How To Clean Dirt Out Of Hardwood Floor Joints

Whoops, I almost forgot to tell you about how I scrubbed and re-sealed the existing hardwoods correct before we moved in (literally, like 26 hours before nosotros moved in). The new hardwoods upstairs were looking and so flossy and glossy, I didn't want the ones in the role, living room, and dining room to experience so 2000 and tardily. And then I gave them some love. Wax on, wax off, infant.

Beginning I swept up the random dust and former faux Christmas tree leaves and all the other stuff that was left behind.

Not a bad pile for an empty looking room, eh?

And so I bought this Bona stuff at Home Depot because I had heard good things nearly it when it comes to cleaning and glossing up floors that are old/dulled/mildly scratched (you know, floors that don't need a total re-finishing but could use some moisture/smoothen to fill up in minor scrapes and seal them once more).

Yous know, petty stuff like this.

After sweeping, the next footstep was to apply their floor cleaning spray, by just working my way around the room spraying it on the floor and following that with the mop (with the cleaning pad on it). This made me mad sweaty, yo. So I requite it a 7 on the exertion scale. You lot're not just swabbing over the floors like you're swiffering, you're scrubbing the heck outta them to get them dainty and clean.

Then came the actual sealing/polishing step. This was a lot less rigorous (then you ARE doing the swiffer motion hither). The idea is but to gently spread out the liquid that y'all're pouring out of the bottle every bit you work your way out of the room. Oh and for this step you lot have to use a polishing pad on the mop (it'south more like a lamb's wool pad while the cleaning one is a bit more scrubbing-sponge-like). Note: see the green painters tape on my mop? That affair came out of the box all wonky and broken, so I had to MacGuyver it together.

In this film you can meet how the floor that I had washed was all moisturized and shiny (elevation left of the flick below) while the floor behind the polish pad is kind of tedious and dry out.

Sadly, by the time I worked my way out of the room I was only mildly impressed. Parts of it had dried and looked only like they did before (dull, grayed, slightly scratched, etc) while other areas that were yet moisture looked awesome.

But once they dried… they were all chalky and dry again. I'm not sure if it was just something nearly our floors and the mode they were refinished decades ago (some folks must love this stuff since nosotros heard great things) but it wasn't an crawly enough outcome for me to go going on the other two room'south floors. And so information technology was dorsum to Home Depot, where I bought some other make called Rejuvenate. It came in satin and high gloss but I chose high gloss since the floors upstairs are dainty and shiny, which we like.

I still used the same Bona cleaning spray and the aforementioned Bona mop (with the cleaning head on information technology) since I already had those on hand and didn't mind the chore they did. It was but the Bona sealer that had left me high and dry out (ok, only dry out). So I switched ol' Wonky Mop's head to the polishing one, but this time instead of using it to spread the Bona stuff, I worked my way out of the room with the Rejuvenate forest flooring restorer. The room looked like this before:

And this subsequently:

Granted it still had to dry a fleck in that shot above, but the comparison between the Bona stuff and the Rejuvenate stuff definitely left us liking Rejuvenate a lot better. It went on more evenly and left everything rich and sealed looking – even well after it dried. Nil looked chalky a few hours later, and I was able to employ two coats in each room (you could apply them a few hours apart instead of waiting 24 hours similar the Bona stuff required) which was awesome. I even went back and did the role once more with the Rejuvenate stuff instead of doing a 2d glaze of Bona in there. And I was and so much happier with it.

Here's the dining room all dry. Flossy and sleeky, eh? This is how the living room stale equally well, and the office looks the aforementioned now that we went over it.

Have yous used a floor cleaning and resealing system to bring life dorsum to dull, mildly scratched, or chalky floors? Did you attempt Bona, Rejuvenate, or something else? E'er tried two different options for a smackdown to the death what's-better comparison?

Psst – Here'due south a post with an update on how the floors are belongings up seven months afterward. Still going strong!

Update – We finally created this Shop Our House page to help you hunt downwards whatever furniture/accessories that you see in our house, forth with all of our paint colors.

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Source: https://www.younghouselove.com/wax-on-wax-off/

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