I definately like the idea of not having to shut down your facility to strip and recoat like you would have to in a facility with traditonal floor. The process of revitalizing a protective coat on a concrete floor from what I can see looks much easier then stripping and recoating and less time consuming. I spent enough time in the cleaning business to know what goes into maintenence of a traditonal floor
I used to work at a grocery store that had polished concrete floors and they weren’t maintained properly because every time we had a spill after we cleaned it up it would leave a spot where the spill was.
That’s why they keep saying “concrete is a reactive surface” there’s oil based stain guards like Ameripolish SR2 that will make the concrete water repellent, but it’s a lot more expensive and companies are cheap asses
@@russellchampagne3830 Honestly if I were the owner of that grocery store I would make sure to keep my floors shiny! Surprisingly people don’t believe that shiny floors actually make the environment more appealing and more likely to boost sales!
What about stains left from tyres from the likes of Bobcats, Forklifts,underground drilling machines and other types of heavy construction equipment (some with rubber tracks)and associated, mechanical grease & oily deposits that are frequently left behind when moved from a showroom floor from ie; to and from the mechanical workshop?
We have a product called Cleaner/Degreaser that can remove rubber tire marks and scuffs and can help with grease and oil stains. Heavier oil stains might take a bit more muscle, so we have a product called Oil & Grease Stain Remover that can do that. It is a poultice that absorbs embedded oil stains. prosoco.com/product/cleaner-degreaser/ prosoco.com/product/oil-grease-stain-remover/
How bad are the scratches? There’s a product called grind and fill Prosoco makes, you just wet polish with that and let the slurry you create harden and it will fill in the voids once you polish away the excess and it will create a much higher surface density if you do it all over (shinier floor)
Yeah, you’re good with a white pad. If it’s really dull sadly they didn’t polish it properly and a lot of your shine may have come from a sealer that has “walked off”
Question - so we polished a concrete floor and the guy mopped the floor and the dust kept showing up idk if he used vinegar or something but we mopped the floor with a special soap for polish floors and the dust wouldn’t clean still what do you think is the problem?
If the streaks aren’t changing they’re in the sealer. The floor was likely dirty and there’s just dirty streaks in the sealer. If they’re dark it could be too much sealer or he got on it too soon with the burnisher
@@russellchampagne3830 haha this was so long ago advice is not worthy no more guys were assholes were laughing at us so we abandoned job even doe we did everything professionally and even told them we would fix it
No, not necessarily. Polished concrete can work well in residential floors. For a residential floor near a beach, you might want to think about extra protection against salt.
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I definately like the idea of not having to shut down your facility to strip and recoat like you would have to in a facility with traditonal floor. The process of revitalizing a protective coat on a concrete floor from what I can see looks much easier then stripping and recoating and less time consuming. I spent enough time in the cleaning business to know what goes into maintenence of a traditonal floor
looks good
I used to work at a grocery store that had polished concrete floors and they weren’t maintained properly because every time we had a spill after we cleaned it up it would leave a spot where the spill was.
That’s why they keep saying “concrete is a reactive surface” there’s oil based stain guards like Ameripolish SR2 that will make the concrete water repellent, but it’s a lot more expensive and companies are cheap asses
@@russellchampagne3830 Honestly if I were the owner of that grocery store I would make sure to keep my floors shiny! Surprisingly people don’t believe that shiny floors actually make the environment more appealing and more likely to boost sales!
How would you take care deep stains on the polished concrete.
A bottle of liquor broke on my polished concrete resulting in a permanent stain.
What about stains left from tyres from the likes of Bobcats, Forklifts,underground drilling machines and other types of heavy construction equipment (some with rubber tracks)and associated, mechanical grease & oily deposits that are frequently left behind when moved from a showroom floor from ie; to and from the mechanical workshop?
We have a product called Cleaner/Degreaser that can remove rubber tire marks and scuffs and can help with grease and oil stains. Heavier oil stains might take a bit more muscle, so we have a product called Oil & Grease Stain Remover that can do that. It is a poultice that absorbs embedded oil stains.
prosoco.com/product/cleaner-degreaser/
prosoco.com/product/oil-grease-stain-remover/
Ameripolish makes a product called SR2 that will create a non permeable surface (it’s fuckin expensive, but a gallon goes a mile)
What about the strip and wax
The burnishing what number pad do you use?
Hog hair, 200,400,800,1500 or 3,000 depending on the job
What about steaming?
I am not sure I understand your question completely but we don’t recommend steam cleaning concrete floors treatedwith our products.
Do you have a process/product for removing scratches in polished/sealed concrete floors?
Dan Lewis Did you ever get an answer to this question? If so, could you share it with me? I can’t seem to get any answers on the internet.
How bad are the scratches? There’s a product called grind and fill Prosoco makes, you just wet polish with that and let the slurry you create harden and it will fill in the voids once you polish away the excess and it will create a much higher surface density if you do it all over (shinier floor)
How to get up clear scuffs/scratches in the surface?
I think the lsguard layer is what is scuffing
Burnish the floor with a hog hair pad
Can I deep.scrub. polished concrete with dull shine ..without ruining it and polished it using a buffer and white pad?
Yeah, you’re good with a white pad. If it’s really dull sadly they didn’t polish it properly and a lot of your shine may have come from a sealer that has “walked off”
Question - so we polished a concrete floor and the guy mopped the floor and the dust kept showing up idk if he used vinegar or something but we mopped the floor with a special soap for polish floors and the dust wouldn’t clean still what do you think is the problem?
If the streaks aren’t changing they’re in the sealer. The floor was likely dirty and there’s just dirty streaks in the sealer. If they’re dark it could be too much sealer or he got on it too soon with the burnisher
@@russellchampagne3830 haha this was so long ago advice is not worthy no more guys were assholes were laughing at us so we abandoned job even doe we did everything professionally and even told them we would fix it
Sorry to hear that. I was just stoned and waiting for my plane 😅 I didn’t see how old some of these questions were
beach condo, will this be a disaster floor inside apartment?
No, not necessarily. Polished concrete can work well in residential floors. For a residential floor near a beach, you might want to think about extra protection against salt.
@@ProsocoSince1939 I'm worried about tracking sand around
It would be easy to clean
nothing more or less than a terrazzo floor without the marble aggregate.
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well said. I was referring to the fact that it was cement based like terrazzo and the maintenance
looks similar.
*cementitious, terrazzo is usually much more time consuming to polish than concrete
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