Have you ever tried cleaning your home floor on your own? If so, you would know that there is no breaking out of kneepads while cleaning home floors. Whether your home floor is tile, linoleum, laminate, or cork, the tips shared by professional cleaning services will help you clean your home floor the simplest and safest way. Home cleaning services follow the below-mentioned tips to keep floors looking spotless and new for years.
Laminate Flooring
Laminate flooring in homes may resemble natural stone tiles or hardwood planks, but you still have to care for the floor. The good side of having a laminate floor is that only a few things can harm the flooring. Nevertheless, you should take care not to let water seep underneath the floor while cleaning it. Cleaning experts recommend dry mopping or vacuuming laminate flooring.
If you are planning to vacuum the floor, you will need to ensure that the machine is in the tile mode and not in carpet mode. This mode will make sure that the beater bar of the machine is raised and will not harm the flooring. To spot clean the floor, you may use a lightly damp mop. In addition, never to polish laminate floors.
Hardwood Flooring
Hardwood floors usually have a wax or polyurethane finish and sealed wooden floors will have a polyacrylic, urethane, or polyurethane coating to protect the floor from water damage and stains. To clean hardwood floors, you need to mix a quarter cup of pH-neutral soap with water in a vessel. Do not use acidic vinegar solutions to clean hardwood floors, as it will make the wooden surface dull over continuous usage.
You may damp mop the hardwood floor using a dry cloth to wipe away moisture and cleaning solution. In addition, make sure to clean the high traffic areas like kitchen floors at least once a week. For the low traffic areas, you may mop once in a month.
Cork Floor
The porosity of the cork floor makes it much beautiful, but the same property makes these floors susceptible to water damages. As cork is great at absorbing, most of the cork floors will be sealed, but still, you will need to proceed with care.
“Vacuum often to prevent scratching, wipe up spills immediately, and wash cork floors once a week,” says Leslie Reichert, a cleaning expert. Reichert also suggests using homemade cleaning products like a mixture of vinegar and soapy water instead of commercial cleaning products. Make sure to clean a section of the floor at a time and wipe the area with a damp mop.
