Practice flooring

Re: Practice flooring

Sal the 1st — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:04:49 GMT

Rhino floor - if you look through any of the floor places local to you bet they will have it. Try and get the vinyl skirtings as well if you can - so much cleaner!

Re: Practice flooring

loobylou — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:00:56 GMT

Thanks for all the replies, not sure how a thread about flooring managed to bring up pictures of Bon Jovi though

Does anyone know the name of the glittery flooring and/ or a supplier?

Re: Practice flooring

Sal the 1st — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:57:55 GMT

hope you dont have problems with the altro floor cleaning fliud like I do - Is extremely alkaline, brings floors up a treat, removes loads of crud..... and also skin! very very careful with it!

Re: Practice flooring

wobbliebob — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:12:29 GMT

love bon jovi

we have altro flooring its crap

Re: Practice flooring

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:32:28 GMT

It was the green glittery stuff in the place I was talking about, and scrubbing with a scrubber does not take the non slip off, the flooring has been down 12 years and is still non slip and still like new.

Re: Practice flooring

Freckle — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:45:04 GMT

rotowash is a hateful machine but very good at what it does! needs to be used properly tho - ie sloooowly lol! we use it with trigene in and our sparkly non slip floors always look fab. we rotowash daily :(

Re: Practice flooring

Nick Shackleton — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:42:57 GMT

WE have the glitter floor too, i find a scrubbing brush and Cif/Jif and getting down on your hands and knees works wonders!!!

Guns 'n' Roses are poodle rock too, and I have to say rock.

Re: Practice flooring

jan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:48:59 GMT

Love the bon jovi pics. how do we feel about Guns n Roses?

Re: Practice flooring

jan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:46:55 GMT

We have the turquosie glittery bit stuff too

Its a NIGHTMARE to clean & ours has changed colour so where we had to have a bit replaced its really noticable. Very non slip, which is good, but we were told we couldn't use a scrubber / poliser as it'll take the non slip away (I was told the non slip was cos its not actually smooth & machine will take the high points off. The reason it gets so dirty is the muck sits in the low points. Like sandpaper but not a rough) but that may just have been the builders who put it in telling porkies!

Re: Practice flooring

Nick Shackleton — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:33:29 GMT

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Rotowash!!!

I used to hate that machine, or actually it hated me!!

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I'll second that!!! I used to always flood the floor when I used it!

Re: Practice flooring

Sarah Cahill — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:22:21 GMT

Rotowash!!!

I used to hate that machine, or actually it hated me!!

We just got a quote for new floors, next step is to actually make the boss agree to fork out! Fun, fun!

Re: Practice flooring

Shane — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:36:18 GMT

lol, yup did not go down well, exept the guy did! hehehe. Even after complaints about the slipperiness, the flooring was laid in other practices as well....

Re: Practice flooring

Maisy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:03:33 GMT

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I bet that did not go down well............. but did he??? lol, sorry could not resist

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PMSL Not the best thing to happen during a H+S inspection!

Re: Practice flooring

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:24:39 GMT

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heh, previous group I used to work for had most of their practices covered with this type of large tile that looked waxy when wet, and by $£^%^ it was slippery! Health & Safety was doing an inspection and the one guy slipped and fell!

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I bet that did not go down well............. but did he??? lol, sorry could not resist

Re: Practice flooring

Shane — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:48:47 GMT

Re: Practice flooring

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:16:16 GMT

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Yeah that sounds right. We (as in on our hands and knees too) scrub the floors only once a month but with our hospital inspection in a few weeks it's being done more regularly. Hoping to get some allowance from our CD to purchase some sort of large floor cleaner/scrubber.

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They are definitely worth it, they have the floors looking like new.They do take a bit of getting used to but once you get the hang they are quite fun really

Re: Practice flooring

Maria Mahon — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:35:22 GMT

Re: Practice flooring

Sal the 1st — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:28:26 GMT

we never had an industrial scrubber - was hands and knees job with a scrubbing brush!

Re: Practice flooring

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:09:37 GMT

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? rhino floor - is a sod to clean and never looks clean but is pretty slip proof unless swimming in water

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It cleans well if you use a scrubber on it, We had that flooring in my training practice, and it was great, it was cleaned obv few times a day, but once a week we soaked it with bleach/water, left on for 15 mins, then used and industrial scrubber on it........ it came up like new.

Re: Practice flooring

Sal the 1st — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:16:13 GMT

? rhino floor - is a sod to clean and never looks clean but is pretty slip proof unless swimming in water

Re: Practice flooring

Maria Mahon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:37:08 GMT

I'm unsure of the name of the flooring we have (it's sparkly/grainy and a really grubby 'turquoise' colour) but for aesthetic reasons I would definitely NOT recommend, it never looks clean and seems to absorb stains quite easily.

However, even fresh after mopping it doesn't seem to be slippery and it feels quite hardy?

Re: Practice flooring

Anna Rayne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:48:42 GMT

def curved floors, and look at the type of lino - the shiny smooth stuff can be very slippy when wet (and downright dangerous if you get clipper spray on it - and those patches stay slippery too) the slightly sparkly stuff is better.

Re: Practice flooring

Vicky RVN — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:05:30 GMT

We have curved floor rather than skirting, it's fab.

Re: Practice flooring

Maisy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:43:08 GMT

That hair! Swoon........lol

Lino works best but if your boss really wants to go all out, see if you can scrap skirting boards and have curved floor instead. Saves ages cleaning pesky skirting boards and looks a lot cleaner too.

Re: Practice flooring

Nick Shackleton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:46:31 GMT

you could use them as mops perhaps??????