How To Strip A Floor By Hand

Damp mop floor with a clean mop and clean rinse water.

How to strip a floor by hand. Some types of floor especially hardwood may be. You want it to have a thick gunky texture. You can also use your auto scrubber or floor buffer mounted with a solution tank to accomplish this.

I then added water to thin it just a little. Pour the stripping solution on the floor area and smudge it across it evenly with the brush. Recover water with wet vacuum and floor squeegee tool.

Purchase a floor finish stripper that is appropriate for your floor. Liberally mop the selected area with the floor stripper. Start scraping the finish coating if you waited long.

Place the tip of the curved end of the pry bar in the space between the first row of planks and the wall. Pour floor stripper into a mop bucket and begin to apply it to the floor by flood mopping. Wait for around 30 minutes this is an approximate time that depends on the type of coating your floor has and on the.

Here s how you should do it. Place the removed. Make the floor bare and free of dust.

Use the pry bar to tilt the edge of the first plank up enough to grasp it with your fingers. Rent an electric floor scrubber and a wet dry vacuum recommended. Add 1 2 ounces of floor stripping neutralizer per gallon of water.