Wax Buffing Hardwood Floors

Waxing allows you to add shine to the floor thereby brightening the room and enhancing the overall look of your home.

Wax buffing hardwood floors.

Buff the area with a soft buffing pad. Spread the wax on your hardwood floor evenly. More often than not you can improve the overall quality of your floor by polishing or buffing it rather than refinishing it completely. Buffing hardwood floors is an affordable alternative to refinishing.

Buffing pads are available at most hardware. Then re polish the area by applying hardwood floor wax with a terrycloth towel and rubbing it into the area. The liquid wax forms a thin layer that is buffed to shine the entire process of waxing a hardwood floor involves surface preparation application and buffing. Buffing wood floors removes minor scratches or scuffs and can also give your floor an attractive and lustrous shine that can last for years.

It helps to follow the grain of wood on wooden floor planks as you rub or use a. Step 2 lay the handle of the floor buffer flat on the floor and remove the nut in the middle of the pad with a wrench. Apply a small clump of paste wax with a cheesecloth or a white terrycloth rag and rub the compound into the floor. Rub the floor surface gently with a terry cloth working the cleaning product into the surface of the floor.

Mix a high quality hardwood floor cleaning compound with warm to hot water in a bucket following the recommendations on the container. Popularized in the 1940s waxing is a floor finishing technique in which clear or colored wax made of a blend of solvents and synthetic and or natural waxes like beeswax or carnauba is applied to. Dampen a clean lint free cotton cloth and dip it into the floor wax. Make sure to apply only a thin layer of wax on your hardwood floor.

Finish off by rubbing the area with a buffing pad to make it as shiny as the rest of your floor. Start on one corner of your flooring and work your way until you have covered the entire floor area. If using this technique on a floor with a penetrating finish and a small section of the wax coat gets stripped by the knife re apply a dollop of solvent based hardwood floor wax to the area with a. Your home s beauty is often defined by the appearance of your hardwood floor.

Mop the floor and let the floor dry completely. Allow the wax to dry for an hour before proceeding to the next step. Featured image via adam smigielski republica. The procedure to wax hardwood floors is a simple but time consuming process and similar to applying wax to car.