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engineered hardwood floor cleaning
    #24263174 - 04/22/17 12:40 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

Anybody have any recommendation on how best to clean engineered hardwood flooring?  Its the kind that has a thin layer of wood over the laminate snap lock board.  Im not sure what manufacturer it is.  We are moving out of our apartment and Id like to clean the floors up nicely. 

Thanks for the help!


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: FlusH] * 1
    #24263235 - 04/22/17 01:42 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

Sounds like luxury vinyl plank (lvp) to me. I install floors for a living. We reccommend mannington products like this:

http://m.1877floorguy.com/manawserclea.html?gclid=CjwKEAjw_uvHBRDUkumF0tLFp3cSJACAIHMYYmI-V9SJyOfhQFn-ArQVwBf8suk3g_F9SqhrfiivJhoCBWvw_wcB

This is a general purpose laminate/vinyl cleaner..


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: FlusH]
    #24263237 - 04/22/17 01:46 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

Sounds more like laminate. Engineered wood is a thin layer of real hardwood over plywood. Anyway. plain soap and water is best. Not wet but damp. Just clean a small area at a time. 1 bucket soap and water, 1 bucket clean rinse water. clean with soap and water bucket then wipe with clean damp rag. wring in clean water and repeat with clean water a few times. Clean,wipe,rinse,wipe,rinse,wipe,rinse. Remember on the cleaning step, don't get the floor to wet. keep your rinse water clean. changing often. easiest working on your hands and knees. small sections at a time so you can do the clean,rinse,wipe,rinse,wipe,rinse,wipe,rinse,clean,ect steps easier.


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: dnkronic]
    #24265536 - 04/23/17 04:31 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

Awesome, Thank you for the info


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: FlusH]
    #24265717 - 04/23/17 07:21 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

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Awesome, Thank you for the info




Except it's bad info.  Don't get water on your floor, it will damage it.  What I've found works best is glass cleaner.  Pretty much everything else leaves streaks.  What I do is vacuum it really good, then take my glass cleaner bottle and start from one side and work to the other side.  I stand on two bath towels and spray then shuffle along the floor to dry and clean.  Most laminate cleaners streak, the glass cleaner leaves is shinier.


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #24266864 - 04/23/17 05:44 PM (6 years, 9 months ago)

my reply says damp not wet. Your windex will take the finish off eventually. sure it works but damage in the long run. Wipe rinse wipe rinse wipe rinse (Damp cloth) No streaks.


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: NothingsChanged]
    #24271534 - 04/25/17 07:28 PM (6 years, 8 months ago)

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my reply says damp not wet. Your windex will take the finish off eventually. sure it works but damage in the long run. Wipe rinse wipe rinse wipe rinse (Damp cloth) No streaks.




Eventually?  Dude my method works tits.  Windex is garbage.  I use Clorox Green works brand that shit cleans anything.  Eventually you will wear the finish off of laminate flooring, but not with that stuff.  The reason you have to rinse that many times is because you are using a shit product.  Five times?  Seriously?

Oh well I've had many laminate floors even with pigs of tenants, and my method works tits.  Maybe you are even more piggy than my tenant, in which case keep rinsing lol.


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #24272102 - 04/26/17 12:51 AM (6 years, 8 months ago)

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my reply says damp not wet. Your windex will take the finish off eventually. sure it works but damage in the long run. Wipe rinse wipe rinse wipe rinse (Damp cloth) No streaks.




Eventually?  Dude my method works tits.  Windex is garbage.  I use Clorox Green works brand that shit cleans anything.  Eventually you will wear the finish off of laminate flooring, but not with that stuff.  The reason you have to rinse that many times is because you are using a shit product.  Five times?  Seriously?

Oh well I've had many laminate floors even with pigs of tenants, and my method works tits.  Maybe you are even more piggy than my tenant, in which case keep rinsing lol.



Laminate is garbage in the first place. engineered wood is the way to go if you don't want to deal with the height difference at some transitions using real hardwood flooring.


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: NothingsChanged]
    #24272590 - 04/26/17 08:58 AM (6 years, 8 months ago)

I'm not sure what OP is describing.  I usually go brilliant maple at 1.49 a s.f. and it has worked well it looks good and holds up pretty well.  I did a real hardwood floor with the Bruce pre-finished hardwood, hickory, that looks great.  I think I paid 3.49 a s.f.  A lot harder to install, that's for sure. 

Let's hope you don't clean real wood the way you apparently clean laminate.  Your "damp cloth" wash 4x and rinse 4x method is garbage.


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Re: engineered hardwood floor cleaning [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #24276811 - 04/27/17 06:17 PM (6 years, 8 months ago)

It definitely is a luxury snaplock flooring with a thin layer of wood on top making it look like real hardwood floor.  What happened was in my kid's bedroom the rubber feet scuffed up the floor where I just cannot get the scuffing off with elbow grease. 

I got a bottle of Mannington Award Series Rinse-Free Cleaner, found some locally.  It worked well, but didnt help with the scuffing. 

I wasnt sure if borrowing the floor buffer from the local school would help ( Im friends with the janitor ) or if it would just mess up the flooring.  Ive used the buffer on linoleum successfully before


At any rate, I give up the apartment on the 30th of this month,  the lady I was renting from doesnt sound too concerned when we looked at it together.


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