How to Protect Timber Floors

1 How to Protect Wood Floors

Solid hardwood and engineered wood flooring are both beautiful and durable. With such

standing for toughness, it would seem that hardwood floors are impenetrable to any manner of

misuse that homeowners can dish out. Not so.

Hardwood floorings long-lasting nature is only as pleasing as the treatment it receives from the homeowner. Ministering your hardwood flooring with the proper upkeep it deserves is the first

step to maintaining it and preserving it beautiful for decades to come. Here are some simple,

inexpensive ways to shield your hardwood floor.

1.1 Dodge Cleaning Your Hardwood Floor with Water

Water and wood do not integrate. Being an organic product, hardwood floors have a cellular

structure that reacts immediately to the introduction of water. Swelling and decay ultimately

follow. The issue is not so much with the floor's surface since this should be closed, as with the unsealed raw wood of the flanks and bottoms of the floorboards.

At the most, you should only utilise a very dry damp mop, absolutely wrung out. Most flooring

professionals recommend that you never employ any water on the hardwood. Rather, clean

your hardwood floors daily with a soft-bristled broom and dustpan—Weekly, clean with a

vacuum devised for hard flooring and carpeting.

If you choose to clean your hardwood with liquids, mist lightly with a cleaner formulated

especially for hardwood floors.

1.2 Quickly Remove Pooled Water

Wet mopping is not the only way liquids end up on your hardwood floors. Dishwashers leak,

kitchen sinks splash, kids wander through in rain boots, dogs shake off water, drinks tumble.

And thats just the start of it.

When liquids slop in small quantities and remain within the confines of a single floorboard,

clean-up should be done fast, but it isn't a cause for alarm. When spilled liquids bridge

floorboards, it is possible that these liquids can leak through the seams and between the

floorboards.

1.3 Enable Your Pets to Protect the Floor

We love our pets, but our hardwood floors do not love them. To a lesser degree, some of the

deepest, longest, and most extensive gouges in wood flooring come from dog claws and cat nails. Your dog loves to run for the mail or pursuit after the cat; this is normal. But you can aid

your dog and cat be better managers of your hardwood flooring.

1.3.1 Lodging hardwood flooring that ranks high on the Janka hardness scale is

a beginning. Species like Maple, Brazilian Walnut (ipe), and bamboo (not

indeed a wood but a sort of grass) do an amazing job of standing up to

fierce claws.

1.3.2 Arrangement mats and rugs where animals tend to rest.

1.3.3 However, regular claw clipping is the most suitable way to reduce nail

damage on the flooring.

1.4 Maintain the Floor to be Clean

It might be time to implement better that policy you have about no shoes in the house. Outside

litter tracked in with shoes or paws deposits on your gleaming hardwood flooring. Left in place

too long, rough materials act like sandpaper, gently rubbing your flooring's topcoat. Every box that gets glid across the floor further dulls that topcoat and gets you closer to the next refinishing

or re-sanding.

Cleaning your floor regularly eradicates abrasive dust than can dull your floors top cost.

Even if you don't have pets, children, or other high-impact sources of harm, your hardwood

flooring can still profit from mats and runners Laying down runners, carpets, and area rugs throughout your hardwood floors may seem to

defeat the intention of having hardwood flooring. You want to be able to appreciate the deep,

rich shine of authentic wood flooring. At the same time, every home has certain areas that bear

the brunt of most foot traffic, and these places should be protected.

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