How to Clean Your Hardwood Floors Correctly and What Cleaner to Use

Cleaning your hardwood floors correctly is important to keeping them beautiful for the long term. Our easy to follow process of keeping the dirt at bay, using floor protection on furniture and maybe most importantly, choosing the correct PH balanced, water based cleaner that won't leave a residue will help your develop an easy process to protect your beautiful hardwood floors.

Keys

Here are the keys to keeping your hardwood floors beautiful:

• Keep dust, debris, pet hair and silt off of the hardwood floors. All of these particles under foot traffic TEAR up your finish! Sweep and vacuum on a regular basis. Brooms are great, but the Dyson vacs are easiest and most efficient if they are in your budget.

  Harper Broom

  Dyson Stick

  Dyson Ball

• Apply felt furniture pads under the feet of couches, tables and chair and any other furniture that will be moved around the home. Here are some pads that will protect your floors and stay on the furniture.

  EZ Glide Floor Protectors

• Many of you are using vinegar to clean your hardwood floors. STOP THIS RIGHT NOW! 😂 Vinegar is great for windows, but bad for hardwood floors. Use a PH balanced, water based product that won’t leave a residue on your floors. We ❤️ Bona hardwood floor cleaner, it has been one of the best we have used, and it’s the go to hardwood floor cleaner at our house.

  Bona Hardwood Floor Cleaner

  Bona Hardwood Floor Cleaner Refill

  Bona Ultimate Hardwood Floor Kit

• Runners and floor mats should always be used at the front and back door, and can even be used in high traffic areas of the home.

  Door Mat

  Carpet Runner