Designed to save water and help protect the environment, these maroon Eco-Prep pads let you strip your floor with or without water, these pads work on like our . Stripping the coats of wax on a floor down to the bare tile will take 3 to 5 passes depending on the number of coats. Theses pads come 10 to a case. These stripping pads are 3/8" thick so it is very important that you use a to protect your floor from the teeth of the pad driver which poke though the pad and scratch your floor.