Seeing if anyone has any experience with cleaning and treating a 
gymnasium floor - believe it to be maple originally from 1937 and in use 
in a school until 1997.

We are working with the owners of a local National Register Site on 
redeveloping a site and have been physically helping with some current 
issues as we are preparing for a planning grant -

Vandals set off fire extinguishers and left a heavy layer of ?whatever? 
over the entire floor and most everything else in the room.
We have gone over everything and vacuumed up the majority and gone over 
wet mopping to get a much of the material up as possible.

We now have a mostly cleaned floor but it still has traces of the 
accumulated dust and fire ext. material - we plan to lightly damp mop to 
get to a uniformly clean surface - but are looking for what we should do 
next to protect the floor. I have seen gym floors referred to as having 
a wax on them and remember the school district using a buffer on some 
other buildings (but I never saw that in this school building). Are 
there specific products to go over this type of floor with? Should we 
just begin regularly running a dust mop over the floor as care with dust 
spray on the mop head? Or something else?

Any suggestions or experience would be greatly appreciated.

Chris Taylor
Executive Director
Atchison County Historical Society
P.O. Box 201
200 S. 10th Street, Santa Fe Depot
Atchison, KS 66002
913-367-6238
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www.atchisonhistory.org

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