[carpetmonsters]

hi
does any one do floor tile cleaning and what do you use ?
thanks
steve

[Fox]

Hi Steve

You need to be more specific - what sort of tiles and what type of environment are they in?

Fox

[carpetmonsters]

HI FOX

looking for commercial tile cleaning . we have 90 square meters to clean very heavy soil grafite grease and oil.

steve

[Fox]

Hi Steve

Still none the wiser to type of tile but will try to advise.  Will prob need scrubbing machine with black pad, personally I would use a scrubber dryer detergent to start (will help loosen oil and dirt, depends how old the stain) then I would prob proceed with the same process as with the marley floor but using the scrubber and black pad.

Stains such as oil are not the easiest but if the tile surface has been treated before your results should be reasonable. ( Depending how porous it is may even be fine if not treated previously).  If you are going to polish/seal be sure you have removed as much staining as possible otherwise you risk setting it in and will have to start the procedure over.

Don't forget to advise your client of the possible outcome, he may expect a perfect finish!

Hope all goes well and if any other advice is needed just pm.

Fox

[nick.solution]

Hi Steve

either solution no8 Dynax or solution alkallo balck or red pad.or nylon brush wet extract rinse and wet extract
or you can use the charly pads on a rotary machine

best regards Nick

[carpetmonsters]

hi nick

thanks for the reply, but steve carpenter has already supplied the solution to the problem

cheers
steve

[Fox]

Steve

Think it is great that you have sorted your problem - however find it a little disconcerting that you have not shared the solution with us.

Both Nick and myself have tried to help on your post but you now say that Steve Carpenter has solved your problem without enlighting us with the details.

I feel it would only be gentlemanly of you to share the 'solution' espesially as effort went into anwering a question that you obviously knew nothing about.

Fox

[carpetmonsters]

Hi Fox,



Advice is always appreciated and that’s why I asked, but Nick’s was a little late. The job has been completed and I have a very happy customer.



I did however try a sample of Nick’s product on the floor that I received from him a few months ago but unfortunately it didn’t work either.



The tile is beige in colour and has a micro porous surface. It’s situated in a lab at a manufacturing plant where graphite and oil is used as a lubricant on the machines. This is being tracked into the lab by its employees causing the floor to become discoloured.



It would not respond to any thing I tried so I sought advice from this forum and several specialist floor cleaning chemical suppliers. Samples were supplied but results from all were still poor. Steve supplied an answer that stepped outside the boundaries of normal floor care and for health and safety reasons, I’m not prepared to mention the product used in case someone with limited experience tried it and then had a problem.



The customer was made aware of this and the relevant health and safety information was scrutinised and the product passed for use by them.



It was applied to the floor by mop and bucket and then I scrubbed with a low speed rotary fitted with white curing pads. Then using a wet pickup the slurry was removed and the floor was fresh water rinsed.



I tried the more aggressive black, blue, red and even microfibre pads but it was only the white curing pad that worked on the micro porous surface.



A tile has been sent to a chemical manufacturer so that their R&D department can hopefully develop a conventional and safer product to clean this problem tile. My customer has thousands of metres of it at their premises here and also in Europe and America.



Cheers



Steve

[cleanmac]

Steve, you did,nt use an HF acid based chem ; did you?

David

[carpetmonsters]

hi

i dont know what hf is

steve

[cleanmac]

Hi Steve

I have send you a pm

David

[carpetmonsters]

Hi Cleanmac,

As stated in my earlier post I'm not prepared to mention the name of the product as it would not normally be used for floor care. A chemical manufacturer have samples of the soiled tiles, so hopefully I will soon have a product that we resolve my customers floor cleaning issues.

Cheers

Steve

[Doug Holloway]

Hi,

HF =  Hydrogen Flouride?

Cheers,

doug

[cleanmac]

Hydrofluoric acid ,totally lethal in the wrong hands