How to Maintain Your Hardwood Flooring
If you have considered changing your flooring and have selected hardwood flooring then you have made a fantastic choice, but your hardwood floors will have to be kept up.
Hardwood flooring is made of mature trees, and treated when finished.
But hardwood will absorb water and also scratch if something sharp is pushed across it.
Although hardwood floors are easy to maintain, they require frequent refinishing, to ensure that the shine lasts for a long time.
This is especially applicable for marred and scratched floors.
A scuff is typically visible at the surface but it's not terribly deep, something like a piece of furniture would cause when pushed along the hardwood boards, or a glass falling down and cutting the top layer.
A gash by contrast is a lot deeper, it's a "flesh wound" of the planks.
Fixing hardwood flooring scuffs is handled in a different way than fixing gouges, so applying some wood surface scratch remover on a gouge, in this case wouldn't make much of a difference.
Your first task is determining precisely which kind you're dealing with in the first place.
Plainly, scratches are much more common.
I would bet there isn't one home that has hard wood flooring installed that doesn't have at least some scuffs on the surface.
After all, hardwood floors were first put into use because of their durability and character.
As flooring choices go, they are one of the best in terms of longevity, and with just a little care they will lost almost forever.
Leaving a pool of liquid in your hardwood surfaces would not be a good idea.
The cracks in between the hardwood can absorb the moisture and swell.
If this happens in even a tiny spot it may continue to be noticeable.
If any liquid is spilled on the floor you need to mop up the fluid right away.
When you clean your hardwood floor you may use a humid mop but only damp, not soaked.
There are also floor cleaners that are specially made for hardwood floors that you might use.
Either way, only a wet mop should be used.
Dents and scratches happen to hardwood surfaces sometimes.
High heels are torture to hardwood surfaces.
Over time some furniture legs can dent or mar the floors.
It might be an idea to add some rugs under your furniture.
There also are materials available that go without delay under the furniture supports.
Also you could add some runners to the highly trafficked areas in your house such as kitchens, hallways, in front of the settee.
Some owners like the character that scratches and dents give the floor.
But when you are feeling that you are in fact done with them you can get your hardwood floors redone.
You may need to have your hardwood surfaces refinished every 10 years or so, this can also add a protective layer to your hardwood floors.
Everything you do from moving furniture to allowing your dog to roam in the house will have an impact on your hard wood surfaces.
Hardwood flooring is made of mature trees, and treated when finished.
But hardwood will absorb water and also scratch if something sharp is pushed across it.
Although hardwood floors are easy to maintain, they require frequent refinishing, to ensure that the shine lasts for a long time.
This is especially applicable for marred and scratched floors.
A scuff is typically visible at the surface but it's not terribly deep, something like a piece of furniture would cause when pushed along the hardwood boards, or a glass falling down and cutting the top layer.
A gash by contrast is a lot deeper, it's a "flesh wound" of the planks.
Fixing hardwood flooring scuffs is handled in a different way than fixing gouges, so applying some wood surface scratch remover on a gouge, in this case wouldn't make much of a difference.
Your first task is determining precisely which kind you're dealing with in the first place.
Plainly, scratches are much more common.
I would bet there isn't one home that has hard wood flooring installed that doesn't have at least some scuffs on the surface.
After all, hardwood floors were first put into use because of their durability and character.
As flooring choices go, they are one of the best in terms of longevity, and with just a little care they will lost almost forever.
Leaving a pool of liquid in your hardwood surfaces would not be a good idea.
The cracks in between the hardwood can absorb the moisture and swell.
If this happens in even a tiny spot it may continue to be noticeable.
If any liquid is spilled on the floor you need to mop up the fluid right away.
When you clean your hardwood floor you may use a humid mop but only damp, not soaked.
There are also floor cleaners that are specially made for hardwood floors that you might use.
Either way, only a wet mop should be used.
Dents and scratches happen to hardwood surfaces sometimes.
High heels are torture to hardwood surfaces.
Over time some furniture legs can dent or mar the floors.
It might be an idea to add some rugs under your furniture.
There also are materials available that go without delay under the furniture supports.
Also you could add some runners to the highly trafficked areas in your house such as kitchens, hallways, in front of the settee.
Some owners like the character that scratches and dents give the floor.
But when you are feeling that you are in fact done with them you can get your hardwood floors redone.
You may need to have your hardwood surfaces refinished every 10 years or so, this can also add a protective layer to your hardwood floors.
Everything you do from moving furniture to allowing your dog to roam in the house will have an impact on your hard wood surfaces.
