Instastrip
Total floor stripper
Instastrip is a powerful floor stripper formulated to remove polish build-up, wax, sealers, and UHS burnished finishes from resilient flooring. Designed for use with powered scrubbing machinery, it delivers fast, effective results across surfaces such as vinyl, linoleum, and other hard floors—even at high dilutions.
Instastrip provides an economical and efficient solution for routine coatings removal. Its high-performance formulation softens and emulsifies layers of finish with ease, streamlining the restoration process—though it is not suitable for sealed timber floors, where it may damage the finish.
- pH
- 12
- Dilution
- 1:5 (166ml/Lt)
- Fragrance
- None
- Safety
- Class 8 Corrosive
- Colour
- Yellow
- Pack Size
- 5lt, 15lt
- Surfaces
- Natural Stone, Ceramic & Porcelain, Concrete & Masonry, Rubber, Vinyl
- Product Code
- AP400
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Benefits
- Ultra Low Foam: The low-foaming formulation prevents damage to extraction machinery by avoiding foam entry into vacuum motors.
- Fast Action: Begins to liquefy coatings immediately upon contact, speeding up the stripping process.
- Labour Saving: Requires minimal scrubbing, reducing time and labor.
- Versatile: Safe for use on various surfaces including vinyl, linoleum, and other resilient floors.
- Low Odour: Provides a user-friendly experience with no harsh ammonia fumes or high VOC solvents.
Application areas and surface suitability
Instastrip is a total floor stripper and coating remover.
Instastrip is safe for use on vinyl and most resilient floors and quickly softens and emulsifies old worn and discoloured finishes for easy removal. Instastrip must not be used to remove sealer and polish finishes from sealed timber floors as it may affect the timber seal, requiring sanding to rectify the floor
How to use
Read and understand the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) before use
Always pretest in an inconspicuous location.
Dilutions
- Dilute at 1:10 for removing light build-ups
- Dilute at 1:4 for heavy build-up and UHS burnished coatings.
Application
- Sweep area thoroughly to remove any soiling that could damage the floor if caught under scrubbing equipment
- Apply solution liberally to floor area with a cotton mop ensuring that the area is thoroughly wet. (Always work in small controllable area sizes)
- Allow at least 5 minutes dwell time and then agitate with low speed rotary scrubber or auto-scrubber fitted with a black, brown or high productivity pad.
- Be careful to ensure that the area does not “dry out” on the surface.
- After scrubbing, pick up slurry and rinse thoroughly with clean water to ensure that all stripper and sealer residues are removed.
- Allow floor to dry before with the restoration process and re-strip any areas that may still have polish build-up or that were missed in the first application.
