I don’t mean to be bitchy, but this last two weeks has really just been one thing after another. I just need to get through this month and start over.
Today I went to clean that restaurant basement bathroom floor. It's ceramic tile covered in 20 years of wax. Damn these people and their wax!!!! Just a major pain in my ass. I don’t normally strip floors, but I took this job on because they give me $2k worth of quarterly work.
The first time I attempted to clean this tile, it clogged up my filter after about 20 feet. I didn't know it had wax. I thought it was just dirty. So I rescheduled it for today. While loading the van this morning with my shop vac, stripper, and scrapers, I couldn’t find my black pads. So, i grabbed my red pads. Of course I couldn’t find my squeegee attachment for my shop vac.
Arrived at the job, hauled my orbot and 40 lb weights down the stairs, mixed up my bone-saw stripper and went to work. Looked like the edges needed to be scrapped. Of course while trying to put a new razor blade on my scraper, I cut the living crap out of my finger. I ended up dripping blood everywhere.
Because I didn’t have my squeegee, I skipped the shop vac sucking and went straight to tile spinning. I was cleaning at 1200 psi when I lost all pressure. I immediately knew I must've had a blow out somewhere. Turned out it was 15 feet back and flooding the bathroom. I grabbed my vacuum line and shoved the spraying solution line inside it, then ran upstairs and shut down my TM.
Once I finished wrapping up the solution line, I fired up the truck mount and sucked up all the flooding. By this point I could see that the wax wasn’t coming off easily and I should really be using a black pad. I was totally exhausted and pissed. I ended up literally throwing everything back into the van and leaving.
I now remember why I don’t do floor stripping. It's to messy, smelly, and time consuming. When I calm down I’ll probably go back and finish the job, but this floor is kicking my ass.
Matt, I know you have that public school pissy bathroom to clean. Run away.
Today I went to clean that restaurant basement bathroom floor. It's ceramic tile covered in 20 years of wax. Damn these people and their wax!!!! Just a major pain in my ass. I don’t normally strip floors, but I took this job on because they give me $2k worth of quarterly work.
The first time I attempted to clean this tile, it clogged up my filter after about 20 feet. I didn't know it had wax. I thought it was just dirty. So I rescheduled it for today. While loading the van this morning with my shop vac, stripper, and scrapers, I couldn’t find my black pads. So, i grabbed my red pads. Of course I couldn’t find my squeegee attachment for my shop vac.
Arrived at the job, hauled my orbot and 40 lb weights down the stairs, mixed up my bone-saw stripper and went to work. Looked like the edges needed to be scrapped. Of course while trying to put a new razor blade on my scraper, I cut the living crap out of my finger. I ended up dripping blood everywhere.
Because I didn’t have my squeegee, I skipped the shop vac sucking and went straight to tile spinning. I was cleaning at 1200 psi when I lost all pressure. I immediately knew I must've had a blow out somewhere. Turned out it was 15 feet back and flooding the bathroom. I grabbed my vacuum line and shoved the spraying solution line inside it, then ran upstairs and shut down my TM.
Once I finished wrapping up the solution line, I fired up the truck mount and sucked up all the flooding. By this point I could see that the wax wasn’t coming off easily and I should really be using a black pad. I was totally exhausted and pissed. I ended up literally throwing everything back into the van and leaving.
I now remember why I don’t do floor stripping. It's to messy, smelly, and time consuming. When I calm down I’ll probably go back and finish the job, but this floor is kicking my ass.
Matt, I know you have that public school pissy bathroom to clean. Run away.
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