Hot take: most commercial cleaning companies don't actually know how to strip and wax floors right

Watched a crew at a office building on Grand River last month. They put down stripper, let it sit maybe 5 minutes, then ran a buffer over it once. Left half the old wax on. Then they put new wax on top of that mess. Floor looked cloudy and bumpy by the next week. I learned doing floors at a school for 8 years - you gotta let stripper sit 15-20 minutes minimum, scrub twice, rinse twice, then dry before wax. Why do so many shops rush this step?

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cameron_webb11d ago

I mean, 15 to 20 minutes is a bit much for most strippers, they dry out faster than that.

gonzalez.vera11d ago

Yeah honestly I used to think those 15 minute strippers were just being dramatic but you're right, they really do dry out way faster than I thought. Never really paid attention to that timing before.