This video will demonstrate how to strip and wax your floor.
Your first step is to gather all your equipment
You can download the list titled for stripping and waxing materialist
and all these procedures at greatwesternsupply.com
First move all the furniture and obstructions.
Run a dust mop over the floor to remove the loose debris.
Tape off any doorways or carpeted areas.
Put out wet floor signs
Now put on your gloves and googles,
and put water in the stripper bucket,
and add the stripper.
Take some base board stripper and spray it onto the baseboards.
This gets the built up wax and dirt off the baseboard.
Give it a few minutes to dwell.
Use a swivel utility pad to remove the built-up wax
and dirt on the baseboard. Use a rinse mop to remove the remaining build-up
and you're done with the baseboards. Now let's add the floor stripper to the floor.
Simply pull the saturated mop out of the bucket
and flood the floor.
After 10 to 15 minutes of dwell time go ahead and remove the build-up wax
along the baseboards by using a swivel utility pad sometimes we call the
doodlebug.
You should use the swivel utility pad around the areas you don't want the
machine to get stripper all over.
You could also use a long-handled razor blade
to remove wax buildup rather than the doodlebug.
Now it's time to set up the floor machine
We're going to use floor pads so take the pad driver and put it on the floor machine.
Then use the floor pad on that.
You can use a black thick traditional stripping pad,
a 3m high productivity pad.
Today we're going to be using the Prolink
maroon dominator stripping pad. Double scrub the floor with the floor machine
being sure to keep the machine in front of you because the floor gets very slick.
If you're not careful you're going down.
Now that you scrubbed up the floor finish it's time to pull it up with the wet vac
You can use an automatic scrubber, or just a regular mop for small areas. For this floor were using a wet vacuum.
Make sure the floor is dry and then add the floor finish to the bucket.
Take a can liner and put it inside the bucket.
This keeps the floor finish from getting contaminated,
and it also makes clean up a lot easier. Ok the floor finish is in the bucket.
Now we can lay the finish by either using a flat mop system
or a mono filament mop.
The traditional blue-and-white candy striped floor finish mop
I personally like the old-school method
the screw in top rayon mop.
I like these because they rotate.
We saturate the mop full of wax and put in the wringer. Don't wring it, just give it a little tap.
Now pull it out and you're ready to go.
We start off by doing an outline of the area you intend to finish.
Finish your outline
and reload your mop with wax
and then you fill in the center with the figure eight motion.
After about 30 minutes, depending on the humidity you're ready for the next coat.
To help dry time you could have a fan in the room to move the air
but do not point it on the floor. It's best to wait around 10 minutes after
the finish has been down to start the fan. We suggest putting no more than four
sometimes five coats a finished down per day