What's the best way to clean new laminate flooring?

[durango159]

Beam and Electrolux use a squared bare floor brush for their central vacs and canister using the Q, Solaire and some other power heads. I wonder if one of their bare floor brushes would fit?

This is a reason I am sketchy about buying vacuums with unusual wand styles because you become stuck with the attachments which came with that unit.

Hoover bagless canisters come with odd tools and no bare floor brush on most of them, but the hose and wands are a 1.25" standard size which will accept tools from many other vacuums including central vacuum kits.

The lime green and tangerine orange Kenmore power nozzle canisters are good machines to get because they have the standard size hose to accept a variety of other manufacturers stuff unlike the awful new bulky hose with awkward tools on many of their other canisters.

 

[vacerator]

Yes, I have one of

those squared off Beam/E-Lux floor brushes. It's a good brush, has wheels and all, but doesn't get under my leather sofa, nor my vintage 80's Thomasville dresser or armoir without getting detached from the wand. It has no air way at the front brush edge like my generic one for my central vac, or even a generic one we got from Sears many years ago.
So I mainly use it for quick pick up on area rugs along with the floors.

 

[luxlife]

"Microfiber mop for wet cleaning"

I've been using this Shark wet mop for a few years now. I added a link to it below. It's very well built, very sturdy. I've tried a few of these in the past in other brands, but they ended up leaking and having crucial parts break or come loose. The one made by Shark has available 2 types of washable microfiber pads: 1 with long strands and 1 with a shorter pile so I have something for my engineered floors and also my slate and tile. The best part about this one is that the solution tank is refillable, so I'm not forced to purchase proprietary refill cleaners, like Swiffer and Bona. Bona products are wonderful and I'd go back to a Bona spray mop again if they would make the solution bottle refillable.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/shark-pro-s...775181?hash=item281b4dcc0d:g:W70AAOSwSHZWgYQV

 

[n0oxy]

nonstandard attachments

One of my canisters is an electrolux ultra one, it also uses the nonstandard square hose end, fortunately I got an adapter for $6 that converts it to use the standard 1.25 attachments. For me, if I can't use standard attachments with a vacuum, that is an automatic deal breaker, I will not buy it. It must use standard attachments or at least have an adapter available to convert to a standard hose end

 

[trootos]

It is not a secret that any floor covering, including laminated, needs a regular and thorough cleaning. However, not any equipment or cleanser is suitable for these purposes. Can you tell me the best mop for laminate floors, which one is better to clean the laminate so it keeps its original appearance for a long time? I wish only experienced people who know what they are talking about would answer. There are too many couch analysts online now who haven’t done anything themselves.

 

[cinema]

I have several dogs and we sometimes wear shoes inside. Clean my floors often, I start with vacuuming using a parquet tool. Then wet mopping using a cloth mop. Then I finish with a steam mop, the bissell powerfresh one. I use distilled water and it leaves no streaks and I don't have to use any chemicals or soaps. I See lots of people here claiming it warps laminate... I have never experienced this. We do have laminate flooring. You can select the steam level. But I have been only using it for a year or so once a week. You can eat off the floors after I'm done with them. I would replace the steam mop with simply scrubbing the floors with washrags on your hands and knees if you're paranoid about warping them with steam. that's truly the best way.