1. Hardwood floor cleaning

2. Hardwood floor repair

3. Hardwood floor refinishing

4. Hardwood floor protection Clean Your Hardwood Regularly Knowing how to clean hardwood floors is important because bane of hardwood is dirt and grit, which will scratch and mark floor if not removed promptly. As well, dust is seen more easily on wood floors than it is on linoleum or on carpet, especially in sunlight and especially if floor has a dark stain. Hardwood floor care, therefore, means sweeping and dusting regularly – once a week, at least, and after any event that leaves dirt and grit behind. Regular household dusting and cleaning products will cause damage, however, and you must use only products specifically designed for hardwood. Vacuuming is preferable to sweeping because it allows dirt and dust to be pulled from between boards, but use a vacuum with a bare floor attachment, not a beater bar, which can damage wood. When a more in-depth cleaning is required, use a cleaning method appropriate to finish on your floor. If your floor has a glossy finish, it means that polyurethane, or a water-based urethane, or a similar finish has been used to form a protective barrier over hardwood. If it has a matte finish, it means that floor is protected with a penetrating seal of oil and/or wax. On neither of these finishes is water an acceptable cleaning agent, but both of them can accept a surface, damp-mop cleaning, which means mop is not wet but only damp to touch. You are cleaning only surface and not using enough water to penetrate even oiled-and-waxed hardwood. When using a damp mop on oil and waxed hardwood, you can add a little neutral ph hardwood floor cleaner to water before dipping mop into it. A floor with a protective glossy barrier can accept a generic hardwood floor cleaner providing it doesn’t contain any wax or oil. The don’ts are every bit as important as do’s in hardwood floor care;

1. Don’t use ammonia, regular floor cleaners, household cleaners, or dusting products on hardwood.

2. Never use wax on a floor with a urethane or other glossy finish.

3. Never wash hardwood; use only a slightly damp mop. Repair Any Damage to Your Floors as Soon as Possible In most cases, when your oil and waxed hardwood floors have suffered surface damage, you have to remove finish with a wax or oil stripper before dealing with damage. After completing repair, you then re-wax or re-oil area. Surface damage occurs less often on hardwood protected by polyurethane or a similar type of sealer, and when it does, damage is not as obvious. When repairing floors with such finishes, strip finish from entire board or boards where damage has occurred. Make your repairs and then apply a finishing product to those boards that is consistent with rest of floor.