Floor Polishing and Buffing: Perfect Options for your Floor Treatment

Never forget an English quote, “The first impression is the Last Impression” and you will be shocked to know that it is important in every aspect of life. This first impression strictly matters when you are operating a business and own your commercial property. So, to keep your employees healthy and clients happy you need to maintain the hygiene and shine of your property by polishing your floor thoroughly. Trust me, it is not at all easy to maintain everything related to your image and especially when it comes to caring your concrete, tiles and marble flooring.

Floor Polishing and Buffing

No doubt, that mopping and sweeping the floor will help you in removing the footprints, dust and other environmental factors that hampers your floor look but it’s not enough. You need to take more steps to keep your floor shine high that will surely wow your clients and employees. To make your floor happy and sparkle, you can prefer floor buffing and floor polishing. It completely depends on you to fix the interval of regular floor maintenance. Unfortunately, the corporates owner doesn’t have the proper equipment, floor polisher, buffers, and other floor polishing products to carry out their work and the most important they lack time. To shoulder their tension of floor cleaning, they share their burden to floor polishing service providers which in return bring out ultimate shine to dull and dead marble flooring.

If are looking around to renew the shine and appearance of the floor and want your commercial property to dazzle up, then think of hiring floor care professionals. To share your tension of floor polishing you can get to Manmachine Solution and avail different packages for buffing and floor polishing services in India. Their staff will take complete care to enhance your first impression with their top-notch services.

Floor Polishing with Water:

Floor Polishing withWater

Buffing the commercial flooring will help you to remove the scratches and minor scuffs while floor polishing will help you in renewing the glossy finish of the flooring. Proper practice of both will bring your dull floor a fresh new look with extra effort. There are companies across the globe who amazingly carry floor polishing with water, yes you heard right. No chemicals are used while they are using water as their floor polisher. The best part of using water for polishing or buffing the floor is your floor will not suffer any pain of chemical reaction.

Defining Floor Buffing with its Types:

In layman language, Manmachine solution defines floor buffing as floor deep cleaning. it simply exfoliates the upper layer of the flooring to highlight its original shine and appearance. With the use of proper tools and machinery, you can properly buff all types of flooring like marble, concrete, vinyl, tiles and even the laminated ones.

In the simplest way, floor buffing process uses the buffer pads and machines for floor polishing. You can initiate the buffing process by cleaning the surface and preparing it for further treatments. You don’t need to worry about the speed of the buffer but the standard speed of the buffer machine is 175 revolutions per minutes. Buffing process restores smoothness and glossy finish of the surface but it lacks behind in achieving the wet-look sparkle that can only be achieved after floor polishing. 

Types of buffing:

Confused about types of buffing?

The accurate answer to this confusion is cleared in this blog as Manmachine Solutions brings a description of both types of buffing process:

Floor Buffing

•    Spray Buffing: as the name suggests, spray buffing is wet buffing which uses liquid for removing any sort of dirt and grimes from the upper surface of the flooring irrespective of floor types. It uses a floor polishing solution with mechanized Actions for scuffs removal from the surface of the floor.

•    Dry Buffing: dry buffing is rarely used and the high-speed buffer’s mechanical action is more than enough to achieve the smooth finish of the floor. This process is usually conducted by professional floor maintenance experts who have good command over the buffer. Dry buffing is an amazing chance for janitorial cleaning.

How to polish the floor?

Floor Polishing

1.    Prepare the Floor:

Before initiating the polishing surface, side the area using wet floor signs and blocking ropes. This step is important to avoid foot traffic while polishing as this can turn out to be healthy and safety measure. You even need to move all the obstacles that come in the way of the polishing method. Floor polisher is high-speed machines so better place furniture away from the place so as to avoid contacts to polishers.  

2.    Clean the Floor:

Few hours before, you need to thoroughly conduct the floor cleaning to remove the minute debris and junks. Any leftover dirt over the floor can adversely affect the floor. Once the dust trapped under the polisher can cause swirl marks on floor making surface uneven that cannot be fixed without stripping the flooring. 

3.    Spray on the Floor Polishing Solution:

Apply the solution using a mop or by direct spraying. Most of the service provider like Manmachine Solutions recommend solution application through a professional spraying applicator. Using an applicator helps in even application of floor polishing solution.

4.    Polishing the Floor:

Using the polishing machine, move across the even floor. As you polish the floor, rotate the machine alongside by keeping your body perpendicular to the machine for easy polishing.  While using the machine walk backward as this prevents you from walking on newly buffed floors that can prove to be slippery.  

5.    Dry the Polished Floor:

After polishing the floor twice using the spray solution, you need to dry buff the floor properly for removing any extra spray. This process is important to remove the extra surface to unveil the shiny surface. 

6.    Apply the Finish:

Although this is not that important step, you can or cannot go through this step is completely your choice. Most of the floor polishing companies apply a finish layer over the top of the floor so as to ensure that your surface remains slip-resistant and safe for a longer time. 

7.    Thoroughly Clean all the Materials:

Once done with all the steps, you need to clean the material off the surface. this removal list contains mop, pads, machines, bucket, bottles, and others. This clearance of a product is needed to avoid any microbial growth.

Conclusion:

Just like floor buffing, floor polishing forms a smoother surface which looks cleaner, even and shinier. No matter which method we choose to care our floor of the commercial property, all leaves floor shinier overall. If you want to get more ideas on floor polishing along with buffing then you can contact Manmachine Solutions staffs.