Keep your floor in prime condition for many years: How to clean your laminate flooring

Laminate flooring is very easy to maintain.

With the proper maintenance products, your floor will preserve its wonderful qualities for many, many years.

To protect your laminate floor, we recommend the following precautions:

• Avoid contact with dirt, sand, grit, and substances such as oil or asphalt by placing carpets and vinyl-back doormats at the front- and backdoor.
  
• Use floor protectors and furniture legs/wheels with a large ground surface to limit the impact of heavy objects.
  
• Maintain a relative indoor air humidity of between 40 and 60% all year round, in order to limit natural expansion and contraction of the wood.
  
• Avoid cutting and grooving in your flooring by sharp objects. If you have chairs with wheels, make sure they are made of soft rubber.
  
• The surface of your new laminate flooring is particularly durable and wear-resistant so that it requires no additional treatment. No need for sanding, varnishing, polishing, or waxing, meaning that the typical and intrinsic properties of your laminate flooring are retained.
  
• Your laminate floors have a hard, closed surface so that you do not need to always clean them with a damp mop. Every once in a while will do.  This way, you avoid lasting damage to your floor.

How Should You Clean Your Floor?

Let’s see in detail how to clean your laminate:

• Remove all dirt and dust with a soft brush or vacuum cleaner with a soft parquet brush.
  
• Use a vacuum cleaner with a soft parquet brush or dry electrostatic dust cloths that attract dirt, dust, and hair like a magnet.
  
• Work the floor cleaner lengthways along with the panels, in an overlapping zigzag
  motion and with long strokes across the floor.
  
• Clean the floor with a dry dust cloth.
  
• Replace the dust cloth and clean again.
  
• Remove any remaining dirt with a laminate cleaner if necessary.
  
• Replace the dust cloth with a slightly damp cloth and clean again.
  
• If necessary, repeat the slightly damp cleaning process.

Bonus Tips on How to Clean Your Laminate

• Intensive use? Slightly damp cleaning.
  
• Wet cleaning is not recommended, because it can cause lasting damage to your floor. Clean your laminate flooring with a well-wrung-out cloth instead.
  
• Work the cloth lengthways along with the panels, in a fluent zigzag motion across the floor, without applying pressure.
  
• Clean the surface thoroughly with a clean cloth (cotton/toweling) and remove any puddles immediately.

Tried out these tips and found them useful?
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Want more info on how to clean your laminate?
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FLASH FLOORING LTD
48 WATLING AVENUE, BURNT OAK, EDGWARE
HA8 0LT, LONDON, UK