Many people believe that by using floor buffers that your floors will come out perfectly glowing every time. Only to then become dismayed when one day their floor seems to have become blurred or hazy after having stripped and re-finished it.
Needing to blame someone or something, the floor buffer is saddled with the blame and either sees the end of its service by being replaced by a newer grander model (manufacturers smile), or it is sent off like all disobedient polishers for a service and a change of pads (smiling mechanics). Oh don’t for a minute think it is bad to have your polisher serviced or to put new pads on it. It’s good appliance maintenance. The fact that you would consider the polisher guilty of not doing its work, when we all know the polisher is the least likely to submit to a go-slow or strike (okay unless it breaks that is, and then both mechanics and manufactures smile).
Blurred or hazy floors are not as a result of the floor buffer and it’s inability to do its job. They are caused when the operators using them and responsible for cleaning the floors rushed the job at hand. A job that by not following the processes correctly whilst cleaning and stripping or finishing the floor resulted in a surface no polisher would be able to shine up. Blurred or hazy floors are caused by the chemical reaction between a stripper and a finishing agent or polish. Their appearance serves as a warning and indication that the floor was not properly cleaned after the stripper was applied, or that the neutralizer may have been applied using the same mop as that which was used when applying the stripper. Streaks on floors are caused when the application of the finishing agent is done using an old or used mop, thus staining the finishing agent and resulting in streaks.
Therefore be nice to your floor buffer as it was doing its job, and glare at the person using it. (Should that person happen to be you, the bathroom has a mirror) Because the only way to get rid of a blurred, hazy or streak marks on floors, is by stripping, cleaning, washing and neutralizing them all over again, before re-applying the finishing agent.
