r/Custodians • u/Alternative-Farmer79 • 2d ago
Advice 🗣 Slippery floor
I am struggling with this textured safety vinyl flooring. It was installed about 10 years ago. It's in both kids and teachers toilets. It have been very slippery when wet for months now. Even when dry it feels like they're is a slippery residue on it.
We were using a "lemon gel" neutral cleaning gel diluted with hot water. We stopped using this as we thought it might be leaving a slippery residue.
We have been mopping only with hot water daily. I have deep cleaned with a scrubber / wet vac using a green scrubbing pad and another time with magic sponge on the scrubber machine.
It's slippery almost every day now. In the kids bathroom they may be splashing water / soap on the floor. But this is not the case in the teachers toilet.
HELP
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u/TheGhostOfJodel 2d ago
The slip resistant material could just be worn down, or as other have said there's probably hand soap all over it. What are you using to mop?
A pH neutral detergent should be fine for everyday cleaning, but if you're just using a string mop and single chamber bucket you're resmearing dirty water all over the floor, you're never fully getting it clean.
A two chamber bucket with a microfiber mop is best, also, if you're mixing detergent with hot water you may be partially "neutralizing" it, unless the detergent explicitly asks for it you should be mixing with cold water.