It is that activity that every household needs to have in order to keep its shining condition like we see all the time in TV commercials. Keeping the floors looking fresh and polished doesn’t require a lot of skill but there are some tricks and tips that will make your floors look even more fresh and delightful for more days than usual.
Make the floor cleaning more enjoyable
Your regular routine with dust mop will do nearly everything that needs to be done for cleaning hardwood floors. There are of course various hardwood floor cleaning machine that is able to make them shiny to even greater extent. Yet regardless of your method of cleaning your floor will certainly endure a lot of traffic on daily basis.
Such problem consists of everyone bringing indoors various outdoor elements that are both noticeable and invisible. We are constantly bombarded with commercials about different cleaning products that more or less do just the same thing to your floor and at the end, we are most likely going to chose the one with the more pleasant odor since most of them are plain disinfecting utility and nothing more.
Needless to say, one of the first moves in maintaining your hardwood floor pristine is placing a floor mat outside your home and removing your shoes once you get inside so none of the exterior elements get the floor dirty. Germs, grime and dirt are the problematic triplets that no clean floor likes to have and the removal of shoes (which is still not so usual for many people once they get inside) can eradicate them to great extent.
What you need to pay attention to when picking the right dusting mop for your home is that the best mop for hardwood floors include those with a microfiber head. The kind of material that is specially designed to wipe most (if not all) grime and bacteria from hardwood floors.
Try with natural methods before going for a cleaning product
Carefully read the recommendations that will come with your dusting mop since many of them are sophisticated enough to not require additional cleaning products so there will be no unnecessary chemistry where your kids might play all day. Depending on how often you do your chores, always do the vacuuming with a brush attachment that will additionally clean the floor before the final touch.
But be careful not to put too much-unwanted pressure on the floor with the wrong attachment since many of them can leave unwanted marks all over the floor the more you clean it.
Keep in mind that all these microscopic unwanted residents of your floor build up over time and removing grime and dirt on a weekly basis is usually not enough.
Do the deep cleaning of your hardwood floors from time to time with an additional cleaning product, a sponge and an old fashion way of rubbing the floor until it shines like a diamond.
It is wise to do such activity when its warm outside since that will be also the way to let the floors dry naturally powered by the wind that you will let inside from all the windows in the home.
Moreover, you can always use a natural wood floor cleaner made out of a mixture of water and vinegar that always proved to be an amazing substitution when there are no cleaning products around. All the products that are rich in lemon also do wonders. If this is still too much preparation for you then you might want to try some of the electric floor cleaners that apply steam to the cleaning area to make the otherwise dull activity of floor cleaning more enjoyable.
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