Clean Painted Hardwood Floors

Visit one of the home improvement stores and buy a paint remover.

Clean painted hardwood floors.

Clean heavy traffic areas with a damp mop twice a month. Avoid steam mops too. They can leave residue emit harmful toxins and even over clean or strip your floor. Sweep dust or dry mop daily.

Clean with recommended hardwood floor cleaner once a month. The moisture and heat can damage the floorboards. Several solvents will remove oil based paint but mineral spirits is the strongest one you. Carefully scrape off as much of the paint as you can with a putty knife grab a rag dip it into a mix of 3 parts rubbing alcohol 1 part lemon juice.

How to remove water based paint from wood floors with rubbing alcohol. If moisture is allowed to collect on paint it will leave unsightly water marks when it dries and these can be difficult if not impossible to remove. Sand and refinish every 10 years. Certain polishes or cleaners are like poison for your floors.

Clean the floors with a dust mop or with a soft damp sponge at least twice a week being careful not to leave any water on the surface. Directly apply the paint remover on the dried paint using a cotton ball or swabs and leave the product to soak for about 15 minutes to break down the paint. Use of commercial paint removers this is a quicker way to remove dried paint off the hardwood floors. Do pick no wax water based polishes and cleaners.

Apply a fresh coat of finish every three to five years. Latex paint remover is the ideal solvent for removing latex paint but it won t work on oil based paint. Soaking a hardwood floor with a wet mop is a huge no no even if it s painted.