Methods of floor cleaning – Orange County CA

The treatment needed for different types of floors is very different.[2] For safety it is most important to ensure the floor is not left even slightly wet after cleaning or mopping up.[3]

Sawdust is used on some floors to absorb any liquids that fall rather than trying to prevent them being spilt. The sawdust is swept up and replaced each day. This was common in the past in pubs and is still used in some butchers and fishmongers.[4]

It used to be common to use tea leaves to collect dirt from carpets and remove odours.[5] Nowadays it is sill quite common to use diatomaceous earth, or in fact any cat litter type material, to remove infestations from floors.

There are also a wide variety of floor cleaning machines available today such as floor buffers,automatic floor scrubbers and sweepers, and carpet extractors that can deep clean almost any type of hard floor or carpeted flooring surface in much less time than it would take using a traditional cleaning method.[6]

Wood flooring

Wood flooring should be treated completely differently depending on whether it waxed or oiled, or whether it has a polyurethane coating.[7] It is important to determine the type of finish of a wood floor and always treat it the appropriate way, for instance it is difficult to clear wood floor wax from a polyurethane floor.

Tile floors

Nowadays many modern kitchens, stairs and bathrooms have tile flooring. Dirt or dust should first be removed with a vacuum cleaner or a broom. Then, a dry cloth duster or dust mop should be run over the floors after they have been swept. In the end, washing and drying tiles with warm water and later a dry mop or towel will cleanse tiles easily.[8]

Reducing the need for cleaning

Good well-maintained entrance matting can dramatically reduce the need for cleaning. For public and office buildings about 80 to 90% of the dirt is tracked in from outside. Installing a total of 15 feet of matting consisting of both indoor and outdoor sections will remove about 80% of this.[9][10] Thus about two-thirds of the dirt can be removed at the entrance.

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