[angela stone]

Hi, 

wonder if someone can shed some light on this.....

We clean a children's nursery.  The floors have been sealed and polished by another company before we started cleaning therein Sept 2013.

Daily we wet mop the floor with lemon gel and then once they are dry we spray buff them with jangro wet look floor polish.

We have had no issues with the floors since we started.

2 weeks ago, the same floor company resealed the floors and polished them again in certain rooms.  We then started our daily clean routine as before.  In those areas, what appears to be dried water marks have appeared on the floor which aren't coming off, even after we have buffed.  The rest of the nursery which they haven't worked on, are showing no such marks and our routine is the same.

The floor company have said that we shouldn't be wet mopping the floor to clean it however also said the products we are using on the floor shouldn't cause the marks. The flooring is like a hard lino which is laid in big sheets.

Does anyone have any idea what these marks could be and what would be an alternative method to mopping the floor in a nursery to get paint, glue, dried food off??

Any help, gratefully received Smiley

thanks

ange

[Jamie Pearson]

Lemon gel wouldnt be my first choice for cleaning a nursery floor due to the residue that stuff leaves behind.

A good quality neutral floor cleaner is what you need. Spot Spray any food spots then mist and mop with a microfibre flat mop.

As you can see here you may be using the wrong method for the Jangro Wet Look Floor Polish
http://www.jangro.net/wet-look-floor-polish-5-litre/

A floor maintainer is what should be used for the method you describe.

With regard to the marks it could be a number of things that have caused this. If you could upload a picture it would be helpful.

Are the marks on the surface?
Did they strip the floor or just scrub and recoat it?
Does it look like mop marks?
Do you use hot water when mopping?
How soon after their work did you mop the floor?

[angela stone]

HI,

thanks for the reply.  It turns out the company hadn't checked the ph level of the floors prior to applying the polish and this has caused a reaction and other problem so they are having to redo the floors for the client.  However, due to these problems, the nursery have asked us to change the mop system we use to a flat mop system to try and protect the floors from excess water.

We are finding this really hard work as its a nursery setting with dried in food and glue and it's hard to get any pressure behind the mop to get these areas cleaned sand also the mop is wrung out with the bucket really well so is really dry.

Its adding loads of time on, does everyone else find the flat mop system harder work than cotton head mops, or is it just us?

Does anyone else have a

[Jamie Pearson]

Get a hand pump up sprayer and spray any spots before mopping. this will help soften them so they can be mopped away when using your flat mop.