Hello DIY friends, in this video we will teach you how to clean wood floors the correct way. Cleaning wood floors is the same as cleaning laminate flooring. If you follow our tips here, you will end up with a nice clean wood floor, or a nice clean laminate floor. We'll show you the best way how to clean hardwood floors, better than Martha Stewart.
To start cleaning wood floor you vacuum first with a roller attachment. Before you clean hardwood floors, If you use a regular vacuum cleaner to vacuum the floor first, do not use the spinning brush it can scratch your wood floor and laminate flooring.
If you wondered how to clean laminate hardwood floors you came to the right place. One you vacuum the laminate wood floors with the roller, it is best practice to then use a brush attachment and gently sweep it left to right and front to back to deep clean laminate wood floors. This gets any micro powder size particles and dust out of the cracks, making it more thorough way to clean laminate.
You don't want to clean laminate wood floors with your damp mop and a wet cleaner until all the dirt, dust and powder have been vacuumed away otherwise all you are doing is making mud and smearing it all over you clean laminate floor. You'll form a thin hazy mud film when you're trying to clean laminate flooring.
How to clean laminate wood floor
Now that you have vacuumed the wood floors you now can use a damp mop for cleaning laminate flooring. Do not use a traditional mop with soap or water, especially the water in your area may have mineral deposits floating around, or your hard water could stain the wood floors.
How to clean laminate floors without leaving film
Also water from your soaking wet mop will find its way in between laminate floor planks and wood floor planks, and it will over time cause water absorption and expansion into the wood, possibly ruining your nice clean wood floor.
How to clean wood floors
To clean laminate floors and to clean wood floors you need to use a microfiber cloth mop head spray mop safe to use on all floor types including hardwood, vinyl, laminate and tile. You must also use an approved hardwood floor cleaner that is safe to use for cleaning laminate wood flooring as well as standard wood flooring. This way you can clean laminate wood floors without leaving film residue.
Do not use soaps, or any oils these can all stain or leave film on your floor while cleaning wood floors or cleaning laminate flooring, because we want to clean laminate floors without leaving film residue on the wood floor planks.
Congratulations, now you know how to clean laminate wood floors without leaving film residue. So you see, cleaning wood floors is a breeze.
Remember, do not wet mop when cleaning wood floors, always use an approved wood floor cleaner, which sprays on like a fine mist and dries in only a couple of minutes, it evaporates quickly when you clean wood floors. Your goal is to avoid soaps and clean laminate wood floors without leaving film residue.
Now you will be the expert in how to clean wooden floors. Don't forget to teach your friends How to clean laminate. Show them how to make the perfect clean wood floor and you'll be their hero, showing them how to clean hardwood floors. Enjoy your clean laminate flooring.
