Average response time: under 24 hours
Pad marks (streaks or swirls) on a freshly polished floor appear when a dirty pad, leftover coarse grit, uneven pressure, or too-fast stepping skips a grit. Fix them by cleaning the floor, switching to a fresh pad one grit finer, and making slow, overlapping, flat passes. If the streaks are deep, drop back one or two grits and re-polish the affected area before continuing.
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| Light haze / fine swirls | Re-polish with a clean pad, one grit up (e.g. 1500 after 800) |
| Visible coarse scratches | Drop back to the grit that matches the scratch, re-polish, then step up properly |
| Dirty-pad streaks | Dress or replace the pad; vacuum the floor first |
| Burn/smear marks | Reduce speed, increase water (wet) or vacuum (dry), re-pass with fresh pad |
Dedicating a matched set — such as our white resin polishing pads — to each project keeps grit stages clean and prevents cross-contamination that causes streaks.
A: They can — marks are often invisible while wet and show once dry. Always check the floor dry with raking light before calling it finished.
A: Yes, for local marks: clean the area, re-polish locally with a fine pad, then blend with a full-speed pass over the surrounding area.
A: Match the scratch width to the grit that produced it — if you just did 400 then 800 and see streaks, redo the 800 pass properly before going to 1500.
Pad marks come from dirty pads, skipped grits, and uneven passes. Clean between grits, use fresh pads, and re-polish one grit up to erase streaks — then verify dry under raking light before you finish.
