When you decide to have hardwood flooring installed in your home, it is a large investment. You want to do everything you can to keep their beauty preserved and extend their life. There are certain maintenance requirements for hardwood flooring to protect them and keep them damage free. AmeriBest Carpet Cleaning is here to share to tips to help you avoid damaging your hardwood flooring.
Sweeping your hardwood flooring is possibly the best way to keep them from getting damaged. The fine dirt and sand that naturally accumulates on your floors no matter how diligent you are, will scratch and damage your flooring. Along those same lines, you should clean spills as soon as they happen. Allowing them to sit on your hardwood will likely cause damage that is difficult to reverse.
If you choose to vacuum your hardwood, you should do so without the beater bar turned on. If you use the same vacuum you do on your carpeted areas, it will likely be too rough for your flooring and scratch the surface. There are sweeper vacuums that are a much safer option. Although, the safest way to clean your hardwood flooring is sweeping.
For those that are used to tile flooring or other hard surfaces, you may be used to mopping. Allowing that much moisture on your hardwood flooring will only cause damage. Your hardwood flooring will soak up the water and when this happens, the saturation will warp the wood. When they need to be cleaned, you are better off using a barely damp rag to clean the mess.
Harsh cleaners that are used to clean other hard surfaced flooring aren’t suitable for hardwood floors. They will slowly strip off the sealant and dull the finish of the flooring. You should check with your flooring manufacturer for recommended cleaners for your hardwood that will clean it, but not damage it.
There are several steps you can take to ensure your hardwood flooring doesn’t sustain scratches and other forms of damage. Placing an area rug on the wood floor and rugs at all the entrances is a good way to keep debris from getting transferred to your flooring. It is best to have shoes removed when walking on the hardwood flooring as well. Also, many homeowners may not realize the damage that their pets can cause too. Their claws can cause severe scratching to hardwood flooring.
If your hardwood flooring is damaged and is in need of refinishing, the flooring experts at AmeriBest Carpet Cleaning can help. We provide our customers with refinishing services using the “no sanding” method. We offer quality refinishing services that will leave your hardwood flooring as beautiful as the day you had it installed in your home. Rather than replacing your wood floors, refinishing can be done for a fraction of the cost. Call us today!