travertine ?

[Luis Gomez]

I have to strip a travertine floor that has three coats of mop-n-glow, should I neutralize the floor after stripping? If so, how? I am using Cobb's Ultraseal after the stip and clean.
thanks for your response.

 

[Mikey P]

bY "NEUTRALIZE" DO YOU MEAN USE AN ACID TO BALANCE THE ALKALINE STRIPPER?


no, just lots of water...


sorry for the caps

 

[Luis Gomez]

Yes, neutralize with an acid. Using lots of rinse neutral water is not going to do it. I am using a black brush and a black pad to remove the seal and she does not care about the polish on the stone.

 

[Mikey P]

Travertine can be damaged by acids so unless it's a total flat hone, don't do it.

 

[Louis]

like mike said just water will do it. I would be carful with a black pad. I always use a brush on stone. I have had color come off of pads before.

 

[Mikey P]

A black pad will hinre the living h out if a travertine..

 

[J Scott W]

"Neutral" for travertine is about 9. Don't use acid. Rinse with lots of water or water plus a very little neutral detergent, preferably with no conditioning agents or chelating agents such as Spinergy Vivid. Conditioners and chelating agents found in most cleaners don't rinse well from calcium based stone.

 

[Cameron DeMille]

do you plan on refinishing the travertine after? If you plan on just sealing, you might not like what you find underneath. A black pad will leave swirl scratches everywhere.

 

[Ray Burnfield]

I have to strip a travertine floor that has three coats of mop-n-glow, should I neutralize the floor after stripping? If so, how? I am using Cobb's Ultraseal after the stip and clean.
thanks for your response.

There are strippers available that do not need to be neutralized.

 

[Mikey P]

There are strippers available that do not need to be neutralized.

are we still talking about floors ?

 

[Ray Burnfield]

are we still talking about floors ?

Yes we are talking about products that remove acrylic floor finishes.
Not the kind that now do your dishes.

 

[Cameron DeMille]

I have never heard of anyone needing to neutralize a stripper after stripping a floor. It is absolutely unnecessary, because I cannot imagine a situation where you would strip a stone floor, seal it and walk away. I have never stripped a stone floor and found a presentable finish underneath. After you refinish and polish it, all the neutralizing in the world won't make a difference. The diamonds will reverse any possibly damage a stripper can do, not to mention it's followed by an acidic polishing compound.

Even if you just hone it, by the time you hone, rinse, seal or whatever, spending the time doing a neutralizing step after stripping is the biggest waste of time I can imagine.

 

[Bee Busy]

I have stripped acrylic wax off travertine many times using a general floor stripper and rinsing with a truckmounted turbo, if the stripper takes off the natural shine, be prepared to give the floor a quick polish, most of the time the homeowner likes it or wants a sheen added so quick polish with a non acid polish like the Stone Tech stuff or acidic polish like Diaglow, black pad is way to aggressive for travertine

 

[Luis Gomez]

Three coats my butt!!! I scrubbed with the black brush, then I used the black pad, then I used an SPP pad, then black pad again with added weights, then on our knees scrapping the stuff. The tile installation was bad and there is a lot of lippage and the pads could not get a grip. At the end we used the makita with some 400 grit pads for the low spots. She is happy as a clam and promised that she would never seal her floor again and call us back next year. Three guys 10 hrs and $2750.00

 

[Mikey P]

cussing the whole time?

 

[Luis Gomez]

That and worried about time, it was an hour away in San Diego and did not want to go back today. It would have not been as profitable.

 

[Mrice]

Wow that was a nasty one! Nice job getting it done in one trip.

 

[SuperDave212]

how many sq ft was it?? I've used the 3m pads with water and weights, no stripper....

 

[kingjoelking]

you need to find a better stripper.

 

[Luis Gomez]

you need to find a better stripper.

The one we use has never failed us before, this was the first time. I have been trying to get bare bones but the shipping cost is crazy.

 

[clean image]

It appears from pictures that your stripper did nothing to emulsify the coating.

This is evident of the sheets of topical sealer you razored, and even as you mono scrub, there is no dissolving going on, just "bunching".

Basically you used a mechanical means to remove topical from surface. Unfortunately, this does nothing to clean grout.

I would recommend you always test small area first; often it is either is going to dissolve or it isn't.

 

[kingjoelking]

There is no one stripper that strips everything. Different strippers work better on different products. Unless you use Jasco. That will melt anything.