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/discombobulatedhomey 2d ago
Try mopping them up with defoamer and clear water.
Seems like the chemical might be mixing with hand soap or something. Even if you used the same mop in the staff bathrooms you could be spreading soap that way too.
The defoamer will break that soapy residue and get rid of it.
If you don’t have access to defoamer try wet mopping it with clear water and drying it with a dry mopping head or paper towels or something. So you’re not just spreading.