VCT burnishing and HTC twister pads

I have a liquor store that looks like crap. They do NOTHING to the floor other than sweep it every couple of days between me burnishing the floor (every two weeks). This place has more traffic than Wal-Mart per sq ft. I've used every pad known to man and several finishes trying to make it look halfway decent. I was ready to scrub and recoat it again.

I finally tried the Twister pads. One pass with the yellow to clean and one with the green on a burnisher. Finally, have a decent shine on the floor. The owner really liked it.

Used them on a vet's account. She wants as few chems used as possible due to the continual recovering pets in the place. Since the twisters only use water, it seemed like the perfect fit. She's happy with the results and loves the no chems for her patients.

This is a product that actually did what it said it would do. To say I was shocked in an understatement. I'll be stocking up.

They have a whole list of things they work quite well on. They have a super shine pad I haven't tried. I was amazed. This floor has looked like dog crap after the second week. They do not even damp mop. If a bottle is broken they use paper towels and leave the residue. Today it looked like I had just put down finish. It was nice to finally see some progress.

NO stripping or refinishing, just used the Twister pads. I've used white, beige, hog's hair, natural hair, hair and some synthetic combination. It always looks like crap. I used a white twister on an OP followed by a green twister on my 2000rpm burnisher. This week we just used the high speed. Looked okay, but, we'll be using the white/green combination from now on. Looks much better for only about 10 minutes longer effort.

I'll be trying just a green under a high speed this week on a floor the owner maintains following all my advice. He wants his place looking good so I'll see what the twisters do on a well maintained fresh floor. I stripped and refinished this floor about 3 weeks ago.

Here are three after pics of the restaurant floor. These were taken at night with my droidx2 so forgive the quality. The twister green pad on a high speed really brought out the shine.

you can waste time with an autoscrubber. it wont help.

Nope, it doesn't. They do NOTHING between my visits. For the autoscrubber to do any good it results in a recoat. The twister white pad gets the crap off the floor without needing a recoat.

Give people some time. You can do about anything, but, a 2000rpm burnisher is going to be faster than a 175 and give better results. Clean/scrub with a 175 (or OP) or autoscrubber, follow with the right pad for the finish on a 2000 (at least 1500 or you'll take way too long) rpm burnisher. If at all possible, use a propane burnisher much faster and better results.

The problem with horridly maintained VCT is the finish is often completely gone or at the last coat before they call making for a fun time cleaning it and it will sorely need to be refinished which many of these people will balk at the price.

I have more money invested in VCT equipment than I care to admit. I keep threatening to sell it all off, but, there is too much money to be made.