Hardwood flooring will offer your home an organic beauty that is hard to attain any other way. When you have hardwood flooring in your home, you don’t clean it the same way you would other types of flooring. It is important that you clean your hardwood the right way to avoid damaging it beyond repair. Mike’s Custom Flooring is here to share some hardwood cleaning tips that will keep your hardwood flooring looking beautiful and clean at the same time.

Daily Cleaning of Hardwood Floors

If you home is like most, you likely need to have the flooring cleaned on a daily basis. When you have hardwood flooring in your home, it is important that you have a daily cleaning schedule that will keep the fine dirt and dust from causing scratching and a dull appearance. The best way to do this is with your trusted broom and dustpan. You can also give your hardwood a good dusting with a dry microfiber mop or cloth to effectively trap that dirt and dust in there and get it off your floor.

Best Weekly Hardwood Floor Cleaner Solutions

For a deeper clean, plan to vacuum and mop your hardwood flooring once a week. Sometimes it is difficult to truly get your flooring cleaned when you are simply dusting the surface. Vacuums and mops can assist you in getting those hard to reach places like corners and cracks. There are a couple of cautions we would like to throw out there with vacuums as well as mops. You should never have a beater bar on your vacuum hitting the hardwood flooring. Also, the wheels found on vacuums can sometimes cause scratching so use a vacuum with caution. As far as a mop goes, it is important to remember that hardwood flooring and water don’t go well together. Simply misting the hardwood with a hardwood cleaner and then mopping it up will do just the trick.

How to Polish Hardwood Floors

Isn’t it lovely when your hardwood flooring has that beautiful shine just after they have been polished? Polishing your hardwood flooring will give the finish a renewed glow. When you polish your hardwood flooring, the small scratches and dings that happen no matter how careful you are, will be filled in and your floors will look like new again.

How to Tell if Wood Floors Need Refinished

It is recommended that you have your hardwood flooring sanded down and refinished about every 5 years. This will completely remove the old finish that has likely lost its glow and replace it. Your floors will look like the day they were first installed when you have them refinished.

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If your hardwood floors have sustained damage in the cleaning process, you can count on the experts at Mike’s Custom Flooring to help you fix it. We offer hardwood floor repairs as well as refinishing services that will leave your flooring beautiful. Call us today!