Hardwood Floor Cleaning in Kennedale, TX
Every wood floor in a Kennedale kitchen has a countdown running on it, and it ends the day the refrigerator gets replaced.
Appliances last twelve to fifteen years. Most Kennedale houses in Village Creek and around Sublett Road are well past their first set and into their second or third. Which means that at some point a delivery crew is going to walk a new refrigerator across your kitchen floor and take the old one back out over the same route.
That thirty minutes does more to a wood floor than the entire preceding decade of cooking on it.
The Three Ways It Goes Wrong
A refrigerator dragged instead of walked, which puts the full weight on the front rollers and scores two lines the length of the room. Grit trapped under a foot that gets slid. And the dishwasher, which is the quiet one, because pulling it out means dragging a steel box with sharp corners across the wood directly in front of the sink, in the wettest spot in the house, usually by somebody working fast. The dishwasher is also the appliance most likely to be replaced under time pressure, since it tends to get replaced the week it floods the kitchen.
What You Get to Ask For
Delivery crews will lay down protection if you have it ready and ask them before they start. A sheet of quarter-inch hardboard, or two, moved leapfrog fashion along the route, costs less than the deductible on anything. Have it out and leaning against the wall when they arrive. Asking after the appliance is on the dolly does not work.
The Damage That Is Not Damage
Move a refrigerator that has been in place for fourteen years and you will find a rectangle of floor a different shade from everything around it, plus a mat of dust and whatever leaked out of the ice maker line. Nine times out of ten that rectangle is not damage. It is unaged finish next to aged finish, plus film everywhere else. Cleaning the room evens it out considerably, though a long-standing color difference in the wood itself will not disappear entirely.
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 Kennedale
Have the hardboard ready before the delivery van shows up, then let us reset the room afterward.
Kennedale runs through 214-838-7852. Online scheduling is here too, and the first cleaning is $50 off.
Areas we cover around Kennedale
Neighborhoods: Village Creek, Kennedale Hills, Sublett Road area
Zip codes: 76060
Hardwood questions from Kennedale homeowners
The new appliance is a different size and does not cover the old rectangle. Now what?
Clean the room and let the surrounding floor come up to meet it. The remaining difference is ultraviolet aging in the wood, which fades in both directions over a year or two of ordinary light exposure. A rug over it in the meantime is the usual answer, moved every few weeks so you do not trade one outline for another.
There is a dark patch where the ice maker line dripped. Fixable?
Depends how far it went. Discoloration in the coating comes up. Gray or black in the wood is a reaction inside the board and no surface work reaches it, and since we do not sand or refinish, that is where we stop and say so.
Should we clean before or after the new appliance goes in?
After. Same logic as anything else that involves moving heavy objects across a floor. Get the delivery done, then book.
Do you pull appliances out to clean under them?
No. Anything plumbed, gassed, or built in stays exactly where it is. Two-person furniture we will move.
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