Very first strip and wax VCT today

[BIG WOOD]

I tried to avoid that demon in the 17yeara I’ve been doing this and my customer insisted that I do it. I just put the first coat down after 4strips on this bathroom.

total sq footage today. 300

first and last VCT for me

 

[DAT]

Easy job

 

[BIG WOOD]

Easy job

How easy was your first job?

 

[Nomad74]

VCT sucks!

 

[DAT]

How easy was your first job?

13 hours

 

[KSL]

I hope you put sealer down first. Looks like you missed several spots or put down a coat before the floor was dry.

 

[Hack Attack]

Once you work out the chems and that you can't rush it VCT is easy

 

[BIG WOOD]

I hope you put sealer down first. Looks like you missed several spots or put down a coat before the floor was dry.

That floor was dry and I stripped it 4 times with stripper 50/50 and a black pad. Flushed it 1000psi. Whatever is left...

 

[Small town janitorial]

I do it, but hate it. Plus it seems to me that floor stripper is one of the most backfill chems in the industry. Looks good for your first one. Dossent hurt to try something new once in awhile.

 

[BIG WOOD]

This was after the 2nd coat dried. I’ll post a pic of the 3rd coat dried in the kitchen area on Monday.

 

[Nomad74]

Sexy

 

[hogjowl]

You know you’ve made it when you no longer do jobs you hate.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

You flushed the #piss out of it at 1000 psi No need for sealer, hardly any use it anymore. Looks good. Charge a min. And move on.
Our first floor was a microwave radio hut. 600 sq.ft, 8hrs. I thought I’d died and gone to hell.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Not hardly an industry floor we haven’t done including cemetery, jails, prison. Someone on another board told me I suck for using spp’s

 

[sassyotto]

well I guess someone has to do it. I will stick to carpet and furniture.

If I add any more services it would just make me .......... busier. That would be a bad thing

 

[DAT]

Not hardly an industry floor we haven’t done including cemetery, jails, prison. Someone on another board told me I suck for using spp’s

I love spp. Works great

 

[dealtimeman]

 

[dealtimeman]

 

[BIG WOOD]

I tried to avoid that demon in the 17yeara I’ve been doing this and my customer insisted that I do it. I just put the first coat down after 4strips on this bathroom.

total sq footage today. 300

first and last VCT for me

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I worded that first post wrong. The first pic was the before picture, not the first coat. The second pic was how it looked dry after I stripped it

 

[hogjowl]

Nobody noticed anyway

 

[Hack Attack]

Nobody noticed anyway

I thought it looked bare, but he was getting enough grief in his other thread

 

[dealtimeman]

We can do up to 14000 sqft in about 12 hours, if we have to move all of the furniture in and out.

25000 sqft in 12 hours if we don’t have to move anything.

vct rocks at 1.25 for 5000 sqft and under and up to 1.00 a sqft for more than 5000 sqft.

do the math on 12000 sqft at .90 done in 12 hours with 8 guys.

800 for supply’s AND about 2000 in labor.

job invoiced at $10,800
supplys. -$ 800
labor. -$ 2,000

profit. $8,000 in one night.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Nobody noticed anyway

I did, and knew.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

We can do up to 14000 sqft in about 12 hours, if we have to move all of the furniture in and out.

25000 sqft in 12 hours if we don’t have to move anything.

vct rocks at 1.25 for 5000 sqft and under and up to 1.00 a sqft for more than 5000 sqft.

do the math on 12000 sqft at .90 done in 12 hours with 8 guys.

800 for supply’s AND about 2000 in labor.

job invoiced at $10,800
supplys. -$ 800
labor. -$ 2,000

profit. $8,000 in one night.

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Do you guys use propane strip machines?

 

[dealtimeman]

No just 2 autoscrubbers and 2 swing machines. The rest of the guys are laying stripper, corners and edgers, toilets and baseboards and flushing and rinsing.

stripping the floor is what i Focus on the most.

not really concerned on building shine. Just know I will lay either 4 or 5 coats of sealer/finish before I leave.

if they want a deeper shine we can come back in a few weeks and scrubb and recoat open areas with 3 more coats if desired (not often).

 

[Bob Pruitt]

We can do up to 14000 sqft in about 12 hours, if we have to move all of the furniture in and out.

25000 sqft in 12 hours if we don’t have to move anything.

vct rocks at 1.25 for 5000 sqft and under and up to 1.00 a sqft for more than 5000 sqft.

do the math on 12000 sqft at .90 done in 12 hours with 8 guys.

800 for supply’s AND about 2000 in labor.

job invoiced at $10,800
supplys. -$ 800
labor. -$ 2,000

profit. $8,000 in one night.

This has me interested :-) What do I need to add this to my services?
Have stripped and waxed floors before obviously...long ago.
Taking a class Feb. 6th at JonDon Tampa to review.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

No just 2 autoscrubbers and 2 swing machines. The rest of the guys are laying stripper, corners and edgers, toilets and baseboards and flushing and rinsing.

stripping the floor is what i Focus on the most.

not really concerned on building shine. Just know I will lay either 4 or 5 coats of sealer/finish before I leave.

if they want a deeper shine we can come back in a few weeks and scrubb and recoat open areas with 3 more coats if desired (not often).

That’s what we do. I just wondered if you used strip machines with that much floor. We do that much and more in the summer with my 3 schools. The rest of the year I limit the size since we do churches at various times. I’m done doing floors personally.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

This has me interested :-) What do I need to add this to my services?
Have stripped and waxed floors before obviously...long ago.
Taking a class Feb. 6th at JonDon Tampa to review.

Are you having others do it. What’s your plan?

 

[hogjowl]

He’s too old

 

[dealtimeman]

Bob just need to find the right crew and babysit them.

i have had many ok crews that “I” made better.

you just need to find a crew that can kill a dollar general, or family dollar or like store in a few hours.

they are not worth 1.25 a sq the “way” they do the floor but with your input and your babysitting skills you can correct their many shortcomings, most of which are born from them having to do a job with very poor pay and very limited supplies.

i Could go on but don’t want to type a thousand words.

this is a simple way of making a living but you need to know who your customer are and what customers that you won’t sell unless you are charging 25 cents a sqft.