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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: goodhand on November 02, 2003, 11:55:34 pm

Title: chewing gum removal from Rubber floors
Post by: goodhand on November 02, 2003, 11:55:34 pm

Hi people,
this question may have been asked loads of times before, but i have had a quick scroll through the messages and not found it.
is there an easy way of getting chewing gum off of rubber/vinyl floors?
these specific ones are on swimming pool changing rooms; which are constantly wet so you wouldn't think they would go hard, but beleive me they do; and are proving difficult to get off, short of sitting around for hours with a scraper. many thanx

Title: Re: chewing gum!
Post by: the_cleaning_guru on November 03, 2003, 03:30:04 pm

Hi Goodhand,

You need a dry steam cleaner. This type of equipment will peel the gum off vinyl, rubber floors etc in no time. There are lots on the market from £90 up to £6000! There are several good suppliers of this equipment but Express Cleaning Supplies do have an excellent range, try visiting their site. www.express-cleaning-supplies.co.uk

Title: Re: chewing gum!
Post by: goodhand on November 04, 2003, 09:54:06 pm

thanx cleaning guru,
will put some thought in to that.
(not sure about 6k though!

Title: Re: chewing gum!
Post by: The Great One on November 05, 2003, 12:53:50 am

What about freezer sprays?

You might then be able to break them up and hoover away or scrape them off quicker...

Regards

Martin

Title: Re: chewing gum!
Post by: the_cleaning_guru on November 06, 2003, 07:20:56 pm

Freezer sprays are a slow method and great care has to be taken as it is very easy to damage the carpet fibres when using this method

Title: Re: chewing gum removal from Rubber floors
Post by: goodhand on November 06, 2003, 07:56:51 pm

there arn't any carpet fibres on rubber floors.
but appreciate it would be slow