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[QUOTE="plappyflugilips, post: 331831"] Hello there, long time reader, first time poster. Good forum! My father has just begun trying to renovate his hallway floor using a seemingly random assortment of nasty chemicals. He first scrubbed it with Cillit Bang and steel wool, then Flash, and most recently he's been using a mixture of sand and "Dambuster" - a sulfuric acid-based drain cleaner! When I realised what a bodge this sounded I checked on this forum and read lots of recommendations for Aquamix, Nanoscrub etc. I was going to buy a load of that and take over the job for him, doing it properly. The thing is though, the crazy mixture of stuff he's using actually seems to be working really well. It's lifting all the gum, grease, oil, underlay imprints etc, and doesn't appear to be damaging the tiles. I've inspected them closely and I can see that the porosity is no worse in the cleaned tiles and the colour is unchanged. What I'm wondering is, as long as I can convince him to use a proper finishing product (rather than trying to seal it with flippin' lard or whatever) what's the worst that can happen by continuing with this amateur bodging method? As long as its all clean and undamaged, does it really matter what chemicals were used to do the cleaning? Thanks in advance. [IMG]http://www.flickr.com/photos/23461540@N04/4479082482/[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.flickr.com/photos/23461540@N04/4479080114/in/photostream/[/IMG] Scrubbed: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/23461540@N04/4479082482[/url] Not scrubbed: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/23461540@N04/4479080114[/url] [/QUOTE]
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