Earthblog

It’s fairly common for us to get calls from production facilities looking to clean up industrial excess.  In a production environment, it’s common for stuff to spill or fall onto the floor and build up over time.

Whether it’s latex, rubber, wax, paint, or other soft materials, you can often take it up with a walk behind floor scraper, rather than a diamond grinder.  It’s a simpler process, less that could go wrong, and less expensive to run the machine over time.  Plus, depending on the floor that you’re removing the materials from, a scraper is a safer option.

Grinding stuff like this off a floor will wear the floor down over time.  This is especially true if you’re going to be forced to grind the same spots over and over and over, while not touching other parts of the floor.

If you’re thinking about a floor grinder for this kind of “industrial clean up”, you may find that a walk-behind scraper is actually the better option.

Something that just came up on a call with a client that I thought I’d write about is edge grinding.  Some of the more popular lines of floor grinders out there can only get to within one inch of the wall.  So, if you’re using one of those grinders, you’ll have to use a separate edge grinder to do the entire perimeter of the room, to even out the grind.

Some people don’t consider this when making their grinder purchase.  As a result, you may be disappointed to find that your new grinder doesn’t get particularly close to the wall.  Since this is not something that always comes up, I thought it might be a good idea to make mention of it.  Unless you’re looking to buy BOTH a grinder, AND an edge grinder, make sure your new floor grinder will take you within about 1/8 of an inch of the wall.