Jul 06, 2022
Laminate floors are attractive, low maintenance, and easy to install, especially in high-traffic areas that see the most foot traffic and dirt. They enhance the value of your home and help you add a floor covering for less money than you would spend on solid hardwood or engineered wood flooring. Yet for all of laminate flooring’s stellar qualities, cleaning presents a unique set of problems: Laminate floors and liquids (such as water or cleaning fluids) do not mix. Learn how to clean laminate wood floors by keeping them as dry as possible during the process.
Vacuum or sweep your laminate wood floors when you notice crumbs, dirt, or dust bunnies accumulating on the surface. A good rule of thumb is to vacuum or sweep your floors weekly. But you can deep clean laminate wood floors by dry mopping them monthly or every two months. Some laminate floor manufacturers suggest dry mopping your laminate wood floors daily, but that depends on the amount of foot traffic that passes through.
Laminate flooring and water make a poor combination for laminate wood floors. Water can safely pool on top of a laminate floorboard, as long as it remains above the plastic wear layer and within the confines of the board—a rare event. There’s a risk of water working its way down the seam and to the fiberboard core of the laminate board. When the fiberboard core takes on enough water, it will swell and it will not return to its original dimensions after the water has dried. In addition, the wear layer and the image layers may begin to peel away
Keep away from penetrating liquids (that soak into surfaces) to clean a laminate floor. Instead, use specific cleaning tools and a two-step method of dry-cleaning followed by damp cleaning for laminate floors to preserve your floors and keep them lovely for years.
Note: In addition to water, do not use steam cleaners or regular wet mopping to clean laminate wood flooring because they can disperse too much moisture, saturate the boards, and make them warp over time.
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Dry cleaning the laminate will pick up debris and allow you to pare back the quantity of liquid you use in the following steps.
Tip: Laminate flooring often has a static electricity problem. It helps to use an electrostatic-free cleaner. Be gentle with dry mops on laminate because too much pressure will cause surface debris to etch the wear layer.
Sweep the floor with a soft-bristled angled broom that is only used indoors. Collect the remaining debris with a dustpan that’s also only used indoors. Sweep from the edges inward.
After vacuuming and sweeping, there should not be any visible debris littering the laminate floor. But if you kneel down and run your hand or a white cloth across the floor, you may pick up a thin layer of dust or dirt. Damp-mopping the laminate will get your flooring squeaky clean.
This step requires an ultra-dry mop. Spray a laminate floor cleaner onto a microfiber mop head or directly onto the laminate floor itself, but very lightly.
Clean laminate floors so they shine by using a dry mop that is barely dampened with laminate cleaner to buff the surface.
Additionally, buff any dull spots on the floor with a dry microfiber cloth.
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