Burnishing Vinyl Floors

Pay special attention to the edges and corners where stripper residue will collect and contaminate the floor sealer or sealer finish.

Burnishing vinyl floors.

Mix chameleon floor prep as described on the bottle s label. Because burnishing abrasively removes the film you run the risk of prematurely damaging or wearing out floor tile without applying an adequate number of coats of finish. In this episode of clean care bill shows how to spray buff and how to burnish a floor. Multiple coats of finish result in a smooth surface that reflects light in an ordered regular pattern to create high gloss.

Using a floor burnisher you can give your wood floor a high gloss shine restoring the wet look that usually results only from a newly laid finish. Instead of moving side to side burnishers operate in a straight line going back and forth. Without proper maintenance hard surface floors tend to lose their quality and sheen. Remove any stuck on material such as gum tar or stickers from the floor with a putty knife.

Burnishing floor finish is helpful for two reasons. Floor burnishing is done with a rotary machine that has a pad turning speed of more than 1000 rpm but more commonly done at 1500 to 2000 rpm. Spray buffing and burnishing will both polish a floor but use differe. Remember to watch for the color change in the map bucket.

Burnishing the floor place the burnisher with pad attached in position. 2 mop the floor with a neutral ph floor. Damp mop the floor to neutralize and thoroughly cleanse the floor surface. First it makes floor finish shine but more important it makes the floor easier to keep clean.

And with high amounts of traffic your flooring is prone to dirt. Burnishing the floor is a way to refresh your floor s finish without going through the entire refinishing process. Besides being heavier the engines in burnishers are more complex to produce higher speeds. Burnishers look similar to buffers but are much heavier which provides added pressure to help produce a wet look shine.

Once you ve started the machine slowly lower the head pad assembly onto the floor. Floor burnishing requires a burnisher. Always start the burnisher in a leaned back position so the pad is not touching the floor.