Wood Floor Waxing Help

[trscleaning]

Hello All - I have a job that requires re-waxing wood floors in a 2500 sq ft. home. The floors are penetrating seal treated, not surfaced sealed.

Does anyone know of a good wax product for wood floors and approx. how much time would be required to complete a job of this nature?

Thanks,

Simmee

[evetsclean]

I have used a product I believe was called Gym Finish or Gym Coat. It's been a while since I used it. I can't even remember who makes it. You might be able to Google those and see what comes up. It's water based. What I did was wet scrub the floor, not too much water of course, to take out scratches etc. then apply 2 or 3 coats of the Gym finish. It looks fantastic, and can be scrubbed off using the same method periodically to remove any scratches.

[jonzjan]

I know i sound like an idiot, but could you describe a wet scrub?

[logan5127]

jonzjan said:

I know i sound like an idiot, but could you describe a wet scrub?

Applying a wetting agent such as water, cleaner and so on to a surface such as a floor and then scrubbing it with brush, machine, and so on. I think in the previous post was putting a small amount of water on wood floor and using a conventional/ side to side/ floor stripping machine with a pad on it to scrub all debri and maybe even some of the scratches out. Same can be done on a waxed vynil tile floor to scrub the dirt off without stripping the wax off. Only difference is you don't add stripper to you water. When using a floor machine with pad on it ; the darker the pad the more aggressive it is. So if doing light scrub use white. Then right on down the line from red to blue to brown to black which would the most aggressive in pad line. There are more aggressive ways such as speacialty brushes with grit in them , sand paper disk , diamond bits and so on.
Wet scrubbing a finish can also help to roughfen up the surface to allow for better adhereing of what you are appling on top of it. Some finishes may have become to damaged/yellow/embedded dirt to just wet scrub and apply new finish. If so then it is time to strip or remove the protective finish that is on the surface all the way off before applying new coat.
Hope that helps a little.

[evetsclean]

I couldn't have said it better myself.