Floor Polish and What Consumers Need To Know

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Keeping your home in pristine condition requires at times some specialty cleaning items to keep everything looking new. Your hardwood flooring and organic tile floors need some attention too and there a many products on the market that can help. Floor polish is not a new product or concept, as the people at Johnson Wax have been around since before World War II making products to use with mops and floor buffers. These products are still available, but as with most consumer items, technology has advanced in this arena as well.

Wood floor polish can be administered in a couple of different ways depending on the polishing product you choose. The paste version takes more time, but results in a almost three dimensional gloss that looks wet. This is the type of polish that the military uses for their barracks, and other military housing. There will be a time when the old wax or polish will need to be stripped off with a scouring pad attached to a buffer, but this is the price we pay for such a great looking floors. There are also other chemical polishes that are just applied with a wet mop, and produce a small shine, but nothing like the above mentioned method.

When it comes to floor polishing, you really get out of it, what you put into via your sweat equity. Most home owners do not have the inclination or the time to attend to their flooring in such a manner, so the mop and shine variety of products will clearly come out on top as their purchase choice every time. There are floor cleaners available today that a consumer can acquire for not only cleaning carpets, but these extraordinary units double as floor buffers too. Working on one room per weekend can help you gain that wonderful deep glow in your tile or wood flooring that makes your home more of a show place for your guests when visiting you.

Putting down a few good coats of hardwood floor polish will give you that extra protection that will avoid your wood from becoming damaged by the family dog, and kids’ rough housing with sharp edged toys that get dropped on your precious wood investment. By building up a minimum of three coats of wax slash polish you will have a hardened protective layer that will endure the above mentioned attacks on your floors, and keep them looking new and in ideal condition for reselling your home when the time comes. Check with the store that sold you your flooring about oiling the surface before waxing or polishing. This will require that you take finish down to the original coat before the polishing application. Then it can be trapped underneath the layers of the fresh coats of polish.

There are several steps before getting to the point of applying marble floor polish. You have to strip the old polish and or wax off, and use a finishing pad to smooth the floor surface. Then the application of a chemical cleaning solution has to be brushed on with a floor buffer. Then start applying the polish at that point. But prior to all of this, you have to remove all of the black scuff marks that cut through to the bare surface of the marble flooring, and essentially using a course pad on your buffer, sand off the intruding marks. They are beautiful to own, and make your home great looking wherever you have the tiles installed, but the cost of ownership in labor, and support cleaning equipment, and chemicals weigh in on the high side of things. Fortunately, there are many service companies that can help you with this process, and they should be called out about twice a year to keep the marble looking new and scuff free.

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