Hardwood Floor Care Doesn't Have To Be Hard

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Hardwood remains the preferred choice for floor owners and its maintenance requires minimal effort. Unlike laminate or engineered wood, hardwood can be restored several times and will add years of beauty and warmth to your home, while increasing its value and speeding up its resale. However, the ongoing floor maintenance is necessary to give your wood an optimal appearance, and there are four main aspects of maintaining hardwood floors:

• Cleaning of wood floors
• Repair of parquet
• Hardwood floor finish
• Protection of hardwood floors

Clean Your Hardwood Regularly

It is important to know how to clean hardwood floors, as hardwood debris is dirt and sand, which will scratch and mark the floor if it is not removed quickly. In addition, dust is more easily visible on wooden floors than on linoleum or carpets, especially in the sun and especially if the floor is stained with black. Therefore, taking care of the hardwood floor means sweeping and dusting regularly, at least once a week, and after any event that leaves dirt and sand. However, normal household cleaning and cleaning products will cause damage, and you should only use products designed specifically for hardwood. Vacuuming is best as it helps remove dirt and dust between the boards, but uses a vacuum cleaner with a bare floor attachment, not a mixer bar, which can damage the wood.

When further cleaning is required, use an appropriate cleaning method for finishing your floor. If your floor has a gloss finish, it means that polyurethane, or a water-based urethane, or similar finish has been used to form a protective barrier on the hardwood. If it has a mat finish, this means that the floor is protected with a penetrating oil and/or wax seal. In neither of these finishes is water an acceptable cleaning agent, but both can accept surface cleaning with a wet mop, which means that the mop is not wet but only wet to the touch. It only cleans the surface and does not use enough water to penetrate even the oiled and waxed hardwood. When using a wet mop on oil and waxed wood, you can add some neutral pH hardwood floor cleaner before soaking the mop in it. A floor with a shiny protective barrier can accept a generic hardwood floor cleaner, provided it does not contain wax or oil.