Today’s homes feature many beautiful surfaces from carpet and area rugs to tile or stone floors. Wood floors are one of the most popular choices homeowners choose for their durability and long-lasting beauty. Chem-Dry offers industry-leading cleaning services for your entire home, including our Wood Floor Cleaning Process that combines cleaning, sanitizing and polishing to provide a deep clean and renew the beautiful look of your wood floors.
Wood floors need regular maintenance to maintain their beauty and durability. Our Wood Floor Cleaning Process is specifically designed for solid hardwood and engineered wood floors as well as luxury vinyl tile (LVT) type flooring. Like other surfaces that see regular use, dirt, grime and debris build up over time that can damage wood floors as well as allergens and bacteria that can compromise home and family healthy. The Chem-Dry Wood Floor Cleaning Process offers many benefits including:
There are dozens of home cleaning solutions and retail products designed to clean hardwood floors. While these products can provide short-term results, they can also cause unseen damage and allow residue, dirt and grime to build-up over time. A periodic professional Wood Floor Cleaning is the best solution to protect and enhance your floors.
The comparison below highlights the benefits of our Wood Floor Cleaning Process over doing it yourself at home:
Chem-Dry Wood Floor Cleaning | DIY Mopping | |
Uses a green-certified cleaner, safe for people & pets | Uses soaps and detergents, which can contain harmful chemicals | |
Industry-leading equipment with counter-rotating brushes that penetrate the grain of the wood | Wet mop skims across the surface of the wood floor | |
Provides deeper clean that removes dirt, grime & allergens from in the wood grain | Surface cleaning that doesn’t penetrate wood grain | |
Uses minimal water, protecting the wood from damage | Uses a lot of water that can soak into wood and cause damage such as buckling | |
Powerful vacuum extracts moisture along with dirt and contaminants from your floors & home | Mop soaks up some dirt and contaminants but also spreads it around floor and doesn’t extract it from home | |
Sanitizer removes bacteria & germs from surface and wood grain, leaving home healthier | Sanitizer can remove bacteria from surface but germs remaining in wood grain can rise to surface | |
Uses durable polish that leaves a protective barrier and healthy shine | Can apply polish that typically won’t last long or provide much protection against damage |