Mikey P
Administrator
taken from a FB conversation..
Due to a lack of a talented and passionate workforce in the last ( I'm being generous here) ten years, we Americans are seeing poorly laid tiled floors everywhere. Weak/damaged grout is a common place as prematurely worn polyester carpet or swollen MDF/Pergo wood lookalikes.
I teach this stuff, I'm surrounded by the very folks that will someday soon write the standards for hard surface cleaning. I am also constantly contacted by cleaners dealing with these issues.
Im not bagging on spinner tools here, I'm bagging on the "Mark Markovitz" generation of lazy cleaners who wont use TACT to clean floors. The guys who always treat floors as if they were in a chinese restaurant with pH15 "2790 Oxy Master Blaster" and 1500-2500 psi, all so that they can avoid the Time and Agitation element to the professional process...
If thats you and my comments offend you, tough shit, you deserve to be throat punched, ESPECIALLY you assholes that Turbo Tilt.
Markovitz, the guy who claims to have invented the first turbo, has been promoting this bullshit for twenty years.
Why do you think I created my hard surface glide? Because I know for a fact that most grouted floors SHOULD and CAN be cleaned with just 400 psi if one uses TACT.
Think of it this way: Why do you rarely see cleaners online using rotary extractors on carpet any more? Because as a whole our industry has figured out that it's actually easier to use dwell time, our better modern chemistry, our CRBs and our high performance wands to achieve ( nearly ) the same result
.
And by doing so we avoid the over wetting and texture damage that is so common with rotary extension.
Well I found with the brush glide and using less pressure and TACT, and many many cleaners are reporting back to me that they're finding the same thing, is that grout is drying quicker and brighter. Why? Because grout just like carpet can wick and when you have a grouted floor that is saturated through and through with dirty mop water and you over clean it needlessly with a spinner, you're causing it to wick and the grout ends up drying blotchy.
Now let's throw in the fact, and you'll know this if you clean newly built modern homes, most of the grout being used these days hardly contains cement anymore. Do yourself a favor and become familiar with Prism grout from Polyblend. That's all we see out here on the west coast anymore in new installs. Prism and the competitors equivalents. are not even offered in sanded or unsanded anymore because it's so strong (when used correctly) due to all the polymer and strength building ingredients that it doesn't even need to be sealed. So it certainly does not need to be pressure washed at 1500 PSI.
Markovitz also promotes the immoral act of telling the floor owners about thier weak grout before cleaning, giving a quote on the needed repair then he self-fulfills his prophecy by intentionally blowing it out by using 2,000 PSI under his damn spinner and then forcefully upselling them on grout repair and color sealing. Rather than using the correct color of grout, he then colorseals the repair because he knows down the line, the color seal's going to fail and he can charge them to come back and reapply it. Yet another asshole that needs to be throat punched.
Heat is NOT what cleans grout, chemistry and aggitation is. It's not the heat under the spinner that is doing the work. It's the agitation from the high PSI. Prove it to yourself on your next tile and grout job, sweep the floor mop down your chemistry. Chemistry give it 10 or 20 minutes to dwell. Give it a light scrub where needed with a CRB or a pole brush or a malish brush under 175 and then use your hard surface wand and see if you don't get the same result at 400 PSI.
Obviously don't try this in the Chinese restaurant.
Quit cracking people's grout joints with high heat, quit turbo tilting and swelling their baseboards, regardless of them being cheap junk. It's not our place to **** up people's homes because we're too lazy to scrub and use a proper tool to do the edging.
Are there still properly installed grouted floors that can withstand 1500 pai? Sure, lots in older or very high end homes, but America's subdivisions are being built by a work force who couldn't tell you how many ounces are in a cup, so dont expect modern grouted installs to hold up to OUR abuse
Due to a lack of a talented and passionate workforce in the last ( I'm being generous here) ten years, we Americans are seeing poorly laid tiled floors everywhere. Weak/damaged grout is a common place as prematurely worn polyester carpet or swollen MDF/Pergo wood lookalikes.
I teach this stuff, I'm surrounded by the very folks that will someday soon write the standards for hard surface cleaning. I am also constantly contacted by cleaners dealing with these issues.
Im not bagging on spinner tools here, I'm bagging on the "Mark Markovitz" generation of lazy cleaners who wont use TACT to clean floors. The guys who always treat floors as if they were in a chinese restaurant with pH15 "2790 Oxy Master Blaster" and 1500-2500 psi, all so that they can avoid the Time and Agitation element to the professional process...
If thats you and my comments offend you, tough shit, you deserve to be throat punched, ESPECIALLY you assholes that Turbo Tilt.
Markovitz, the guy who claims to have invented the first turbo, has been promoting this bullshit for twenty years.
Why do you think I created my hard surface glide? Because I know for a fact that most grouted floors SHOULD and CAN be cleaned with just 400 psi if one uses TACT.
Think of it this way: Why do you rarely see cleaners online using rotary extractors on carpet any more? Because as a whole our industry has figured out that it's actually easier to use dwell time, our better modern chemistry, our CRBs and our high performance wands to achieve ( nearly ) the same result
.
And by doing so we avoid the over wetting and texture damage that is so common with rotary extension.
Well I found with the brush glide and using less pressure and TACT, and many many cleaners are reporting back to me that they're finding the same thing, is that grout is drying quicker and brighter. Why? Because grout just like carpet can wick and when you have a grouted floor that is saturated through and through with dirty mop water and you over clean it needlessly with a spinner, you're causing it to wick and the grout ends up drying blotchy.
Now let's throw in the fact, and you'll know this if you clean newly built modern homes, most of the grout being used these days hardly contains cement anymore. Do yourself a favor and become familiar with Prism grout from Polyblend. That's all we see out here on the west coast anymore in new installs. Prism and the competitors equivalents. are not even offered in sanded or unsanded anymore because it's so strong (when used correctly) due to all the polymer and strength building ingredients that it doesn't even need to be sealed. So it certainly does not need to be pressure washed at 1500 PSI.
Markovitz also promotes the immoral act of telling the floor owners about thier weak grout before cleaning, giving a quote on the needed repair then he self-fulfills his prophecy by intentionally blowing it out by using 2,000 PSI under his damn spinner and then forcefully upselling them on grout repair and color sealing. Rather than using the correct color of grout, he then colorseals the repair because he knows down the line, the color seal's going to fail and he can charge them to come back and reapply it. Yet another asshole that needs to be throat punched.
Heat is NOT what cleans grout, chemistry and aggitation is. It's not the heat under the spinner that is doing the work. It's the agitation from the high PSI. Prove it to yourself on your next tile and grout job, sweep the floor mop down your chemistry. Chemistry give it 10 or 20 minutes to dwell. Give it a light scrub where needed with a CRB or a pole brush or a malish brush under 175 and then use your hard surface wand and see if you don't get the same result at 400 PSI.
Obviously don't try this in the Chinese restaurant.
Quit cracking people's grout joints with high heat, quit turbo tilting and swelling their baseboards, regardless of them being cheap junk. It's not our place to **** up people's homes because we're too lazy to scrub and use a proper tool to do the edging.
Are there still properly installed grouted floors that can withstand 1500 pai? Sure, lots in older or very high end homes, but America's subdivisions are being built by a work force who couldn't tell you how many ounces are in a cup, so dont expect modern grouted installs to hold up to OUR abuse
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