Stain – Mineral spirits, acetone, nail polish remover or denatured alcohol Any leftover wax residue should come up by cleaning with room temperature cooking oil. ![]() Once fully melted, wipe it up with a white paper towel. Melt – Use a hair dryer to heat up the wax. It should either break apart and pop right off the floor, or peel up. This should freeze the wax, rendering it brittle. Once the stain has been removed, re-clean the stain area with a soft, white cloth and warm water to remove any residue from either the stain or the cleaning agent.Īnd finally, What We Suggest You Try for Specific Spills or Stains Adhesivesįreeze – You can spray compressed air, sold for the cleaning of computers, onto your spilled wax for 20-30 seconds. This prevents spreading the spill beyond its current borders. “Scrub” with soft cloth, making sure to move from the outside of the spill to the inside of it. Absent success there, should they be approved, those in the list below should help with the specific spills mentioned. If they have one, or recommend one, always try that first. If a stain remains behind, use only a cleansing agent that is allowed by your floor manufacturer. Remember that other colors may be pulled onto your floor by the spilled liquid. A plastic spatula, credit card, or stiff card stock can be great for this. With the second, damp mop with clean water and do a rinsing stage to pull up both residual dirt and the cleaner itself. With the first one, apply the chemical, go over any specific dirty areas, and “wipe up” the soap. ![]() Whether you mop with just water or with a recommended cleaner, try to use two mops. Even the recommended cleaners for a vinyl floor may leave a residue behind, a build up of the cleaning chemical itself, one which might hold onto dirt. All mopping is Damp Mopping with non-sheet vinyl floors.ī. When you slosh around a lot of water and leave it there, you’re basically flooding your floor. If you were to have an all out flood, you know that you would have to take up your vinyl, dry both your planks (easy) and your subfloor (not so easy) off, and re lay the floor. Even if the floor is a floating floor, water sitting under it is not a good thing. If your floor is a glue down vinyl, this could undo the bonding. Your flooring may be 100% waterproof, but that doesn’t mean that long standing water won’t eventually slip through the seams between planks. If you have plank or tile vinyl, rather than one, big sheet of it, be careful mopping with excessive water, and of leaving the water on your floor for too long. Some solvents will transfer the color of your rags to your floor, which you don’t want.Ī. Test the cleaning rags you’ll be using as well, especially if they’re not white. Do the procedure on a small area and make sure that your floor comes out fine. Go to a usually blocked corner, or try it in a closet. As with any cleaner on any floor, test the cleaning procedure in an inconspicuous area. You can always add more cleaner to your bucket of water after doing a test. Likewise if we suggest the weaker solution, try that first. If our tip says “Use 1 cup per gallon,” but the instructions on your actual product say “Use 1/2 cup per gallon” then go with the 1/2 cup. We recommend starting with the weakest option. Most involve diluting the chemical, using it in a weaker form. Some of these tips come with “Use it like this…” suggestions. It’s worth the time to read the documentation that came with your vinyl flooring, so you don’t accidentally void the warranty (to say nothing of making the problem worse) This list is to help you determine which of the cleaners that you may use in the first place might provide the best help with certain vinyl cleaning issues. This is one of the reasons we have more then one tip for some issues. ![]() ![]() If your instructions say that you shouldn’t use a certain cleaner, then don’t use that cleaner. One example of warnings on product documentation
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