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Your cart is empty.Since 1935, Trewax has been a leading provider of surface protection and restoration products. More than 80 years later, Trewax continues to be the brand trusted by consumers and industry professionals around the world. Trewax Professional Heavy Duty Floor Stripper removes old, tough wax buildup from floors to allow for new sealers to be applied with ease. Simply pour on, wipe up, and rinse to leave your floors clean and ready for a new sealer. This wax remover instantly removes old wax build-up from floors. The concentrated formula works hard to prepare your floors for the next step.
karen
Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2022
The description says for wood, if you look up hardwood stripper it comes up, but if you read the container it says not for hardwood. Took it to local home depot like the paper says, because I'm in Canada No go, stuck with it now can not be returned all though it says you can. Better watch what you buy. NOT HAPPY
Grace W.
Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2022
This product saved me from spending $$$ on professionals and it gets the job done. We had 10 years of wax on our old hardwood flooring and a 1:1 ratio worked great for us. You just have to saturate the flooring with it and leave for 2-3 minutes. The flooring wax comes right off with a little scrubbing. Highly recommend!
Gloria E.
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2021
Loosened the wax so it was easy to mop up. Took some time but did a good job.
S.C.
Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2021
This product is magical. It dissolved the wax buildup and restored my floors to their original luster.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on April 28, 2021
This product must be used following ALL Directions on the label, prior to applying Trewax Waxes.
Used Crayons
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2018
This wax remover was awesome. My wife and I accidentally applied Bona Polish instead of cleaner for a couple of weeks to our "hardwood" floor. It's engineered hardwood, but for finish purposes, it's a hardwood floor. It left it cloudy and kind of grimy-looking. Our cleaning lady tried for several visits in a row to get it cleared up, with no success. This stuff worked great. To get our floors clean I took the following steps1. Find all Bona Polish in the house, pour it down the nearest drain.2. Sweep floor3. Mix Trewax Instant Wax Remover and water 1:5 ratio in an old Windex bottle. It looks about like watered down mountain dew.4. Get a bucket of hot water and a mop ready5. Get a new clean Bona microfiber mop ready6. Hose down a section of floor about 3 feet long and up to 12 feet wide with Wax Remover.7. Use the clean Bona mop to spread the wax remover evenly, use enough so it doesn't dry.8. Wait 3 minutes9. Use hot water mop to take up most of the wax remover, then repeat on the next 3 foot long section.10. When you get a big area done, go back over it with Bona CLEANER, not polish, not polish, not polish.You can see the before and after in the one picture, the right side of the picture you can see the filmy polish and then the side where it is removed. The other picture is after the whole floor was finished and dry.I could have easily done 1500 sq feet with a 32oz bottle, but we bought the gallon because I didn't know how well it would work. After 3 days it still looks awesome, no harm to the finish of the floor. This stuff is worth every penny.
Shellbie Jerome
Reviewed in Canada on September 25, 2017
works well
Jenny Long
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2016
MIRACULOUS! We bought a home that was a bank repo. The windows had been left open all winter (North Idaho) and as a result, the hickory floors had "cupped" (warped). Our flooring contractor said they could not be repaired and quoted us $17K to replace them. We did a lot of reading up on it and found many experts who claimed this type of warp can sometimes be reversed in good home climate conditions. However, it takes time. I had to choose between spending a large amount of money that was needed for other repairs on the home or living with severely beat up, dirty looking floors for a year while we waited to see if they would calm down enough to be sanded and refinished. I resigned myself to living with the grody looking floors for a year in hopes that it would be worth the wait and we could eventually refinish, rather than replace them.Meanwhile, I hired a tile and grout restoration company to restore the floor tile that was also in disgusting, filthy condition. The day after the tile work was done, I noticed a sliver of wood floor that had accidentally gotten some of their tile stripper on it. It was light, bright, brand new looking wood! This really got me thinking....and googling.I found that many people make the mistake of using waxy floor polishes on their floors (think Mop & Glo), which actually retain dirt and grime, causing the floors to look perpetually dark and dirty. This waxy layer also scratches easily and just looks awful after repeated applications. My next quest sent me in search of the right product to try. At this point, it was still just wishful thinking that the ugliness of the floor was possibly just a wax problem.Reviews on Home Depot and Amazon sites steered me toward this product. My first test patch had me almost crying with joy and relief! The results far surpassed my hopes! The process takes some elbow grease, but the result is so miraculous that I'm compelled to keep going. While my boards are still "cupped", this is not really noticeable. To the average person, it looks like a brand new floor. Now I'm happy to look at it indefinitely while we wait to see if it will lay back down.In closing, here is the formula and method that worked for me:1. Mix equal parts stripper and water.2. Saturate a workable size area with a sponge (maybe 2 x 4 ft)3. Wait 5 minutes4. Scrape with a wider plastic putty knife or drywall spatula5. Repeat if needed (my floor had been waxed for 14 years, so most areas needed a second pass)6. Scoop up the grey slimy gunk with paper towels, then follow with a clean, damp towel.$20 vs $17K for a brand new "looking" floor. Magic!
Joliemodel
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2016
Best product ever. Literally this is a miracle product. I'm so glad I read the review and thanks to all who took the time to post pictures, answer my questions before buying and wrote amazing reviews. My woodfloors looked a mess from 4 years of using mop and glow and orange shine. I had recently bought a clean and shine product thinking it will clean my floors and made it ten times worse. So I was in desperate need of something to remove all the wax and as I was googling and looking on youtube I find this amazing product. Wow wow wow it is better then what u could have asked for. Since I was nervous to use it on my floors and saw the review stating to only keep it on for only five minutes, I decided to do 1 part product and 2 part water instead of the 50/50 adviced on here especially since the instructions on the bottle states to not use it on woodfloors. My husband tested it on a small area and it worked so we decided to go for it. The results were amaziiiiiiinnggg. Please look at the pictures attached. To make the job easier so that my husband didn't have to be on his knees doing it I purchase one of those long handle scrubbers (scrub brush 54") and to spread the product I purchase a Gardner sprayer. This made the job a looooot easier. It was still work but definitely not as bad as if we had to use a small spray bottle and be on his knee. It has been months since we used it and my floors are still looking amazing. I have decided that I will no longer be using those mop and glow crap. After using this product we literally don't need anything else and the floor still look gorgeous. In the pictures you can see the area that has been done compared to the area not yet done. I took so many pictures so if anyone needs more pictures feel free to ask.By the way I purchased 3 of these bottles thinking that I was going to use it all since I was doing my entire downstairs about 2000squre feet. But only ended up using about half of one bottle. So a little goes a long way especially since I was mixing only one part product and two part water.
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