How to Strip Floors with Brushes..NOT PADS!
This video will demonstrate how to strip and wax your floor. Your first step is to gather all your equipmentYou can download the list titled for stripping and waxing materialistand all these procedures at greatwesternsupply. comFirst move all the furniture and obstructions. Run a dust mop over the floor to remove the loose debris. Tape off any doorways or carpeted areas. Put out wet floor signsNow put on your gloves and googles,and put water in the stripper bucket,and add the stripper. Take some base board stripper and spray it onto the baseboards. This gets the built up wax and dirt off the baseboard. Give it a few minutes to dwell. Use a swivel utility pad to remove the built-up waxand dirt on the baseboard. Use a rinse mop to remove the remaining build-upand you're done with the baseboards. Now let's add the floor stripper to the floor. Simply pull the saturated mop out of the bucketand flood the floor. After 10 to 15 minutes of dwell time go ahead and remove the build-up waxalong the baseboards by using a swivel utility pad sometimes we call thedoodlebug. You should use the swivel utility pad around the areas you don't want themachine to get stripper all over. You could also use a long-handled razor bladeto remove wax buildup rather than the doodlebug. Now it's time to set up the floor machineWe're going to use floor pads so take the pad driver and put it on the floor machine. Then use the floor pad on that. You can use a black thick traditional stripping pad,a 3m high productivity pad. Today we're going to be using the Prolinkmaroon dominator stripping pad. Double scrub the floor with the floor machinebeing sure to keep the machine in front of you because the floor gets very slick. If you're not careful you're going down. Now that you scrubbed up the floor finish it's time to pull it up with the wet vacYou can use an automatic scrubber, or just a regular mop for small areas. For this floor were using a wet vacuum. Make sure the floor is dry and then add the floor finish to the bucket. Take a can liner and put it inside the bucket. This keeps the floor finish from getting contaminated,and it also makes clean up a lot easier. Ok the floor finish is in the bucket. Now we can lay the finish by either using a flat mop systemor a mono filament mop. The traditional blue-and-white candy striped floor finish mopI personally like the old-school methodthe screw in top rayon mop. I like these because they rotate. We saturate the mop full of wax and put in the wringer. Don't wring it, just give it a little tap. Now pull it out and you're ready to go. We start off by doing an outline of the area you intend to finish. Finish your outlineand reload your mop with waxand then you fill in the center with the figure eight motion. After about 30 minutes, depending on the humidity you're ready for the next coat. To help dry time you could have a fan in the room to move the airbut do not point it on the floor. It's best to wait around 10 minutes afterthe finish has been down to start the fan. We suggest putting no more than foursometimes five coats a finished down per day
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