Question

Can you clean old hardwood floors with vinegar?

Answer 1

Yes you can clean old hardwood floors using vinegar and some warm water.

You can also mix some dawn dish soap as well as some vinegar and then the water to make a good natural hardwood floor cleaning solution.

You can also use some Pine Sol for cleaning hardwood floors which helps them shine as well as helps clean them.

To naturally clean and shine your hardwood floors you can mix a cup or two of white vinegar into a bucket of warm water.

Then take a mop and mop the hardwood floors with the vinegar and water.

The vinegar is a natural hardwood floor cleaner that will help clean and shine the wood floors without harsh chemicals.

Just be sure to dry the hardwood floors properly to prevent them from cracking and warping.

To help the hardwood floors shine even more you can polish the hardwood floors by using olive oil which is a natural hardwood floor shiner as well as being useful for just about anything else.

I shine my floors with olive oil naturally after mopping the hardwood floors with vinegar.

Answer 2

You can clean old hardwood floors with vinegar but just don't over saturate the hardwood floors and be sure to allow the hardwood floors to dry out.

The best homemade floor cleaning solution is a mixture of water, white vinegar, rubbing alcohol and dish soap.

Mix together some warm water, 1/2 cup of white vinegar, 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol and around 1/8 tsp of dish soap and mix together in a bucket.

Then use your mop to mop the floor with the homemade floor cleaning solution.

You can also use just dish soap or some vinegar to mop and clean your floors with.

If you have some stubborn grime on your floors you can also sprinkle some baking soda and put vinegar on the grime on the floor and mop the floor with the baking soda and vinegar.

A simple mixture of Dawn Dish Soap and Vinegar mixed together makes a great homemade floor cleaning solution that works just as well as most commercial floor cleaning solutions.

Simply mix one part Dawn dish soap and two parts white vinegar, in a bucket and mop the floor with the soapy mixture.

If using plain white vinegar to mop the floors with you will not need to rinse the floor.

There's no need to rinse your vinegar-mopping solution from your floors.

Keep in mind that your floors should be drying very quickly if you've wrung out your mop sufficiently.

When mopping a floor you most often need to also rinse the mop out to remove dirt before going over the floor again.

Many cleaners spray a ton of floor soap, believing "wet equals clean."

Then they forget to rinse out their mop pad, resulting in a floor mop that is fully saturated with dirty water.

Continuing to use the mop pad on the floor leads to smearing dirt, not lifting it.