How to Strip and Wax A Floor

Professional custodian narrates as he strips and waxes a floor. Portions include gathering equipment, dust mopping, baseboard stripping, mixing floor finish stripper chemical, using 175rpm floor scrubber to agitate floor finish, wet vacuuming, rinsing and finally laying the floor finsh on the floor with a mop. Not product focused, this video has sound proceedures for stripping

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[GreatWesternSupply]

The finish mop can be washed out with plenty of water. If you intend on using the mop in a day or two, you can place the mop in an air-tight plastic bag and it will stay moist and ready to use.

[GreatWesternSupply]

If the stripper needs a neutralizing rinse, then an acid rinse followed by a fresh water rinse works well. If you don't have an acid rinse product, 3 fresh water rinses typically works. 

Most modern strippers don't leave alkaline residues, so a simple fresh water rinse to remove chalky residue is the only rinse needed.

A time saver would be to run fresh water through an automatic floor scrubber fitted with scrub pads. A couple of passes with an autoscrubber is quick, easy & reliable.

[MrCla8n]

Lots of comments on using hot water for the stripper. Does anyone actually read the labels? Hot water evaporates some of the agents in the stripper! I have yet to come across a stripper which says the hotter the better.  You are to use COLD WATER. It acts as a catalyst for the stripper. Plus, when hot water hits the floor, it cools quite quickly, what good is that? Also, thinking if health, hot water will be giving off fumes, with stripper chemicals evaporating with it! Oh well-

[xsandsnowx]

I always use Made n USA 3m black pads, rather than cheap chinese junk. And i always tell our customers to sweep their stores a few times a day. If u can keep the dirt OFF the floor the finish, yes, it last longer.

[toughallover85]

My method is - lay folded towels at the end of a hallway/doorway with one layer of tape folded up against the towels (barrier) across the floor. I use Johnson/Diversity Stripper. I usually flood the hell out of the floor with the stripper and keep mopping it around until you know it's not slippery anymore. I then use hot water in the tank of my roto and flood the floor as well whiile stripping. I then do the baseboards and edges, suck up the water. rinse, rinse again, 5 coats, no fan.drys better

[pacificbuildingcare]

Sheep skit heads are easier to deal with, you can apply the wax right from the bottle on to the floor, instead of putting in a mop bucket. It goes on easier and there is no cleanup and also no need to put the remaining wax back into the bottle. Good video though, thankyou

[derekpeters04]

you dont tell how to run the scrubber

[jguinther333]

Using a BOOST machine will save the hassle of using the doodle bug. Considering that stripper is dangerous, you can resort to Stride neutral cleaner in hot or warm water. The company I work for which became "green"(using chemicals that are better for the environment) no longer puts wax in a bucket like shown in this video, but rather pouring the wax from a bottle then using a flat mop.

[BudgetHomeandOffice]

Fantastic tutorial. Great work.