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Floor Cleaning Tips to Help Your Home Shine

At Maid Brigade, we understand that keeping your floors clean is certainly a chore, and some types of floors are easier to take care of than others. That’s why we’re sharing some of our best tips on green floor cleaning. Laminate floors are easy to clean with simple techniques, whereas marble and tile require a little more TLC. So, if you’re wondering about the best way to clean your floors, you’ve come to the right place. Hardwood Hardwood floors are both beautiful and enduring, especially when given the kind of care they deserve. Regular cleaning and upkeep, combined with the occasional re-coating every few years will ensure that your hardwood floors last a lifetime. While mopping, use as little liquid as possible, frequently wringing out your mop. For cleaning hardwoods, we recommend mopping your floors using a mixture of water and vinegar followed by a warm water rinse and drying your floors to remove excess moisture. Tile Tile floors are beautiful and durable, but sometimes they

Marble Floor Polishing — Frequently Asked Questions

If you have marble floors, chances are you’re wondering how to keep them in pristine shape. Unfortunately, many marble floors require professional restoration to restore them back to their former glory. For more information on marble floor polishing in Pasadena, CA, including popular questions surrounding the stone restoration services, keep reading! My marble floors look discolored. Will polishing help? When acids like vinegar or lemon juice come into contact with marble, a chemical reaction is caused that creates light, dull spots in your floor. If you are experiencing these throughout your marble floors, you need to hire a professional natural stone restoration company to provide marble polishing services. Will polishing make my dull marble floors shiny again? Marble floors can dull over time, but in most instances, they can be saved. As long as your marble floor does not have deep scratches, marble polishing should be able to restore them to an acceptable shine. If the floor is wo

Marble Polishing: Repair Dull Etched Marble

Marble polishing and etching are commonly misunderstood . Those dull "water spots" and "glass-rings" (etch marks) are baffling. And often people hold false assumptions and have incorrect ideas about how to polish marble or how marble polishing is actually performed to create a shiny surface finish. Many think that the shine or polish on marble comes from applying a potion, lotion or chemical during marble cleaning. Also, some believe that all marble is supposed to be shiny and that the dull etch marks are some type of "stain". Well, none of the above is true, but some of it is not entirely false either, which requires some explanation... here we go! It's not surprising there's confusion surrounding the topic of marble polishing since the term "polish" has a number of subtly different meanings in the stone industry. Most often what is meant by "polish", "polished" or "polishing" is in reference to the ty

Affordable Diamond Polishing Services

With an increasing number of homes and businesses looking to polished stone for their flooring solutions, the issue of cleaning and caring for them comes up more and more. Sure, stone floors are tough and hard-wearing, but they can be damaged and some staining can be tougher to remove than others, and might take specialist equipment to make it better again. Stone floors – including concrete, stone slabs and tiles and terrazzo – are enormously tough and can make any property or business look attractive and professional, and usually require little in the way of cleaning beyond wiping down with a soft damp cloth, or a little detergent for tougher, oily stains. However, should your stone flooring become scratched, or suffer from a more serious stain, such as a rust mark, then you may need to employ something that will actually abrade the surface, such as diamond polishing. While it might sound harsh and abrasive on your floors, diamond polishing is not only gentle, but can return your ston