I Installed Wood Floors!

[Jack_Dawson]

Well...I didn't do it myself but I paid good money to have Lowe's do it. OMG what a difference it makes ripping out gross carpet and laying down a nice wood floor. I want to leave work and go home and stare at it.

But now I'm stressing cause I have no idea how to clean it. How do I remove dust w/o killing the shine? Tips?

Thx in advance...

[Robb]

1. One product...

...and one product only: Bona-X Swedish Formula hardwood floor cleaner. That, and a microfiber mop pad thingy. You spray it on, and mop it up with the microfiber pad. Only way to go.

Congrats!! :thumbsup:

[CanuckAmok]

8. Once again, Robb is correct..

That's what we use, and the floors look great!

That's the only thing we did when we bought our house; ripped out the carpeting and ran hardwood. It's such an improvement, isn't it?

[madmax]

12. Same here!

It's great stuff. I might add you should dust mop often. I only wet mop about once a month. Don't wet the floor too much - damp mop.

:)

[no name no slogan]

2. Woo hoo!

We tore up carpet and refinished our hardwood floors ourselves when my wife and I moved into our house. It was a hell of a lot of work, but it was well worth it! I also installed new trim and solid wood doors instead of the cheapoid hollow-core doors, and that made a world of difference too!

Are the floors polyurethaned? I would assume not, as that's not really an "in" thing to do anymore. To keep them shiny, we usually just run a dustmop over the floors every couple of weeks to pick up the dust and to keep them clean. Otherwise, just about any wood floor cleaner once every month does a good enough job, IMHO.

Enjoy the new floors!

[sfecap]

3. What Robb said...

Bona - X. The very best.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

4. you can also use

vinegar and water. no, this isn't a douche joke either.

[ZenLefty]

5. Robb is correct (wow, huh?)

We buy ours at MacDonald's Hardwood in Denver. I don't know if they are a chain outside of Denver, but you should be able to find it at any specialty hardwood store.

Lowe's may or may not have it.

[Jack_Dawson]

6. Why Bona-X-Swedish formula?

What does it do that other cleaners don't? Please elabourate.

[ZenLefty]

7. It doesn't mar the finish

It's an effective cleaner and a mild de-greaser that does not take the lustre off the polyurethane. Other stuff, like vinegar or ammonia, will eventually break down the poly, and over a year or two it will start to look pretty dull.

The next best thing is to just use rag sightly dampened with a little water.

[denverbill]

11. Same here.

We installed our own this summer. 75 rows over the course of a weekend. It didn't seem like much, but God I was hurting so bad after day 1. It was hard work.

[gun_toting_liberal]

9. I'm planning on getting HW floors too

What did it cost you per sq. foot?

[Jack_Dawson]

14. $5.01/sq foot for the materials...

About another $8.00/sq. foot to install it. Or thereabouts. It wasn't cheap, but damn it looks nice.

[beaconess]

10. :-)

[midnight armadillo]

13. Swiffer

These work great for picking up dust on my apartment's hardwood floors.

[Jack_Dawson]

16. How do swiffers work?

Do I need to spray something or is it a dry process?

[Robb]

15. Excuse me...

...but I must revel in being so overwhelmingly validated! I'm married, so I don't get to be right very often, so you'll pardon me if I
:puffpiece: :bounce: :bounce: :party:

[geniph]

17. We peeled up a corner of our ugly beige carpet

and found oak plank floors beneath. We've since ripped out all the gross industrial-grade carpets. I'll never have wall to wall carpeting again after seeing all the FILTH beneath them. No wonder everyone has allergies these days. We still need to refinish the floors, but they look so much better than the carpets, and it cost us nothing but a bit of labor.

Now if I can just figure out why anyone would cover a beautiful laid oak floor with that horrid carpeting...

[Jack_Dawson]

18. The 70s weren't about good decisions...

But congrats on your find! That'll save you huge dollars take it from me. Plus...planks rule.