Cleaning Reclaimed Wood Floors

Floor installer michael dittmer who lives outside chicago dispatches a robot vac daily to keep an eye on his entire first floor.

Cleaning reclaimed wood floors.

Use your vacuum s hard. If you have old parquet wood flooring clean it frequently to preserve its appearance. Dip a sponge or rag mop into the water and wring it out well. Use a broom or hardwood floor mop for daily cleaning.

In most households wood floors should be cleaned at least four to six times a year. Use a soft broom or vacuum cleaner with a hard floor setting to remove loose dirt dust and debris. The instructable will describe how i went through the process of getting the wood ready to plane usin. Give it a scrub or sand down.

The most important steps are best broken down into two important steps. The first step in learning how to clean hardwood floors is removing dust or debris that can scratch or dull their surface. You re cleaning the finish not the wood so don t use water if the finish is in poor shape. The most important lesson i ve learned with reclaimed wood is when to lightly clean it vs.

Step 2 fill a bucket with warm water. This blog posts explains how to clean your reclaimed hardwood floors. Like other prefinished floorings this product receives seven coats of aluminum oxide finish. Hardwood floors add a beautiful touch to just about any room but there s some debate about the best way to clean them.

Reclaimed engineered wood flooring may sound like an oxymoron but aged woods has just that. A microfiber mop pre treated with a dusting agent will pick up dust and dirt and prevent scratches. It s a fact that reclaimed wood is usually dirty. I decided to restore it rather than using it with the aged look.

Years ago when i started cleaning reclaimed wood i would sand it down with a hand sander which would get rid of that beautiful patina and some of the character. This tutorial shows you how to do it. 3mm of reclaimed antique wood laid over a nine layer substrate of plywood. The fellow said it was redwood from a barn.

This is the fastest and best way to deep clean solid hardwood floors. How to prepare reclaimed wood. And unfortunately i learned this the hard way. If you re planning to use it in a project the first step of that project will be to clean the old wood assuming of course that you re like me and you want to install clean reclaimed wood into your home.

Hardwood floor cleaning and maintenance steps. Preventing initial wear and damage to your floor and cleaning the finish. The beauty of reclaimed wood with the practicality of engineered flooring. Step 1 vacuum the floor thoroughly.

Just remember if your floor s finish is in good shape and mopping is done correctly the water won t penetrate even the oil and wax finishes. Maintaining a reclaimed wood floor is no different from cleaning a new wood floor. I bought some wood off of craigslist.