There is no doubt that Covid left wounds in the global economy, but such damage will heal for years to come. However, what must be haunted by you and easy to destroy now is the scary footprints on the floor every six feet in every store, bank, and business. It seemed that this was the best solution for your visitors and employees, which could save them from infection, but it soon turned out that everything is not so simple. Let’s deal with the latter and learn more about floor graphics and how you can get rid of them quickly and painlessly.
Warning for business owners!
When installing social distancing floor stickers, they use different adhesives, and sometimes they can even be too strong and durable, like a building built to last. This is especially dangerous if your company has floors with finishes and micro-details such as protrusions and roughness, as there is a massive chance that you will never be able to remove the sticker from there.
It is also worth remembering that a lot generally depends on the material on which you pasted these stickers. If it is wooden, the removal methods will differ from the tips suitable for stone or plastic floors.
How to get the sticker off the concrete floor
If you installed this sign a long time ago, the concrete on the floor has long absorbed the sticker, and it will be more challenging to remove the marks, but still possible.
What to do? Here are a couple of ways to remove an unwanted image:
1) Buy and use an open-blade straight razor to scrape the decal off the floor piece by piece.
2) Purchase a special spray to remove glue from various surfaces and apply it to the floor.
3) Use a damp cloth to scrub the sticker where the shaver fails.
4) Wash the area of concrete with a cleaning agent.
5) If there are still some signs of a covid warning, then it is worth going all this way again.
6) Apply the caulking agent while covering the concrete several times.
7) Get busy with polishing.
After the steps taken, you may notice that the concrete area that the decal was on is different in color from the rest of the floor. In this case, it is worth polishing the entire surface in the office or store.
How to get the sticker off the wood floor
It will not be difficult if you follow specific rules and sequences:
1) Place a drop of vinegar on a white cloth and place it on the sticker. Wait only five minutes.
2) After this, start scraping off the sticker and glue layer from the surface.
3) Once no trace is left on the floor, coat the surface with wood polish.
How to get the sticker off carpet floor
Often in stores and offices, carpet is laid for comfort, but they forget about such details as stickers and sticky debris, which will be extremely difficult to remove. If this is the case and you need to remove the social distance warning from the carpet, then do not try to do it yourself, as you risk very much simply destroying the covering with caustic agents and attempting to scrub the picture off the floor. Contact a company specializing in carpet cleaning and ask them to take care of the problem.
About removable vinyl floor stickers
So that you know for the future, the best choice in any situation is to buy stickers that are not intended for permanent use but are removable from the surface. Yes, they will undoubtedly be a little more expensive, but it’s worth it.
We hope that our tips will help you fight the traces of the pandemic. Good luck!