Do you know how to clean your floors properly? First of all, maintaining your floors daily is the thing you must do to ensure that dirt and mud do not accumulate there over time. Knowing floor cleaning tips and tricks can help keep your floors clear and help your home feel more clean.
Using a vacuum cleaner on carpet and sweeping your floors daily, will help prevent dirt and debris from collecting on your flooring. Routine home cleaning can help prevent this from occurring. However, if you haven’t cleaned for a few days or a stain has happened, below are some tips to help you restore your floors and prevent a messy home:
Sweeping and vacuuming will allow you to properly clean your floors from accumulated dirt. After you have prepared your floor for cleaning, use a mop with cleaning detergent mixed into warm water. Start mopping your floor to remove all dirt from the surface. Keep in mind that changing the water throughout the cleaning process is an important step, because otherwise you will end up cleaning dirt with dirty water, and as a result, your floor will not become clean.
If you are cleaning carpet and it appears to need help beyond regular vacuuming, you can always dry clean it with a homemade solution, or you can steam clean it as well.
It might happen that your tiles or other type of flooring are still looking dirty and hazy, even if you have cleaned it diligently. In most cases, the explanation is simple. The “dirt” you are seeing is actually a leftover residue from your detergent. It stayed on your floors because you either used not enough water, or did not wash out the cleaning detergent properly. To solve such issues, wet up a piece of cloth and gently remove dried up detergent. It should result in sparkling clean floors.
If you have tile flooring with grout in-between, you might be in trouble. Because of the absorption properties of the grout, it becomes extremely dirty, and it is hard to clean. To clean the grout, mix water and baking soda. Put this paste in-between your tiles and keep it for as long as you want, but at least overnight. In the morning, remove the hardened paste of water and baking soda by a hard brush. It is important to note that nylon brushes work the best because such brushes will not scratch your tiles and deteriorate the flooring.
You should now have some floor cleaning tips and tricks to utilize in your home. Whether you have carpet or tile flooring, it’s important to routinely clean your floors to prevent debris from building up. Also, if any accidents occur it’s important to treat the area immediately to prevent a stain from occurring.
