what do you use to clean your kitchen floor?

seraphina

We have terracotta tiles. It gets swept almost every day and at the end of my week, I take my kitchen surface microfibre cloth and make it wet with some hot water and washing up liquid. Then I take my plastic mop that came free with one of those floor wipes mop systems from Mr Muscle or Flash or something like that (pre-OS:rotfl:), tuck my kitchen cloth in exactly as a floor wipe and then mop the floor. The cloth then goes in for a boil wash and the next week's kitchen cloths come out.

oystercatcher

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

LOL, I feel very grubby now, reading about those of you who clean your floors a couple of times a week and daily. Let's just say ours isn't cleaned anywhere near that much!

You're not alone. I think mine is mopped about once a fortnight if it's lucky!
Cleaning is so boring! I wish I could afford to pay someone to do mine .

NJW69

I have a steam mop and it's brilliant and you don't need any detergent just water. Heats up in about two minutes and the pad goes in the washer.

rosieben

greenpixie wrote: »

I don't . . . . . the cleaners do!

one of the joys of living in student halls then

I vac and mop once a week, quick wipe over in between for any spills. Only me here so its enough. At the moment I have a rag mop and so (obviously ) I use old rags/towels etc in the clip and then wash or discard them as necessary. I wring it out by hand but as that's getting difficult now I might have to explore the ones mentioned on this thread

Morty_007

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

LOL, I feel very grubby now, reading about those of you who clean your floors a couple of times a week and daily. Let's just say ours isn't cleaned anywhere near that much!

I have a stairgate across the door to stop the toddler getting in so that it doesn't need doing more than Bi monthly....:o :rotfl:
What can I say?? I'm part of the good enough club and the tired old stylers possy...

Pitlanepiglet

Morty_007 wrote: »

I have a stairgate across the door to stop the toddler getting in so that it doesn't need doing more than Bi monthly....:o :rotfl:
What can I say?? I'm part of the good enough club and the tired old stylers possy...

We've got a dog, an ongoing building project and my father who is completely incapable of wiping his feet on the way in through any door. It would be dirty as soon as I've finished, in which case I've not really achieved anything have I?! :rotfl:

SailorSam

Mine is bamboo, seems to be full of crumbs and dust all the time, so i just brush up most days. After brushing yesterday it was a case of down on my hands and knees with a bucket of soapy water and floorcloth but that only gets done every couple of weeks.
Was only thinking yesterday it really needs varnishing again, That's a once a year thing.

greenbee

SailorSam wrote: »

Mine is bamboo, seems to be full of crumbs and dust all the time, so i just brush up most days. After brushing yesterday it was a case of down on my hands and knees with a bucket of soapy water and floorcloth but that only gets done every couple of weeks.
Was only thinking yesterday it really needs varnishing again, That's a once a year thing.

I have bamboo too... mostly I hoover it, and wipe up spills with a floor cloth. when it needs a quick wash, I mop with ecover floor cleaner. When it needs a proper clean I get on my hands and knees with the floorcloth (same ecover cleaner - it has linseed in and smells lovely). I don't re-finish the floor every year though - the paperwork I have reckoned once every 5 years is enough. As I haven't done it yet... how much of a nightmare is it to do?

homeaway

Hi, most of the floors in our house are tiled. The kitchen gets hoovered and mopped a couple of times a week. The mop i use is a leifheit mop with a rectangle cloth that clips on and off and you can put it in the washing machine to wash. They last for years. I bought the special bucket that goes with it and although it was very expensive it is well worth it as i dont have to put my hands in the water. The bucket is a rectangle shape. If i dont fancy hoovering i can just run the mop over the floor and get most of the dust up . If you go to the leifheit website it is called the floor profi.

SailorSam

I don't use varnish just some sort of oil that dries in pretty quick, just brightens it up.