How to maintain solid wood flooring in hot weather in summer?

If you have a solid wood floor at home, you must always want the floor to be as bright as new, comfortable and beautiful, and you want to extend the service life of the floor through maintenance. However, due to the different flooring manufacturing processes, there are natural lacquered solid wood floors and oil wax solid wood floors, which determines that the maintenance methods are not exactly the same, and the different degrees of fouling also determine the maintenance methods are not the same.

CleaningWhether it is a natural lacquered solid wood floor or an oily wax solid wood floor, you can first vacuum it with a vacuum cleaner during daily cleaning, and then clean it with a soft cloth dipped in a special detergent or soap dilution. For large area cleaning, it can be done with a sprayer or rotary cleaner. For natural lacquered solid wood floors, water is not good for it, so try to minimize excess water when cleaning, and be sure to wring out the rag when scrubbing.

The oil wax solid wood floor should remove the wear marks of black rubber and other stains that cannot be removed with water, and can be wiped off with a soft cloth dipped in low-concentration alcohol or a little liquor.

Maintenance: Natural lacquered solid wood flooring: After the floor is cleaned, a diluted floor polish should be applied. If the floor is used relatively frequently, the concentration of the polish can be increased appropriately.

In general, the living room can be maintained once a month, but the kitchen and living room that are frequented need to be serviced weekly.

Wax Solid Wood Flooring: Clean the floor completely and keep it dry, then apply a thin layer of light oil wax to the surface of the floor, polish the floor with a soft cloth and wipe off any excess oil stains to avoid bright spots. Floors coated with light oil wax should not be used in a hurry, and should be naturally air-dried at night.

Anti-fouling articleAfter a long period of use, natural lacquered solid wood flooring or oil wax solid wood flooring will have dirt that is difficult to remove with ordinary cleaning methods, and there are different solutions for different situations.

Natural lacquered solid wood flooring: The floor is difficult to clean due to a lot of dirt, it can be mixed with a degreaser and 25 warm water, and the floor should be thoroughly cleaned before using the degreaser. For floors that are too heavily soiled, the surface of the hardwood floor should be sanded off and then repainted, but this should be done as a last resort, as sanding will inevitably make the floor thinner.

Wax solid wood flooring: If there are large areas of stains on the floor, you can use a sander equipped with a dry soft polishing pad to treat it to maintain the same gloss, but it must be applied to the surface of the floor with light oil wax within 4 hours, and then let the floor dry naturally for 16-24 hours.

1. Keep the floor dry and clean, and do not wet the mop with water or scrub with alkaline water or soapy water, so as not to damage the brightness of the paint and damage the paint film. If it is dusty or dirty, wipe it with a dry mop or a wrung out wet mop. Wax once a month (or two months) (wipe off moisture and stains before waxing).

2. In case of heating or other water leakage on the ground, it must be wiped clean in time, and it cannot be directly baked in the sun or electric stove, so as not to dry too quickly and crack the floor.

3. If you don't live on a good floor for a long time, don't cover it with plastic sheeting or newspaper, the paint film will be sticky and lose its luster after a long time, and at the same time, you should not put hot water basins, hot rice cookers and other things directly on the floor, and use wooden boards or straw mats to pad them, so as not to burn the paint film.

4. If there are stains on the floor, they should be removed in time, if there are oil stains, they can be wiped with a rag or mop dipped in warm water or a small amount of washing powder, or they can be scrubbed with neutral soapy water and a little detergent. If the stain is severe and this method is ineffective, you can gently wipe it with high-quality sandpaper or steel wool. In the case of drug, beverage or paint stains, they must be removed before they have penetrated the wood surface, by wiping them with a soft cloth soaked in furniture wax.

If it still does not work, it should be wiped with steel wool dipped in furniture wax. If the surface of the floor is burned by cigarette butts, wipe it vigorously with a soft cloth soaked in furniture wax to restore the shine. If it is stained with ink, it should be wiped with a soft cloth soaked in wax in time, and if it is ineffective, it can be wiped with steel wool dipped in furniture wax.

5. Paint the floor and minimize direct sunlight to avoid excessive ultraviolet irradiation of the paint, which will dry out and age in advance. Furniture placed on the floor should be padded with rubber or other soft objects to prevent scratching of the floor paint.

6. During the use of the floor, if it is found that the individual floor is warped or falling off, the floor should be picked up in time, the old glue and ash should be removed, the new glue should be coated, and compacted; If the paint film of individual floors is damaged or exposed, you can use No. 400 water sandpaper dipped in soapy water to polish, then wipe clean, wait for drying, carry out local color, after the color is dry, brush and apply a paint, dry for 24 hours, polish with No. 400 water sandpaper, and then wipe the wax for polishing.