Maintaining Your Wood Floor

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Maintaining a wood floor can keep the newly-finished look and beauty for decades. There are many products out that claim to clean or shine up your floor. Most of these products will do what they say, but can also leave residual build up behind. That means trace amounts of cleaning agents, waxes, oils, chemicals and so on. If you're going to wait until your wood floor is so worn that it needs to be resanded and finished before you do anything with it, this probably isn't a big deal.

But if you want to keep your floor up with less expense, less mess and time there is a better way: setting up a maintenance schedule with a wood flooring professional. They can recommend products that will not leave residual buildup. Also they can set up times based on traffic and use to get another top coat of finish on your floor before it needs resanding.

Doing this takes less time, mess, and money than resanding. In fact in most cases you could have three recoats done for the same price as one resand and finish. The recoating process needs to bond to finish on site, residual buildup can hinder or react negatively with this process, sometimes making it so the finish cannot adhere or else can creating blotchy or milk spots in the wood floor finish.

Labels: maintaining wood floor finish, wood floor maintenance, wood floor products

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