I'm a building supervisor for a special ed school and just demo'd a similar machine this week. It took 5 min to convince my principal to buy the machine (county will supply the pads, but the schools have to pay for the machine. No chemical odor (a BIG selling point for my building), no slipping and sliding, takes a fraction of the time, etc. I was blown away when our equipment guy showed it to us. I'm actually excited for next summer to come so I can do my whole building with this.
This is the method that I keep trying to drill into the head of my lead custodian!! I’ve been a custodian for seven years and know a thing or two about floors and my lead custodian was hired off the street with no school custodian experience, and thinks that wet stripping is the only way to go! I’m glad to see that you are a fan of this method too Mr. Jeff !!
I work at a church and I'm all by myself and I get the temptation, see all the equipment to do the floors and the striper liquid they have, but now the way you showed the dry striping, looks a lot easier, might have to watch your video a few more time to get the real aspect of it, but it seem a lot less difficult then using the striper👍,oh and the step by step technique, got to love it ,thx.
Yesterday I cleaned out a bottom level of the church witch they call the freedom hall,anyway in the corner of it like a 15'×20' they had some stuff stored like speakers chairs , keyboards and TVs, I don't know how long they been there but all were pretty dusty and who ever been waxing that floor, it shows they just went around that spot but as I moved everything on the title is like rust and Scuf marks don't know what it's from ,but that 3M pad will lift that up out of the title? Just asking.
Depending on how deep in to the wax the rust is. Also depends on if rust is in pours of the tile. I had rust so bad it. A floor that even floor stripper would not take it all up. It’s really a trial and error type thing. Oh one more thing it depends if the rust has been waxed over. I do recommend a good wet stripping if it’s really bad. Then you can go to the 3m way from that point on. Hope that makes since.
great video, i don't know how well dry stripping would be at the school i work at, the floors do get abused pretty bad even though we do have a floor tech that keeps up with it, have heard of dry strip but we butt heads with the boss on that haha same situation with us butting head and refusing micro fiber flat mop
"Whatever you've done, they're gonna mess it up." That's the truth. I think the pour wax and spread it with a flat mop method is just fine. I've done whole rooms like that and it generally works well. A little more fussy than the backpack, but still good.
We just finished out gym using this method this summer. My lead custodian has sworn that we will never go back to wet stripping again. Whenever I move into a lead position, this is how I'm doing it, as well.
If it was 1st or 2nd coat. I have took a small piece of 3m pad and rubbed it with my hand pressure and wipe it with a wet microfiber. Then finish coats. IT’s noticed if you know where it’s at. I have had times that it was just there until next strip.
@@dmoney4414 We use them in bathroom to. We have a pad kinda like artificial tuff that get down in the grout really good. If I had to go to Hawaii to get on of these machine. I would start swimming LOL. There a time money and back saver!
3 coats is usually enough of wax for one school year. You don’t want to get a wax build up. Wax build up will make your floors harder to strip. New tile that has never had wax before you can put on 5 coats the first time.
Do you find that being a custodian helps you stay in shape? Or does it wear on you? I have a desk job and I think that this is probably giving me way more physical problems than I would have doing a custodian job.
Summer Time is ruff at times. Moving a lot of furniture and unloading boxes of school supplies. Last week had 42 boxes of coping paper came in. I can only speak for my school system. Every system is different. I can say this it’s the easiest job I have ever had. Being I use to be a concrete finisher for 18 years.
The square scrub stripping method is very good as long as you make sure you have lots of down pressure and an aggressive pad. I like microfiber flat mops because they are easier to not get wax on the baseboards. Speaking of baseboards - if you guys don’t use any wet stripper, how do you get wax buildup off of baseboards? Do you use a can of baseboard stripper?
Hey Jeff I liked the video only issue is the camera person shook my eyeballs out of my head. Purchase a tripod and watch your video quality shoot through the roof . Friendly criticism keep up the great Sharing of your craft. I also own a carpet and tile cleaning business.
Could you give me some pointers on scrub and recoating ? I just started in the industry, and I’m working on VERY uneven VTC floor and honestly it doesn’t look like it comes out completely clean. Any pointers? And I’m use it an auto scrubber with green pads with PH cleaner to clean
I wish our school would invest into this machine that saves a lot of time all around. We still have to pour stripper down. And also People who are stuck in their own ways usually won't change also sadly
It saves money in the long run. What you spend on stripper is very expensive. A box of pad cost the same as two buckets of stripper. The box of pads covers thousands of square footage. Yes some folk just are not up for change. I’m not getting any younger so I’m up for easier.
You can use these machines with a different pad and stripper.They do strip a floor. If a floor has ten coats of dirty wax buildup then yes you need stripper. If the floor is clean then this works great. They actually remove one half coat per single pass. Square scrub UA-cam video demonstrated this.
you should always wet strip floors every 2 years.. those 3M pads are junk you are still waxing over waxing that is dirty... just wet your floors with a low ratio of stripper and its a peace of cake no need for the water or anything to run down the steps
Nice to see a fellow custodian tjat takes pridw in his job. Thanks brother! Great vids.
Thanks
I'm genuinely blown away. Wish the school I work at had this machine. Learning a lot from these videos.
Thank you. Now that I am no longer there. I wish I had one at the collage. Can’t talk them in to it.
@@mrjeffthecustodian hi Jeff. I will follow your direction on stripping with a 3M pad and water. Is the 3M pad a "super" pad and is it easy to find?
This school is blessed & privilege to have you
thanks
I'm a building supervisor for a special ed school and just demo'd a similar machine this week. It took 5 min to convince my principal to buy the machine (county will supply the pads, but the schools have to pay for the machine. No chemical odor (a BIG selling point for my building), no slipping and sliding, takes a fraction of the time, etc. I was blown away when our equipment guy showed it to us. I'm actually excited for next summer to come so I can do my whole building with this.
You will never want to wet strip again.
How much are those machines?
@@Endor2001 Ours was in the 3-4 thousand dollar price range
Around 4000
Thanks for your videos i been working at a hospital for going on 5 years learned alot from your videos!!!!
Thanks glad they help.
Awesome job
Great job
We've used a T3 Auto scrubbed for almost 10 years now that has that square scrub oscillating head. So much better than strippers.
Nice!!! I need to invest in this machine. Especially in areas where I have to worry about maintaining my stripper. Great video!
Great job! I love the 3M surface prep pads.
This is the method that I keep trying to drill into the head of my lead custodian!! I’ve been a custodian for seven years and know a thing or two about floors and my lead custodian was hired off the street with no school custodian experience, and thinks that wet stripping is the only way to go!
I’m glad to see that you are a fan of this method too Mr. Jeff !!
I hate when they hire folks like that. Put a person in charge that started from the bottom. Someone who knows what needs to be done.
I work at a church and I'm all by myself and I get the temptation, see all the equipment to do the floors and the striper liquid they have, but now the way you showed the dry striping, looks a lot easier, might have to watch your video a few more time to get the real aspect of it, but it seem a lot less difficult then using the striper👍,oh and the step by step technique, got to love it ,thx.
It’s a much better way for sure.
Yesterday I cleaned out a bottom level of the church witch they call the freedom hall,anyway in the corner of it like a 15'×20' they had some stuff stored like speakers chairs , keyboards and TVs, I don't know how long they been there but all were pretty dusty and who ever been waxing that floor, it shows they just went around that spot but as I moved everything on the title is like rust and Scuf marks don't know what it's from ,but that 3M pad will lift that up out of the title? Just asking.
Depending on how deep in to the wax the rust is. Also depends on if rust is in pours of the tile. I had rust so bad it. A floor that even floor stripper would not take it all up. It’s really a trial and error type thing. Oh one more thing it depends if the rust has been waxed over. I do recommend a good wet stripping if it’s really bad. Then you can go to the 3m way from that point on. Hope that makes since.
@@mrjeffthecustodian I moped it. It faded it out ,I'm just going to head to home depot and buy a M3 pad and try it out,thanks and enjoy your day.
Oh the edges what were you scrubbing them with?
great video, i don't know how well dry stripping would be at the school i work at, the floors do get abused pretty bad even though we do have a floor tech that keeps up with it, have heard of dry strip but we butt heads with the boss on that haha same situation with us butting head and refusing micro fiber flat mop
"Whatever you've done, they're gonna mess it up." That's the truth.
I think the pour wax and spread it with a flat mop method is just fine. I've done whole rooms like that and it generally works well. A little more fussy than the backpack, but still good.
I only did that because it was a stair landing. No my favorite method. It works I just roll with it.
Does the wax have a strong odor?
Yes
We just finished out gym using this method this summer. My lead custodian has sworn that we will never go back to wet stripping again. Whenever I move into a lead position, this is how I'm doing it, as well.
Love it!
@@mrjeffthecustodian out of curiosity, any tips on getting foot prints of of semi wet or set wax?
If it was 1st or 2nd coat. I have took a small piece of 3m pad and rubbed it with my hand pressure and wipe it with a wet microfiber. Then finish coats. IT’s noticed if you know where it’s at. I have had times that it was just there until next strip.
Very Informative video i just stripped my stairs 3 weeks ago with my square scrub put 3 coats on still looks nice
Those things are awesome! Do y’all square scrub only?
@@mrjeffthecustodian yes we do the samething you do we also use them for bathrooms we use a heavy degreaser then we rinse with water
@@dmoney4414 We use them in bathroom to. We have a pad kinda like artificial tuff that get down in the grout really good. If I had to go to Hawaii to get on of these machine. I would start swimming LOL. There a time money and back saver!
@@dmoney4414 I hope to have that buffing vid ready soon. Been working on it.
Do you have to wax floors in the whole entire building by yourself?
No we all came together in the summer. Some of us moved furniture some striped floors and had 2 waxing.
Very new to this, sir. How do you know when you are through 3 coats of wax? Thanks.
3 coats is usually enough of wax for one school year. You don’t want to get a wax build up. Wax build up will make your floors harder to strip. New tile that has never had wax before you can put on 5 coats the first time.
@@mrjeffthecustodian Thank you.
@@mrjeffthecustodian I think Julie means how do you know you are through 3 coats when you were "dry stripping."
@@mrjeffthecustodian is it base coat and then 3 coats or is 3 coats including the base coat.
After you strip with square scrub. Apply 3 to 4 coats.
I prefer a mop and bucket to wax unless it's a very small area, then I'll use a disposable wax pad. Prep is everything!!
I really like the bucket as well.
Thanks!!
I spent a Saturday afternoon/early evening waxing and stripng a new floor in a class room
Overtime pay I hope.
I'm envious of the variety of equipment you have access to. I only have a hoover and a buffer in my school .
I don’t have all that fancy stuff at the collage. I miss my equipment!
Do you find that being a custodian helps you stay in shape? Or does it wear on you? I have a desk job and I think that this is probably giving me way more physical problems than I would have doing a custodian job.
Summer Time is ruff at times. Moving a lot of furniture and unloading boxes of school supplies. Last week had 42 boxes of coping paper came in. I can only speak for my school system. Every system is different. I can say this it’s the easiest job I have ever had. Being I use to be a concrete finisher for 18 years.
The square scrub stripping method is very good as long as you make sure you have lots of down pressure and an aggressive pad. I like microfiber flat mops because they are easier to not get wax on the baseboards. Speaking of baseboards - if you guys don’t use any wet stripper, how do you get wax buildup off of baseboards? Do you use a can of baseboard stripper?
The machine has and attachment that scrubs the baseboard.
Mr Jeff Custodian Oh wow that’s pretty cool
good machine i lake
Hey Jeff I liked the video only issue is the camera person shook my eyeballs out of my head. Purchase a tripod and watch your video quality shoot through the roof . Friendly criticism keep up the great Sharing of your craft. I also own a carpet and tile cleaning business.
My son was hold the camera. He was only 10 at the time.
@@mrjeffthecustodian Then GREAT JOB!
You call it "wax" but it is actually some kind of polymer resin right? ....you do not burnish after the last layer of wax? THX... Be well!
Yes I burnish after waxing.
I would’ve had an asthma attack carrying that up the stairs lol fact that you just kept moving I would’ve had to catch my breath
Lol this fat boy was out of breath!
Who's your camera person? Michael J Fox? Heavens, watching this made me Blair Witch Project sick😮
It was my 9 year old son. So for a kid he did pretty good.
@Mr Jeff Custodian oh for a nine year old, he did awesome. That's cool, you get to spend time like that with your son in he's into it
Lol as he gets more Older he’s less interested.
First time "flipping" a school this summer. But we're using black pads and floor stripper. And whats your opinion on 2 coats of wax?
If your wet stripping no less than 3 coats.
Could you give me some pointers on scrub and recoating ? I just started in the industry, and I’m working on VERY uneven VTC floor and honestly it doesn’t look like it comes out completely clean. Any pointers? And I’m use it an auto scrubber with green pads with PH cleaner to clean
Have you stopped the floor and waxed it?
@@mrjeffthecustodian I have
I wish our school would invest into this machine that saves a lot of time all around. We still have to pour stripper down.
And also People who are stuck in their own ways usually won't change also sadly
It saves money in the long run. What you spend on stripper is very expensive. A box of pad cost the same as two buckets of stripper. The box of pads covers thousands of square footage. Yes some folk just are not up for change. I’m not getting any younger so I’m up for easier.
My second day, by myself, gator rippin haha
That’s not stripping. It’s square scrubbing
You can use these machines with a different pad and stripper.They do strip a floor. If a floor has ten coats of dirty wax buildup then yes you need stripper. If the floor is clean then this works great. They actually remove one half coat per single pass. Square scrub UA-cam video demonstrated this.
you should always wet strip floors every 2 years.. those 3M pads are junk
you are still waxing over waxing that is dirty... just wet your floors with a low ratio of stripper and its a peace of cake no need for the water or anything to run down the steps
I disagree our floors are in better shape now. We have not wet stripped in years.