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I Have a cleaning business and it is my job to know surfaces and floors.
This is what not to use on your floors
Vinegar here is why it is a acetic acid. Wood workers use this to bleach wood. It is a acid that has water in it. When you mop yor wood floors with this it will start damaging the finish. It will dull it and when it gets to the wood and it will it will damage it and discolor it.
Wood soap. Wood soap is made from vegetables. And oil. You add this soap to water and when you mop it will dry and leave a oily residue that will build up and dull the shine. Which is heck to get off. Ask any wood worker.
There are many different wood floors today and they are very very expensive.
Using steam cleaners is also a no no. You are forcing hot steamy water on your finish. And when this gets down to the wood it will have a effect like paper being wet.
You absolutely need to know what kind of floors and finish you have.
Using a finger nail if you have wood floors scrape it. If a waxy finish comes off it is treated with a wax. If nothing comes off it is a polyerthene finish.
With polyerthene finish if they are the newer wood floors you need to use what the manufactors recommends. You need to make sure what ever you use is what they recommend or they will void your warrenty. A lot of manufactors track this. It is important to know. But everyone knows floors get sticky and they have to be cleaned. So what we do and yes I talk to manufactors before any surface is cleaned I don't recognize. We use a micro fiber mop. Use warm water and mop. Then dry. Drying is important because not only are you protecting the finish you want to protect the wood. If you are doing a quick clean use a spray bottle and micro fiber towel and lightly spray it. If you need a deeper clean use a PH balanced cleaner. Use warm water and micro fiber mop and lightly mop it. And dry.
A waxed floor you need to either use a paste wax or a liquid. Not the shiny wax like Mop and Glo.
Engineered Wood Flooring you absolutely need to treat this with maximum care. They have a spray and a micro fiber mop or a mop that uses is especially made for these floors. these floors have a plastic type coating on them. If you clean them wrong that beautiful finish will peel off in little plastic pieces. If it has to be mopped use a micro fiber mop. Do very small sections and dry it.
Micro Fiber mops pick up more dirt. They leave the floors streak free.
When I am ready to use mine I have a special bucket that squeezes the water out. But at home I keep a bucket with warm water and wrap several of them with rubber bands and throw them in the bucket. When I pick them up I squeeze as much water out of them as possible. And mop. I have several dry ones and a second mop which I use the dry ones to dry my wood floors. They are quick and easy to use.
There are many many people that are giving you information to clean wood floors. I suggest. If you don't have any idea how to clean your floors go directly to the manufactor. Not the sales man. Sales men don't always know the steam machines are being sold as safe and many cleaners claim they are safe on surfaces that aren't. I buy Commerical and professional products and had the sales man offer me a bathroom cleaner he told me was safe on limestone. The first ingredient on the cleaner was acid. Which can not be used. He was a sales man for a professional business and he was 100 percent wrong. So instead of using home made cleaners or advice from people who haven't a clue go to the manufactors sight. These floors are a investment and a expensive one do your home work and protect them.