FLOORCARE AND CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CARE


Are You Missing A Trick?


In his final instalment of his three-part feature series, Mike Hamer, a 25-year member of BICSc and a former COPC moderator, explains how you could be missing out on a floorcare tip later on in a wood floor’s lifetime.


H opefully I hav e giv en you an insight into the orld of ood floors, and not frightened you off with some of my early ex periences – please do not forget that I was on my own, and you most certainly do not have to be


E v ery day in the UK, 1 0 , 0 0 0 m2 of


ood flooring is supplied and tted this is mostly pre-nished, so is the maintenance and ov er-coating of these floors a market that you can afford to ignore y conviction is that the floorcare industry, given the right level of support and education, is ideally placed to capitalise on the opportunity


T he opportunity lies down the line, hen the ood floor needs some tender lov ing care – mayb e the apartment is b eing sold or re- decorated, the shop is hav ing a makeov er, or the restaurant freshened up ost cleaning professionals, ho


I meet on a j ob site, or on one of our ve steps courses in the allmann


T echnical F orum in Rugb y, really hav e all the ab ilities to take adv antage of this lucrative market So, ith our support, hats stopping you


With your skills and contacts, some really b asic machinery and a simple


b ut effectiv e system of products, you can overcoat most ood floors, oiled


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or lacquered ( prov ided that something of the original coating is completely protecting the floor arly treatment,


b efore the protection wears through, is the key and then the full, disruptiv e, destructiv e and ex pensiv e sanding process can be avoided


Working for P A L L MA N N , I spend a considerab le amount of my time talking with the still-dev eloping ood floor maintenance market and informing contractors of what is possible  believe that e have the


b est and most innov ativ e products and systems in the world, b ut if nob ody knows ab out them or can use them correctly, then we hav e nothing!


Y ou can use us as a support resource and let us inform and work with you to


b uild a really successful partnership in ood floor installation, renovation and maintenance


A n oiled system is a penetrating protection which works from within the wood and sits at the surface; it is


v ery easily ov er-coated with another oiled system such as our Magic O il


2 k, which is V O C free ( so there is no smell or dodgy solv ent) and it dries in


j ust two hours, with the ab ility to walk on it in four hours ( b eing fully cured in  hours  lacuer system on a ne


ood floor is usually factory-applied and protects b y layers of coats b uilding to a lm thickness, so a surface coating such as our P A L L -X 9 6 , is uropes favourite example of this t can b e v ery tough, b ut ev en P A L L -X


9 6 , once scratched or worn, can b e difcult to patch in unlike an oil


ver-coating any pre-nished floor can b e a risk, b ecause you cannot


b e sure of the maintenance products used or of contamination, either of which may affect the adhesion of the ov er-coat, b ut our P A L L -X 3 5 0 re-coat system, once trained in, takes the risk out of this process Both oiled and lacquered systems should b e maintained according to our ve-step guidelines f course, you may ant to offer a full sanding and renov ation service, hich our ve-step training modules also cover he courses run throughout the year, and on successful completion, contractors can offer a two-year warranty on their ork ith  products et


P A L L MA N N really help you stand out from the crowd!


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