Auto Scrubber/Ride On...? For UNIFISHED wood floors?

[jstucky]

Possible stupid question

Can I use a ride on or Auto scrubber on an older unsealed WOOD floor

My cousin has an old commercial building..7000 sq ft wide open per level. Did lots of new dry wall and mudding. Floor is covered in white hase and dry wall mess. I know alot will vacuum off but how bout an auto scrubber with a wood floor cleaner??

I saw an Advance ride on online...

.8 gallons a minute..56 inches of waterlift...

Are they all standard??? One dual stuage vac motor??

Are they just meant to skim the surface and not overwet??

Do they all need pads or can u you use brushes??


Thanks!

 

[jstucky]

Anybody got a copy? Lol

 

[Mark Saiger]

Ray Burnfield might be a good contact for this.

He is on this forum and has a distributorship too.

I have seen him involved with wood floors in his avatar pic and I believe for some professional sports teams taking care of their wood floors.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

Unsealed wood is not something that you should introduce to water. The boards or plank can swell.

What else do you want to do with the floor?
Pictures would help.

 

[Dolly Llama]

unsealed WOOD floor
anold commercial building.

out of my league here...but know a little about wood in general
water will raise the grain on unfinished wood , but i have this image in my head of hundred year old spruce floors in poor/worn condition .
so if that's the case, may not matter so much AS LONG AS you don't flood it and get it dried quick .

mop a section and see what happens .

I don't reckon those ride-on scrubbers leave a ton of water on the floor....that's where you run into problems with swelling and buckling ...like pipe break flood.

If board joints are tight, a ton of water shouldn't get down under the floor to cause problems either


..L.T.A.