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Woodcare general instructions
Lacquered Flooring
If you have chosen a lacquered floor, it has to remain beautiful for a long time. For ongoing maintenance, make sure you use the appropriate products as advised by your retailer.
We advise the following:
- Protect chair and furniture legs using felt or other suitable products.
- Avoid the introduction of sand and dirt from outside by placing a floormat at door.
- Daily maintenance is done by wiping or vacuuming. Surplus water must be avoided.
- Remove dirt and stains with a gentle detergent and damp (not wet) sponge.
NEVER USE AGGRESSIVE DETERGENTS OR PRODUCTS CONTAINING AMMONIA OR SILICONES.
Pre-oiled Solid Wood Flooring
If you have chosen a pre-oiled floor, you have made an environmental choice. Nowadays it's friendly to treat wooden floors with vegetable oil. In Scandinavia it is a long used and very successful method of finishing. Oiled floors have an extremely natural appearance. There are two types oil natural and white. The natural oil enhances the natural structure of the wood and the white oil gives a transparent and limed appearance. Your pre-oiled floor has to be maintained in an appropriate way, by means of soaping.
Daily Maintenance with TRIP TRAP soap Natural or White
Before soaping, ensure your floor is clean:
- Dissolve soap into warm water (not hot). Solution 1/40. Wash the floor lengthways, using a damp floormop.
- Always work with 2 buckets, 1 with soap water 1 with clean water to rinse your mop.
- Leave the soap solution briefly on the surface of the wood in order to dissolve heavy dirt.
- Regular washing with soap makes the floor highly resistant to dirt. When you use the white soap, make sure that it is applied equally onto your floor.
NEVER CLEAN YOUR OILED FLOOR WITH ONLY CLEAN WATER
Special Cleaning with TRIP TRAP Intensive Wood Cleaner
Typically once a year in private homes, you have to give your floor a special cleaning. This special cleaning removes dirt and stains very effectively.
- Use a solution 1/20 or 1/40 depending on how dirty the floor is.
- Apply to floor and leave for approximately 10 minutes. Scrubbing may be necessary
- Always work with 2 buckets as above. Afterwards rinse with clean water.
- Let your floor dry for between 4 to 8 hours.
TRIP TRAP Maintenance Oil Natural or White
After cleaning with intensive wood cleaner, your floor need maintenance oil-this makes the floor more resistant and easier to clean.
- The concentrated maintenance oil, is applied with an acid proof rubber squeegee, scrubber, pad or cotton cloth. For large areas a polishing machine can be used. Ensure the maintenance oil is polished well into the floor. Polishing must continue until the wood is saturated with oil and the floor appears silky mat and all excess oil has been removed.
- If a polishing machine has been used, the floor is ready for use immediately after application. If the oil has been applied manually, the floor should be left for at least 4 hours before use.
- After 24 hours the oil has cured and before this time no water must reach the floor. Please avoid if possible, walking on before this time.
Warning
Avoid all skin contact:
There is a risk of self-ignition:(Textiles)
Dispose of cloths by burning or wash cloths carefully in water and air-dry.
Afterwards you can start again with the daily or weekly maintenance with soap.
