Laminate Flooring: Cleaning & Care

With its wide array of colors and styles laminate flooring is growing in popularity with home builders and buyers alike. Laminate floor is simply a complex of flat timber with a layer of rosin on top that is intentional to look like either tiles or hardwood flooring.Laminate flooring gives your floor that overall look of wood that can be enjoyed for years to come. Laminate floors are very often used in bedrooms and living rooms to give a touch of style. The best thing about laminate flooring is the ease in care that you have when you have it in your home. Laminate flooring is one that will look like wood, and that will feel like wood but often times is a bi product of wood. Real wood will require waxing and cleaning every year to keep the floor shiny. Real wood flooring is going to be sanded down and varnished again as the shine is worn off the flooring.

The laminate flooring by not showing porous surface helps to prevent the proliferation of bacteria and fungi, is an ideal environment for those who are allergic. And it is very easy to clean because it is just going a damp cloth. It is not advisable to use products with silicone or wax, it can form a greasy layer on the surface and so spots may appear.

Laminate flooring can be cleaned by using a dry dust mop on the floor for every day cleaning. During those times when you feel that you need a good deeper clean, you can use a wet mop, one that is not really all that wet, to clean up sticky messes or to clean up mud from the floor. You don’t want to use that much water on the floor so you don’t have the water seeping down into the laminate flooring and then the laminate flooring is going to warp over time.

Laminate floor care is going to be similar to wood or any other type of flooring when it comes to moving furniture across the flooring. Laminate flooring can be scratched, dented and can be marked up when you are not careful in moving those heaviest of furniture pieces in your home.

Don’t drag the furniture across the flooring. Your laminate flooring that has marks and cuts in it will need a little extra care to get that mark out, and sometimes if the cut is all that deep you can’t get it out no matter how much buffing you were to do on this area. The same goes for wood flooring, if the cut is too deep or the scratch is too deep, you are not going to be able to cover it up.

Laminate flooring is easy to care for because the seams in the flooring are actually very tight. You won’t find all types of cracks in the flooring for food, for water, or for dirt to get trapped in. Laminate flooring is a type that will not allow things down between the rows, when you care for it daily. Sweeping and dusting your flooring with a broom, a swiffer or a vacuum that is not hard on the floor is what you need to care for the laminate flooring. You only want to mop your flooring when it is really sticky, when you spill something on the floor, but you don’t even need to wax laminate flooring which is what makes it so popular!