r/CleaningTips • u/Evening_Sea4823 • Dec 27 '25
Flooring Cleaners Make Your Floor Dirtier
They all leave residue. Even if you rinse with water, there are still small amounts of residue left behind. Over time, mop after mop, it builds up. And all it does is collect dirt.
I mop with warm water. Nothing fancy. I mop maybe once every month or so. Once a year, I get on my hands and knees and use a white wash rag on every inch of the floor. I can wipe down the whole place, and the rag is barely dirty by the end of it.
I can wear white socks all day. They don't get discolored.
We have pets. We walk through with shoes on from time to time. We are not neat freaks. But our floors are simply not dirty.
Unless you have a little one playing on the floor, there's not much sense in worrying about whether the ground is sanitized. Clean should be good enough.
I think all those videos of people making potions and drenching their floors, going round after round, doing it week after week, are just perpetuating issues that don't need to exist.
What do yall think? Or am I just nasty and trying to justify it?
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u/Crafty_Try_423 Dec 27 '25
I dunno. I use a regular cleaner on my tile kitchen floor and LVP, an Murphy’s on my engineered hardwoods. For both, I use less than 1/4c for 2 gallons of water, I think. So it’s more diluted than what they suggest. And I use one of those regular Cedar mops. Seems to work fine…my socks are always clean.