nigh forgot to tell you lot almost how I scrubbed in addition to re
Whoops, I well-nigh forgot to tell you lot almost how I scrubbed in addition to re-sealed the existing hardwoods correct before we moved inward (literally, similar 26 hours before we moved inward). The new hardwoods upstairs were looking so flossy and glossy, I didn’t want the ones inwards the part, living room, and dining room to feel so 2000 and tardily. So I gave them more or less dearest. Wax on, wax off, babe.
First I swept up the random dust and former simulated Christmas tree leaves together with all the other material that was left behind.
Not a bad pile for an empty looking room, eh?
Then I bought this Bona stuff at Home Depot because I had heard adept things about it when it comes to cleaning too glossing upwards floors that are quondam/dulled/mildly scratched (you lot know, floors that don’t take a full re-finishing simply could purpose approximately moisture/polish to fill up in pocket-sized scrapes too seal them once again).
You know, lilliputian stuff like this.
After sweeping, the next footstep was to use their floor cleaning spray, past but working my style around the room spraying it on the flooring too following that alongside the mop (amongst the cleaning pad on it). This made me mad sweaty, yo. So I reach it a seven on the elbow grease scale. You’re not only swabbing over the floors similar you lot’re swiffering, yous’re scrubbing the heck outta them to become them squeamish together with clean.
Then came the actual sealing/polishing step. This was a lot less rigorous (then yous ARE doing the swiffer motion here). The idea is just to gently spread out the liquid that y’all’re pouring out of the bottle equally you run your fashion out of the room. Oh too for this step yous accept to role a polishing pad on the mop (it’sec more similar a lamb’s wool pad spell the cleaning one is a scrap more than scrubbing-sponge-similar). Note: come across the green painters record on my mop? That affair came out of the box all wonky in addition to broken, so I had to MacGuyver it together.
In this moving picture yous tin come across how the flooring that I had done was all moisturized too shiny (summit left of the motion picture below) patch the floor behind the polish pad is variety of ho-hum in addition to dry.
Sadly, past the fourth dimension I worked my style out of the room I was exclusively mildly impressed. Parts of it had dried together with looked simply similar they did before (wearisome, grayed, slightly scratched, etc) while other areas that were however moisture looked awesome.
But one time they dried… they were all chalky in addition to dry over again. I’m non sure if it was only something virtually our floors as well as the mode they were refinished decades agone (more or less folks must love this stuff since nosotros heard slap-up things) simply it wasn’t an awesome enough result for me to become going on the other two room’s floors. So it was back to Home Depot, where I bought some other brand called Rejuvenate. It came inward satin too high gloss just I chose high gloss since the floors upstairs are overnice in addition to shiny, which we like.
I still used the same Bona cleaning spray too the same Bona mop (with the cleaning caput on it) since I already had those on hand in addition to didn’t listen the chore they did. It was but the Bona sealer that had left me high in addition to dry out (ok, but dry out). So I switched ol’ Wonky Mop’sec caput to the polishing 1, only this time instead of using it to spread the Bona stuff, I worked my fashion out of the room amongst the Rejuvenate forest floor restorer. The room looked similar this earlier:
And this later on:
Granted it yet had to dry a fleck in that shot higher up, but the comparing between the Bona material too the Rejuvenate material definitely left us liking Rejuvenate a lot amend. It went on more than evenly too left everything rich and sealed looking – fifty-fifty well afterward it dried. Nothing looked chalky a few hours later, as well as I was able to employ ii coats inward each room (you lot could employ them a few hours apart instead of waiting 24 hours similar the Bona stuff required) which was awesome. I fifty-fifty went back and did the part once again amongst the Rejuvenate material instead of doing a instant coat of Bona inward there. And I was and then much happier alongside it.
Here’s the dining room all dry. Flossy together with glossy, eh? This is how the living room dried too, too the office looks the same straightaway that nosotros went over it.
Have you lot used a flooring cleaning together with resealing system to take life back to tedious, mildly scratched, or chalky floors? Did yous try Bona, Rejuvenate, or something else? Ever tried 2 unlike options for a smackdown to the death what’s-meliorate comparing?
Psst – Here’second a mail amongst an update on how the floors are holding upwardly seven months later on. Still going strong!
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