explain that it needs a strip. You can tell them that best case you can apply another layer of finish to increase the shine ( or burnish it?) or do it right & strip it.
Funny how even if the floor looks beat to heck some clients will say well we just had it done a liitle while back .....just wax it DUH!
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Post by Kevin on Oct 2, 2007 7:19:20 GMT -5
System 4, "Our Business Is Cleaning Your Business!" in your signature line brought bak a old memory. My initial tag line when I started my business was:
Cleaning is our business and not yours! Let us take care of the cleaning. So you can take care of business"
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Post by mgagnon on Mar 9, 2009 17:55:50 GMT -5
I have found that once the floor has been stripped completely and rinsed and completely dry , I then rinse the are with vlean water and again let dry. After the area is dry I have burnished the floor prior to applying the wax and it seems to have a better shine to it after the wax is applied and dry! Of course that this may only be done as time permits.
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Post by logan5127 on Mar 9, 2009 19:48:52 GMT -5
Years ago , I rinsed at least three times , changing the water as soon as it got dirty at all. After many trial and errors , I now only rinse one time and do not change the water that often. We found that if we use the foam squeegees and squeegee right after we rinse that it pulls all the trash, debri, and dirty water off. The floor is ready to apply finish as soon as it is squeegeed. Even if there is a streak here and there. It mixes in with the finish and you never see it. The trick tough is to learn to squeegee good. If you are not applying the finish immediately then you cannot leave streaks of foot prints. It takes a little time to get good at it. I also use to use neutral cleaner in the rinse , but no longer. My floors turn out better now than when we did all the extra work of several rinses. This is just my way of doing floors now , after many years of doing it the way sales people told me to. I know others think the several rinse method is the best but not in my opinion. The next time you rinse a floor three times, take a foam squeegee ( sometimes called a water wand) and squeegee off the clean water while it is still wet. You might be amazed at what you see in the puddle of water that you pull off. Usually there will be alot of trash, debri , lint from the mops. More than you would think. A squeegee leaves no lint, cotton seeds, or dingy looking water. Have you ever put finish on a floor only to notice that somehow trash,link ended up in the dry finish and you wonder why?
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