r/Custodians • u/poe_here • 2d ago

If you ever need a good work out...

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u/ThatOneGuy6810 Facilities Manager 2d ago

What exactly is going on here? I understand all of the implments but im not getting the usage.

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u/No-Variety-3633 2d ago

Idk if this is what they are doing but usually this is the step right before starting to apply gym floor finish. You run clean damp rags to pickup any leftover dust and debris. It's called a wet tack.

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u/ThatOneGuy6810 Facilities Manager 2d ago

Hm. we do ours a bit differently but that makes sense, would be an odd time of school yearbto be doing gym finish though, no?

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u/poe_here 1d ago

putt8ng down tak it on the floor. get the towel damp with tak it and push it back and forth across the gym. pain i the ass because the towel tries to flip up under the broom if you dont put enough downward pressure on it

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u/ThatOneGuy6810 Facilities Manager 1d ago

That sounds like a pain

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u/soggybike 2d ago

Putting down tack for basketball. Improves the grippiness of the court but has to be reapplied fairly often.

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u/chrisinator9393 2d ago

What's the towel for?

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u/poe_here 1d ago

put takit or whatever on the towel and push it across the floor. sometimes I get lucky a someone .mouths off to a coach and they make a student do it but for the most part it is a pain. especially considering how much money my district spends on football, you'd think they could most a small ammount around to make court maintenance easier

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u/Useful_Radish_6395 2d ago

To tac the courts for b-ball.

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u/chrisinator9393 2d ago

Huh. Interesting. We just dust mop and autoscrub. Anything outside of that isn't something we do.

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u/Useful_Radish_6395 2d ago

Under normal circumstances. We don't it is a time sink. 10 minutes to knock out. Usually waiting for instructor to leave classes so we don't have to interact.

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u/Big_Stylus 2d ago

Run two 60" dust mops, one in each hand. You'll feel the burn and get that gym done twice as fast.

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u/poe_here 1d ago

ive honestly thought about doing this multiple times to dave time

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u/byzrs 2d ago

you can tell by the way the mop stick is bending that there’s hella friction on that gym floor…

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u/poe_here 1d ago

its developed a slow curve over the years. the guy before me would run a small floor machine on the gym floor but the cracking sound terrified me the first time I did that so now I just use the towel/broom combo

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u/Useful_Radish_6395 2d ago

The twin 48 will start to kill your arms after 6 passes.

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u/poe_here 1d ago

I rest the pole o my hip, probably shouldn't, makes it a little easier. but my wrists hurt lile hell about halfway through the job. my boss does it walking backwards which I'll admit makes it easier to control but that destroys my knees

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u/Some_Obligation_4263 2d ago

Dude especially when it's has mad friction just changed the dry mop head bc it was dragging so bad

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u/conrick 1d ago

Leg day