Interior Floors

MR ALAN said:
This place had no drains. Without the vacuum surfacer, I would have been in serious trouble.
There are cheaper versions of these tools. You could get one to do the job and it would probably last just fine if you were to use it a couple times a month. They are smaller 12" versions, but it would provide better results than not having one at all.
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good pics !!!!!!
 
You can rent a floor scrubber. They release water, scrub, picks water back up for reclaim. Hope this helps you. Kendall
 

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Thanks Kendall...I'll check on it


Here are some pics of the place, it was kinda during lunchtime so I couldn't take pictures showing how big the place is. Ron, I check the grout and it really is grout :) Should I upload the video of me scraping it? It's really short...
 

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Ah, the good ol quarry tile. Bet that grout is gray and not black as it appears in person.
An autoscrubber is good for maintenance, but not for restoration. The pads that are normally used do not get into the grout, and the ones that do are not cheap.
You can get a 12" vacuum surfacer for $400.00 and with that size and not a long hose run, do not need a huge vacuum. I need to dig up the source for the cheaper tool.
 
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hi there hot shot

i do quite a bit of hard floor cleaning

i use a slow speed rotery machine plus a wet vac
the big thing with hard floors is know your chemicals
if its just standard floor tiles ceramic i would go for citrus hard floor cleaner
followed by a hard floor nutraliser
leaving your floor nutral ph level will help to keep it cleaner longer plus you wont get a build up of chemical on your floor

eclipse do a good range of floor cleaning products i dnt know any suppliers in the us.

hope this helps

davy

ps dont under estmate the importance of leaving the floor ph nuteral
 
I haven't done it yet, but I was planning on going at it with a zero tip at 4000 psi. I've been watching my competitor here in town and he has great, well good, well....results doing that :D

just kidding...thanks Davey for the advice. If/When she gives me the ok for this job I'm going to go in a couple days before I actually clean it and put some BioClean in the drains to make sure they work. Some of the water will be squeegied to the drains, some of it squeegied out the door and some will be wet-vacced. I was just going to use my 24" Steel Eagle surface cleaner with some mild caustic degreaser. I didn't know about the nuetrilizing though Davey...thanks. The floor is just concrete. It use to be tiled but not anymore....
 
interior floors

i do a lot of indoor floors / tile to include swimming pools

my tools are terminator 1200 (search web ) landa hot water PW. landa cold water electric PW. wet vacs and primilary a turbo force (web) rotary vacuum recovery tool attached to any PW source and vacuum recovery with auto pump out (terminator 1200)

the chemical i use is CLING mfd by coastwide labs (web) i just completed a 14,000sf community center with indoor pool in 3 days by myself the owner has had it "pro fessionally"cleaned every year and "has never seen it so clean" so now I have 9 other facilities on my book

CLING is mild acid gel product that is absolutely amazing, i have tried every thing else including sand blasting with glass beads, soda blasting, acids sanders, grinders, orange stuff windex and prayer CLING will remove everything soap. grease, grime, calcium, lime and ...leave chrome and stainless steel gleaming .. you have to rinse and DO NOT LET IT DRY
i have some pics of the last job .. if i can figure out how to reduce the size i will post them ..
 
Anthony hasn't been around in a few years. His website is still up though. Great guy and always willing to help others from what I can remember about him.
 
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