Laminate wood flooring

[fourdez]

Armstrong make laminate floor cleaners that you can get in Home Depot. Or, you can use clear detergent, no suds amonia.

[YorkieRose]

I use Pergo spray cleaner also...I do not find it streaks or is sticky...never tried Murphy's Oil Soap..!

[spiked_poodle]

All I got to say is I am really happy I have the hardwood floors! Very easy to keep clean and shiny!

[TootiesMom]

I LOVE my hardwood too...

I use WINDEX on the hardwood and ceramic... does a super job. I showed my friend to use WINDEX on their laminate and it works GREAT! I always use a TOWEL and "foot action"... it takes it all with it and loeaves no streaks...
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[mistyinca]

Originally Posted by Graleyne

How do you clean it? I sweep it 100 times a day and still get stuff up like I haven't swept at all. Everything I mop it with seems to leave a sticky film on it.

Things I have tried:

1) Pledge Multi-surface Floor Cleaner - supposed to safely clean wood, ceramic, linoleum/vinyl, no wax floors, and laminate safely and leaving no dulling, oily residue. Got the floor clean, but left the residue.

2.) Murphy's Oil Soap - depends on how I use it. If use it with the mop and let it dry I get residue and water spots. If I use the mop then go back and rinse it really well with hot water, I get the spots and only a little residue. It works perfectly if I get on my hands and knees and wash the floor with a washcloth, then dry with a towel. I have these floors throughout the entire house. I can't clean them on my hands and knees all the time.

3.) White vinegar and hot water - got them clean but the smell was awful and it left water spots. Took forever for the vinegar smell to get out of the house and that's with opening all the windows and running fans and air purifiers.

4.) Just plain hot water - left spots

Now I have found that if I vacuum the floors instead of sweeping them I only have to do it twice a day. Anyone have any suggestions on what to mop it with?

I use a cleaner that I get from Home Depot. It is called Wood and Laminate Floor cleaner. It comes in a spray bottle and a 1 gallon refill. I have both, so I can refill the bottle. EAsy as pie. Just spray the floor, then use a sponge mop to go over it. It also works nicely with a wet swiffer or the clorox mop--the kind that has a bottle of solution on the mop. I used to fill that solution into the clorox mop bottle. Which, also, that clorox wet mop worked well too.

[Patti]

I just use vinegar and water in a spray bottle and I have a terry cloth mop and it works great. The vinegar smell goes away pretty quick

[doortego]

Can you use the vinegar & water on real wood floors? If so, what would be the proportions? Thanks

[SladesMommy]

Glad I saw this thread. i'm laying wood laminate this week.

[spiked_poodle]

I use a product called Orange Glo Hardwood cleaner and polish on my hardwood floors. It goes on easy and looks beautiful. In between cleanings I spray a little furniture polish on my dust mop and go over the floors. I hardly ever need to sweep.

[Graleyne]

Does Windex make the floor slippery? That's the other problem I have with the flooring. What doesn't make it sticky and grimy makes it slicker than owl sh*t!

[Ozzie'sperson]

Originally Posted by spiked_poodle

I use a product called Orange Glo Hardwood cleaner and polish on my hardwood floors. It goes on easy and looks beautiful. In between cleanings I spray a little furniture polish on my dust mop and go over the floors. I hardly ever need to sweep.

Yes, this is great on HARDWOODS. (We use it occasionally in the bedrooms where we still have the original hardwood flooring.)

I WOULD NOT recommend it, however, for laminates. You're not supposed to wax laminate and since this product combines a cleaner and a polish (which makes our wood floors look quite glossy) I think it might do more harm than good for laminate. Just my two cents.

[cheryl000]

Originally Posted by spiked_poodle

All I got to say is I am really happy I have the hardwood floors! Very easy to keep clean and shiny!

We just moved into our new house with a pergo kitchen! I can't WAIT to put hardwood in! Bubbles formed in the Pergo and it looks TERRIBLE!

[Yorkiekids]

We use a laminate cleaner or PineSol. I hate those floors. We put them in 11 years ago, and at tax time we're pulling them up and putting down a tile floor. It'll be great down here in the heat. We can put our feeties down on a cool tile.

[missbetsy56]

I have laminate floors in my house and i got a microfiber mop at lowes and use the pergo laminate floor spray cleaner and it works beautifully and i have dark cherry floors. I love microfiber mops. Then i discovered they had them on QVC and you could get replacement pads for them so now i have a stack of microfiber pads so i can change them when they get to wet and hard to push. They also have a dry dusting pad you can use just to dust your floors with and it works great. After your done you just throw them in the wasking machine and dryer (no fabric softner) and use them again and again.

[mistyinca]

REally? Wow. I love my laminate floors. Ours is Wilsonart brand, and we've had no problems with it whatsoever. Just yesterday, my sister told me she thought it was "real" wood floor.