Your hardwood flooring can take a beating year after year. Preventing scratches from showing up can be hard to do but it’s one of the approaches we suggest for long-lasting hardwood flooring.
Repairing or Replacing Your Hardwood Flooring?
Get help from a local hardwood flooring contractor in your neighborhood.
You can safeguard your flooring year after year with the help of a professional. The only con is that you will have to maintain this every year but a professional will be able to guide you on what is best for the flooring you have.
Let us start by saying that if you don’t wear your shoes in the house and more like living the slipper life you can live that stress-free floor life. Really wearing any type of shoe, boot, or high heel on a hardwood floor can scuff it up fast. We recommend leaving all shoes at the door if you can.
Maintain your hardwood
Maintaining your flooring which means washing your floor with a scrub brush and spraying it down with a gentle cleanser once a week can help avoid dirt and grim which result in a build-up and cause more scratches to the flooring.
It may also help to get a regularly scheduled house cleaning near you to help take care of any germs that might be festering around the house. Most cleaning services can do once a week to once a month house cleanings.
You should not move furniture unless it’s absolutely necessary. You may create more damage with gliding furniture you will want to get glide cushions to move your furniture. This will make it easier to move furniture plus you won’t be scraping up your hardwood flooring.
Mats and rugs as much as I hate them they can help reduce the noise of the hardwood floor and won’t distort your floor as much. You can also invest in rug pads that will help keep your rugs in place so the rugs don’t move around the floor as much.
What you can invest in for your hardwood
You should also invest in indoor and outdoor entry mats that will help reduce dirt and snow from entering the house and track the dirt or snow around the house or let the snow sit on the hardwood.
Laminate your wood floors this would be a good idea if you have any high traffic areas of your house. Laminate flooring can be hard to repair so make sure you have the right tools to repair the areas or you can hire a local flooring contractor for help. The last thing you need is deep scraps in your flooring.
If your moving furniture a lot such as couches or lounge chairs you may want to invest in felt pads as they can from time to time shift on the furniture making more scratches on the flooring. The felt pads are easy to install but you may want to find felt pads that work with your color scheme of the living room or dining room. You want floors and furniture to look nice.
Your pets and kids can tarnish the flooring you will want to take care of your pet’s paws and areas of the flooring your kids play on with maybe kids padding or blankets also work well.
Need help choosing Hardwood?
When choosing to floor you want to make sure you choose what’s durable out there for your home and family. There are a ton of options when it comes to flooring a professional opinion may help after all.
Just a reminder: you can also have your tile floor cleaned too with a local floor cleaning service.