Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Dentsville, SC
A robot vacuum runs your floor more often than you ever did, which is good, and it drags a wheel across the same six inches four hundred times a year, which is not.
Most houses we visit now have one. On the whole they are a benefit for a wood floor, because the single most damaging thing on a floor is grit and these machines take grit off daily instead of weekly.
The trouble is in the details, and they are the kind of details nobody thinks about because the machine works while you are out.
The Wheels Are the Issue, Not the Brush
Rubber drive wheels pick up hair, grit, and whatever sticky thing was on the kitchen floor, and they hold onto it. A wheel with a grain of sand embedded in it is a small abrasive tool making the same journey through the same doorway every day. The pattern that results is a faint dulled track in the doorways and along the wall the machine follows, and it is easy to mistake for ordinary foot traffic until you notice it runs where nobody walks.
The Wet Ones Are a Bigger Question
The models that mop have a tank and they apply water to a floor without any way of knowing what is under it. On a sealed floor in good condition and set to its lowest output, most are survivable. On an older floor with open seams, on engineered plank with a thin face, or anywhere the finish has thinned, they put moisture in exactly the places it does harm. If you run one, keep it off any room where a water drop soaks in instead of beading.
Getting the Best Out of It
Clean the wheels and the brush weekly, which almost nobody does. Set a no-go boundary around the perimeter of rooms with a decorative border or delicate baseboards. And treat it as your daily dust mopping, not as a proper clean, because it removes loose material and does nothing at all about the product film bonded to the finish.
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 Dentsville
Houses around Woodfield Park and off Decker tend to be single level and quick to do, so most jobs here are a morning.
Dial 803-310-3848, or use the form on the site. $50 off the first job either way.
Areas we cover around Dentsville
Neighborhoods: Decker Blvd corridor, Woodfield Park, Dentsville community
Zip codes: 29223
Hardwood questions from Dentsville homeowners
There is a dull line along the hallway where nobody walks. Is that the robot?
Very likely, particularly if it traces a wall or crosses a threshold at the same angle every run. It is shallow abrasion in the finish and it responds well to cleaning and a coat.
Should we stop using it?
No. Net, it helps. Clean the wheels, keep it off the wettest settings, and let it do the job it is good at.
Can it run after you have coated the floor?
Give it a full day, the same as furniture and rugs. After that it is fine.
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