Resilient Floor Care

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Resilient Floor Care

• A Systems Approach

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What Is Resilient Flooring?

• Definition of Resilient Bouncing or springing
  back into shape, position, etc. after being
  stretched, bent or, especially, compressed.

• Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT)
• Linoleum
• Sheet Vinyl
• Rubber
• Cork
• Synthetic Sports Floors

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Non-Resilient Resilient Flooring

• Radial rubber Cork flooring
• Too resilient. So much flex, acrylic finishes
  tend to shatter
• Need to use a true carnauba wax system
• Synthetic (non-wood) sports flooring
• Need to use a finish system that allows for more
  traction and durability than regular floor
  finishes

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Selecting A Cost-Effective Finish System

• Use a seal?
• Use a finish?
• Use a seal/finish?
• How many coats?
• How often?
• Burnish?
• Do we have a machine?
• What speed?
• Which pad?

• Use a restorer?
• Spray on?
• Mop on?
• How often?
• How does it wear?
• How high gloss?
• How often is there time for burnishing?
  Refinishing?
• Using a restorer?

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Trilogy Floor Care System

• Ultra high speed burnishing
• Over 1500 rpm
• Cord-electric to 2000 rpm
• Battery and propane to 3000 rpm
• High speed burnishing
• 500 - 1500 rpm
• Standard speed
• 125 - 500 rpm
• Products to match your equipment
• Choose the program that fits your facility

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Systems Programs

• Systems generally refer to sets of products
  designed to work together
• Programs generally refer to cleaning programs
• All cleaning programs have three steps
• Daily maintenance dust mopping damp mopping
• Interim maintenance burnishing scrub recoat
• Renovation - stripping
• The better the daily maintenance is performed the
  longer the interval between interim procedures
• The better the daily and interim maintenance is
  performed, the longer between renovations

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Hillyards Philosophy

• Cost effective programs revolve around using
  time-efficient procedures, not cheap products
• Labor makes up 85-90 of MO budget
• Saving 10 on products saves 1 of budget
• Saving 10 on labor saves 8 ½ -9 of budget
• Begin all cleaning programs with renovation
  start clean to stay clean
• Perform daily maintenance tasks in such a way as
  to minimize interim procedures
• Perform interim procedures in such a way as to
  minimize renovative procedures
• Renovative procedures use the most labor
• So, the resilient floor program begins with

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Stripping The Floor

• Is stripping always necessary?
• NO!
• Only when
• Changing coating systems
• Changing suppliers
• Removing heavy buildup
• Removing factory coatings on new floors

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Stripping The Floor

• Apply stripper
• Let stand recommended time
• Agitate edges hard to reach areas w/ swivel pad
  holder
• Scrub with single disc floor machine (buffer)
• Use a wet-vac to pick up solution
• Neutralize the floor (stripper)
• The stripper that removed finish will inhibit the
  new finish bonding to the floor
• Rinse at least twice with clear water
• Check the floor for residue

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Stripping Donts

• Stripping is a process, not an event
• Everyone must work together
• Dont drag cords through solution and onto the
  clean floor
• Dont roll wheels through stripping solution and
  onto the clean floor

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Stripping Donts

• Dont walk through stripping solution and onto
  the clean floor
• Dont allow stripping solution to dry back on the
  floor, or on baseboards, doors, walls, cabinets,
  etc.
• Dont allow stripper or neutralizer to dwell on
  the floor too long this can damage the tile

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Stripping Donts

• Dont allow stripping solution to run under doors
  or to splash onto an area that will not be
  stripped
• Dont splash stripping solution onto adjacent
  carpeting
• Dont use an auto-scrubber to apply stripping
  solution it will destroy pump seals

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Stripping Donts

• Dont use an auto-scrubber to pick-up stripping
  solution and if you do
• Dont store equipment (including mop buckets and
  wringers) without cleaning
• Clean using clean stripping solution
• Clean the entire machine squeegees, recovery
  hoses, recovery tanks, underside of scrub decks

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Stripping Dos

• Protect areas that wont be stripped
• Make dams under doors or in doorways
• Lay towels or tarps on adjacent carpeting
• Roll equipment over towels before transporting
  out of the area to protect adjacent flooring
• Wipe your feet before walking onto adjacent
  flooring
• Pay attention to details
• Badly stripped edges and corners make the whole
  floor look bad

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Stripping Dos

• Coat vertical surfaces (baseboards, cabinet
  fronts, doors etc.) with Super Hil-Tone before
  stripping
• Will help shed the stripping solution
• Inhibits finish dry-back
• Minimizes clean-up with stripping solution
• Remember to clean the treated surfaces later

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Rinsing the Floor

• After neutralizing, give the floor two additional
  clear water rinses
• Dont forget the baseboards and corners!
• Cove base cement may dissolve ooze back on to
  the floor - it will look like yellowed finish!
• When the floor is dry, wipe your hand over the
  surface. If it comes up with a residue, give it
  another rinse. If there is no residue, the floor
  is ready for sealing.

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Sealing The Floor

• Apply same as finish
• Clean, damp synthetic finish mop, flat finish
  mop, or finish applicator (not dripping)
• Cut in perimeter first leave an exit by the
  door
• Apply in continuous passes all the way across the
  floor
• Apply every other coat in the opposite direction

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Why Seal?

• Seal protects the flooring
• Seals are generally less expensive than
  finishes (depends on the finish)
• Seal has larger molecules, so less soaks into
  the floor
• Seal provides a base for finish
• You use less finish
• Follow recommended coverage rates
• Think of plywood several thin coats makes a
  very strong, durable product

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Finishing The Floor

• Apply floor finish in the same way you applied
  the seal
• Allow adequate drying time between coats
• If too many coats applied too quickly or too
  thickly
• Delamination can occur
• Plasticizer migration can occur
• Will cure softer, and be less durable

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Floor Finish

• 99.9 of todays floor finishes contain no wax
• Today, we finish floors, we dont wax them.
• How many coats?
• Rule of thumb divide the solids of the finish
  into 100. The answer is the number of coats to
  get optimum appearance.
• How thick?
• Rule of thumb thinner is better. Use middle of
  mfg.s recommended application rate
• If 1000 1500 sq. ft./gal. per coat, aim for
  1250 sq. Ft.

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Applying Finish

• Stay away from the baseboards

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Applying Seals Finishes

• Buffers cant scrub the last 2 in. of the floor
  to the edge.
• Over time, finish can build up unless the edges
  are hand scraped every time the floor is
  scrubbed, a time-consuming and labor-intensive
  process.

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Applying Seals Finishes

• Apply the first coat as close as possible without
  touching the baseboard
• Apply each successive coat two inches inside the
  previous coat will feather the finish to the
  edge, preventing buildup and requiring less
  hand-work when scrubbing or stripping.
• People dont walk right next to the wall, and in
  rooms there is usually furniture against the
  walls.
• In halls and large open areas with no furniture,
  the first coat touching the baseboard without
  slopping up on it to prevent a dry gap is
  acceptable.

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Gloss Restoration

• Mop-on restorers
• Mop on after cleaning (mopping or auto-scrubbing)
  the floor, let dry then burnish
• Mop-on cleaner/restorers
• Use in an auto-scrubber to clean and apply
  restorer in one step before burnishing
• No auto-scrubber?
• Use to mop the floor clean and apply restorer in
  one step before burnishing

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Gloss Restoration

• Spray buffing regular speed
• On a clean floor, apply a mist of spray-on
  restorer to a small area (5x5)
• Immediately, with a standard 175 rpm floor
  machine with a white pad, go over the sprayed
  area, back and forth until it dries and polishes
• Useful for blending out traffic lanes
• For general gloss restoration
• Turn and change pads frequently
• Dust mop when finished
• Time consuming not the process of first choice
• If you only have a 175 rpm machine

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Gloss Restoration

• Spray buffing high ultra-high speed
• On a clean floor, apply a mist of spray-on
  restorer to a small area (5x5)
• Immediately, with a burnisher with a beige
  polythermal pad, go over the sprayed area, until
  it dries and polishes.
• For general gloss restoration
• Turn and change pads frequently
• Dust mop when finished
• Time consuming not the process of first choice

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Gloss Restoration

• Dry burnishing high and ultra-high speed only
• Use beige polythermal pad
• Most effective with softer finishes
• General rule of thumb the higher the solids
  content, the harder the finish
• Generally speaking, harder finishes do not
  respond to dry burnishing as well as softer
  finishes
• Generally speaking, softer finishes dont
  powder as much as harder finishes
• Dust mop when finished

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Daily Maintenance

• Dust mopping with a treated dust mop
• Removes grit
• Grit is as damaging as sandpaper shoe soles
• Damages finish
• Damages tile
• Removes and controls dust
• Dust hides the shine
• Minimizes hand dusting
• Decreases A/C filter changes (indoor air quality)
• First line of defense against finish wear

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Daily Maintenance

• Regular damp mopping
• Gets what the dust mop leaves
• Rinse mop often
• Change water often
• Auto-scrubbing
• Faster more efficient
• Decreases labor costs
• Increases productivity
• Produces better results cleaner floors
• Reduces drying time

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Interim Maintenance

• Scrub and re-coat uses a neutral cleaner
• Buffer or auto-scrubber
• Red, blue or black pad
• Quickly remove only top layer of dirty finish
• Pick up solution with a wet-vac
• Rinse until clean (wipe hand on floor)
• Let dry
• Reapply finish
• 2 to 4 coats - no more only replace what you
  remove

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Scrubbing vs. Stripping

• ISSA standard times per task
• Stripping a floor
• 75 minutes / 1000 sq.ft.
• Scrubbing a floor
• 45 minutes / 1000 sq. ft.
• Stripping means resealing and refinishing
• 3 seal 3 finish six coats applying drying
  time
• Scrubbing means replacing only the finish you
  scrubbed off
• 2 or 3 coats applying drying time

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Scrubbing vs. Stripping

• Scrubbing floors saves
• Time
• Money (labor is 85-90 of MO budget)
• Product
• Less seal
• Less finish
• Less neutralizer

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Controlling Buildup

• Many facilities are on a five year stripping
  rotation (or longer)
• They strip only 20 (or less) of floors annually
• To prevent buildup when scrubbing, replace only
  what is removed
• Start with 3 seal, 3 finish coats after stripping
• Assume one coat wears off and one is scrubbed off
  reapply only two coats
• If 3 are reapplied the floor will have 4 coats.
  The next time one wears off and one is scrubbed
  off and you add three youll have 5 and so on.
  Over a period of time youll create a heavy
  buildup.

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Review

• Start clean to stay clean.
• Focus on prevention through diligence in daily
  maintenance procedures.
• Use interim procedures regularly to prevent
  floors from getting out of control.
• Use renovative procedures only as necessary.

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Resilient Floor Care

• Are there any
• Questions?

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Quiz

1. (T/F) neutralizing after stripping isnt really
   necessary.
2. Stripping is necessary when changing
   , or , when finishing , and if
   theres a .
3. (T/F) Apply finish the same way you mop a floor.
4. Seal is used to create a for finish.
5. The final step before applying the first seal
   coat is to the floor for .

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Quiz

1. The most important part of a resilient floor care
   program is .
2. (T/F) The more finish coats applied, the longer
   you can go between stripping or scrubbing.
3. (T/F) After scrubbing a floor, apply one more
   coat of Finish than you removed for the best
   appearance.
4. (T/F) Damp mopping with a cleaner/ restorer is an
   efficient way to clean and apply a restorer in
   one step.
5. (T/F) Dust mopping is the first line of defense
   against finish wear.

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Answers

1. (F) neutralizing after stripping isnt really
   necessary.
2. Stripping is necessary when changing coating
   systems, or suppliers , when finishing new
   floors, and if theres a heavy buildup .
3. (F) Apply finish the same way you mop a floor.
4. Seal is used to create a base for finish.
5. The final step before applying the first seal
   coat is to check the floor for residue .

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Answers

1. The most important part of a resilient floor care
   program is each step is equally important a
   floor care program means skipping any step will
   affect the total performance of the coating
   system .
2. (F) The more finish coats applied, the longer you
   can go between stripping or scrubbing.
3. (F) After scrubbing a floor, apply one more coat
   of finish than you removed for the best
   appearance.
4. (T) Damp mopping with a cleaner/ restorer is an
   efficient way to clean and apply a restorer in
   one step.
5. (T) Dust mopping is the first line of defense
   against finish wear.

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Resilient Floor Care

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