Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Russellville, KY
In a house where somebody smoked indoors for thirty years, everything is coated, and the floor is the surface nobody thinks to check.
The walls and ceilings get the attention because the discoloration is obvious against white paint. Floors get overlooked because a slightly amber tint on wood reads as wood.
Tobacco smoke deposits a sticky mixture of tar and resin on every surface in a building. It is oily, it holds dirt, and it re-emits odor for years afterwards, particularly when the humidity comes up in summer.
How to Confirm It
Take a white cloth and a little warm water to a spot the furniture has always covered, then to a spot in the open, and compare. In a smoker's house the cloth from the open floor comes back yellow-brown and the protected spot comes back close to clean. It is a decisive test and it takes a minute.
Why It Behaves Unlike Ordinary Soil
Tar residue is not water soluble and it is not going to give up to a neutral cleaner. It also grips grit, so a smoker's floor generally has an abrasive layer bonded into a sticky one. That combination is why these floors go flat and stay flat regardless of how often they are cleaned with ordinary products.
What We Can Actually Achieve
On the film, a great deal. Removing it changes the color of a room and it is one of the more dramatic before and afters we do. On odor, we take out what is on the floor, which is part of the story and not the whole of it. If the walls, ceiling, ductwork, and insulation have never been addressed, the smell will still be in the house after the floor is clean and we will say so before you book.
Not sure whether your floor needs cleaning or refinishing? There are three tests you can run yourself in about a minute, and they will tell you which one you are dealing with before anyone quotes you.
Hardwood problems we handle in Russellville
Logan County is a regular run for us and the number here is 270-330-6153.
Book online any time. The first cleaning is $50 off, and on a house like this it is worth the walk-through before anything else.
Areas we cover around Russellville
Zip codes: 42276
Hardwood questions from Russellville homeowners
We just bought a house from a smoker. What order should we do things in?
Ceilings and walls first, since that work drops residue and dust onto the floor. Ductwork somewhere in there too. Floors last, once the messy jobs are finished.
Is the tint in the wood or on it?
Almost always on the finish, which is the good news. Where the finish has worn through in the lanes, some has reached the wood and that part stays.
Will the smell come back?
Not from the floor, once it is properly cleaned and coated. If it returns on humid days, the source is elsewhere in the building and chasing it through the floor will not work.
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