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Care and Maintenance of Your New Wood FloorAfter Wooden Floors by Malcolm refinishes your floors, you can enjoy them indefinitely if you follow our low maintenance care instructions. Moving back into your house or room -
An ounce of prevention - Cleaning - Scratches - Scuffs - First, do not ever wax or soap the floors except as per these instructions. If you do, a residue of soap or wax may contaminate the surface. This can prevent successful recoating maintenance (every 5 to 20 years). The single coat may not bond to the existing finish if there is wax or soap residue on it. Clean with a broom and damp mop with vinegar and water or Murphy's Oil Soap (dilute 15 to 1). Do long term preventative maintenance as described below. Long Term Preventative Maintenance for optimum durability - After 5 to 20 years (depending on use and maintenance) these high traffic areas will show significant wear. Now is the time to apply two 2 patch coats of urethane to these traffic spots. Then schedule to recoat the entire surface at your convenience to refresh and rejuvenate the wood beauty and to renew the protective finish. Always do a test patch to confirm intercoat adhesion and compatability. Avoid water based finishes Call woodenfloorsbymalcolm.com. This is a quick, low cost way to make your floors last indefinitely! Climactic Buffering - A wood floor is often an unbroken slab of wood spanning 30 feet or more If humidity or dampness is allowed to penetrate for a month of two (sometimes less) without any climate control, the wood will expand just 1 to 2 percent expansion is 3 to 7 inches, of extra hardwood over a 30 foot span. The expansion force is tremendous and can crush the wood fibre itself or loosen fastenings. Then when the heating season arrives the floor dries out a little and cracks appear. So your floor has been scratched... Now what? - However, if you have a genuine scratch rather than a scuff here's what to do. Use a torn off paper match end and the polyurethanes touch up material that we provided to line out the scratch. Then wipe the wood surface perfectly clean so that the polyurethane remains only in the scratch. If the scratch has cut through a colouring stain to | |||
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