How to easily and quickly clean a floor without streaks

At first glance, cleaning the floor is not a big deal. He took a bucket of water, a rag and three of it, until it was clean. However, this is not so simple. Firstly, floor coverings come in different types and each needs to be washed in a special way. Secondly, if there is a dog or a cat in the house, then additional efforts will be required to wash sweats. Well, the floor in the kitchen is dirty most often, so you need to wash it often.

Laminate washing in the living room

How to wash the floor without spending a lot of time on this matter? What means to use? This article will tell about this.

General rules for mopping

Before you start cleaning the floor, it is advisable to carefully sweep it. Make it better with a broom. Dust must be removed everywhere, even from inaccessible places and corners. If it is inconvenient to do this with a broom, then you can take a broom. The broom can be slightly moistened with water.

It is recommended to start cleaning the floor from the corner farthest from the door, and finish at the door itself. Or, to speed up the process, you can divide the area of ​​the room into several sections. It is better to clean each area from the wall to the center of the room. Then garbage from each site must be collected in one heap.

Before cleaning the premises, it is recommended to remove furniture, as well as all unnecessary items. Of course, you don’t need to remove the wall or wardrobe, but it’s better to move the chairs, stools and floor lighting. It is also advisable to remove a cat or dog from the room.

After cleaning, it is recommended that you wipe it with a dry, clean cloth to remove moisture on the floor. Otherwise, moisture can contribute to the appearance of deformations on the coating.

An excellent tool for wet floor cleaning is salt. If you wash the floor well with a solution of water with salt, then the house will be perfectly clean. If a cat or dog lives in your apartment, using salt to clean the floors will help remove odor.

First you need to vacuum the floor

Features of wet cleaning of various floor coverings

Each flooring requires a special cleaning approach. For example, the painted floor needs to be washed regularly, especially in the kitchen and in the hallway, where dust and dirt accumulate regularly. On the other hand, this floor does not require much effort when cleaning. If the floor is unpainted, then one wet cleaning per week will be enough. However, each cleaning should consist of several stages. First you need to wash the floor with warm water and soap. The dirtiest places can be wiped with a brush. After this, the floor must be washed with clean water. And then you need to wipe it with a clean dry cloth so that the floor is dry.

To keep linoleum clean, it is enough to constantly wipe it with a damp cloth. If you use warm soapy water or detergents, it will be perfectly clean.

Parquet flooring is durable and environmentally friendly. To care for such a floor, it must be washed at least once every six months with cool water. Using hot water is undesirable - you can damage the parquet. For proper care of the parquet flooring, you still need to wipe it almost every day with a damp cloth.

Keeping laminate flooring clean is fairly straightforward. If you regularly wipe the laminate with a damp cloth, it will be clean. Only after this the floor needs to be wiped dry, otherwise moisture can be absorbed into the coating, and this can lead to deformation and swelling of the laminate.

If your floor is tiled, then you're in luck. Tile is the most unpretentious in cleaning of all coatings. You can wash the tiles with soapy water and detergents. For wet cleaning, ammonia can also be used. Tile, moreover, is resistant to moisture. Cats or dogs will not harm him either.

So, each coating has its own method of wet cleaning, so before you wash the floor, you need to determine which cleaning method is right for your coating.

Mopping the floors

How to quickly clean floors

Often there are situations when guests should suddenly come to you, but the house is not cleaned, or there is chronically insufficient time for a full cleaning. In addition, spending half a day on putting an apartment in order is still a pleasure! Is it possible to wash floors well without spending a lot of time and effort? It turns out you can.

Before proceeding with wet cleaning, thoroughly vacuum the floor. The quality of all subsequent cleaning depends on this. If possible, from the room in which the cleaning takes place, you need to take out all the extra things or put them on a bed or sofa. It is also advisable to bring a dog or cat out of the room.

After this, the floor must be wiped well with a whisk, paying special attention to skirting boards. When the whisk is dirty, it can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner. If there is still enough dust left after vacuuming, then instead of a whisk, it is better to use a microfiber rag. In this case, first wipe the surface with a wet cloth, then dry.

Stains on the floor can be removed manually

After this, you can proceed to wet cleaning. To do this, you need the following "tools":

  • bucket;
  • detergent;
  • mop;
  • brushes;
  • floor rags.

The detergent, in accordance with the proportion specified in the instructions, is stirred in a bucket of water. Water should be warm, but not hot. Then we wet the rag in water, slightly wring it out and wrap it on a mop. During cleaning, remember to wipe under the sofas and beds. It is advisable to wipe the floor with a mop, moving along, and not across the boards (if you have parquet or laminate). The cloth can be periodically brushed.

After that, the washed floor should be wiped well with a dry cloth so that there are no stains. If the floor is parquet, then it is advisable to wipe it again with a soft, dry cloth. This rag can be brushed. After that, you can be sure that the apartment will be clean.

Mopping the kitchen

How to wash the floor after painting

So, you started a repair, which includes painting the floor. The floor then takes on a completely different look. How to wash it after painting? This work is not easy.

First of all, after painting, you need to wait a certain time (about a day) for the floor to dry. After that, you need to wash the floor twice with a warm solution of vinegar, using a soft rag. After that, over the next week, you need to do a wet cleaning of the floor to remove oil stains. Never wash the floor with a soap solution. This will negatively affect the color of the paint.

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