Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Southaven, MS
The soil in DeSoto County is loess, a wind-blown silt so fine it behaves more like flour than like dirt, and it gets into a house through gaps you did not know you had.
The bluff country along this side of the Mississippi is capped with loess, deposited by wind at the end of the last ice age and tens of feet deep in places. It is why the bluffs stand up in vertical faces and why the roadcuts around here look the way they do.
It is also the single finest-grained soil most people will ever live on. Individual particles are far smaller than sand, which changes everything about where it goes and what it does when it gets there.
Why Fine Is Worse Than Coarse
A grain of sand sits on top of a floor finish and gets swept away. Loess silt is small enough to settle into the texture of the finish itself, into every bevel, and into the micro-scratches already present. A vacuum riding on the surface passes over most of it. That is the source of the complaint we hear constantly here, which is a floor that looks dusty again within a day of being cleaned.
What It Does When It Gets Wet
Loess holds water and turns slick, and on a floor that means damp mopping produces a thin slurry that spreads into the seams and dries there. Repeat that weekly and the seam lines on a prefinished floor go gray and stay gray while the boards themselves still look clean. Getting that out needs suspension and recovery, which is a different process from wiping.
Where It Comes From
Everywhere, and especially anywhere the ground is disturbed. New construction, a graded lot, a bare patch under a swing set, and the shoulder of any road being worked on. Southaven has had a construction site somewhere in it continuously for thirty years, and fine silt travels a long way on wind.
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 Southaven
Get the crew on 662-932-3313, or set the date yourself online. $50 off the first job.
Areas we cover around Southaven
Neighborhoods: Snowden, Church Road, Stateline, Tchulahoma, Getwell, Star Landing, Rasco, Swinnea, Airways, Northwest Southaven, Central Southaven, Cherry Valley
Zip codes: 38671, 38672
Hardwood questions from Southaven homeowners
Would a better vacuum solve it?
A vacuum with a sealed system and a good filter helps, mostly by not blowing the fine fraction back into the room, which cheap vacuums do. It will still not reach what is down in the finish texture and the bevels.
Is the dust actually damaging the floor?
Loess contains quartz, so yes, it abrades. It is gentler per particle than sand and there is a great deal more of it, and the net effect over years is a floor that goes flat in the walking lanes.
How often is realistic here?
Annually for the main level in most Southaven houses, and twice a year for the entry and kitchen in a household with a lot of coming and going.
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