Just wondering how many of you are using your Cimex machines for floor care, in addition to carpet cleaning.

Hopefully you're maximizing your Cimex investment. The Cimex is an AWESOME machine for stripping vinyl flooring. It can also be used for scrubbing tile and grout and stone floors. And the standard machine can even be used for some light marble floor care (of course the "Diamond Finisher" is the real high-performance marble grinding machine).

So how many of you are getting all that you can from your Cimex by putting it's deep scrubbing to work on hard surfaces too?




Rick Gelinas

I stripped a VCT floor last Saturday with my Cimex. It worked very well for this purpose. It is much less tiring than using a rotary machine.

That being said, I do wish there was a way of "heeling in" with the Cimex (like you can do with a good rotary). But, that's just me. I've been using rotary machines for a decade now.

Side note.......

When I finished stripping and double-rinsing the floor, I went out to the van only to discover I had left the floor finish back home (20 miles away). So what to do? What to do?

Well, its Saturday, so no suppliers are open! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Wait a minute! I remember seeing professional floor finish at my local WalMart. So, I zoom over to the near by WalMart and pick up 4 gallons of Rubber Maid High Gloss Floor Finish. The label says it has 22% solids and is very burnishable, although the drying time between coats is a full 30 minutes. Oh well. Lets see how it does.

Bam!!!!!!! I am knocked out! This stuff is great! Its way more glossy than my regular floor finish and costs less to boot! I have never before seen the floor look so "wet" after it dried! I feel like I have a little secret now. WalMart sells RubberMaid floor finish that totally kicks butt!

I plan to use (haven't yet) the cimex for stripping and grout cleaning. Will the cimex throw the stripping solution up the wall like a rotary does? I wonder about the wal-mart wax. I have done some strip jobs lately where the stripper didn't dissolve the wax very well, the wax had that wet look in places that the propane buffer wouldn't go. I had globs and a real mess to clean up and some of it had to be scrapped off the tile.

Today is graduation at the university. They lay out all this carpet in the gym. It needs to be cleaned. It has no backing, only the bonding material for backing. The bonnets came in the mail yesterday. So I clean about 4000 sq of carpet with releasit and bonnets and 2 gallons of water to do the whole thing. carpets look great, thanks Rick

Rick,
I just got back from a FANTASTIC 3 day hands on
stone class from Maurizio Bertoli,a true craftsman.

I spoke to a few fellows who use the larger Cimex for
grinding and honing.....they love it.
This is a field I am very interested in.
It's obvious that the Cimex is a machine that has the ability to
do all types of flooring.

I went to the same class - not bad info, eh?

We saw all different types of marble go from dull to 'shiny enough to blind you'. Maurizio is a character, to say the least!

Interesting that he liked to use the planetary style machines like Cimex...have not really seen it used for marble much before.