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Ok, I know everybody always asks what wood floor cleaner or solution to use.
I need one they will really clean, I can use long term, and will do as little damage as possible to my floors. The kicker-I really live on a farm. 10 horses, 5 cats, and 2 dogs. I wear spurs in the house, I come in covered in mud, dirt, hair and so do the dogs. I don't have time to clean the floors everyday. I'm lucky if I clean them every 2 weeks-not trying to be gross but I work a full time job and then come home to work on a farm
My floors are 5 inch brazilian cherry planks with a satin finish and lots of scratches in the poly already
We too have wood floors and live on a farm. Ours are sealed in some rooms, not in others. What I do:
Vaccuum, not sweep, the floors- gets all the crap out of the cracks and gouges. Then I spritz and spots that look rough with cleaner and fire up the steam mop (doesn't have to be fancy, mine came from Home Depot and cost about 30 bucks) then plug in a dropcord (that's extension cord for everyone not in the south, lol) and go to town.
I have three kids (10,12,18) and I have fibro, so there's days I can really knock it out and days when staying out of bed all day is my major accomplishment. What I found that helps us is a chore list. We all have the same jobs on the same days each week, taking my husband's days off from work off from house chores. Takes each of us 30 minutes or less to do the jobs and believe it or not, the house looks the best it has in years!
Spurs are always kept on my boots, and sometimes you really have to pee! I saw reviews where orange glo left a hazy film on floors-is that just for laminate?
They make cleaners under a couple different names. Flooring guys actually told us to go to Home Depot for it because it was identical to their 'house brand' and a lot cheaper at big orange.
I imagine you'd clean floors in a farm house the same way you'd clean floors in a city house.
That was my initial thought!
But OP did say: "cleaning wood floors in a farm house" specifically.
Would it be safe to assume that when you say farmhouse- we're talking a house that's 40+yrs old?
If so, the cleaning procedure (and the refinishing) can be quite different than today's floors that have a polyurethane finish.
I also refuse to keep repeating myself-
This issue has been hashed, thrashed, rehashed, kicked, shoveled, spit-on, and taken to the cleaners (sorry for the pun) so many times it's ridiculous!!!
Use the search box at the top of the house forum page!
My 108 yr old farmhouse has a mix of 108 year old and 6 year old floors, both poly'ed and shellacked.
I took the farmhouse reference to mean there's usually more dirt than in a city home (boots can hold a LOT more dirt than some folks realize) and that the dirt can, um, not always be JUST dirt
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