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Best way to clean hardwod floors?
I want to steam clean them but I can't seem to find anyone with a steam cleaner.. what's my next best option?!?! We have dogs and a baby and they are just dirty.. I sweep, vacuum, mop and they're still dirty! Help!
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Re: Best way to clean hardwod floors?
Long reply--I've been fighting this fight myself and seem to have found a way to keep it at bay. It's the grainy stuff, you know? The way you can't walk barefoot on the floor without stuff sticking to your feet--that's the worst for me.
Get a microfiber swiffer with a couple extra covers for it, and a little stiff bristled hand broom and dustpan set, (we have two dogs and two cats, so I feel you on the floors there!) Sweep with a regular straw broom then swiffer then mop-- this is your "baseline" and do all the rooms at once, it'll take a long time, but the next two weeks will be golden. Once I've done a "mopping day" (usually ask the DH to go find some friends or a movie for the day) I just swiffer every or every other day. Usually upstairs one day, downstairs the next, and here's the thing: when you get done with one room, use your little handbroom (or dustbuster hand vac?) to sweep the dirt and hair off the microfiber swiffer head--it will be almost clean to start the next room, and it will grab as much dirt every time after that.
Keep one small hamper (or shoebox) for your microfiber stuff---don't wash it with anything except for microfiber, and always sweep or vacuum out the hair and dirt in it before machine washing it, that way it will come out as sticky as when you bought it. Air dry where the dog can't get to it too :-) Dryers will melt the hook together. I hope this works for you!
ps, unless you;re 100% certain your floors are professionally sealed, avoid steam mopping. About every 2-3 days I just spray the bottom of my microfiber swiffer head with something like water/vinegar solution and that gets the particles up. If you really wanted to steam it, check it out in the closets of your place first, try multiple ones to be sure it won't hurt the variations in your flooring.
I know this is really overkill, but I finally got something that worked for our (unsealed, 97 year old) dark stain floors, and I hope to save other people the trouble we've been through.
What do you mean you can't find someone with a steam cleaner? Are you trying to rent one? Or you can't find a store that sells them in person?
Our floors are wood (hardwood downstairs and painted wood upstairs) and they have never been cleaner. A steam mop is a thousand times better than a mop and bucket. Less messy, works better, faster, easier.
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