I have to clean and regularly maintain a floor. It is in the entrance of a small private hospital. I’m not sure what type it is – I think it is a plain vinyl. It’s in a high traffic area and has many patients and staff walking over it every day, so the impact of high heels and wheelchairs frequently passing over it leaves it very difficult to keep clean.

Can you advise a system that could help us?

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Have you considered A217 Ultrapac Renovate?

It’s highly effective at removing foot traffic soils, and carbons from such things as tyre marks etc. Dilute and rotary scrub in the product and then wet-vacuum the soiled water away. A neutralising rinse with C255 Prorinse is then advisable to prevent re-soiling.

Then, if the floor is porous or semi-porous an application of a seal such as R602 Proseal would be a good move. This will penetrate into the flooring and block water and soil penetration.

Once you have let that dry, two or three coats of a good quality, high solids polish such as Prochems’ 25% metallic-content C503 Proshine. You have now protected the flooring from top to bottom.

Polishes can be one of the most expensive products that you can put on flooring. So, if, the following day, a worker walks over the floor (and new layers of polish) with sand or grit on the bottom of their shoes, this will obviously scratch and damage the surface. Those marks will soon become visible and putting more polish on, may thought to be the answer.

That is why Prochem produce C502 Protreat. A wax and polymer-based, pink-coloured solution, this can be mopped or lightly sprayed onto the flooring. It could then be burnished with the introduction of a high-speed rotary machine and perhaps a red or white floor pad.

Protreat acts as a kind of filler, restoring those above mentioned scratches and giving a rich, non slip finish to the flooring. This is deemed to be a regular maintenance process.

So, to sum up – the seal (Proseal) protects the floors’ depth. The polish (Proshine) protects the floors surface and the maintainer (Protreat) protects the polish layers – Simple !

If you want to learn more about these and other hard surface treatments, why not consider coming on a one-day Hard Floor Cleaning & Maintenance course with us?

This Q&A is taken from Prochem’s March 2016 Ezine. Click here to read the full Ezine