gimmeagig
Member
A few months back I did a vinyl wax (my first one) and with your advice it turned out pretty good. It's a small company ,8 carpeted offices , a bathroom and a kitchen area that are vinyl. I told them vinyl wasn't my specialty and they were OK with that.
Today I went in for the second time. My local supplier told me I didn't need to strip the wax off I just needed to wash and rinse the floors, scuff it with a brown broom style pad and apply two coats. I used Franklin Interstate 50 sealer/wax. Most of it looks OK but one area doesn't. About two or three sqft in front of the fridge there are these veins going through the wax. It's not a puddle where I over applied. Just these irregular shaped rings,about the size of the palm of a hand. I rescuffed the area and applied a thin coat of wax back over it. As soon as the wax went on, the ridges became visible again. Not quite as bad but I'm sure I'm going to hear about it from my customer when he sees it tomorrow.
I'm wondering if the floor might still have been a little damp in that area. Could that have been the cause?
How can I fix something like that. is Franklin Interstate 50 a good product or is there something more "idiot proof" available?
Would it have been better to strip the floor first? It had three coats on it.I added two more. Should I strip it next time? The kitchen is small, about 5 X 10 ft. I poured the wax onto the floor and the spread it with a 10" wide lambs fur pad for application. Is that OK? Can you guys give me some pointers? I'm really frustrated right now.
Or should I strip the whole thing and start over?
Today I went in for the second time. My local supplier told me I didn't need to strip the wax off I just needed to wash and rinse the floors, scuff it with a brown broom style pad and apply two coats. I used Franklin Interstate 50 sealer/wax. Most of it looks OK but one area doesn't. About two or three sqft in front of the fridge there are these veins going through the wax. It's not a puddle where I over applied. Just these irregular shaped rings,about the size of the palm of a hand. I rescuffed the area and applied a thin coat of wax back over it. As soon as the wax went on, the ridges became visible again. Not quite as bad but I'm sure I'm going to hear about it from my customer when he sees it tomorrow.
I'm wondering if the floor might still have been a little damp in that area. Could that have been the cause?
How can I fix something like that. is Franklin Interstate 50 a good product or is there something more "idiot proof" available?
Would it have been better to strip the floor first? It had three coats on it.I added two more. Should I strip it next time? The kitchen is small, about 5 X 10 ft. I poured the wax onto the floor and the spread it with a 10" wide lambs fur pad for application. Is that OK? Can you guys give me some pointers? I'm really frustrated right now.
Or should I strip the whole thing and start over?