TM used to rinse stripped floors

[floorguy]

So I was going through some pictures and found one.....

WHY YOU ARE A DUMB ASS IF YOU USE YOUR TM TO SUCK UP STRIPPER SLURRY

Saw it at a repair shop



nothing like giving that blower a good coating

 

[Lee Stockwell]

A TM will do the job with NO problem if you run it on the slowest speed. On a 405 that is idle speed.

Any faster and turbulence in the hose and tank will cause FOAMING like crazy from stripper.

 

[Dolly Llama]

Saw it at a repair shop



nothing like giving that blower a good coating

how many gallons of slurry would it take for the blower inlet to start sucking froth ?
Say on the average 80-90 gal waste tank?

I don't do VCT...I hate it, and the biggest ones I do might be 3-400sf in a rehab's kitchen and laundry rm.
I use the TM all the time to such 'n rinse ...works great and makes short, no mess work of it too.
Thorough rinse on hoses with 10-12 gal of water, drain it, and another 10-12 gal thru the vac port and drain for tank rinse

but you'd have to be a retard (no offense to retards) to suck enough slurry to suck it into the blower .
That would be 70-80 gal or so I'd figure (unless your waste tank is of poor design or smaller than 90+ gal )

no???


..L.T.A.

 

[Mardie]

I use a 16 gal. Rigid wet vac and 1k psi 1.5 gpm with a gecko squeegee wand. Anything more is a waste of energy.

 

[Out of Character - 0]

On jobs where riding equipment is too large we almost always use a tm. We don't have time to waste. I do try to send the trucks with 200gal waste tanks when possible.

 

[Dolly Llama]

Anything more is a waste of energy.

Waste of MY energy and time loading up, in and out additional crap when the wand and hoses are already in the house cleaning carpets...

it's an efficiency thing , something I wouldn't expect you to understand....


..L.T.A.

 

[Mardie]

Waste of MY energy and time loading up, in and out additional crap when the wand and hoses are already in the house cleaning carpets...

it's an efficiency thing , something I wouldn't expect you to understand....


..L.T.A.

I do not and would not strip and recoat houses. Talk about an inefficient way to make a buck How many coats do you normally put down. Larry when I posted that "anything more is a waste of energy" .I was referring to the vacuum power required and not the method. The power and performance of a simple shop vac will do just as well as any TM for them jobs.

 

[Dolly Llama]

How many coats do you normally put down.

3 or 4
we're in these empty houses for a little while, Mardie
anywhere from 40 to 140 man hours in a rehab turn

i could give away the floors to 'em and still bank jack

We don't do VCT
I turn down com VCT all the time.
and if I do go look at it, I bid a buck-o-ft (don't want it for no less than that)

..L.T.A.

 

[adamh]

I do one $2500 strip and wax job a year. I suck the stripper into the TM each time. I use my spinner to suck up the stripper and rinse it clean. Super fast and waaaaay effective.

The floor is perfectly clean and ready for wax.

 

[Larry Cobb]

Our customers use their TM's to vacuum up floor stripper.

We always caution them to rinse the blower out after a stripping job (POG works best).

Prevents a stuck blower the next day.

Larry

 

[Lee Stockwell]

To not damage modern TM heat exchangers it is important NOT to "rinse" the blower unless you have a provision to redirect the water.

Just avoid running the crap thru the blower in the first place. Butyl based stripper residue will foam like crazy at high velocity and turbulance situations. Avoid that by running the machine on a VERY LOW setting, which will still be way more than needed to extract the water.

Dump the tank when it is half full.

Prevention is better than Remedy.

 

[floorguy]

or $100 shop vac to get the majority of it 1st works....

oh and this was off an older V

 

[Larry Cobb]

To not damage modern TM heat exchangers it is important NOT to "rinse" the blower unless you have a provision to redirect the water.

Just avoid running the crap thru the blower in the first place. Butyl based stripper residue will foam like crazy at high velocity and turbulance situations. Avoid that by running the machine on a VERY LOW setting, which will still be way more than needed to extract the water.

Dump the tank when it is half full.

Prevention is better than Remedy.

Lee;

It depends on the HX design.

Ours are 100% stainless steel and have 1/2" tubes.

Others may be copper with small tubes that clog easily (HM).

Large recovery tanks without baffles will minimize foam generation,

and can be run to 3/4 capacity without blow-by.

Larry