Maintenance of your polished wooden floor is essential unless you want to spend your holidays moving furniture and re-sanding and polishing. As with all flooring, polished floors are an investment and you need to take care of it to avoid having to replace it, and to keep your investment in prime condition at all times.

Maintenance Issues

Maintenance of a polished wooden floor isn’t that different from other floors. Common sense and everyday care will do most of the work for you. Our floors take a lot of punishment from us every day and can be taken for granted sometimes. If you want your polished wooden floor to go the distance and give you many years happy service then maintain your floor from the very beginning. Some very easy everyday lifestyle changes will make the maintenance of your floors seem so ordinary you won’t even notice you are doing it.

Is it worth it?

Despite a little bit of maintenance and care, polished wooden floors are fantastic to live with and in comparison, relatively low care. Unlike carpets you don’t need to worry about stains and dry cleaning and they aren’t as hard as tile or stone floors. They also hide a number of sins such as footprints relatively well because of their natural look. They can also be an economical way to floor your home and are allergy friendly.

Basic Maintenance of your Polished Wooden Floors

• Wet n Wild – if you spill something on your floor boards, clean it up. Floor boards may be tough but they aren’t indestructible and they may absorb some of the spillage.
• Lift, don’t drag – if you are moving furniture or any other item around the house, remember to lift and carry and not to drag. Dragging with scratch and mark the floor.
• Shoes off! – asking family and guests to remove their shoes may be something you don’t feel comfortable with, but the smaller the heel base, the more damage they do.
• Chairs – put felt or rubber stoppers on the bottom of your dining chairs. Pulling a chair back and forth across your floor will leave scratches.
• Pets – the claws on your dog or cat can cause real damage to floor boards if they are long enough to make contact. Keep Fido and Ginger’s nails down if you can, oh, and don’t play fetch in the house.
• Sweep it up – a bit of dirt on the floor is a fact of life, but if the bit of dirt is stepped on and dragged through the house it may cause scratching to your floor.
• Mats and Rugs – well placed matting in high level traffic areas will take the brunt of the punishment and reduce damage to your floors.
• Refresh – your floors need to be polished to help the seal stay effective. Check your products to see which are suitable for wooden floors.

A good sanding and a top quality polish are the key to easy maintenance of your floors. If the basics aren’t right then the end result is never going to be spot on. Take your time and take lots of care when you are sanding. This little bit of extra time and effort at the start will make all the difference.