What are blue floor pads used for?

Blue floor pads are ideal for scrubbing or heavy-duty spray cleaning and buffing with 175 to 300 rpm machines. Removes ground-in dirt, spills, scuffs, and black heal marks.

What does it mean to buff a floor?

Buffing mainly addresses damage and imperfections in the sealant layers protecting your hardwood floors. You may want to buff your floors instead of sanding them if the finish of the floor is looking dull and scratched.

How do you clean floor pads?

Clean floor pads after each use — water for cleaning/buffing/stripping pads, "dust off" for dry burnishing pads.

What do the colors of floor buffing pads mean?

Each process requires a certain color floor pad. Pad colors range from black to white. In between the black and white pads is a range of colored pads. Black pads are the most aggressive and white pads are the least aggressive.

What is the difference between buffing and polishing a floor?

Floor polishing or burnishing and buffing are often times used interchangeably, but polishing uses a heavier process to clear away bumps and chips.

What are green floor pads used for?

For general scrubbing and cleaning applications Green Scrub floor pads will remove surface dirt and grime to get your floor back in shape before re-coating or buffing. Use with a cleaning solution to scrub hard floor surfaces. This pad will aggressively remove dirt and scuff marks from heavily soiled floors.

How long should floor wax dry before buffing?

Generally, the drying time for a typical floor wax can range from half an hour to over a few hours. But the safest curing time can range between eight and seventy-two hours.

What are pink buffing pads used for?

Pink pads are multi-purpose pads for use on ultra high-speed machines to remove scratches and revive gloss on dull floors in a single pass.

What is burnishing a floor?

That shine means that a burnisher has taken a high-speed pass over the floor, smoothing over any scratches and imperfections in the surface that could collect dirt. Ultimately, that's what the burnisher's purpose is: to make hard floors extremely shiny and help the finish hold up against dirt for a while longer.

What is the difference between buffing and polishing pads?

The key difference between polishing and buffing lies within the grit of each abrasive. For example, polishing is typically performed using a high-grit abrasive. Buffing, on the other hand, is performed using a low-grit abrasive.

How long do floor buffer pads last?

The lifespan of these types of pads range between 75,000-100,000 square feet per pad.

What are red floor pads used for?

This pad is used for spray buffing or as a general floor cleaning pad under a rotary floor machine (175 - 800 rpm). Quickly cleans and removes scuff marks and enhances floor appearance. Works great on automatic floor scrubbers for light duty cleaning.

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3M Blue Cleaner Pad 5300 is designed to remove worn finish, soils, scuffs, and spills and to prepare surfaces for recoating. The pad is constructed of high quality nylon and polyester synthetic fibers in a non-woven web. A durable resin coating system permeates the fibers throughout the pad with abrasive cleaning particles, providing consistent performance over the life of the pad. The resin coating will not be significantly affected by water, detergents, and cleaners normally used for floor maintenance. The floor scrubbing pad is reversible. Depending on the surface and application, the floor pad can be used with detergent solutions for dry scrubbing floors, and in heavy duty spray cleaning operations.

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Heavy-duty scrub pad removes dirt, spills, scuffs, and 1-2 coats of finish, leaving a clean surface for recoating.
Open web construction resists loading and clogging.
Washable and reusable pad is economical and helps postpone end-of-life disposal to landfills.
Versatile pads can be used for heavy-duty spray cleaning and foam scrubbing.
For rotary and automatic floor machines running at low speed (175-600 rpm).
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