Floor request for information? What do you use to "strip" the tile that won't hurt them....
What do you use to "strip" the tile that won't hurt them. I have tile floors at my office and they are looking for a time ugly. I heard you have to strip them and rewax them. Any info will be very helpfull
Depends on what the material is. I hold vinyl, no wax tiles in my kitchen. All I used was ammonia and hose. ( The recipe is on the bottle ) Afterwards, I used Armstrong"s wax for no wax floors. Like new!
I would imagine the ammonia would work on lately about anything. I would wonder what type of wax was used.
If you're talking nearly those asphalt tiles that they always use in department buildings, the best thing to use is a commercial stripper (usually amonia-based). You dilute this in river and use a plastic scrub brush to apply the stripper and scrub off the old deposit. Then you have to apply a commercial floor wax that is designed for that type of tile.
When I be in the navy on a submarine, that be a weekly exercise for us to strip the wax off the floors and rewax them. And, that's what we used and how we did it.
Answers: Yes, you do have to strip and rewax. The stripper is diluted contained by water and scrubbed until the wax comes rotten. most places use a swing machine (big spinning coarse pad on bottom) to gain the wax off, because if your using a brush its gonna take years to do! the stripper we use for tile floors contained by a school building is called shattered 99. do not permit the stripper and old wax redry on the floor! n(carry a mop and bucket of clean hose down so u can keep the floor wet) u then own to scrub the floor with clean sea, let dry and the reapply new wax near a wax mop. (made specially soft for even application of wax). wax should be at least 5 or 6 layers gluey, and can be up to about 12. the more the better, but u HAVE to let it dry within between layers!