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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: derek west on February 12, 2010, 01:58:22 am

Title: hard floor help
Post by: derek west on February 12, 2010, 01:58:22 am: need something to break down this lot, tried sts but it wouldn't touch it, picture show before and after, but it took us half an hour and a lot of scrubbing to get the after picture. altro flooring which has alloy flakes in it, some chems turn alloy flakes black so i need someone that know about this. phone number so i can have a chat would be better or contact me on 07854690355, i'm out most of the day tomorrow so may not be able to check ciu.
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: richie on February 12, 2010, 07:51:56 am: Hi Derek,
I have seen many different colours & designs of Altro flooring but i have never seen any like that. The after pic looks fine to me, no dirt left on the flooring as far as i cab see. How big is the floor area that needs cleaning? where is the floor situated? What is STS? I did some really dirty Altro flooring with loads of build up on it. Tried loads of different chemicals with poor results. Ended up trying One Step DYNAX and got the result i needed.

Richie
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Tony Gill Carpet Smart on February 12, 2010, 08:46:46 am: http://www.safechemdirect.co.uk/index.php/vmchk/Washroom-Hygiene/Washroom-Cleansers/ALTRO-FLOOR-CLEANER.html

Cheers Tony
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Joe H on February 12, 2010, 09:48:05 am: What is the enviroment where this floor is?

Havent seen Altro looking like that! Is it not sheet vinyalay or similar?

What dilution did you use the STS at?
I did a tiled floor on Wednesday with STS at 1:10 in part and 1:20 the majority - owners comment "its come up like new".
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Paul Redden Countryfresh on February 12, 2010, 10:54:03 am: sts ???
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Post by: Joe H on February 12, 2010, 11:05:02 am: STS - 2nd one down http://www.worldofclean.co.uk/index.php?categoryID=133
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Jim_77 on February 12, 2010, 01:11:31 pm: Derek are you sure you posted the right photos ???

Firstly that isn't like any altro I've seen before, secondly top pic dirty bottom pic clean ???

It looks like vinyl tile, i.e. amtico or karndean.... but more like cheaper copies of it, the B&Q equivalent for example.

more info needed!
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Jim_77 on February 12, 2010, 01:15:55 pm: looks like the "flakes" might be little potholes in the surface of the material... dirt collects in these and goes black.

If you do need further chemical power, do a little test with Ultrapac renovate see what happens...
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Roy Edwards on February 12, 2010, 01:21:12 pm: Dekek It looks like Altro timbersafe if thats any help :-\

http://www.meadeeflooring.co.uk/product_detail.php?thecode=1203689166
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Jim_77 on February 12, 2010, 01:29:57 pm: Ahhh that makes a bit more sense, didn't know altro do a wood effect now. Does look very much like it, but can't see any metal flakes in it ???
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Roy Edwards on February 12, 2010, 01:34:45 pm: Quote from: Jim Neal on February 12, 2010, 01:29:57 pm
Ahhh that makes a bit more sense, didn't know altro do a wood effect now. Does look very much like it, but can't see any metal flakes in it ???

Jim
Yeh thats what I thought not exactly the same,but think westy is right with Altro.
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Michael Smallwood on February 12, 2010, 01:50:46 pm: You could ask Altro on 01462 - 707600 for technical support.

Cheers

Mike
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: derek west on February 12, 2010, 02:08:29 pm: nice one wrex, think thats it.

big JG is borrowing me an sx12
and Karl collins has been a mountain of help and is sending me some cleaner up from essex that should do the trick, big massive thanks to them.
time to go on a course me thinks, any one done the alltec and whens the next one?

hard floor here we come.
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: derek west on February 12, 2010, 10:15:08 pm: mike
you have mail. if not, email me and i'll RE. it
Title: Re: hard floor help
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on February 12, 2010, 10:48:08 pm: Seldon Institute sell a solvent based cleaner called Strong Arm and it works very well, I used some on a WMC on their standard Altro floor infront of the bar and it stripped the pitted black easily with a black pad.

Shaun