[Tadgh O Shea]

Hi Jamie

Yes you are right the 3M melamine floor pads are very effective but like many of their products are way over priced, standard melamine pads are usually between 7 to 8kgs/m3 our melamine floor pads are 9kgs/m3  we are soon going to launch 16kgs/m3 melamine floor pads which will be the most effective available but not at the 3M rip off prices, i will be back to Mitch very soon re advertising and will share more information then.

[Kev Martin]

Hi Jamie

Yes you are right the 3M melamine floor pads are very effective but like many of their products are way over priced, standard melamine pads are usually between 7 to 8kgs/m3 our melamine floor pads are 9kgs/m3  we are soon going to launch 16kgs/m3 melamine floor pads which will be the most effective available but not at the 3M rip off prices, i will be back to Mitch very soon re advertising and will share more information then.

Tadgh

All well and good,  I wish you all the luck bringing out anything like this but you didn't answer my post below!

"That's my point I tried loads of them and then gave up.  I just went back to my tried and tested method of a soft to medium brush that gets into every nook and cranny on the floor, cleans really well no matter how dirty the floor is, it never clogs up and it's fast."

So if you can't help me perhaps you can refer me to someone who has done large areas of commercial cleaning using your method as I have three open Salons to sort in June and each one of them has 250M2 of Altro which is 3mm thick and it is all filthy and plastered in crap.  I have done three tests and they all came up but if you have a better method I would like to see it and try it please!

Kev Martin
Tiling Logistics

[Tadgh O Shea]

Hi Kevin

Send on a picture and we will see what to recommend, is it 3mm of soil on the floor i doubt and if you can let me know which  type of mop and chemical they are using this will help in finding a solution.

[Kev Martin]

Tadgh

The altro flooring is 3mm thick it is called Altro Stronghold see link

http://www.altro.co.uk/Flooring/Safety-Flooring-from-Altro/Altro-Stronghold-30.aspx.

I am not looking for a solution to cleaning it!  I have cleaned 1000's M2 of the stuff.  I was asking

"If  I use your Micro pads instead of brushes how many M2 can you do before you need to change them?"

Kev Martin
Tiling Logistics Ltd

[Jamie Pearson]

Have you tried Altros own pads? They are a variation of the micro cleaning pads with more of a paint pad type texture. Still rubber coated.

I was pleasantly surprised by them. Again though they only last about 50m2.

The best pad choice I have found so far is the Vileda Supercross Grey.

Dont ever use them on anything but safety floor though.

I look forward to being able to try one of Tadgh higher density pads.

Please let me know when they are available.

[Tadgh O Shea]

Hi Kevin

It depends on how soiled the safety floor is, generally you can deep clean 30 to 40m2 with a microcleaning floor pad before it gets saturated, you can either take it off and rinse it out under a tap and then use it again, or just allow extra cost on the job and use as many as required to do the job, if you use say 10 on a job take them back to the workshop clean them out and use them again, just to note Kevin microcleaning pads will wear out easily on safety floors but for deep cleaning them i have found these pads to be the most effective way.

[Kev Martin]

Hi Kevin

It depends on how soiled the safety floor is, generally you can deep clean 30 to 40m2 with a microcleaning floor pad before it gets saturated, you can either take it off and rinse it out under a tap and then use it again, or just allow extra cost on the job and use as many as required to do the job, if you use say 10 on a job take them back to the workshop clean them out and use them again, just to note Kevin microcleaning pads will wear out easily on safety floors but for deep cleaning them i have found these pads to be the most effective way.

The floors are really badly soiled.  They are salons so they have kitchens really soiled and then the tint prep and coffee areas are really bad.  So based on the info from you I need to allow about 12 Pads per salon is that right?  How much are they?

Kev Martin
Tiling Logistics Ltd