Maintain parquet floor - my review

Unfortunately, such a wooden floor is rarely freshened up with a high quality and usually expensive care oil. At least me. The reason for this is the furniture, which usually only makes room again during the renovation of the apartment or when taking it off, and shows the full splendor of the wooden floor again.

But before that a basic cleaning is recommended and necessary!

Which wooden floor do I have?

If you do not know which floor you have exactly, look at the bill. Ideally, they have picked them up.


There are sometimes vouchers that they can use for up to 15 years.

In our case, it was 15 years 1x once a year the parquet floor cleaning machine for max. 2 days to borrow. (As an orientation, how long you really need such a machine in practice: we have for a bamboo floor for 80 m2 about 5-8 hours.)

When is a pre-cleaning sufficient, when should the floor be sanded off?

If there is only a gray haze that can not be removed despite washing, a pre-cleaning with a soap-based parquet floor cleaner / cleaner is sufficient as long as they have an oiled wood floor. (1 liter is enough for 100 m2, if you clean the floor so that only wet). Then the care oil is used.


My experiences here all relate to an oiled wood floor.

If there are scratches in the floor, one should inform oneself from the specialized trade about a suitable grinding machine.

The basic cleaning:

It is helpful if you are here for two, even if you use a cleaning machine (which you can borrow in the parquet floor retail or hardware store)!


One wears the cleaner (for example Cleaner / Parquet Cleaner from Weitzer) with the mop and then the agent is allowed to act for 5 to 20 minutes depending on how dirty it is. Usually it is then depending on the temperature already dried.

In the case of the parquet floor cleaning machine, however, the floor must always be moist so that the cleaning brushes can catch the dirt and moisture in the inner container.

It is advisable, therefore always apply only a small area of ​​the cleaner / cleaner with the mop and only when you have everything clean with the machine, you make the next part.

Then you should clean the floor 2-3 times, with clean and clear water. Because through the cleaner are now fine dirt on the floor, which should be removed before the care oil treatment necessarily, otherwise they are immortalized in the wood floor.

Only when the soil cleaning water is no longer cloudy, the floor is completely cleaned.

After the basic cleaning - let the floor dry:

Depending on how the outside temperatures are, the warmer the faster the ready-cleaned soil dries up.

To be on the safe side, you can allow yourself 24 hours before starting the next step.

The processing of the care oil:

We have for 80 m2 2 liters of the maintenance oil (Satin Oil from Kährs) needed - our floor had the refresher more than necessary! Now it shines again in all its freshness and smells completely new!

The care oil is filled in the ideal case in a spray bottle, as you get in the hardware store for 1 - 2 Euros. After that, it is again sprayed only surface by surface. It is also ideal if you can work as a couple.

There are different polishing sponges in different thicknesses to apply or polish the oxidative hardening oil.

These cost around 2 euros per piece. We have for 80 m2 Used 3 pieces.

The green is the coarsest and removes dirt that should be collected.

Because the oil is curing in the air and if you would not wipe the dirt particles, you would include them on the wood surface visible.

Please do not be fooled into thinking that it's the rough side of a kitchen sponge, with such a small piece you can not do anything - just keep it and just take the sponges from the retailers. These are nice and big. (At least 2 palms big).

One sprays the care oil, the other polishes or blurs the oil with the green polishing sponge.

After a while you change your mind, because it is a strenuous but very rewarding thing to cultivate such a noble soil.

It is also useful when polishing to wear disposable gloves, because this hardening oil is very difficult to remove with water.

Also, protect the gloves from getting a spit / slate.

After applying the care oil:

Do not step on the floor for 12 hours. Now is the time to carefully polish off unsightly spots that you may have forgotten with the green sponge.

These places are best found when looking at the light against the floor.

I hope to have helped with my review and continue to wish you much joy with their wooden floor. It's worth it, also a price comparison. I have paid over 39.90 euros per liter in the retail trade for parquet floors for this satin oil.Later I saw it on Amazon at 25, -.

The investment in the expensive care oil and in the soil care is worthwhile, they will not regret it!

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