Taski Jontec, Diversey, Exeol: professional products for the maintenance of your floors
Discover our full range of professional floor cleaning products from brands like Diversey, Exeol, Anios, Jex, Finish, St Marc, and more. We offer a wide selection of strippers, wax cleaners, emulsion waxes, and spray-on cleaning methods. Suitable for tiled, terracotta, polished concrete, and vinyl floors. We also carry a line of non-foaming detergents for use with automatic floor scrubbers or for manual cleaning with a cleaning trolley using the two-bucket method or impregnation.
Discover our product guides for floor stripping, as well as how to clean tiled floors and maintain thermoplastics, linoleum, vinyl, and PVC, which are very common in schools, public buildings, and offices. Find leading professional brands with the Taski Jontec range.
How to choose your cleaning product according to the type of floor?
The type of flooring will determine the chemical composition of the detergent to be used. A detergent is primarily structured around surfactants, which give water its wetting and cleaning power once dissolved. Additives are also present in the formulas to provide descaling, degreasing, stripping, and other cleaning actions. Therefore, the aggressiveness or effectiveness of the product is characterized by its hygroscopic potential, known as pH . This value, ranging from 0 to 14, indicates the target cleaning action.
For daily maintenance and/or for fragile floors such as plastic flooring, linoleum, PVC... a neutral cleaner with a pH close to 7 in dilution should be used.
For wax stripping or restoration work on thermoplastics , for example, you'll need a stripping product with an alkaline pH between 10 and 12. Of course, check the flooring's technical data sheet for recommendations. Preparing a preliminary report to avoid any unpleasant surprises like discoloration can be a good idea.
For terracotta tiles, it is essential to avoid acidic products and use neutral or alkaline ones instead. For polished concrete, neutral and non-alkaline products are recommended.
The use of a mechanized washing system such as an automatic scrubber or single-brush machine is a plus to bring about a mechanical action, otherwise a washing method with a fringe mop and a suitable washing trolley will give very good results.
When to strip and when to wax?
Thermoplastic flooring, PVC, linoleum, and shock-resistant materials are very common in public spaces. Their maintenance requires a protocol with a cycle that includes stripping, waxing (emulsion), and spray application, supplemented by daily cleaning with a neutral cleaner.
The stripping phase is the most difficult to master and should only be carried out when necessary. It is a costly operation in terms of products, consumables such as stripping discs , and wear and tear on equipment like single-disc floor machines or automatic scrubbers. It is also very demanding in terms of human resources because it requires applying the stripping agent to the floor, mechanical action to strip the floor, drying by vacuuming the water-chemical solution, and finally one or more rinses to neutralize the floor.
The stripping operation should not be carried out systematically but only when the protective layer is damaged to the point that a spray method can no longer regenerate the surface.
Daily traffic wears down the surface wax, creating scratches and dulling the shine. If the deterioration is very advanced, daily maintenance and even disinfection become impossible.
Therefore, you need to strip your paint down to bare wood, which remains a heavy operation that should be postponed as much as possible with a daily maintenance method using a neutral cleaner, supplemented with a high or low speed spray application.
Which product should I use for my floor cleaner?
A floor scrubber requires the use of a specific detergent to prevent damage to the machine and the suction pump motor. Using an overly aggressive, acidic, or alkaline formula will lead to premature wear of machine components such as seals, filters, and motors. The advantage of a product specifically designed for floor scrubber cleaning, such as Diversey's Taski Jontec 300, is that it provides effective cleaning without damaging your floors or equipment.
The other important point is to choose a non-foaming detergent . Indeed, the water level sensor, which shuts off the suction pump and prevents the tank from overflowing, may receive an erroneous signal if there is a high level of foam in the collection tank.