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Keep your new floor in prime condition for many years.
Hardwood flooring is very easy to maintain. With the proper maintenance products, your floor will preserve its wonderful qualities for many, many years. Protect Your Investment To protect your 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 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 flooring are retained. Hardwood floors have a hard, closed surface, so that you needn’t always clean it with a damp mop. Every once in a while will do..
How Should You Clean Your Floor? The first time: Remove all dirt and dust with a soft brush or vacuum cleaner with a soft parquet brush. Clean the floor with a dry dust cloth. Replace the dust cloth and clean again. Remove any remaining dirt with a cleaner. Replace the dust cloth with a slightly damp cloth and clean again. If necessary, repeat the slightly damp cleaning process. Daily use: dry cleaning. Use a vacuum cleaner with a soft parquet brush or dry electrostatic dust cloths that attract dirt, Work the floor cleaner lengthways along the panels, in an overlapping zigzag Intensive use: slightly damp cleaning. Wet cleaning is not recommended, because it can cause lasting damage to your floor. Work the cloth lengthways along the panels, in a fluent zigzag motion across the floor, without applying pressure. Clean the surface thoroughly with a clean cloth (cotton/towelling) and remove any puddles immediately. What To Do In Case Of... Stains from normal use, scuff marks from shoes, pencil marks and dirt stains are all easily removed without trace. Rubber marks, scrapes or scuffs from shoe heels, dirt from the street, pencil or crayon marks..: Fruit, berries, milk, beer, wine, tea, soft drinks,...: Blood, urine: Nail polish, shoe polish, varnish, ink, makeup, felt pen,..: Chocolate, fat, oil,...: |



