Top 10 Best Floor Maintenance Tips for your Home
With proper maintenance and care, your floor can look great for decades. With poor maintenance and inadequate care, however, your floor might need to be replaced after just a few years.
Today, we’re explaining the best floor maintenance tips you can implement in your own home.
- Avoid using vinyl or tile cleaning products on wood floors. Products like self-polishing acrylic waxes can cause your hardwood floor to become slippery. These products can also lead your floor to look dull.
- Buy throw rugs for your doorways. This helps prevent debris from being tracked in your home. Even a small rock on the bottom of a shoe can leave big gouges in your floor.
- Avoid wet-mopping or steam-mopping a wood floor. Water and steam can dull the finish of your floor. An excessive amount of water can even damage the wood.
- With hardwood floors, use stick-on felt protectors to prevent your furniture from scraping the floor. You can buy felt protectors at any hardware store. Buy a bunch and add them to every chair, table, and piece of furniture in your home.
- With carpet floors, use coasters. These can be placed under the legs of chairs and tables to distribute the weight. It prevents the pile of your carpet from being crushed, enhancing the long-term durability of your carpet.
- Move heavy furniture occasionally – say, every few months – to prevent long-term pile crushing on your carpet.
- Your carpet warranty may require a certain amount of cleaning every 1 to 2 years. A common carpet warranty, for example, requires professional hot water extraction cleaning to be performed every year or two. Make sure you’re away of your carpet warranty.
- A new carpet will shed or pill for 6 to 12 months. Many people confuse shedding or pilling as a defect. However, these are excess fibers from the manufacturing process. Don’t worry about natural shedding or pilling.
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How to Choose the Right Vinyl Flooring for your Home
Choosing the right vinyl flooring doesn’t have to be difficult. Even if you know nothing about vinyl floors, all it takes is a few minutes of research to get caught up.
Today, we’re going to help you choose the right vinyl flooring for your home.
Solid Core Vinyl: Solid core vinyl has a firm, solid core for maximum stability and durability. You get a blend of the natural beauty of hardwood and ceramic tile combined with the performance and comfort of vinyl.
Groutable Vinyl: Groutable vinyl is durable, easy to maintain, and looks realistic thanks to the grouting. You can enjoy superior-quality floors without worrying about chips or cracks.
Sheet Vinyl: Sheet vinyl is a layered construction that uses two different types of backing – felt or fiberglass. Felt back vinyl must be installed with permanent adhesive and stuck to the subfloor (otherwise, it will curl up at the ends). It’s not a good choice for regions or homes with moisture issues. Fiberglass back vinyl, meanwhile, is more popular. It can be installed with releasable adhesive. Some homeowners install it with no adhesive whatsoever. It’s easy to repair and doesn’t have the same curling problem as felt back vinyl but may cost more.
Need help deciding which vinyl floor is right for you? Come into Conklin Bros. Dublin today. Based in Dublin, California, Conklin Bros. Dublin serves customers in all surrounding cities – including Livermore, Pleasanton, and other nearby communities. As the Bay Area’s leading flooring store and carpet store, Conklin Bros. has 130+ years of experience helping customers choose the perfect flooring for their unique needs and budget.
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