When I had the job as site supervisor, at our local primary school, the cleaners used to strip the polish from the vinyl floor covering and apply another coat and it looked quite good. They did this once a year. Does anyone know of a similar polish that can be applied to laminate?
Dave
The polish they used would prolly be a water based acrylic. This might stay wet long enough to seep into the joints on the laminate, bear in mind its obviously self leveling & contains a wetting agent.
Real problem though would be the polish stripper. These things are nasty! Highly alkaline. What they would do to laminate doesn't bear thinking about.
Personally I wouldn't try it on laminate - vinyl is much tougher though.
I doubt it is necessary to fully strip the floor that often in any ordinary domestic environment. My experience was that floors even in heavily trafficked corridors would be stripped after a refurb or a few years.
In between it was commonly washed by mopping then spray polished. That is, using a buffing machine with a suitable pad, spray diluted acrylic polish and buff while still damp. This would clean the floor (the polish plus dirt ended up as a sort of dry dark powder that needed to be cleaned up afterwards), repair the surface of the polish and come to a very good shine. However, it does need a floor buffing machine.
That was my logic.
Sorry, but I am posting back in reverse order. I hadn't realised that there had been any replies to my question.
Dave
I am posting in reverse order with this...
I hadn't thought about that :-( Whats the smybol for a dumbo, it could be well used on this ng :-)
It was never my intention to strip it, just put a polish on it.
As an aside, a vinyl floor with stripper on is the slippiest floor I have ever stood on. Far worse that the slippiest ice.
Agreed scrub/recoat is a better system.
The 'spray cleaning' myth huh? :-)
File under Santa, Tooth Fairy etc.
It would eventually wear & need repair though.
Oh yes! BTDTGTTS many times.
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