[brian willis]

Hi got a floor to clean in a shower room,has got scale marks were the water has sat im going to use my rotory with black pad, any ideas what chems to use.
cheers bri

[garyj]

Most acidic floor cleaners will do it, or if you are confident use a polish stripper. To be on the safe side without seeing the floor I would use a red pad, I only use black in extreme cases and use black as a last resort.
 
You will get a better answer in the General Cleaning section, there are some hard floor Eggheads down there.

[johnson cleaning]

hi limescale marks ....a product called Q T C .... for Safety floors Altra gard...... their No is 01924 403550 tell them Richard put you in touch and get you a discount cheers Richard (Lincolnshire).

[Bob Allen]

Patio amd brick cleaner from Jewsons, scrub on leave for a few minutes, extract and rinse, ive had great results

[murky]

I put similar question up as I have to quote and do sports club showers, lime scale, rust mould etc etc.

I was recommended Gard but they either dont have a website or its under construction. Also recomended Acid wash 80 by Clover Chems. Good website and helpful staff when I rang to ask. Told me where my local stockist is and it cost £4.50 for 5 litres!!!!!!!!!!!! How cheap is that.

Didnt evan ask about the cost of 1ltr not worth the hassle.

Mind you the protective kit will cost me £50.00 or so.

Murky

[brian willis]

cheers, didnt think you could put a protective coat on this type of floor covering.

[garyj]

Presume it is Altro flooring. It can be polished and comes up like new but does have to maintained. Would not recommend polishing a shower floor though, it will not effect the grip too much but the water will not do it any good.

[murky]

You can contact Altro direct. They are in Letchworth, Herts.

Good tech dept.

They dont have a shop there ( found out the hard way) but they will tell you what to use, and they will send you there own product through the post, a liter goes miles.

Murky

[Jim_77]

One tip for cleaning these floors.... you really do need a proper hard floor wand!

The grip of these floors is attained by very small grains of the same material that some sandpaper is made from.... it will literally grind down the lips of your wand, or if you use a teflon glide it will eat it for breakfast!!  I flattened my wand glide doing just 30 sqm of this stuff a little while ago, forgot my hard floor wand so had to just crack on with it

[legrandebier]

Evening all,

I work for a clover chemical distributor and i really cant recommend a product called UBIK 2000 enough. I have done dozens of demos on altro flooring with this product and it sells everytime. They also do a more fragranced product that works on altro called Virosol . Call any clover distributor and i'm sure they will give you a sample.

Cheers