Latex Glue Taken Out from Factory Floor in Croydon

We recently carried out a clean for a printing company in the London Borough of Croydon, who had eliminated some machinery and had found that the exposed floor had large amounts of latex glue left on the floor. In fact the floor was in such a bad state due to the amount of dirt, oil and glue no one could determine what type of floor we were dealing with.

Factory Floor Cleaning

My first task was to scrub the dirt away using a strong dilution of Tile Doctor Pro-Clean followed by a good rinse, Pro-Clean is a strong alkaline cleaner so it is safe to use on all kinds of floors and won't eat into the surface like an acidic cleaners. Once the dirt was extracted we discovered the floor was in fact resin based.

Latex Glue Removal

The next we did was remove the glue for the floor which was really hard to do due to the thick build-up. We first started with steamers to heat the glue and then used large floor scrapers to lift as much as we could, finally we soaked the area with Tile Doctor Remove and Go and left the solution to dwell for an hour after which we were able to scrape the remaining glue off.

Last but not the least we gave the floor one more scrub with a weak dilution of Pro-Clean and a final rinse.