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Hardwood floors?? NBR

electricdoctor83electricdoctor83 member
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Okay, I am at my wits end with my hardwood floors.  We just installed them in our hallway and living room maybe a year ago and they were beautiful.  Now, they are dull and digusting...they are not shiny anymore and have patchy looking spots on them.  I have tried every floor cleaner on the market I think.  I used to mop them with a well rung out mop and floor cleaner, but I switched to a shark steam mop hoping that would help....it didn't.   My grandma said I cleaned them too much and have a film built up on the wood.  So what do I do now?

Does anyone have recommendations on what you use on your hardwood floors (products or techniques)?  I want them to be shiny and clean looking...not dull.   Thanks ladies!

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  • **Gretchen****Gretchen**

    If you've tried every cleaning product in the book, you probably do have stuff built up on them.

    We've always heard that you shouldn't use any product on your wood floors because it builds up.

    I'm not sure what you should do to get it off now though, maybe call the guys who installed your floors and ask them. Afterwards, just mop them with hot water (the shark steamer thing is good).

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    There is an amazing produce called Rejuvinate that we got at Home Depot. It was recommeded by a friend and it works miracles! We just pulled up the carpet in our 50-year-old house to reveal hardwood floors that had been much abused. After clearning them we applied this product and they really are beautiful now! I highly recommed this product.

     Also, I only clean the floors with Murphey's oil soap using a well-rung out mop - it seemed to work well. But the Rejuvinate is the key. You only have to use it once every couple of months and it makes the floors shine and fills in scratches. It's wonderful!

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  • browneyes_24bbrowneyes_24b
    Norwex microfiber cloths - one damp, followed with one dry one for buffing.  I don't use any product, the Norwex brand has a silver technology in it.  I've been using it on my hardwood floor for over a year and it still looks great!  No film or build up from products.
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  • Bride7-7-07Bride7-7-07

    Vinegar and water - scrub, scrub, scrub.  If you have used alot of cleaning products - they you have build up. 

     

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  • electricdoctor83electricdoctor83 member
    image**Gretchen**:

    If you've tried every cleaning product in the book, you probably do have stuff built up on them.

    We've always heard that you shouldn't use any product on your wood floors because it builds up.

    I'm not sure what you should do to get it off now though, maybe call the guys who installed your floors and ask them. Afterwards, just mop them with hot water (the shark steamer thing is good).

    woops.....we had them installed by contractors doing side work and they didn't say not to use products.  They didn't say anything now that I think of it.  I should have googled how to take care of them when they were installed....total fail.  Thanks a bunch for advise...it's embarassing to have such crappy looking floors.

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  • BestsugarBestsugar member
    we use murphy's mop and shine stuff..thats not the real name of it, but its by murphys. pledge makes a product for hardwood floors too. you just squirt it in the area you are mopping then wipe it up with a dry cloth mop. mine have been really shiny!
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  • TimsMayBrideTimsMayBride member

    We used Bona Refresher on our hardwoods.  They were really dull and look fabulous now! 

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  • cswinklercswinkler member
    I have been told that you should never use pledge on any wood.  They say Pledge leaves behind a real bad residue.
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  • electricdoctor83electricdoctor83 member
    Thanks so much for everyone's suggestions.  I need to get all the crud off them first.  I got down and scratched a part of the floor and literally got this white filmy wax crap off the wood....yuck.  It's all build up.  So I took hot water and vinegar and scrubed a small foot by foot area and it looks amazing!!!  It completely took off all the crud and they look like they did when we had them installed. They are even the color they used to be.  I am on modified bedrest so my poor poor DH has been requested to scrub every inch of these floors before baby comes.  I'm so happy!!!!
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  • SummerAshleySummerAshley
    Most products, even if made for wood floors, are hard on them. I usually mod ours with plain water, and every once in a while I will use Murphy Oil Soap, and very little when I do. Cleaners have wax that builds up and makes them look dull. Try cleaning them with plain water, and not a lot of it! Also, not too often!!!?
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  • ExpectinExpectin
    Bona - They have a Swiffer type Wet Jet Mop that works great.
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  • **Gretchen****Gretchen**

    imageelectricdoctor83:
    Thanks so much for everyone's suggestions.  I need to get all the crud off them first.  I got down and scratched a part of the floor and literally got this white filmy wax crap off the wood....yuck.  It's all build up.  So I took hot water and vinegar and scrubed a small foot by foot area and it looks amazing!!!  It completely took off all the crud and they look like they did when we had them installed. They are even the color they used to be.  I am on modified bedrest so my poor poor DH has been requested to scrub every inch of these floors before baby comes.  I'm so happy!!!!

    Excellent! I'm glad you got to the bottom of it!

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  • electricdoctor83electricdoctor83 member

    imageSummerAshley:
    Most products, even if made for wood floors, are hard on them. I usually mod ours with plain water, and every once in a while I will use Murphy Oil Soap, and very little when I do. Cleaners have wax that builds up and makes them look dull. Try cleaning them with plain water, and not a lot of it! Also, not too often!!!

    I totally screwed up my floors...I am the mopping/sweeping queen (all driven by an OCD about dust and dirt) and I would mop my floors with hardwood cleaner at least every 3 days....for the past year....sometimes even daily.  Much too much?  I am so glad I posted this because I would have continued this waxy build up for the next umpteen years and not know any better.  I don't know why I thought that was okay.  I am currently scrubbing all the crap off with vinegar and hot water and will NEVER use anything but water or occasionally using murphy's.  I have a shark steam mop I'll use for weekly cleaning.  Thanks so much!

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