Refresh my memory on stripping LVP floors???

[BIG WOOD]

Customer put a glossy crap coating all over their LVP in their house and asked me to remove it.

I can with normal floor stripper, but I'm hesitant to just picking up any stripper off the shelf. I don't want to damage the finish from the factory.

Can I get some reminders on which product will work without doing that? Will Zep stripper work if it's just diluted more than directions say? Or is there another product out there.


The job is this coming Friday so I need to get the product rather quickly. Thanks

 

[scotty747]

I had good luck with Tsunami. Took just the top layer off but that was vct.

 

[hogjowl]

My first thought was to tell you just any stripper will do, but then I realized I actually know nothing about it. So, I guess I’m a typical MB poster and I should try to keep my mouth shut.

 

[BIG WOOD]

My first thought was to tell you just any stripper will do, but then I realized I actually know nothing about. So, I guess I’m a typical MB poster and I should try to keep my mouth shut.

It’s not the heavy vct wax we’re familiar seeing with 5 coats of 5year old vct wax on it

It’s more like maybe 3 coats of mopNglow/rejuvinate type on it in a home

 

[hogjowl]

So just thin down your stripper.
Oops, there I go again.

 

[Nomad74]

Walk

 

[they live]

So just thin down your stripper.
Oops, there I go again.

My strippers are already thin.

 

[Kenny Hayes]

I’d say get spp’s and do it with water but just
enough to keep the surface wet. Don’t flood it
like I would vct with spp’s. Someone needs to be there to vacuum it up pretty fast. Quicker than you’re gonna want to stop the 175. Then mop it neutral cleaner and lay a coat of finish on it. They’ve jacked the floor up doing what they did, and I might let them know that in a kind way so they’re not expecting perfection. Actually, a -75 with a tank is the best way to apply solution, but you can mop it around.

 

[ecogroupliverpool]

Bona polish remover

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Is that a stripper? (I’m sure) probably a light stripper.

 

[BIG WOOD]

I was very successful this morning.

14oz per gallon mix with the Home Depot Eco stuff (the blue gallon)
apply with flat mop and adding more as the wax was emulsifying to prevent over wetting and seeping down edges
hand scrubbed with stiff brush since it was a furnished home, no black pad buffer
rinsed out 900psi with tile wand.

floor looks great. the mopNglow shit was thick in some areas, but it all came up and the initial protective coating on the LVP wasn't disturbed

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Good deal. I’m glad you didn’t use a black pad. Did you tell em not to do that again. I never had a problem doing it. They’d aways give me that sheepish look.

 

[BIG WOOD]

Good deal. I’m glad you didn’t use a black pad. Did you tell em not to do that again. I never had a problem doing it. They’d aways give me that sheepish look.

Yeah, the home owner knew he screwed up. He was watching me do some of it and knew it was a pain in the ass to fix. He was excited when I finished because the wife was really the one causing the stress and she kept telling him the floor was ruined. First, she applied that crap to get a shine, and then she whined because the dog was scratching up the glossy wax crap while it was yellowing.