Hard%20Floor%20Care

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Hard Floor Care

• Hard Floors Arent Hard
• To Maintain

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What Are Hard Floors?

• Marble and Other Natural Stone
• Ceramic Tile
• Paver Brick
• Quarry Tile
• Terrazzo
• Concrete

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Hard Floor Care Basics

• Hard floors or their grout lines are porous
• They act like a sponge and absorb liquids, oils,
  and grease and stain easily.
• Once spills are absorbed, they can be almost
  impossible to remove.

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Hard Floor Care Basics

• Hard floors are made of natural stone or a
  concrete (cementatious) product
• Grout joints are cementatious (Portland cement)
• All are highly alkaline
• Sodas, coffee, foods, oils greases etc. are
  acidic and are attracted and electrochemically
  bonded to the material at the atomic level

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Hard Floor Care Basics

• Clean the floor
• Strip or scrub
• Use wet-vac to pick up solution
• Or an autoscrubber if no stripper is involved
• Neutralize- except DO NOT use Nutra-Rinse on
  marble, travertine, limestone etc.
• Rinse with clear water
• Let dry
• Seal the Floor
• Apply a Wear Coat (Finish)
• Maintain The Finish
• Dust Mop
• Damp Mop or Auto Scrub
• Apply a Restorer
• Burnish

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Concrete (Sealing)

• Outdoor
• Use Repel penetrating seal
• Sealed concrete resists staining from
• Spilled food / drinks
• Tires
• Gum
• Indoor
• Use a VOC compliant penetrating or gloss seal
  coat
• Add a wear coat (finish)

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Concrete (Sealing)

• Indoor or outdoor
• Apply with
• A mop
• A roller
• A T-bar
• Other applicators
• Outdoor
• May be applied with a sprayer
• Wear a NIOSH approved respirator
• The sealant can seal lung tissue too

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Concrete (Maintenance)

• Outdoors (with or without seal)
• Sweep
• Hose off (agitate with brush)
• Power wash
• Auto-scrub with a brush and a squeegee made for
  rough surfaces

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Concrete (Maintenance)

• Indoors
• Dust mop (treated)
• Damp mop or auto-scrub (white pad)
• Finish maintenance
• Remove marks, gum, etc.
• Restore
• Burnish

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Concrete with Epoxy Coatings

• Clean the floor (scrub)
• Acid-etch for bonding
• Dilute to 5 (e.g. 1 qt. Of 20 acid to 1 gal.
  water)
• Hose on or mop on light film of water
• Apply dilute acid solution evenly carefully
• Let stand for 2 - 3 minutes - or less
• Pick up
• Flood rinse

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Concrete With Epoxy Coatings

• Allow to dry thoroughly overnight if possible
• Apply wear coat or coats
• Maintain wear coat or coats

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Paver Brick Quarry Tile

• Non-glazed Paver Brick Quarry Tile
• Scrub new floors before coating with Renovator _at_
  16 oz./gal. or Strip-All _at_ 14 (32 oz./gal.)
  or Assurance _at_ 4 oz./gal.
• For older floors with a heavy buildup of polish
  coats, use Assault or Devastator mixed at 11
  or 12 or Arsenal Stripper
• Work in 10 X 15 sections
• Use an abrasive scrub brush to get down into the
  grout lines and low spots

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Paver Brick Quarry Tile

• Non-glazed (cont.)
• Pick up soiled solution immediately with a
  wet-vac or auto-scrubber. (Clean auto-scrubber
  thoroughly when picking up stripper)
• Flood rinse with Nutra-Rinse _at_ 4 oz./gal
• Pick up with wet - vac or auto - scrubber
• Finish with two clear water damp mop rinses.

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Paver Brick Quarry Tile

• Non-glazed (cont.)
• Once the floor has dried, inspect it
• Wipe your hand across the floor. If it comes up
  clean, the floor is clean. If it brings up a
  residue, continue rinsing until clean.
• Coat with two to three coats of Seal 341. Very
  porous floors, e.g. Saltillo tile, should be
  coated with one to two coats of Terrazzine
  followed by two to three top coats of Seal 341

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Paver Brick Quarry Tile

• Non-glazed (cont.)
• Daily maintenance
• Dust mop with a treated dust mop
• Damp mop with Assurance, Super Shine-All or Top
  Clean diluted per label recommendations

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Paver Brick Quarry Tile

• Glazed floors
• Scrub using Renovator, Citrus Scrub (or Extra
  Strength CSP for showers or restrooms) and a deck
  brush or a 175 rpm floor machine with a scrub
  brush
• Do not coat glazed surfaces
• Daily maintain by dust mopping with a treated
  dust mop and damp mopping with Super Shine-All
• Damp mop restrooms and shower rooms with a
  properly diluted solution of disinfectant cleaner

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Terrazzo Floors

• New floors
• Scrub with a buffer and Super Shine-All _at_ 3
  oz./gal. Or Citrus Scrub _at_ 4 oz./gal. and a red
  pad
• Pick up the solution with a wet vac, flood rinse
  with Nutra-Rinse _at_ 4 oz./gal. and pick up the
  flood rinse with a wet vac. Finish with two clear
  water damp mop rinses
• Coat with one or two coats of Terrazzine or Seal
  341

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Terrazzo Floors

• Top coat with your finish of choice
• Dust mop and damp mop with a neutral cleaner
  following label instructions to maintain the
  finish
• Use a restorer and burnish as desired.

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Terrazzo Floors

• Old terrazzo with heavy polish build-up
• Strip using 11 dilution of Assault, Devastator
  or Arsenal Stripper
• Black stripping pad
• Pick up with a wet-vac
• Do not let the stripper dry on the floor
• Flood rinse with Nutra-Rinse _at_ 4 oz./gal.
• Pick up with wet-vac or auto-scrubber
• Two clear water rinses
• Allow to dry thoroughly

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Terrazzo Floors

• Old terrazzo cont.
• After floor is dry
• Apply one or two coats of Seal 341
• Extremely porous floors should be sealed first
  with one or two coats of Terrazzine
• Top coat with Seal 341
• Floors coated with Seal 341 can be top coated
  with your favorite finish
• Maintain the finish by dust mopping, damp
  mopping, restoring, and burnishing

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Terrazzo Floors

• In restrooms use care not to damage the floor by
  allowing bowl cleaners or other strong acid
  cleaners to drip or puddle on the floor.
• The strong acids may etch the marble chips in the
  terrazzo, and erode the cementatious matrix
  causing the floor to crumble and erode away.

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Marble Natural Stone

• Polished
• Scrub(10 x 15) with a buffer and a red pad
• Citrus Scrub _at_ 16 oz./Gal.
• Pick up solution with a wet - vac
• Flood rinse - DO NOT use Nutra-Rinse
• Pick up with a wet - vac
• Damp mop rinse with 1 oz./gal. Super Shine-All

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Marble Natural Stone

• Polished (cont.)
• When dry (30 min.) Apply one or two coats of
  Lok-Gard
• Top coat with your favorite polish
• Dust mop daily
• Damp mop or auto scrub using Super Shine-All or
  Top Clean
• Apply restorer and burnish as necessary

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Marble Natural Stone

• Unpolished
• Scrub(10 x 15) with a buffer and a red pad (for
  recessed grout joints, use Bassine or Pro-Lite
  scrub brushes
• Renovator _at_ 16 oz./gal.
• Pick up solution with a wet - vac
• Flood rinse - DO NOT use Nutra-Rinse
• Pick up with a wet - vac
• Give two additional, clear water, damp mop rinses
• Allow to dry thoroughly

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Marble Natural Stone

• Unpolished (cont.)
• When floor is dry, apply one or two coats of Seal
  341
• Seal extremely porous floors with one or two
  coats of Terrazzine first, and then top coat
  with Seal 341
• Maintain gloss by dust mopping and damp mopping
  daily
• Restore and burnish as desired

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Gloss Restoration

• Mop-on restorers high speed 1000r.p.m.
• Dust mop
• Damp mop or auto scrub
• Apply Restorer diluted 14 (32 oz/gal) with a
  damp mop to the area to be restored
• When dry, burnish with a beige polythermal pad
• Dust mop the floor

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Gloss Restoration

• Using Restorer (a cleaner / restorer)
• Auto-burnish application
• Dust mop
• Dilute Restorer _at_ 4oz/gal. in cool water in the
  solution tank of the auto-scrubber
• Auto-scrub assigned flooring using overlapping
  passes

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Gloss Restoration

• If spray buffing remember to clean the floor
  first. Restorers will make the floor shiny, but
• A shiny dirty floor is still a dirty floor!

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Glazed Ceramic Tile

• Two schools of thought
• Use no coating
• Use a coating

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Glazed Ceramic Tile

• No coating
• Showers (slippery)
• Damp mop daily with disinfectant cleaner
• Scrub periodically with acid cleaner
• To remove hard water deposits and soap scum
• Rinse thoroughly

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Glazed Ceramic Tile

• Most coatings have trouble bonding to a glazed
  surface
• Urine, etc. will penetrate most coatings and soak
  into the grout.
• Mopping cleans only the coating surface.
• Germs and odors grow unmolested.
• Grout sealers may be useful if they are
  impervious to urine, etc.

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Glazed Ceramic Tile

• Uncoated restroom floors are less time consuming
  to maintain and have fewer problems with odors
  (all things being equal)
• Sweep
• Damp mop daily with disinfectant cleaner
• Scrub periodically (with a brush)
• With acid cleaner if hard water deposits are
  present rinse thoroughly
• With disinfectant cleaner if no hard water
  deposits are present

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Glazed Ceramic Tile

• Some facilities want to use a coating
• For appearance in restrooms
• Strong Guard will prevent urine from
  penetrating, but is not a wear coat
• Devastator _at_ 11 to strip Strong Guard so it
  doesnt come up every time you strip
• Use Seal 341 as a wear coat
• If you decide to use a coating once, you are
  committed
• If grout lines are dirty, they will always look
  dirty
• The floor must be pristine before applying, or
  coatings may flake off

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Glazed Ceramic Tile

• Facilities that want finished restroom floors
  will break the finish on a grout line about 3
  feet in front of urinals to allow for thorough
  floor cleaning
• Urine cant hide under finishes

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Hard Floor Care

• Are there any
• Questions?

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Quiz

• Basic hard floor care consists of
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________
• (T/F) Stains can be difficult to remove from hard
  floors because the surface is often porous and
  spills soak in quickly and penetrate deeply.
• (T/F) Use acid cleaners to clean terrazzo.
• Paver brick may be sealed with
• Strong guard
• Seal 341
• Terrazzine
• All of the above

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Quiz

1. (T/F) Exterior concrete is sealed to make
   cleaning faster and easier.
2. (T/F) Glazed quarry tile in a food court should
   be sealed to prevent spills from becoming stains.
   
3. (T/F) Use a 15 acid solution to prepare concrete
   for epoxy coatings.
4. (T/F) Flood rinsing using Nutra-Rinse _at_ 4
   oz./gal. is recommended after stripping polished
   marble floors.

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Quiz

• Which of the following products should not be
  used on terrazzo?
• Terrazine
• Nutra-rinse
• Extra strength CSP
• Seal 341
• (T/F) No matter the type of interior hard floor,
  the basic maintenance procedures are the same.
• (T/F) Use Seal 341 on an exterior concrete patio
  to prevent spills from staining.
• (T/F) Lok-Gard will prevent urine from
  penetrating into grout in ceramic tiled restrooms.

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Answers

• Basic hard floor care consists of
• Stripping or Scrubbing to clean the floor
• Sealing and Finishing the floor to protect it
• Dust mopping and Damp mopping daily to protect
  the finish
• Gloss Restoration or Restoring and Burnishing to
  bring back the shine
• (T) Stains can be difficult to remove from hard
  floors because the surface is often porous and
  spills soak in quickly and penetrate deeply.
• (F) Use acid cleaners to clean terrazzo.
• (Paver brick may be sealed with
• Strong guard
• Seal 341
• Terrazzine
• All of the above

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Answers

1. (T F) Exterior concrete is sealed to make
   cleaning faster and easier. (Trick question Of
   course sealing concrete makes cleaning easier,
   but the primary reason is to prevent staining)
2. (T/F) Glazed quarry tile in a food court should
   be sealed to prevent spills from becoming stains.
   (Trick question it is recommended that glazed
   tile not be sealed, but the grout lines in a food
   court would resist staining if they were sealed)
3. (F) Use a 15 acid solution to prepare concrete
   for epoxy coatings. (5)
4. (F) Flood rinsing using Nutra-Rinse _at_ 4 oz./gal.
   is recommended after stripping polished marble
   floors. (DO NOT use Nutra-Rinse on polished
   marble)

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Answers

• Which of the following products should not be
  used on terrazzo?
• Terrazine
• Nutra-Rinse
• Extra strength CSP
• Seal 341
• (T) No matter the type of interior hard floor,
  the basic maintenance procedures are the same.
• (F) Use Seal 341 on an exterior concrete patio
  to prevent spills from staining.
• (F) Lok-Gard will prevent urine from penetrating
  into grout in ceramic tiled restrooms. (Strong
  Guard)

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Hard Floor Care

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