The mother of all saltillio jobs

[Ron Lippold]

This house is 30 years old. It had a distressed finish initally applied, plus 30 years of mop and glowor spick and span.
before..

during

after

This was 9 days of stripping 15 pails of stripper 2 cases of aresol stripper, blue, black, pads and nila grit brush. finished off with 120 grit screens. all the way down to mudd 15 gallons of finish platiunm of course. And a big pile of cash. Now we are booked two weeks out solid.. I love this business.

 

[Brian R]

NIce!


How much mud was in your waste tank?

 

[Ron Lippold]

we emptied the lint trap numerous times 7- 5 gallon pails of finish from the floor.

 

[Burtz]

what kind of wax did you use

 

[Ron Lippold]

ultra chem labs platiunm seven coats.

 

[Mikey P]

and how much to repaint the walls you ****** up?

 

[Ron Lippold]

I told them the walls where going to have to be painted they come in friday to paint the house, plus we moved no furniture they had it all done, Mikey this was not my first rodeo...

 

[juniorc82]

well done, how much psf?

 

[Ron Lippold]

1587sq for12,500 not a bad week shiteatinggrin :shock: shiteatinggrin

 

[Bee Busy]

nice work.....did u use foam risers with the screens? curious because I've yet to use screens on saltillo.

 

[Giorgio]

Hell YES!

 

[Ron Lippold]

for the screens, they were 120 grit and we used a green pad, no weight and a little water, they dont go to far.

 

[alazo1]

Ron, are you no longer using their concrete sealer?

Alert

 

[sam miller]

I'am supposed to est one tomorrow I'am guessing I might pass if its that much work. stripping rinsing stripping rinsing waxing would a hild 13 inch be of any help? and could I use a sx12 for rinsing?

 

[sam miller]

for 12 grand was or is there any thing that would stay on the wall to protect for splash?

 

[Mikey P]

ron


correct me if I'm wrong but the tiles in the bottom left corner look like the still have parts of the original coating on them, yes?

 

[floorguy]

for 12 grand was or is there any thing that would stay on the wall to protect for splash?

screw that for 12k i could think of LOTs of things to put on that floor....

people and their money :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

[Ron Lippold]

as for the walls they were told that they would need to be painted as the walls were adobe, which is mudd bricks. We had a skirt on the 175 but its pretty much useless when you are dealing with un finished tiles.... and yes the walls were protected with painters tape but after a day or two of stripping it is worthless.


Yes there are some areas where all the finish would not release from the floor. And yes the customer was ok with that. They did not even know there was any color to the floor to speak of. We call that patina.

The first finish that was put down in1987 was applied to make the floor look vintage. They love it now. All their neighbors have the same floor, and most have already seen the finished product. Sure its alot of work but very rewarding.

 

[Bee Busy]

getting 100% of the coating off saltillo rarely happens Mike. I've been told if you get 95% out, your doing very good.

 

[Brian R]

Customer's happy.......Nuff said.

 

[Jtuseo]

Amazing Job. Really good work.