Floor Cleaning

OK, that in itself doesn't seem at all interesting, but the circumstances might.

Someone did a burnout on the checkerboard tiles at the plant. The owner of the company and I, and virtually everyone else who walks in, thinks it VERY cool. The owner of the building was NOT amused. So...

I got the dubious "honor" this morning of trying to clean the tiles. My best result has been a soaking of Greased Lightning and scraping with a razor blade. That gets about 80-85% of it.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Any ideas what else to try?

Keith

Try gasoline if no one minds the smell. A little on a rag took rubber marks off a rental car pretty damn good. It was funny because I had my Aunt, Dad, and Grandmother questioning me about the gas, it pissed me off. If you are too damned lazy to tell the rental place there are marks on the car don't question me when I take the crap off.

My 17yo daughter put a set of marks on checker board ramp off my enclosed trailer the first time she loaded the car. I haven't removed them though. It's too much fun telling people how they got there.

Magic Eraser would be worth a try.

What are the tiles made out of? If you can get your hands on one, an upright floor scrubber should take that stuff out with a decently stiff bristle brush on the end of it with some degreaser.

I used to scrub/clean/polish/grind all sorts of different floors for a living at a string of 5-star hotels. If someone spat on the ground, I scrubbed it with an upright.

Fix it with fire.

pinchvalve wrote: Fix it with fire.

Yup, just like at the drag strip wen too much rubber builds up in the burnout area.

A buffer with a large green scotch-brite pad under the brush and a strong cleaner like ammonia.

I'm pretty sure those marks didn't last 4 years.

Holy zombie thread!