3m pad stripping vct floor
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- Nothing but water and a 3M pad to strip a floor. Not chemical stripping for Mr.Jeff. I have been a custodian for over 20 years. The purpose of this channel is to share some of my knowledge with you. I remember the feeling when I first became a custodian. I was given a set of keys, a radio and a badge. Didn't get any training whatsoever. Being a custodian is not rocket scientist knowledge. There are definitely things that a custodian needs to know. I call it the art of the trade. Tips and tricks that can make the job much easier and enjoyable. Find me at @mrjeffthecustodian
Thanks for sharing I got hired with my local School district 3 months ago and have an opportunity to go on a day shift your videos have helped a lot they ask why my classes are so clean and I tell them I watch your videos and bathrooms
Awesome!!
@@mrjeffthecustodian do you have a video on what a day custodians most important job of the day is no matter what he does that everyday I know you pick up trash clean up the main office blow off the campus unlock security gates if you have them and flags and check if everything is safe for the kids
Bathrooms hands down!
Almost literally the same situation except I started four months ago and got an opportunity to do floors at night. 😅
I miss doing this kind of work. I used to work for a school district. Those summer cleanups were awesome. Cranking loud music and scrubbing/stripping/waxing floors. Nice video!
Thanks
Mr. Jeff, you stripped and waxed those floors like a BOSS!! I learned a lot .. I saw your video a few months ago and found it again and rewatched it again. Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Thank you Mr. Jeff, I'm coming up on my third summer and they want me stripping this time. I've done room clean outs the first year, waxing the second, and now I'll learn to strip.
This is super insightful! And you boys are making it work despite that machine being older than the trees!
When I worked the night shift for the Supermarket I am currently employed at I learned how to take care of the floors and was such a satisfying job. I know what you mean about not wanting to do a Chemical Strip unfortunately that is how its still done today with our company only to save time..
What exact tool did you use to scrub/strip the edges?
No offense or disrespect. But please dont anyone out there top scrub a floor with just water. Need chemical heat and friction to clean. Especially if your job depends on doing it right.
Hey David, that's simply not true. I've stripped hundreds of floors, depends on the floor and how much wax you want to take off. I've don't this process plenty of times
@@dylanronan532 I was just about to say, you do not need to use stripper to just strip. This is why we top scrub.
@savinggenocide1986 yes sir!!
We use an abrasive powder soap in our water with an HO2 liquid cleaner and it works great with no chemical stripper risk factor. The HO2 leaves no residual soap and the abrasive powder soap gives extra wax removal power along with a 3M black buffer pad.
Is that pad a SPP pad.
I appreciate it!! This helps lot! U are very good! Everyone been telling me why my classrooms floors are so clean I say I watch your videos!
Lol thanks.
I just got in to stripping and waxing floors. I've done it 2 times and failed both times, both involved stripping using chemical stripper. I came across this video and decided to give it a try today. My god I will never use stripper unless I have to. My floors looked amazing with 6 coats of wax. I'm so eager to wake up tomorrow to buff them and move everything back in the rooms. I truly appreciate this video, really showed me that waxing floors doesn't have to be as stressful as I thought it would.
I have a commercial and residential cleaning company and customers keep asking if I can do their floors but I am kinda afraid to use stripper and sealant or wax. I don't want to ruin anyone's floors but reading your comment encouraged me to try this. Thanks!
Awesome job you guys!!! I am doing my first floor this weekend and am so much less nervous now thanks to you. I am going to try the no chem strip method except on some really bad spots that may need it. You guys rock!!
This top scrub method will work for a number of yrs. But what happens in large facilities is custodians keep doing it yr after yr. Then the poor guy who has to finally strip floor is in for alot of hard work and time. Especially in hallways that have been bunished and wax applied over and over again. Guy thats doing the stripping comes along. Puts down stripper first swipe. Cant get to the bottom has to keep applying stripper and scrubbing same spot. Puts down floor stripper and using a pole razor scraper takes off sheets. Ive had to do this sometimes a few times each swipe. Then work down the hallway blend floor in each swipe. Trick is increase floor stripper mixture and dwell time ,hot water. And make sure you got a good wet vac and pole razor scraper. Done alot of floors, commercial and public schools.Were this method guy here did. Workers did for yrs. Seen alot of floors were this was done and floor we called it turned. Were floor was shiny as hell but dirty.Needed to be chemically stripped. Depends on how much it is waxed and burnished. But what the guy is doing and saying is true. Floors dont need to be stripped every yr, but at some point need to be.My biggest problem is when a worker just keeps on top scrubbing and waxing yr after yr and has major build up. Classrooms can get away with this way longer then a hallway. That has a waxing maintenence schedule.
Exactly, at some point you have to strip the floor the right way
As one of those poor guys who's had to strip the 30, 40, or even 50 coats of wax left by years, or even decades of top scrub and recoat jobs, I approve this message.
God bless and thanks for sharing ❤
Hey buddy, nice work! Two hours to dry? Just one fan would have increased dry time.
Hello Mr Jeff missed you I'm glad you're doing well still stripping and waxing I just did that in my kitchen and dining room the other day but I have learned so much because I used to be a custodian for a local school district here in Cincinnati Ohio for over 8 years and I learned a lot but you can always update your knowledge on what you know cuz things change how the way things used to be done versus now so it's always good to learn different methods and things cuz I here at home have one of those oreck orbiter floor machines that I use and it is a lifesaver thinking about going back into the cleaning business cuz I think I did it well so thank you so much for your expertise your knowledge your wisdom and we look forward to seeing what's going to be done in the future
Thanks; this was very helpful. My only question is that I don't have a mopping machine to clean after the water stripping. What would you recommend as the best way to rinse the floor after stripping before you apply the wax?
Do you have anything thing to pick up solution with? A front squeegee vac works best.
@@mrjeffthecustodian I have a squeegee and shop vac
@michaelreynolds1051 that’s what we had years ago. Definitely will work. The one not thing stripper will burn a shop vac up. Need to invest in a squeegee vac. They are designed for floor stripper.
Appreciate the walkthrough
This how I was shown how to strip. we only really strip floors if a school has requested a deep clean . Some people I've worked with think soaking the floor with cream cleanser is a good idea, it just makes the floor go powdery and patchy.
Seen custodians for yrs in schools and other jobs making up their own methods. Nothing avoids doing it right and hardwork. Can get away top scrubbing it for awhile. Sooner or later got to strip it. Also why not,its just floor stripper it wont hurt you. Been doing floors for over 25 floors for public schools and private sector. When there isnt any chemical all your using is machine friction to clean. Real top scrubbing a floor is using a pad and some kind of chemical if not stripper. Plain water is just a total wasts of time. Even just using some simple green rather then water will do a way better job.
Great job
Just got that flat mop system for my job absolutely love waxing that way
Thank you!
The 3m Pad SPP, I use one side 800 square feet or fifteen minutes of run time the flip the pad. Then I get a new pad for the next class room.
In my high school we chemical strip one level and we call what you did top scrubbing on the other level. The following year we switch. We use the coarse black pad which also removes a few coats of wax and the apply just 2 coats of new wax. If we use chemical we do 5 coats. This is how I was taught and all I know. It's interesting to see other peoples methods of trying to achieve the same results.Every floor is chemical stripped every other year so it would have 7-8 coats of wax on it.
We're using a square scuber and love it
Absolutely love ours. We just got a new 28” last week while I was on vacation. Looking forward to get my hands on it this week. Never run one that big.
in canada we call that floor scrubber a zamboni. like the zamboni that cleans the ice in hockey rinks. the floor scrubber drops water and sucks it up cleaning the floor just like the ice,lol
one tip. punch a hole in the top of the wax bucket (with a screwdriver) opposite side of the pouring hole. the wax will pour out smoothly instead of jumping out like its doing to you in this video.
I would if I was using the whole bucket of wax. Got to keep it sealed. For the next time I wax.
@@mrjeffthecustodian the wax itself will seal it. or just put tape over the hole. have fun my friend.
Tape! I’m slow and old. That will work. As I always say. Never know it all and never quit learning. Thanks for the tip.
Why no black trash bag in your wax bucket????? It’s harder to clean out
I don’t have any trouble cleaning it out. We have a wax and not bucket. I cleaning it everyday after every use. Trash bags usually leak any way. The wringer gets more buildup than the bucket does.
The wet vac you're using. It's self explanatory? To clean it out you just bring it outside and take off the hose?
Dumps all the stripper and floor finish in the grass 😂😂😂 come back a week later the grass is still white 😂😂😂
So it is possible to strip a floor without stripper, just with water/and maybe a little soap? I mean if it gets the job done right? Thanks for the video
Unless you use the 3m pad. There will be no wax removed. If you use soap all that is a top scrub.
Yeap
Depends on how dirty floor is. Not that bad use a red pad. Kind of dirty use a green or blue pad. Really dirty use a brown or black pad.
wow....amazing
Making a new vid today on this method. Should be posted with in two weeks.
Sorry to bother you but today I have got the box of 3m floor pads,but didn't you say that the pad is a post to be maroon? Because on the box I got it say Brown, I was just wondering if I got the wrong ones.
The ones I have here are brown
Also. Are the like thin? If so they should be fine. If you belong to the Facebook group send me a picture of them
In a pm message. Have a great day.
Great tutorial !!!
Thanks
@@mrjeffthecustodian Gd day Mr Jeff. I'm curioue how much do you charge to do that room?
If it was just that one room and I was furnishing everything and doing it alone. No less that 50.00 and hour. That is if they have everything moved. So between 350.00 to 400.00. If I had to hire help I would charge more.
What did you do when you got to that back wall? Also that rectangle that you used for your exit is that always your exit? I just couldn’t tell what you on the wall that was opposite of where you started. Did you just turn around and do the sam thing as first then leave a path?
On way in one way out. I did change directions as much as possible. A lot of times when I video. My talking and what you see don’t match up. My human era.
Great video Jeff. Do you notice better results stripping with the swing machine vs going over the floor several times with the walk behind and a 3m sanding pad? (that's what we do). Also a tip you can try next time you pour out of a wax bucket, if you turn it so the outlet is on the top, you get less 'glugging'.
True on glugging. I have used walk behind walk behind and 3m. That works and well.
Hi mr Jeff my opinion you have to do half room because el stripper dried up
Mr. Jeff. Another beautiful video once again for stripping floors and waxing. 3M Surface Preparation pads are great product. Anything is better then the chemical stripper that's out there. Stripper destroys everything shoes and slippery then anything out there. Good chance to fall using stripper. I have 31 years in as a custodian now. I prefer waxing floors with the 3M Ez Shine backpack waxer applicator even thou it's expensive at $300. I've done it with the rectangle bucket you used with the sieve as well. That's not bad as well either. You can also go old school with the finish mop and mop bucket. Have you ever used fans to dry the floor after waxing? Not too close the floor otherwise you get ripples in your wax job. I've also learned in the past 4 years if you use an industrial dehumidifier helps a lot to dry your floor as well. Which I understand you have limited resources. We have an air conditioned Elementary school with a dehumidifier running floors where drying in 30 minutes. Your first coat you want to make it super dry so 2 hours before putting the 2nd coat on the floor. What do they say wax dries from the bottom up? Nice video as usual. Keep them coming.
I'm school custodian 33 years (time flies!!) I don't miss that old amoniated stripper that stuff is nasty!!!
Yes glad there are better ways these day. I hope I never chemical strip again.
@@mrjeffthecustodian I hear ya!
We always used some ajax mixed in the water to top scrub, Abit messy and sounds weird but works really well.
Never heard of that.
Your videos wonderful grateful to learn Allah I work with PD employer
If your not taking it down to bare tile your not stripping the floor your scrub and topcoat
True
@@mrjeffthecustodian i dont mean any disrespect brother cause your floors do look great
I didn’t take that way Bro. I just show other options on how to do floors. I still take them all the way down when needed.
How much you charge for that floor
@chitogt7763 I work at a college
Does the black stripper pad for the buffer have to be the same exact size as the driver or is it ok if the pad is an inch larger in diameter than the driver?
1 inch shouldn’t hurt anything. As long as it’s not scrubbing the machine.
@@mrjeffthecustodian thanks man. I appreciate it. You do great work.
Love your content. Your son is a BEAST!!!! Lol 😆
Yes my son can get it done.
Did you polish at the end of the coats of wax or in between?
I polish at end
What exact pad did you use? Can you share a link? I have always used stripper but hate using it and all about this method. Thank you
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Here is another way we also do. th-cam.com/video/0hd9a_A-wI8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BzgspJ6QWKE9NGDd
Looked like a brown 3m pad one step below a black stripping pad.
your floor curbing machine it out of order, please repair it. Housekeeping Manager Johnson
Lol
Can you give us the spec on the 3M abrasive pad you used here please?
At the high school I work at it takes us a week to strip a classroom floor to bare tile because most of the rooms have at least 40 coats of wax on them. Plus the stripper we use sucks
Been there. Build up is for the birds.
You need good stripper and long dwell times. 40 coats is a lot of floor finish. Good stripper with a 2 hour dwell time ( re apply as it soaks in) will cut thru many layers. Extreme build ups will require this process to be done multiple times. This is why you flood 2 rooms at a time. Hopefully they are right next to each other. I use a flat mop to spread stripper. It's easier to do. Before I bring out the 175( with a stripping brush... No pads...brush is better they don't clog up like black pads for)I have spent a lot of time mop stripping. When the flat mop no longer sticks to the floor then you know the wax has been emulsified and is ready for the machine...
Let the stripper do the work.
40 coats oh my
Put down stripper, pole scape it. Then reapply chemical scrub it. Keep doing this until wax is up then move on to next swipe. Hot water, increase stripper mixture ,longer dwell time, razor pole scrape it is the key with large wax build. up. Sometimes it just not possible because of time to get to the bottom get all wax off. So just do each swipe uniformly have to blend it in. Then after like 4 coats of wax. Will start to see it look better blend in. Done so many floors like that very large build up. Will kill yourself trying to get it all up.
So how do you know that you have taken 3 coats off the floor and that only 1 coat of wax remains?? Before you reapply new coats of wax.
That’s just what the company that makes the pads say it takes off. There’s no sure way of knowing. I just know I like it better than wet stripping.
Are you just using water or chemicals?
Water and 3m pad.
Did you add wax to the brown baseboard??
No they are wood
Hey good morning this is DJ I'm a custodian janitor I do volunteer work
Howdy
Will one pad do the whole classroom?
Yes
Is the 3M pad a special pad for just stripping with water? Is it called the Super Pad? I would like to purchase some.
Yes only for stripping or top scrubbing. Here are 3 links where we get ours. m.supplyworks.com/#/sku/MMM08448 m.supplyworks.com/#/sku/MMM08274 m.supplyworks.com/#/sku/MMM02590
Just one thing, don't you got to have a non slipping shoes or some kind of booties so the floor does not get more dirty?
I never have. If your shoes are Clean there mo difference. Don’t need none slip doing this method. Floors are not slippery.
im sorry but you can not every 3 years use 3m pads this is not a full strip
and u are budling yourself for a heaahce later
I haven’t wet strip a floor in 10 years. Been 3m padding never had a problem with yellowing or build up.
I dont think he tried this method in a hallway that's been waxed regularly and burnished. Like you said he would end up with a gigantic headaches in future. Plus try this method in private sector will end up getting fired ,loosing jobs real fast.
Can I put stripping chemical in an auto scrubber and use it to scrub and strip the floor?
NO!! th-cam.com/video/tN01oRJCzGI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fPg58InQNNhbaCR6
You can apply floor stripper to floor not machine. Then use auto scrubber just the pad moving, no wet fav on. When you think its good then suck it up. Just make sure you clean scrubber out really good afterwards with water when done. Chemicals will mess up hoses and machine. Had to do this one nite on a quarter mile hallway. Job wanted stripped in one nite. No way would of been possible with a swing machine. I also used auro scrubber to rinse floor after scrubbing. Just put down stripper with mop then use machine will be fine. We actually had a walk behind with this stripping feature. It free floted in normal mode. Then pressed down on handle and it applied more pad pressure to pad to floor. Really saved my ass that nite be able to do that.
It would have dried faster if you had some air movement on it it shouldn't only take an hour to dry
What do way weight. I am 312 got back issues and leg hurts. Do think job get me in shape
What was that edging tool that you were using?
Doodle bug
@@mrjeffthecustodian i have that and it does not work well at all. It's the black pad. These rooms that i am doing have a massive build up of old dirty wax so maybe that's why it isn't working?
Razor blade on a pole. Been there with massive build up. I have had it so bad had to scrape whole room.
I'm having a small issue with swirl/turn marks appearing after finishing the job, where I turned the wax applicator to move back the other way. Any tips?
I have had that happen. Two things I can think of. You maybe applying to heavy of a coat. Try not to load up to heavy. One thing I do is pull straight from the bucket with my pad. That way my pad want be so full when I start my turns. Like I’m this video. I start next to wall the. Make my longer runs with the turns back and forth. The 2nd thing. Wax may not be self leveling. So it kinda stays put and dries without spreading any.
Your problem might be humidity levels. Use to happen to us in a large school district with vct tile. When finished would dry look like broken egg shells when dry. Also might be rushing coats. We started putting AC on in rooms.That hazing and broken egg shell look disappeared between coats and finished floor with ac on in rooms.
i help the custodian at my school i mop floor sweep with big broom and i get black marks off floor
Black marks removal is a full time job.
Did I hear him say 2 hours for 1st Coat. He needs to be fired LO. L. I've been doing floors for over 40 years. Floor. has Not been done in several years. There's no way I would have not chemically stripped that. There's a time in place. There's a time and a place for those 3 m's. floor..
Glad you enjoyed it.
Why is it we don't clean our own machinery? Your floor scrubber looks exactly like mine.
Dingy and dirty😅
This machine was at the collage when I started. Mine use that I got new is clean. I’m the only one that uses it. Those community machines get used and abused.
Do you do supermarkets?
I work for a collage. I don’t have my own business
@mrjeffthecustodian I see but keep up the good work
That’s what I do at the hospital I stripped floors just like that it depends how the floor is sometimes it doesn’t always work I have no choice put to strip it all way down with stripper did this for 15 years
Love this method. Definitely a labor saver and a back saver too.
The 3m metal sanding pad?
No not metal
What tool do you use to lay your wax?
Micro fiber pad
@@mrjeffthecustodian Are you using the Rubbermaid microfiber finish pad? Or just their damp mop microfiber pad? You and your son remind me of myself and my dad and Grandpa when I was his age and helping them do floors. Nice work, thank you.
Rubber maid
how do you know when you have gotten up all the wax off the floor
What method of stripping are you doing?
@@mrjeffthecustodian im wet stripping with chemical an its about 3 to 4 coats of wax on the floor
You will not get all wax off. You just want it to be clean. No dirty looking spots. Floor will look lighter in areas than others. This method is not a complete strip. Your only take a few coats off. Leaving the base coats. As long as the floor looks clean. You should be ready to wax.
@@mrjeffthecustodian ok thanks
Safety ? Footwear ? PPE
I don’t wear them. I wear
Water proof slip resistant shoes.
4chan lore
How do you get water spots up after you mop?
Don’t have that problem if wrong mop out good. Applying to much water to the floor is usually what causes that. At least for me anyways.
@@mrjeffthecustodian I just tried to buff some water spots off classroom floor. I used floor cleaner and white pad but it took the wax off? I guess yes from using to much water. I ring it out as best as I can. Our floors our old.
That’s a mystery that wax came off. There must be a chemical reaction in the mix some where down the road. Could be from the floor being old and not being properly taken care of over the years. I know it can be very flustering when you want things to look good.
@@mrjeffthecustodian well thanks for the reply. Maybe I’ll try more and more less water. I rather have carpet than tile.
You should have used a black pad
I was take top
Layer of wax off. 3m pad will
Do that. Deep
Top scrubbing.
I majored in floor buffing, stripping and waxing for the first 11 months I was in the Air Force. We tried to make the polish and finish last longer by always removing our shoes. Then here come the training instructors doing their inspections with their boots and shoes walking around like a bunch of elephants. They fed on our tears.
The same goes being a school custodian. 2000 plus kids on your nice shiny halls. I really had to learn to let that go. From my understanding once upon a time. The military used a compound wax. Is that still true? I heard it was much harder to do than regular waxing and stripping. On thing about school. I could show my flustering feeling. In the Military you had to suck it up! I want to thank you for your service for our country!!!!
@@mrjeffthecustodian In basic training it came along the first Sunday. We were told we could go to church or we could go to a party. Those devout soles amongst us dressed and left for church. The rest of us were educated on what a "GI Party" was all about. We all got to scrub, polish, dust and buff every inch of the dormitory. We did the two big rooms just like you did in the video strip and reapply wax. We may have been able to get away with spray touch up or burnishing on odd weekends. I remember the conversion to regular attendance at Church was amazing. In tech school after Basic the MCT tile was very dark almost black and we used a Paste Wax like Johnson and Johnson. The floor was like a mirror until it was walked on. We would go down the narrow hallways walking spread-eagle so the wear was only along the edges next to the wall. I saw guys come to blows over disrespecting another stack's hallway floor finish after the buffing was completed. Lessons had to be taught and learned.
Oh my paste wax!!
What color was that pad he used
3m maroon pad
Ok thanks
I see the difference. So you didn't you any chemical compound to strip the floor.
Not just water and 3m pad
@@mrjeffthecustodian Interesting?
, beautiful beautiful
that floor is still messed up
this isn't stripping a floor, your top scrubbing it.
No jeff
Need to dump that slurry somewhere away from the building. Right by the door? Come on, man!!!
It not like wet strip. Rain washes that stuff away. It’s like chalk.
@@mrjeffthecustodian If I can see parking and a walkway ... that's too close
LOL
hahaha u did 8 coats of wax??? dude stop
this floor was like bare bones. usually only do 3 coats.
Everything you do is wrong you should be trained again on doing floors…
You're top scrubbing the foor stop calling it stripping, 2hrs to dry a floor? Have u ever heard of floor fans.u wouldn't last 2 days working with me u are way too slow I'd have 4 Coates of wax on there in an hr and 15 mins
It will be messed up in 3 hours anyway life of a custodian all that hard work for nothing 😂😂
Pouring out the dirty water into the grass is a great way to promote proper health and safety practices 🤡
I know the next day I seen a grass hopper wearing a rain coat and a mask. Lol
He's just talking to much
Glad you enjoyed it. Lol
He forgot the stripper soultion
It a 3m pad strip. You done use anything but water. Just like square scrubbing.