After my floors were laid, I found out it was the first floor the man had laid and he put a coat of wax on them. Now they don't shine. What do I have to do to get the shine back again?
2006-12-21 02:15:05 · 5 answers · asked by rebel5ive 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
first of all clean the floor with a remove wax and a little bit of tide and then after washing them apply a thin coat of floor wax. i think your problem will be solved.
2006-12-21 02:19:42 · answer #1 · answered by mausamifrench 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clean with Tri-sodium phosphate. This will remove all wax where a regular detergent may not. Several washes may be needed. Use gloves and eye protection. Once the wax is removed, assess the stain and seal with a good quality floor polyurethane. You can get the finish in gloss or satin. I always recommend a satin finish because any scratches or dents in the wood will be exaggerated with a gloss finish. Good luck
2006-12-21 02:27:18 · answer #2 · answered by tim r 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Remove the Orange Glo before you start. Use an ammonia-based window cleaner like Windex, a microfiber cloth, and a ton of elbow grease. You'll have to remove it almost by the square foot, and it may take a few hours, even more than one day. Then wash them. If they're relatively new (post-1980) and therefore finished with polyurethane I suggest half a cup of cheap apple cider vinegar in a gallon of water. Don't overwet your cloth, sponge, or mop: just dampen it, but wring it out a lot. If they're older or varnished, I'd use Murphy's Oil Soap in water, but I'd be even more careful about wetting the wood - varnished wood tends to warp if you let water sit on it for even a few minutes. I'd almost wash with one cloth and dry with another. What you use to shine it depends on the finish too. Varnished wood will need to be waxed, while polyurethane floors generally don't. After a few years, though, even urethane finish loses its shine. I've heard of people mixing oil and vinegar and spraying it on the floor, then wiping clean, but that to me sounds like a recipe for slipperiness.
2016-05-23 05:08:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the floor is old, I would rent a floor sander from Home Depot (get the orbital one, it's more user friendly). Sand down the floor, re-stain it, and apply a few coats of polyurethane on the floor. (You can get detailed instructions on how to do this on by going to google and entering "how to refinish wood floors".
Or you can just strip the wax using a wax removing product and re-wax the floor.
2006-12-21 02:30:39 · answer #4 · answered by NY1Krr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you have to options if you want a permanent shine, go to a hardware store like Home depot and buy a clear coating to put over the floor, or you can buy a cleaner to mop the floor with. But this way you will have to repeat process over and over. Good Luck
2006-12-21 02:22:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋