Ground upkeep pads, additionally known as non-woven pads, carry out quite a lot of jobs, relying upon the supplies contained within the pad. Non-woven pads are the usual pads used for quite a lot of functions, together with scrubbing, buffing, stripping, and sprucing on each wooden and concrete flooring. Composed of artificial fibers, pure fibers, or a mixture of each, these pads usually can be found in both 1/4” or 1” thicknesses. The colour sometimes determines the aggressiveness and utilization of the pad. Pads are offered in pink, blue, black, inexperienced, tan, brown, white, white gold, and maroon.

Used most regularly within the hardwood business, maroon pads are a chemical-free stripping pad and are thought-about a “inexperienced” resolution as a result of they don’t introduce stripping chemical compounds into the setting. Usually used for between-coat preparation of hardwood ground finishes, the maroon pad options aluminum oxide abrasive grains and can be utilized moist or dry. By way of how abrasive these pads are, the pads can fluctuate barely from one producer to a different.

Tools Compatibility

Non-woven pads can be utilized beneath an auto scrubber, a standard low-speed buffer machine, or beneath an orbital machine. Merely use your regular sander or buffer machine and place a non-woven pad the place you’ll place your sandpaper. If utilizing a maroon ground sprucing pad, which is 3/8” thick, you may pair it with a pink or white pad or standard pad driver so it would have extra flexibility to achieve these unlevel areas of ground floor.

Abrasives in Non-Woven Pads

Ground upkeep pads embrace quite a lot of abrasive supplies, starting from no abrasives to aluminum oxide to silicon carbide. Some buffing pads use very effective gentle supplies to extend the friction on the floor, offering very delicate abrasion. White pads don’t have any abrasive in any respect and depend on effective fibers on the floor to generate warmth to burnish the end.

Whereas there are many decisions to be made in non-woven pads, it will be significant that you simply talk about your wants along with your distributor, and perceive which pads are designed to be used on wooden flooring, and wooden ground finishes. They may help you select the appropriate pad to your job.

Carol Crittendon is the advertising supervisor for Virginia Abrasives in Petersburg, Virginia. She will be reached at ccrittendon@virginiaabrasives.com.