What's your recipe for this?

[boazcan]

Nasty convenience store with grime build up as thick as 10 coats of wax in some places. I did not have any stripper with me :roll: among other things. Was trying to wing it since I booked the job only a few hours ago. I normally do not do this, and I reminded myself why.

Anyway, tried a couple of local chem houses (not carpet cleaning shops). Stuff that I used successfully to pull heavy grease, but not this thick out of grout. About 1600 sq ft of 6 x 6, really not feasible to hand scrub it. I tried some spray stripper in some spots and it seemed to work much better. Will go back tomorrow with a stripper bomb brew, scrub it with a crb and cimex brushes, and then blast the holy $%^& out of it.

What would do?

 

[Hoody]

Johnson's Fast Strip and some acrylic floor stripper. Scrub the piss out of it with a rotary and stiff brush or cimex, rinse like hell with a turbo and collect the check.

 

[boazcan]

I actually tried some Johnson when I was on a job helping another guy out. It worked really well. thanks for the reminder - that will be the base.......... :mrgreen:

 

[Jamesh921]

And, you gotta use something to break up the sugars in the soda spills. When thick enough, that crap can gum up the best of intentions.

 

[Hoody]

Oh and some sodium perc.

 

[joey895]

Man those pics bring back memories. My first year I bid on and landed an auto dealership that had wax build up in the grout lines like that. Problem was I had no idea it was wax. I showed up after closing and worked about 6 hours and when I left it looked worse than when I started. It dawned on me the next day, as I was dreading going back to try to make this job right, that it was wax. I went to home depot and bought whatever stripper they had on the shelf (Zep maybe). I went back that night and spent another 5 hours but this time when I finished it looked pretty good. I ended up with about 11 hours invested into a $400 job. Of course in hind site I should have realized what I was dealing with about 20 minutes into the job. Oh well, Lesson learned I always check for wax before I quote a tile job.