This is a simple tool that you can make to remove scuff marks from tile floors. We use these at the school I work at to remove the children's slide marks on a brand new floor. Our school maintenance guy has a hard time keeping the kids from sliding on his beautiful shiny floors so he made these erasers so that he did not have to get on his knees to clean them off and it also makes it easy for those "small offenders" to clean them off themselves.
Time to complete: 10 minutes
To use: Rub the tennis ball over the black scuff marks and watch them disappear.
After I made this my grandson was playing with it and we found out that it also works great for cobwebs in corners of rooms. They stick right to the tennis ball and come right down.
Hope this saves on your back and your knees.
Here are the questions asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community.
How do I clean rubber sole shoe marks from tile floors with out damaging the wax?
By Jorge Colon
Rub them with a tennis ball. You can cut a slit in the tennis ball, and slide it over the end of your broom--saves your back!
The easier way to clean rubber sole marks off a floor (any) is just to rub with your shoes (while you are in them). A long up and back motion (like the pawing motion a horse does his leg), or you can go in circles.
A good old fashioned eraser. ;-)
I think WD-40 does a pretty fair job. We use it on our hardwood floors and it's great. I sure do like the sound of that tennis ball trick, though.
I have tried this. But it did not work. I work in the Police Academy and even then buffing machines are not taking it off. Any advise?
sometimes the only thing that removes black marks is stripper
