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Contro method

Program first. Bottle second.

Wrong floor identification is the expensive mistake. VCT is not LVT. Terrazzo under twenty years of acrylic is not “the terrazzo program.” Contro scopes it this way — and keeps you informed every step.

Maintenance and Long-Term Care

Maintenance is where VCT flooring perhaps differs most from newer vinyl alternatives.

A typical VCT floor care routine includes:

Daily dust mopping and sweeping out edges
Regular mopping with a neutral cleaner, using a clean mop head or pad, and rinsing or laundering the mop head or pad when finished so you are not applying more dirt to the floor afterward
Periodic buffing or burnishing
Scheduled stripping and refinishing

Resilient

Full strip

When the film is yellow, layered past recovery, peeling, or contaminated. Cool mix. Flood and stay wet. Machine options: square scrub or rotary machine — not a burnisher playing stripper. Recover immediately. Rinse to neutralize. Thin coats. Cap the night.

Resilient

Scrub and recoat

When traffic lanes are worn and the field is still bonded and clear. Deep scrub, one or two topcoats of the same finish family. If the floor isn’t revitalized to how it should look, a strip is needed.

Hard floor

Concrete — PowerPolish™

Full Pioneer Eclipse PowerPolish system on the propane 420GP — matching PE chemistry (HardCore densifier, LockOut protector, ReClaim concrete cleaner), not mix-and-match. The level of gloss is your choice: polishing can stop after 400 grit, or continue up to 3000 grit for a showroom shine.

Hardwood

Screen and recoat

Screen and recoat with Basic Coatings StreetShoe NXT, using Norton Red Heat screens. Several sheens available. Stain color is an optional paid add-on — an additional charge beyond the standard screen and recoat. A screen and recoat brings even a hundred-year-old hardwood floor back to life, and it saves the customer about half the cost.

VCT

Assessment

AssessmentTile type, building age, possible VAT on nine-by-nine, and also on some twelve-by-twelve tiles that were still being produced in the 1970s for larger square footage buildings.
Strip
1. Cool water.
2. Measure dilution.
3. Wet dwell.
4. Keep the floor wet.
5. Square scrub or 175 RPM machine to remove stripper slurry, or to remove old floor finish.
6. Vacuum up promptly.
7. Don’t let stripper dry.
8. Neutralize with vinegar rinse.
RinseRinse repeatedly until the rinse water runs completely clear, with no residue or contamination left in the bucket.
SealerSealer is applied only on very worn VCT that soaks up finish very fast.
Thin finish coats — Pioneer Eclipse OmniGuardDedicated applicator. Wet edge. Four to six coats in 24 hours is the usual cap. OmniGuard also fits other surfaces when the floor calls for it.
BurnishWhile the coats of finish go down, I burnish between coats to give the floor its pop, using a sequence of pads to do it.
No restorer chemicalsI do not use any restorer chemical on VCT. I follow the same system I have used for many years, and it works out beautifully on every floor I touch.

Book the assessment Equipment & chemistry

Concrete — Pioneer Eclipse PowerPolish™

When Contro Floor runs a system, it sticks with that system. Pioneer Eclipse PowerPolish on the propane 420GP, with Pioneer Eclipse chemistry — HardCore densifier, LockOut protector, ReClaim concrete cleaner. Matching chemicals and machines built for each other are why these floors look the way they do. Diamabrush covers heavy prep and glue until the right planetary driver is on the truck. Gloss stops where the owner wants it.

Assess the slabLook for old glue, cutback, coatings, cracks, and oil. Test adhesive when the building is old enough that cutback may be present. If the slab is oil-contaminated, say so before bidding a polish.
Diamabrush — glue, cutback, and mastic removalDiamabrush makes a 25-grit diamond coating removal tool that fits on a standard rotary floor machine. It grinds carpet glue, mastic, thin-set, and thin coatings off concrete without clogging, leaving a clean, flat slab ready for polishing. Run wet to keep the diamonds cool and the dust down, or dry with a dust shroud and vacuum.
Propane machine — PowerPolish grit sequenceRepair 100 → Prep 200 → Polish #1 (400) matte → densify → #2 (800) semi-gloss · #3 (1800) high-gloss · #4 (3000) ultra high-gloss. Run wet on the 420GP. Overlapping passes. Clean slurry between grits. Stop at the sheen the contract calls for.
Densify — HardCorePioneer Eclipse HardCore — stocked. Penetrates, hardens, cuts porosity. Let it work per label before climbing grit.
Protect and clean — LockOut and ReClaimLockOut protector, then burnish. ReClaim is the cleaner made for concrete in this same system. Both stocked. Not a VCT strip cycle on polished concrete.

System, not mix-and-match

Pioneer Eclipse builds programs around their chemicals and their machines. Contro Floor stays inside that program for concrete PowerPolish — densifier, protector, maintainer, and the 420GP path — because that is how you get the result. Compatible attachments exist. Substituting random chemistry does not get you the same floor.

Cutback, mastic, and oil

It is highly advisable not to put a coating on an oil-contaminated floor, especially when the oil is already deep down in the pores. You may end up with a failed floor system.

Oil-contaminated means a heavily contaminated slab, not surface oil on the floor. Many people think they can apply a primer and then coat over it with polyaspartic, another coating, or epoxy. That is not the case. When a slab is severely contaminated, the oil bleeds through. It can bleed through new carpet and leave ugly orange stains, and it can bleed through a coating or finish and cause it to delaminate.

If it comes to this, the approach I recommend is to encapsulate the slab and cover it with a new floor covering. That call gets made on assessment, before any work starts.

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