1. Use dish soap for deeper dirt. Mix up your standard apple cider vinegar solution, but this time add a tablespoon of dish soap. The soap should help lift dirt that’s embedded in the floor. Use a mop made with nylon scrub bristles for deeper cleaning.
2. Remove scuffs with oil or WD-40. Vinyl flooring is infamous for getting scuffed, but luckily there’s an easy way to remove them. Place jojoba oil or WD-40 on a soft cloth, and use it to rub the scuff marks. If the scuffs are simply on the surface of the floor, they’ll rub right off.
Scratches are deeper than scuffs, and they won’t just rub away. You can clean the scratches so they’re less noticeable, but if you want to get rid of the scratches entirely, you’ll just have to replace the individual tiles they’re on.
3. Use a baking soda paste on stains. Mix baking soda with enough water to make a thick paste, and use a soft cloth to rub it over stains from food, like wine or berry juice. The baking soda is slightly abrasive and should take the stains right up.
4. Try rubbing alcohol for makeup or ink stains. Dab a soft cloth in rubbing alcohol and rub it over bathroom stains from makeup and other pigmented items. The alcohol will lift the stains from the vinyl without damaging it.
To remove fingernail polish, try using acetone-free fingernail polish remover. Don’t use polish remover that contains acetone, since this can damage vinyl.
5. Scrub with a soft nylon brush. If there’s a tricky stain that won’t come up with a soft cloth, you can scrub with a soft nylon brush. Make sure you don’t use a stiff-bristled brush, since it could leave scratches on your floor.
Rinse with clean water to remove residue. After you’ve cleaned all the stains away, rinse the floor so the residue doesn’t sit there. Soap and other substances that build up on the surface of the floor will damage it over time.
Post time: Jun-22-2018