How to wash the floor after repair from whitewashing?

Very often after cosmetic or major repairs, all surfaces of the room are covered with a layer of lime dust and whitewash spots, even if all protective measures were taken using polyethylene and newspapers. No matter how you try to carefully and carefully carry out repair work, it will not be possible to avoid contamination of surfaces, especially the floor. The most difficult thing is to wash whitewash from the floor without whitewash - without special improvised means to restore the cleanliness of the floor is quite problematic. Today, having gathered together the experience of masters and the worldly wisdom of our ancestors, we decided to share with you the secrets of cleanliness and tell you how to wash the floor after repair from whitewashing.

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How to clean the floor after repair?

How to wash floors and door after repair from whitewashing or putty? After repairs, traces of plaster, whitewashing, painting, various construction debris and dust remain on the floor. All these impurities leave permanent marks and stains on the surface that must be removed.

How to wash off whitewash stains? For high-quality cleaning of the floor surface, you must go through three main stages:

• Remove global pollution (main trash). The first wash of the surface is carried out with clean, warm water. After the main waste has been removed, stubborn stains and dirt become more clearly visible.
• To clear surfaces of spots of glue, hard putty and paint. Use a plastic spatula and solvent to work. For each floor covering, choose the product individually.

Important! In order not to spoil the surface of the floor, treat only the dirt itself with the product, without touching the area around it.

• Eliminate residues of dirt and applied products. Final clean the floor with cool water.

Means from various mortars:

• If it is necessary to remove paint stains from the painted surface, then use alcohol. Dampen a cotton pad in the product and apply to the stain. After a few minutes, gently scrape away the dirt with a plastic spatula.
• After painting, wash the floor with mortar. ammonia (1 tbsp.spoon of alcohol per 1 liter of water). Rinse off any dirt with the prepared solution.
• If you want to restore the shine to the wooden floor, then go over the surface with a cloth dipped in linseed oil.

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How to clean the floor from whitewash without streaks?

In practice, washing white stains is quite problematic. In order to effectively clean the surface, it is often necessary to change the water, thoroughly rinse a rag (mop) and use special folk remedies. We will tell about how to wash lime off the floor after repair using improvised means below.

Salt and vinegar

To wash off traces of whitewash and prevent the appearance of cloudy streaks on the surface, proceed as follows:

1. Thoroughly wash the surface of the walls and floor with warm water with the addition of dishwashing detergent (no more than 1 tbsp.spoon in a basin of water).
2. Collect clean water in the floor washing container and add 5 tbsp. tablespoons of salt. Wipe the surface with brine. Salt water does a great job with pollution.
3. Add 0.5 cups of 3% vinegar to the finished solution and repeat the floor cleaning procedure.
4. Wipe the surface with clean water, dry.

Important! If the area of ​​the room is large or the pollution is too serious, then change the salt solution to a new one several times.

Vegetable oil and vinegar

Vegetable oil in a solution for mopping will help remove dry whitewash without much effort. Proceed as follows:

1. Dissolve vegetable oil in warm water (1 teaspoon of the product per 1 liter of water).
2. Wash the surface with a solution. If necessary, change the water several times.
3. Add vinegar (100 ml of product to a bucket of water) in clean cool water.
4. Rinse the floor with the prepared solution.
5. Wipe the surface with clean water and let dry, providing good access to fresh air in the room.

Important! Vinegar can be replaced with the chlorine-based product “White”.

Potassium permanganate

A solution of potassium permanganate will not only wash off whitish spots from the surface, but also disinfect the floor.

Important! For a lacquered surface, it is better not to use this tool, since stains may remain.

For other floor surfaces, use potassium permanganate as follows:

1. In a container (basin or bucket) with lukewarm water, gradually pour the crystals of the product until the water turns a bright crimson color.
2. Wipe the surface with the prepared solution.
3. Wipe the floor clean with clean water and wipe it dry.

Important! It is better to use this tool on dark coatings, in order to avoid staining the light floor.

Kerosene Against Persistent Stains

If you do not know how to wash the plaster from the floor, when it has already managed to dry well, then use kerosene:

1. In a bucket of water, add a few tablespoons of kerosene (for 5 liters - 150 g of the product). With severe contamination, the volume of the active component can be increased.
2. Wash the surface thoroughly with a solution. Places with dried putty (whitewash) should be treated with a sponge dipped in kerosene.
3. Wipe the floors with clean water and a glass of vinegar several times to eliminate the unpleasant smell of kerosene.
4. Open the windows in the room, allow the treated surface to dry.

Universal cleaners

Many owners prefer to use universal cleaners to clean surfaces after repairs. In household chemical stores, there are plenty of drugs that can cope with any pollution.

Effectively removes dried whitewash Domestos Pine Fresh:

1. Dilute the product in containers with water (2 tbsp.spoons of “Domestos” in 5 liters of water).
2. Wipe the surface with the prepared solution.
3. Wipe a clean surface several times with clean water.

Floor detergents

If the contaminants are minor, then they can be removed with the simplest detergents:

• "Mister Muscle".
• "Mister proper".
• "Gloss".
• “Deterdek.” It is a universal fluid that removes all building stains.

Use the selected remedy as follows:

1. Dilute the drug according to the instructions in water (1: 5 or 1:10). The proportions of the components in the solution depend on the degree of contamination of the coating.
2. Foam the solution, apply it to the surface.
3. Rinse the floor thoroughly with clean water. Repeat if necessary.

An additional plus of using detergents is an atmosphere of freshness and a pleasant smell after cleaning.

Important! Use and specialized tools designed specifically to remove whitish traces of whitewash after repair. The main thing - do not violate the recommended dosages and adhere to the sequence of actions described in the instructions.

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How to clean the floor, depending on the coating material?

There are many materials used as floor coverings - wood, parquet, laminate, linoleum, ceramic tile. Each material has its own characteristics and needs special care. Consider some features of flooring materials and tell you how to clean the floor from whitewash, what means to use in each case.

Wood

Wooden floors need constant care, so you need to know not only how to clean them from whitewash, but also how to preserve the pristine beauty of an elite wooden coating.

In order to effectively clean the wood flooring, use the safe method:

1. Type in a container of warm water, add ammonia or vinegar to it at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon of funds per 1 liter of water.
2. Wipe the surface with a solution 2 times.
3. After the wood has dried, cover it with a thin layer of linseed oil.

Important! If paint has faded in some areas, treat problem areas with mastic for parquet.

Parquet

If the parquet base is not varnished, then it is necessary to wash such floors no more than 1-2 times a year, because the capricious kind of flooring does not like water. To wash this floor from whitewash, use vegetable oil and vinegar:

• Remove most dirt with a soft cloth and cool, clean water. Squeeze the rag out and go over the surface.

Important! Move from the far wall to the exit so as not to stomp on an already clean washed place. Debris from the floor surface can also be collected with a vacuum cleaner with a special parquet nozzle.

• Dissolve vegetable oil in a ratio of 100: 1 in cool water. Prepare the parquet with the prepared solution, and it will be easy for you to wash the surface from whitewashing.
• Wipe the floor with a weak solution of vinegar.
• At the final stage of cleaning, wipe the parquet with the special Parquet wash & shine (100 ml of the product per 10 liters of warm water). After this treatment, the parquet will be covered with a protective film and will shine.

Advice:

• If spots of paint got on the parquet during the repair, then use ordinary baby cream, cologne or alcohol to remove them. Put the selected funds on a cotton pad and put on a stain (for 1-2 minutes). The paint will get wet, and it can be easily removed from the floor. After cleaning, wipe off any remaining dirt with a damp cloth, and rub the surface with wax.
• When cleaning parquet from complex contaminants, use only mild formulations: white spirit, methyl alcohol, kerosene.

Important! Do not use rough tools to clean the floor - brushes, scrapers, abrasive products or strong solvents.

Linoleum

For washing linoleum, a warm soapy solution is best suited. Use the following coating care tips:

• For washing linoleum, you can use laundry soap, table salt and vinegar, vegetable oil, a solution of potassium permanganate. Never use aggressive agents such as gasoline, turpentine, ammonia to clean the material.
• Do not rub the contaminated places on linoleum with soda, because after such a treatment the material will quickly fade in the sun.
• To restore gloss to the coating at the final stage of cleaning, rub the surface with special mastic for linoleum. For this purpose, drying oil and linseed oil are also suitable. Treat linoleum with a cloth moistened with drying oil, and then rub the surface with an old woolen sock.

Important! Linoleum can be cleaned with a washing vacuum cleaner, since the material is not afraid of moisture.

Laminate

Strong flooring is characterized by heat resistance, resistance to stress, impact resistance. Such advantages are provided by a special upper layer impregnated with a special composition. Despite all the advantages, the laminate requires competent care and respect.

When cleaning after repair, it is very important not to damage the upper protective layer. Laminate is not very afraid of moisture, but you should not overdo it. To clean the laminate, you can use folk recipes using vinegar (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water), sunflower oil and vinegar, saline. We talked about these cleaning methods above. At the final stage of cleaning the laminate, use the special Laminate wash & shine. The use of this tool will not only wash various impurities, but also give the laminate a shine, and fill the room with a delicate aroma.

Advice:

• To protect the surface from dirt and dust during the repair work, free the work space from furniture and other things to the maximum, wrap all things in stretch film, and cover the floor with plastic film, fixing it on the baseboards with masking tape.Instead of film, you can use newspapers, laying them in 2 layers.
• During glass repair, pre-treat with concentrated soapy water so that after completion of construction work they can be easily washed.

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Protect the floor and protect it before and during repairs so that cleaning does not take too much time. We hope that our tips and tricks have helped you preserve the pristine beautiful appearance of the floor covering after repair work.