How To Clean Vintage Restaurant Waxed Floor

Whoops, I nearly forgot to tell you nearly how I scrubbed and re-sealed the existing hardwoods right before we moved in (literally, like 26 hours before we moved in). The new hardwoods upstairs were looking and so flossy and glossy, I didn't desire the ones in the function, living room, and dining room to experience so 2000 and late. So I gave them some love. Wax on, wax off, baby.

Outset I swept upwards the random dust and former fake Christmas tree leaves and all the other stuff that was left behind.

Not a bad pile for an empty looking room, eh?

And then I bought this Bona stuff at Home Depot because I had heard good things nearly it when information technology comes to cleaning and glossing up floors that are old/dulled/mildly scratched (you know, floors that don't need a total re-finishing just could apply some moisture/shine to fill in modest scrapes and seal them again).

You lot know, little stuff similar this.

Later sweeping, the next footstep was to use their flooring cleaning spray, by just working my style around the room spraying it on the floor and following that with the mop (with the cleaning pad on it). This fabricated me mad sweaty, yo. And then I give it a vii on the exertion scale. You're not just swabbing over the floors similar you're swiffering, you're scrubbing the heck outta them to get them nice and make clean.

Then came the actual sealing/polishing footstep. This was a lot less rigorous (so you ARE doing the swiffer motion here). The idea is simply to gently spread out the liquid that yous're pouring out of the bottle as you work your manner out of the room. Oh and for this step you have to apply a polishing pad on the mop (it's more like a lamb's wool pad while the cleaning 1 is a fleck more than scrubbing-sponge-like). Annotation: see the green painters tape on my mop? That thing came out of the box all wonky and broken, then I had to MacGuyver it together.

In this picture you can see how the floor that I had done was all moisturized and shiny (tiptop left of the pic below) while the flooring behind the shine pad is kind of boring and dry.

Sadly, by the time I worked my style out of the room I was just mildly impressed. Parts of it had stale and looked but like they did before (deadening, grayed, slightly scratched, etc) while other areas that were still wet looked crawly.

But once they dried… they were all chalky and dry once again. I'm not sure if information technology was only something almost our floors and the way they were refinished decades ago (some folks must love this stuff since we heard swell things) but it wasn't an crawly enough event for me to get going on the other two room'south floors. And then information technology was back to Domicile Depot, where I bought another brand called Rejuvenate. It came in satin and high gloss just I chose high gloss since the floors upstairs are nice and shiny, which we like.

I still used the same Bona cleaning spray and the same Bona mop (with the cleaning head on it) since I already had those on hand and didn't mind the job they did. It was just the Bona sealer that had left me high and dry (ok, just dry). And so I switched ol' Wonky Mop'southward head to the polishing i, merely this time instead of using information technology to spread the Bona stuff, I worked my way out of the room with the Rejuvenate wood floor restorer. The room looked like this earlier:

And this afterward:

Granted it yet had to dry a bit in that shot above, merely the comparison between the Bona stuff and the Rejuvenate stuff definitely left the states liking Rejuvenate a lot better. Information technology went on more evenly and left everything rich and sealed looking – even well after it dried. Nothing looked chalky a few hours later, and I was able to apply ii coats in each room (you could apply them a few hours apart instead of waiting 24 hours like the Bona stuff required) which was crawly. I even went dorsum and did the part over again with the Rejuvenate stuff instead of doing a 2nd coat of Bona in at that place. And I was so much happier with it.

Hither's the dining room all dry. Flossy and glossy, eh? This is how the living room dried besides, and the office looks the same now that we went over it.

Have you used a floor cleaning and resealing system to bring life back to dull, mildly scratched, or chalky floors? Did you lot try Bona, Rejuvenate, or something else? Always tried two different options for a smackdown to the death what's-ameliorate comparing?

Psst – Here's a post with an update on how the floors are holding up seven months later. All the same going strong!

Update – We finally created this Shop Our House page to assist yous hunt down whatsoever furniture/accessories that you lot see in our house, along with all of our paint colors.

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Source: https://www.younghouselove.com/wax-on-wax-off/

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