- Never flood the floor with water.
- Use a damp cloth to blot up spills as soon as they happen including pet urine.
- Do not use steam machines on your Tapestry floor.
- Never use any type of buffing or polishing machine.
- Dust, sweep, or vacuum the floor regularly with the hard floor attachment ( not the beater bar) to prevent accumulation of dirt and grit that can scratch or dull the floor finish.
- Do not use abrasive cleaners, steel wool, or scouring powder as these may scratch your floor.
- Occasionally, clean the floor with the Bona laminate floor cleaner. Use the Bona spray bottle and a clean cotton cloth. Be sure to change the cloth often and clean in different directions.
- Do not wash or wet mop floor with soap, water, oil-based detergent, or any liquid cleaning material. This could cause swelling, warping, delamination, and joint separation that is not covered under warranty.
- Place protective pads beneath furniture legs and feet to reduce scratches and denting. Replace when needed.
- Make certain furniture casters are clean and operate properly, and are at least 2” in continuous width. (3” may be needed for heavy fixtures or persons over 250 lbs.)
- Rolling office chairs may damage your laminate floors, a plastic floor protector is required
- Commercial partitions, racking, and chairs will need felt or floor protectors in commercial applications.
- Keep your pets’ nails trimmed to prevent them from scratching your new floor.
- Juice, wine, grease, and chocolate should be removed with a solution of clear non-sudsy ammonia based cleaner in one gallon of warm water and spot cleaned with clean white cloth.
- Shoe Polish, pain, crayon, ink, tar, lipstick, nail polish, or dried foods should be removed with damp rag of nail polish remover and spot cleaned with clean white cloth.
