How to remove quick shine from vinyl flooring

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• One cup of lemon scented ammonia to one gallon hot water. Rinse and dry well. Do not let it sit too long. Laminate substrate swells when it stays wet

• Buy a can of Scrubbing Bubbles and it should come right off. Just give it a few minutes to work, before mopping. Do the floor in sections.

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  Dee on Mar 20, 2019

  I made that mistake and never again. Quick shine ruins floors. I got a plastic scraper and got on my hands and knees and scraped it all off. I kept a vacuum near so that I could vacuum up the residue. It is a very tedious job.

  Maybe one of the laminate cleaners at Home Depot would help. I like Zep products. Just do not wet the laminate because the edges will buckle.

• I would use one cup of PineSol to a gallon of warm soapy (Dawn) water and hand clean a swath of the floor at a time. Since it is laminate flooring, I would also dry the floor with old towels after the water mix. When the floor is completely dry, Jasmine, use more clean towels or old T-shirts to buff the floor in small sections at a time. This will remove any more water left behind as well as bring the shine back. This will take a lot of muscle grease, but the shine will last a long time. Best wishes!

• I used quickshine on my tile floors and they looked fantastic, for awhile. Now I have to pay $1200.00 to have my floors professionally stripped to get rid of the ugly mess. I’m extremely disappointed and upset . I can’t remove it myself due to physical limitations. I did try windex, let it sit for a minute or so and that does work. Quite well in fact.

• Ammonia did it easy for me!

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  Irene on Jul 07, 2022

  Quick Shine is the biggest nightmare I've ever used. This company should be sued for people putting this on their floors. Absolutely the worst stuff I've ever used. I've tried everything to get this stuff off. NOTHING WORKS!!!

• Ammonia, be sure the area is well ventilated, open the windows, put a fan on and wear gloves, rinse with water being careful to not get the floor wet any more than possible. It will get into the laminate and make the pieces swell.

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Question: Two years ago, we had our floors refinished, and they were beautiful. Several months ago, however, we hired a cleaner who used a product that essentially ruined the floors. The cleaner didn’t sweep before applying the product, Quick Shine, and thus dust, dirt, and dog hair have been embedded in the floor and surface.

We can’t find anything to fix this. Is there a product we can use to remove the Quick Shine? I hate the idea of having the floors refinished again. Not only is it costly and a pain to move out, but we just had a baby, and I won’t expose her to the fumes that seemed to have taken forever to dissipate after the polyurethane dried.

Answer: I asked the people who make Quick Shine products, Holloway House of Fortville, Ind., for help with your problem, and they had an answer to me in the time it took to commute from my house to the office.

Quick Shine Deep Cleaner was specifically developed to remove Quick Shine Floor Finish and imperfections such as trapped pet hair, dust, scuffing and ground-in dirt without harming hardwood floors or their polyurethane seal or any other type of floor surface.

Dilute the Deep Cleaner in hot water and apply it to the floor. Let it stand a few minutes, then agitate with a rough-sided sponge or an agitator mop pad. Do small sections of the floor at a time.

For heavy buildup, you may need to use fine steel wool and a second treatment. Also, increase the dilution of 1 cup per gallon to

3 cups, I was told.

Deep Cleaner is concentrated; it makes

3 gallons, which should be enough for

500 square feet of floor. Remove debris and buildup from the area with a clear-water rinse. Do not flood-coat the floor with water, but rinse the floor thoroughly, yet carefully, with a damp cloth or a light clear-water rinse with a damp mop.

Quick Shine Deep Cleaner is available at www.quickshine.net or by calling the customer service center at 800-255-1891. I hope it helps.

Countertops revisited

A recent column replied to a questioner wondering if it was possible to spruce up an old laminate countertop by painting it. The laminate manufacturer I contacted, and another I had posed the question to previously, both said no.

I’m not disputing what the experts say. I’m just offering other points of view from readers.

Reader Kathi Carignan of Richmond, Va., says her husband did it successfully.

“My husband and I moved into a home in need of some fixing up. We wanted to do a bigger kitchen remodel with new cabinets and granite countertops, but weren’t financially ready for that yet.

“The existing countertop was a dingy white and the cabinet finish was too dark for a small kitchen with one window. My husband painted the cabinets white. The cabinets looked great, but the countertop looked worse against the spanking white cabinets.

“So he used two colors of green paint, and a black paint, to marbleize the counters. He did not sand or otherwise treat the laminate first.

“The final finish looked great. I know that he used some kind of top coat, but am not sure what (he’s deceased, so I can’t ask), but it was clear and shiny, and he used two coats.

“As with many home improvements, it took way longer than we’d ever thought it would to get around to fully renovating the kitchen, so that marbleized finish was with us for several years and held up well. (In fact, that old countertop is now in my garage and it still looks pretty good. It has only a few small chips.)”

After reading my column, Joyce Hann came across a full-page advertisement in the February issue of Family Handyman magazine for Modern Masters Countertop Transformations, www.modernmasterstransformations.com, for refinishing laminates.

The original countertop needs to be in good structural condition. If it has delaminated, the laminate must be reattached. The process is not for laminate that is blistering, bubbling or buckling, the Web site states.

Questions? E-mail Alan J. Heavens at or write him at The Inquirer, Box 8263, Philadelphia, PA 19101. Volume prohibits individual replies.

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