A neat and clean house with beautiful walls and interiors is not enough to catch the fancy of the people visiting your house, but a neat and clean house with equally clean floors is surely what it takes to be proud of a dream house.
A neat and clean house with beautiful walls and interiors is not enough to catch the fancy of the people visiting your house, but a neat and clean house with equally clean floors is surely what it takes to be proud of a dream house. Don’t you often feel an urge to keep the floors of your house clean and hygienic? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people who visit you compliment you about your beautiful house and clean floors? People go out and come back to their dwelling places with dirt clinging to their shoes and mind you this is a repetitive process. So the dirt accumulates on the floors of your house and if you don’t keep on cleaning the floors on a regular basis, they will gradually become dirty. Who would want his floor to look dirty? No one provided he is too lazy to clean his house and floors.
Cleaning will be easier if there is one kind of floor throughout your house. To clean your floor efficiently, it is very important to know what kind of floor you are cleaning and what your floor is made of, because the cleaning method for one surface can ruin the other. Now the cleaning methods for different floors are explained below: -
- If you damp-mop an asphalt floor regularly, you don’t need to wash and polish it as often as you allow dirt to accumulate.
- The cleaner that you use, should withstand damp-mopping, otherwise you will have to apply it again.
- Half a pail of water containing a cup of fabric softener can retain the shine of an asphalt floor.
- The floor shouldn’t be flooded with water as it loosens the adhesives holding down the tiles.
- Avoid the hard abrasive cleaners.
- Unglazed tiles shouldn’t be cleaned with acids or strong soaps.
- You can damp-mop the tiles with a cleaner and then dry the floor using a soft cloth.
- Sparkle your ceramic tiles by rubbing with a car wax and then buff after ten minutes.
Asphalt floor: - Asphalt is resilient but oil, grease, kerosene, naphtha, gasoline etc. can damage the floor. You should also avoid harsh cleaning with strong soaps and scouring. The following suggestions can be considered for cleaning asphalt floors: -
Ceramic tile floors: - Glazed ceramic tiles are stain proof, but the unglazed ones are porous and should necessarily be sealed to prevent stains. A commercial sealer and a water-base wax can seal the unglazed ceramic tile floors. A few suggestions can be considered: -
Similarly there are different methods for cleaning concrete floor or brick or wooden floors. If you wish to boast of your beautiful house and shining floors, you can’t just let your floor get dirty with every passing day. Wake up one fine morning, most probably weekends and start the day caressing your floor so that the shine and glaze becomes immortal.
