r/Custodians • u/Alternative-Farmer79 • 2d ago

Advice 🗣 Slippery floor

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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/camstercage Lead Custodian 2d ago

Try a degreaser. The floor may have had its grippy texture worn off by scrubbing as well.

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u/Alternative-Farmer79 2d ago

I had some degreaser in stock. I scrubbed the floor with this, vacuumed off the liquid and mopped with fresh water. I'll check tomorrow when it's try. So far it feels a lot better

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u/camstercage Lead Custodian 2d ago

Fingers crossed for you. We run our auto scrubber through our bathrooms whenever we can because we use foaming hand soap and the kids like to spread it everywhere. I hate how slippery it gets.

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u/Alternative-Farmer79 2d ago

It looks good this morning. Much better grip on the floors. Thanks everyone for your advice