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Post by yearning4order on Aug 4, 2010 13:49:41 GMT -5
Hi All,
It's been almost 10 years since I last lived in a house with wood floors--at that time we had an awesome vacuum, but the vacuum has become less awesome over the years and I don't have money right now to buy a new one.
I'm curious if brooms, dry mops, etc are sufficient for keeping a house with wood floors and one small pomeranian and a child in decent shape? My specific interest is wanting to keep it clean of course, but keeping allergens down. My vacuum is totally lame on wood floors.
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Post by StuffNoMore on Aug 4, 2010 13:52:44 GMT -5
I don't use a vacuum on my wood floors and I have a Rottweiler that sheds enough to knit another dog. I only sweep with a broom or use the swiffer for dry floors and wash it with the swiffer for wood floors.
SNM
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Post by eagle on Aug 4, 2010 14:49:38 GMT -5
Yes. Vaccums are great, but required for wood floors. You can do it just fine without.
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Post by gifted on Aug 4, 2010 14:59:21 GMT -5
y4o,
do you service your vacuum? If it has brushes, maybe those needs servicing or replacing, or you need a new belt.
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Post by toomuchstuph on Aug 4, 2010 15:09:38 GMT -5
Just a quick pop in to blather about my favorite hardwood floor cleaner EVER! It's the Bona Mop. I think Method makes something similar as well. They're available in a lot of places but here's a sample: www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=16510777You can buy extras of the microfiber pad. The pad can be used dry (to dust mop) or wet (I use the bona hardwood cleaner personally). I think they're a little more expensive at the outset than Swiffers but once you've purchased the mop and a couple microfibers you're done spending. Personally, I prefer avoiding disposables whenever I can. These pads are easily washable and they just velcro to the mop head. I can't say how long they last since ours have been going for a few years at least. eta: There are other covers available to use like one that sort of lambs wool-ish but I've never used those so can't speak to how well they work. The microfiber one is my go-to mop/duster. |
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Post by bigtimetroubles on Aug 4, 2010 15:54:54 GMT -5
tms that is really a neat idea...I like it...I may get one for my kitchen which is tiles...not ceramic....press and stick type...
I suppose this would work well on that eh?
hugs btt
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Post by messymimi on Aug 4, 2010 18:09:01 GMT -5
A good dust mop, especially one pretreated for wood floors, is plenty.
messymimi
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Post by puppybox on Aug 4, 2010 19:58:02 GMT -5
I don't mean to be a negative nancy, but I have a dust mop similar to that. also microfiber. don't think is same brand, so maybe is worse.
maybe I'm doing it wrong, but while it works, it collects all the hair around the edges and none in its middle, meaning there is not much surface area collecting hair and dust. so you always have to stop an pull the hair off. this puts some of the dust back into the air.
it makes the place look nice and takes no more effort than a vacuum. but the place stays looking cleaner for longer after I vacuum, by several days. and my serious allergies are much better reduced by my vacuum. so, I stopped using the dust mop thing. I thought I would use it in between vacuumings, to get more dog hair. but I don't. now that I've run out of vacuum bags though, I will use it for a while. but for allergies I vote for getting the vacuum repaired (could be cheaper than you think) or replaced. no rush though. my dust mop thing cost less than $20 bucks on sale so was worht its price.
I live in apartment with all wood floors except kitchen. actually if you've gone from carpet to wood floors your allergies will naturally just be reduced anyway.
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Post by AnnieOkie on Aug 5, 2010 10:10:06 GMT -5
Thanks for this thread! My new house has all refinished/restored wood floors except for kitchen, baths and one bedroom. I was going to start a thread on this subject! I ran into the current owner of the home the other day and asked her. She said she dust mops (we didn't get into detail about what kind.....I plan to use just a regular one spritzed with Endust) and once a week or so (I doubt I will be that regular about it....  ) she mopped with Murphy's Oil Soap diluted in water.....mop wrung out well.....and then ran a dry mop over it so the water wouldn't sit on the wood. I'm more worried about scratching the floor with my furniture, etc. |
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Post by yearning4order on Aug 5, 2010 10:38:58 GMT -5
Thank you all for the responses. My mother actually gave me a dry mop like what was indicated. Good to know that it can work until I can deal with the vac. Puppy I also remember our vacuum doing a much better job than the dry mop too, and since our vac had hepa filtration it was better for my asthma.
Thanks all!
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Post by puppybox on Aug 5, 2010 12:28:24 GMT -5
annie okie jsut go to the hardware store and get those little felt stickers to stick to table an chair legs. its costs like $1.50!
one thing I did because I knew I wouln't be satisifed with my furniture placement the first 4 times, and its so much work to take books off shelves and clothes out of drawers before you move the furniture around (and I never lift it I always push it as I am alone- I put old pillow cases under the furniture. so then I could leave the books etc in/on the furniture but still push the shelves and stuff around without scratching the floor.eventually when I was satisfied (for a year or 2) I did remove the pillow cases.
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