Wood floors cleaner

[sparks19]

Well.... we are tearing up the carpet this weekend.... one of the many endeavours we are undertaking all at once.

But the floors underneath are probably filthy as the carpet has been there for 20+ years.

We need a really good wood floor cleaner. What do you suggest?

[Freedom]

Cleaning, as opposed to refinishing? Murphy's Oil Soap. Great on wood. I grew up with it, and now I use it, too.

http://www.colgate.com/app/MurphyOil.../HomePage.cwsp

Have a fun weekend.

[Karen]

They may need more than cleaning, they might need sanding down. We rented a sander and did the "dining room" floors - now our living room. If they are in good shape - and it might surprise you, depending on how the carpet was laid down, a good cleaning might suffice ... I am not one to reccomend cleaning products, though, as many knock me flat.

[wombat2u2004]

Yep, a good sand, and then a couple of coats of tung oil fortified polyurethane.........BEAUTIFUL !!!!!
Wom

[sparks19]

No we aren't sanding and refinishing them lol. We are just pulling up this carpet because it has been in this house for longer than we know and they are so gross they aren't even worth trying to clean.... the lady that owns this house has owned it for 15+ years and it was here before her lol. We are just pulling up the rug.... cleaning the wood floors and then using a bunch of area rugs and runners so there will be minimal wood floor showing. and they are actually finished underneath.... they have just been locked under a rug for umpty years.

BUT.... we started tonight and there was a small kink in the plan lol. The dining room pad under the rug is GLUED down. So we are going to get up what we can and get a carpet measured out for the room and put that in there instead of going down to the hardwood.

We did the back hallway and that wasn't too bad and the floor is in decent shape.... except for the bazillion staples whatever bozo installed this carpet used to install the padding.... not just around the edges.... but EVERYWHERE. the area is MAYBE 9 square feet and i bet there was well over 50 staples randomly scattered over the floor lol. So we pulled all those out with pliers and a screw driver.

We used murphy's oil soap. it did a nice job and smells really nice. and it really picked up A LOT of nasty stuff. We did a soak mop, then a dry mop, and then a mop with just water and we are going to mop it one more time tomorrow when we get the rest of the carpet in the living room up.

then we move in our new furniture tomorrow too. Yippee LOL

[carole]

You can buy a little steam cleaner for around 150 dollars here that steam cleans wood floors, i don't have one as yet, and have a wood floor in the kitchen and dining area, i think these are a brilliant idea and i hope to purchase one sometime in the near future.