What’s on my mind this holiday season? Family, friends … and hardwood floors.

Rod Lorenz

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I love how Christmas and New Year’s bring family and friends together. My wife and I particularly enjoy hosting get-togethers during this time.

So I know from personal experience that with the fellowship of the season also comes a heightened awareness of the cleanliness of your home.  Of course, we try to keep our home clean all year, but we want it to look its absolute best for our holiday company.

And no surprise for a hardwood floor professional like me, I find myself checking out our hardwood floors!

We would already know if they needed refinishing, so what I’m looking for before we have any holiday visitors is whether the floors are clean. We regularly clean them—something we recommend to all our customers—but we like to do it soon before the guests arrive. We don’t want the beauty of the wood and the finish diminished by dirt, debris, and dust.

Fortunately, it’s not hard at all to clean hardwood floors. It’s not a big chore to add to our Christmas to-do list.

We use a Glitsa mop kit, which comes with two microfiber pads—one for dusting and another for damp mopping. First we dust; then we mop, being sure the mop is only damp and that we clean it when it becomes dirty. Then we mop again with only water to rinse. That’s it!

The mopping solution we use is Glitsa Clean, which you can buy in concentrate and mix with water. That’s our preference, but many of our customers prefer to use a Glitsa Clean spray bottle, which allows you to apply a pre-mixed solution directly to the floor with no mixing in a bucket.

We offer great deals on all these Glitsa products because we know they work, but there are other options. For example, you can use a vacuum on hardwood floors as long as it’s soft-bristled and doesn’t have a beater brush. Or you can simply sweep with a soft-bristled broom.

Whatever works for you, great! Just be sure not to use:

  • Steam cleaners (i.e. steam mops)
  • Cleaners that contain chemicals "not recommended" by the manufacturers of your flooring and finish
  • Any wax, oil, or silicon-based products

Cleaning hardwood floors properly isn’t just a holiday thing. It’s something to do year-round, but it’s so easy, why not make it part of your holiday preparations?

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To learn more about cleaning hardwood floors, read our recent blog, “How Do I Clean My Hardwood Floors?”

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