After stripping the tile floor we rinse the floor with neutral cleaner to stop the stripping action of the chemicals. This is picked up with a wet dry vac or automatic scrubber. The area is then swept one more time for any particles left by the stripping process. Suppliers of high performance floor finishes emphasize the durability of their products in terms of “life” of a floor finish although floor finish survival is largely dependent on how you maintain your floor in between stripping such as sweeping mopping and burnishing, etc. Before you lay a finish, lay out a maintenance plan for the life of that finish. We use the best high gloss polymer finishes on the commercial market and ones that are highly maintainable. We apply finishes with wax applicators to ensure an even high gloss look. Each coat is burnished and swept in between to get the highest possible shine out of our products. The finished results of a floor correctly done are very rewarding and will change the entire look of your business or home.

How to Maintain Your tile Floor

You spent a lot of money getting your floor "WAXED" and now your need to maintain it or it will start looking like you never did anything to it. "WAXED" is the wrong word since very seldom do we use wax on commercial tile floors anymore. We use a polymer coating that we call "Floor finish".

Floor finish cleaning: always sweep or dust mop the floor before cleaning. Always use a neutral cleaner to clean floor finish. If it doesn't say neutral than it isn't. Don't use Mr. Clean, Simple Green, Top Job, Spic and Span and others unless they say neutral on the bottle. A non-neutral cleaner mop head. If you happen to use the mop bucket for stripping you must thoroughly clean the bucket of all stripper residue. Do not use a mop that was used for stripping to clean a floor. If you have a large area such as a supermarket to clean an auto scrubber will make your cleaning a lot easier.

Buffing & Restoring: Always clean the floor before buffing or burnishing the floor. Spray buffing consists of a spray buff chemical, a floor buffer of 175 RPM or 300 RPM and a floor pad made for buffing can be used. To spray buff you lightly mist the spray buff in front of the buffer and you buff that area until the spray buff is worked into the floor and a shine appears. Mop on restoring uses a similar chemical to the buffing chemical but it is applied by mixing the solution in a bucket with water and mopping the solution onto the floor. You let the floor dry and use a high speed burnisher of 1500 RPM or more with a burnishing pad to shine the floor. Their is also pastes that can be used with burnishers that you place a ribbon of the chemicals in front of a burnisher and walk the burnisher up and down the area that needs to be shined.

Propane buffing is by far the best way to maintain your finished floor. These machines run at 2000 rpm and will give you that wet look shine when used to burnish.

Keeping your floor swept regularly is a real key to floor finish maintenance because this keeps any abrasives of your floor which will be otherwise ground in and scratch the surface or tile. Mopping regularly will ensure chemicals and other liquids will not remove your wax and cause permanent damage to your tile. High speed burnishing will make your finish harder due to the heat when burnishing thus giving you longer life out of your finish and a deeper shine