| Waxing Wood Floors Information |
Cleaning with solvent-based liquid wax leaves a thin wax coat on floor. Paste wax may be used to clean floor if not too dirty (has less solvent than liquid wax), and will provide more wax protection. A thin coat should be applied and buffed thoroughly with electric polisher; unpolished wax is smeary and slippery. Always polish with grain of wood.
In between waxings, floors can be re-buffed with polisher to renew shine. Heavy traffic areas that look dull can be renewed by rewaxing those parts of the floor.
This article was written by Anne Field, Extension Specialist, Emeritus with references from Finishing & Maintaining Wood Floors North Central Regional bulletin, Purdue Extension and the U.S. Forest Service.
MSU 2003
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