How to clean laminate flooring?

ClubDead

Sorry if this is the wrong place....
I've had laminate flooring in the past and unintentionally treated it poorly. I thought it could be cleaned with soapy water and a mop (like tiles), surprisingly it survived my abuse quite well.
However, now I'm in a new house with a new floor and I want to do things right. The advice seems to be to vacuum and never use water. Even if people take their shoes off at the door it'll still need to be cleaned..... And I've a dog, she not a mucky type of dog, but still....
How to you correctly clean laminate flooring without damaging it?

Call me Al

Personally I just hoover mine as often as needed. And whilst I do wash it I do my best to not have water sitting on it for any length of time. I discourage my own kids from wearing shoes indoors as much as possible. And we don't have a dog so my life may be a little easier than yours!

I have a vileda flat cloth mop. But I try not to wash too often. And where possible I go around with a drying cloth on the mophead afterwards.
HTH

tcif

I don't know if it would be considered the correct way but we use a dry flat head microfibre mop and a spray bottle of water mixed with wooden/laminate floor cleaner that just puts out a fine mist so very little moisture. If the mop head gets too damp as you go, get a fresh one. Floors are clean and dry in seconds and none the worse for wear so far (after many years for laminate and semi-solid).

ClubDead

Both are great suggestions, thank you

H3llR4iser

I guess you come from a warm country OP, in the Mediterranean maybe? It's a classic - we kinda freak out when we first realize you don't just "wash the floors" with laminate / wooden ones, as we used to do with the tiles

As for how to proceed, there are indeed specific products as others suggested - some come directly in spray bottles. A microfibre mop and you're done - if you really want to be "anal", have two mops and use the second one to dry off any resuidue

Wheety

We just use floor wipes. Either down on our knees or you can get mops which hold the wipes.

ClubDead

H3llR4iser wrote: »

I guess you come from a warm country OP, in the Mediterranean maybe? It's a classic - we kinda freak out when we first realize you don't just "wash the floors" with laminate / wooden ones, as we used to do with the tiles

As for how to proceed, there are indeed specific products as others suggested - some come directly in spray bottles. A microfibre mop and you're done - if you really want to be "anal", have two mops and use the second one to dry off any resuidue

No, I'm Irish....just a germaphobe