After I made a comment on Facebook about the Winter Olympics and Curling … that I just couldn’t get into it (although my husband loves it!), my friend Jennifer commented:
Every time I see it I think I need to invite them to my house to clean my kitchen floor!
So true! My husband and I laughed as we read her comment. Which reminds me, I’d love to hear how you clean your kitchen floor?
Do you mop it?
Wash by hand?
Use a Swiffer?
Would you be willing to share your tips?
I have new hardwood floors and it’s hard to stay on top of them.
I’d really like a ROOMBA!
Have you heard of or do you have a ROOMBA?
(Thanks Jennifer, for humoring us!)
The winner to the Kelly Anderson Art Giveaway is Chris Ann from Love Feast Table. You MUST check out her incredible blog (she blogs along with her sister Kristin!), as these girls are True Hospitality Sisters at heart. Congrats Chris Ann!
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My new fave is my Shark Steam mop! I had serious doubts about it until one of my girlfriends sang its praises, so I bought one thinking, I’ll just return it. No deal! It is great!! (And it is safe on wood floors:))
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Sandy Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 7:14 am
I’ll have to check out the Shark’s Steam Mop! Thanks, Annie!
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I wash it on my hands and knees after vacuuming it first. The kitchen floor turns into our back hallway w/half bath and laundry room too so I actually break the washing of the floor down into two or three days to save my back.
Our flooring is old so it tends to get dirty fast. Someday!!!!
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We swiffer our floors, but only because our floors is old and icky and need to be replaced.
Curling? I think it’s silly, but my 9-year old loves it.
Roomba? Don’t have one, but really really want one.
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Curling makes me giggle but my grandfather is from Canada and was a hockey player so I find it interesting in that regards. My floors are less interesting, tile and still scrubbing on my hands and knees. It seems to be what does the best job for us. Laurie@DomesticProductions15.com
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I have to second Annie on the Shark steam mop. I LOVE mine. Love love LOVE it!
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Sandy Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 7:16 am
Janice, thanks — I’ll have to check it out!
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I love my wood floors and find them much easier to care for than the stone tiles we previous had in this house. Two separate wood floor installers have told me to use this routine to care for the floors: 1. Dust mop daily. Dust/grit will wear the finish. 2. Vacuum if needed and a dust mop isn’t sufficient. 3. Wipe up “spots” as they are noticed using a damp rag 4. Mop ONLY when the floors are truly dirty, not just dusty. And then, use warm (not hot) water with a dash of white vinegar. (No need to “rinse.”) I’ve followed these instructions on wood floors in three separate homes and my floors have always looked lovely. One of the same gentlemen also said to treat scratches quickly as the wood is exposed and vulnerable to water, dirt, etc. He said to purchase a stain pen that matches the floor color and cover the scratch with the stain. Then, rub a little clear paste wax into the scracth -on the scratch only – if you do a wider spot, the difference in finish will show and that spot will become as slick as ice.
Hope this helps!
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Sandy Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Awesome! Thank you!
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I have the Roomba for my carpet, but I also have a Scooba for my wood floors. I love it. I reviewed it here: http://www.vitafamiliae.com/?p=779
The short version is: it’s not as efficient at mopping because it takes 30 minutes to do my kitchen. BUT, it does a much better job, using only clean water (not pushing dirty water around like I do with a mop) and it’s work I don’t have to do. For a busy mom who needs a nap every day, I just set the Scooba up during nap time and when we all get up, the kitchen is clean. Can’t beat that.
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The best way to clean hardwood floors (my family ownes a hardwood flooring business) is with vinegar and water. NO chemicals! It is cheap and will leave your floor sparkling clean.
I am a hands, knees, bucket of water floor cleaner! It just feels cleaner that way.
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I use my feet!!
I have old vinyl floors still. Gross and a Swiffer just doesn’t have enough friction. I use a Swiffer Wet pad, stand on it barefoot and scrub my way around the room. It’s a small kitchen, but it works WAY better than a mop (and easier on the shoulders and back!)
(Word of advice: Tried using two swiffer wet pads once to speed things up – one on each foot – and ended up doing the splits. I was pregnant at the time. FAIL.)
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Sandy Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 10:48 am
That last part is too funny!
Well, maybe not!
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Adelle @ ready...GO!...get set Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Funny stupid, funny painful, funny learned-a-good-lesson…yes! : )
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I have the I ROBOT pet series. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it for everyday sweeping on my hardwoods! SERIOUSLY changed my life! We just push the button and let it go. it picks up every dust bunny, crumb, and dog hair in the house. I highly recommend it for a busy mom! I really want to try the SCOOBA!
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I also use the Shark Steam Mop! It’s great.
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Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!!!!!!! I am quoted on 4RE!!!!!!! I am soooooo going to print this and put it in my scrapbook!!!
Seriously, I’m glad you got a kick out of that. I wish they could come to our house today, my kitchen floors could really use a good scrubbing, and hey, they aren’t that busy anymore, right?
I want so badly to buy a steam cleaner, I’m saving up my spare change for one.
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I think you have the same manchurian (sp?) walnut as I do. And I clean them by paying my housekeeper to use murphy’s oil soap diluted in water with a soft mop. ha!
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I have a Roomba. Her name is Rosie. I love her.
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We have a Roomba at work. After about 2 months, it got confused and would sit in a corner, whirring but not moving. Sometimes it doesn’t pick up the debris very well. Just our experience!
I have hardwood floors all over my house. I vacuum first, then use Bona, a lovely floor system that you can find almost anywhere. I started using it after I asked my friend what she used to get sucn shiny floors.
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I clean my kitchen floor by sweeping and the scrubbing on hands and knees! It’s hard work, but I like the results.
Cheers!
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One word. Norwex. LOVe their antibac microfiber cloths- No chemicals! Just discovered them about 4 months ago- think they’re site is norwex.ca From Norway. I use their microfiber mop- kinda like a swiffer handle but only uses hot water and does a much better job on my laminate wood- no streaks too!
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Mop, sweep, wash by hand in the yucky spots when I’m too lazy to mop. We’ve got a hairy dog so daily sweeping is a must! (Bummer!) My brother has a roomba, he calls it “Rosie” like Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons-I’d love a rosie!
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the vacuum swiffer is my friend! especially after a haircutting session. Kelly
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Our friend took a long term consulting job in Los Angeles. The company he worked for put him in a high rise loft apartment. He loved it, except for the mass of dusty wood floors. So, he bought a romba and timed it to go off while he was at work. He would come home to clean floors every day after work. Now I want one! Except I would have mine go off at night so I would wake up to clean floors.
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I would love to have one of those vaccums that runs all by itself!!!
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we vacuum almost every day, never sweep. we use murphy’s oil soap & mop with old fashioned rag mop that wrings out to almost dry & we clean up any spills as quickly as possible.
also – we keep a basket by the front door & everyone knows to put their shoes in it.
your floor looks beautiful.
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I used to and still do sometimes use vinegar and water on my floors. Wood and cement! Now I usually just use a mop but get down on my hands and knees in my kitchen when something gets in the grooves of our stamped concrete.
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I have brick floors. I sweep and vaccuum only. They always look good- cant tell they are dirty at all. Love the brick floors.
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Yes I have a Roomba and it changed my life! Altough it’s broken right now, so our lives are miserable again…
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Sandy~ Yeah! I’m so excited to have won the beautiful art work!! Thanks for your kind words about us! (I have to tell you though my blogging partner Kristin and I are not literally sisters…but sisters in the heart!) Very fun to have won the art work….it will remind me always of the fun year of meeting you at Blissdom, the adventure of blogging and this journey, and the inspiration of creating! Thanks bunches! ~Chris Ann
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I tried one of those steamers but our wood floors are the glue down type and I noticed the glue was coming up through the seams! My wood floors are not so bad but my stone tile floors in the kitchen are the bain of my existence! I hate them they are so hard to clean because of the pockets in the stone they just gather dirt and yuckiness! My husband loves them (although he doesn’t have to clean them) and it looks like I’m stuck with the hands and knees approach. It’s the only thing that works.
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