Vinyl Flooring Care Guide - Everything You Need To Know

Vinyl Flooring Care Guide

We want your new vinyl floor to become a design and functional feature for many years to come, to help you achieve this we have laid out the following floorcare guides. Each product in our vinyl collections features a polyurethane reinforcement (PUR) within a hard wearing surface, providing protection against everyday wear, ensuring optimum long-term performance of your floor. Furthermore, our vinyl collections do not harbour dust mites or bacteria, making them ideal for the home environment.

The benefit of proper maintenance is that it will prolong the life and appearance of your vinyl flooring, meaning you can enjoy your flooring for many years to come.

Long Term Vinyl Flooring Care and Maintenance Guide

There are a number of things to consider and put into action to ensure that your vinyl flooring’s lifetime is prolonged whether it is luxury or sheet vinyl.

For Luxury vinyl-

Initial cleaning after Installation:

• Avoid walking on the floor for at least 24 hours following completion of installation. 
• Sweep or vacuum to prevent loose dirt or grit from scratching the floor. 
• Polishing your floor can be beneficial to help prevent slight surface scratches and to provide further protection.

Day to Day Cleaning

Regularly sweep or vacuum your floor to remove loose dirt, grit or dust. It’s important to use clean mops and neutral cleaning solutions when regularly cleaning your floor. Always dilute the floor cleanser to the manufacturer’s instructions. Please ensure you mop your floor evenly and collect any excess liquid in a mop bucket.

DO:

• Install barrier mats at entrances to pick up grit and moisture. (Please note, some rubber-backed mats may discolour the floor). 
• Ensure your furniture is fitted with protective pads, where necessary, to prevent scratches. 
• Use protective cups under heavy furniture to prevent indentation. 
• Remove spillages as quickly as possible to reduce the risk of staining and causing slip hazards. 
• Always use clean equipment when maintaining your floor. 
• Regularly trim pets claws as these can cause fine scratches.

DON’T:

• Use abrasive liquids or metal scouring pads as these can damage the floor. 
• Clean the floor with solvents, caustic detergents washing up liquids, soap powders, bleach, furniture polishes, petroleum-based products, pine gels, stain removers or highly coloured products. Such products may make the floor slippery or cause permanent damage.
• Drag furniture with unprotected feet across the floor.

Regular cleaning is more beneficial to the floor covering and is more cost-effective than occasional heavy cleaning. We highly recommend using the PUREFLOR cleaning system to maintain your floor.

In addition to our LVT ranges we also want you to continue to enjoy your sheet vinyl floor covering for years to come, a regular cleaning regime is required to help keep it looking as new. Regular cleaning is more beneficial to the floor covering and more cost effective than occasional heavy cleaning.

Day to Day Cleaning

• Sweep or vacuum your floor to remove any dust and loose dirt. 
• Mop with a neutral cleanser to remove any stubborn marks.

Protection for everyday wear:

• Install barrier mats at all entrances to pick up grit and moisture (Note, some  rubber-backed mats may discolour the floor.)
• Ensure all cleaners and detergents are diluted as per the manufacturer’s   instructions. Contact Polyflor for details of approved maintenance products.
• Fit protective pads to all furniture legs to prevent scratches when moved   across the floor.
• Use protective cups under heavy furniture to prevent indentation.
• Remove spillages as quickly as possible to reduce risk of staining and   causing slip hazards.
• Regularly trim pets claws as these can cause fine scratches.

Our Cleaning Guide

PUREFLOR sets a new benchmark for Hard and Soft Surface Cleaning performance. Containing only natural ingredients in a concentrated formulation, the PUREFLOR range is pH neutral, non-toxic and removes the toughest stains by destroying organic stains, soils and odours at source.

Why Pureflor:

• Products do not contain any soap, avoiding build-up over time 
• Formulated with plant based enzymes that will not upset the natural bacteria 
• Enzymes accelerate the destruction of organic material 
• pH neutral - won’t damage surfaces • Powerful and Eco-Positive • 100% biodegradable 
• No chemical agents 
• No phosphates

HARD SURFACE CLEANER

PUREFLOR is a floor cleaner for hard surfaces around the home and office.

• Contains a soap free, multi enzyme formula designed  to destroy and break down grease, oil and food waste 
• Eliminates odours by destroying the organic matter 
• pH neutral, non-corrosive and safe for all surfaces  not harmed by water 
• Designed to discharge down drains, where the   enzyme formula will continue to attack   the grease and food waste. Septic safe

SOFT SURFACE CLEANER

PUREFLOR Soft Surface Cleaner is an all-natural, multienzyme formula designed to attack and loosen tough stains and dirt on carpet and upholstery.

• Works to destroy all organic matter, not just lift the top  layer of soil and dirt 
• Rapid penetrating action which gets deep down into  the fibres of the carpet to loosen the debris 
• Eliminates odours in the carpet by getting to the source 
• Allows odour and stain removal without damaging fibres 
• Removes a wide range of difficult organic stains, including blood, pet, urine etc

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As a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high quality, stylish, durable and low maintenance luxury vinyl flooring, you can be assured that Polyflor will offer unwavering exceptional service with stunning and high performing vinyl flooring solutions.