I have a very large living room about 50ft long which used to be a Sunday school hall circa 1880 with a very high ceiling. The room is about to undergo decoration and all the furniture will be removed to allow a mobile tower to be maneuvered from one end of the room to the other. This will also give me the opportunity to give the floor a bit of attention and maintenance.
Two thirds of the length of the room comprises of the original 7” wide pine floorboards, with the remaining third made up of the original pine block parquet flooring. Both floorboards and parquet blocks were sealed and waxed many years ago by previous owners and I have simply added bees wax and polished with a polishing machine on about 3 occasions over the last 10 years so the floor has a rather nice dark brown patina. I’m sure however that it probably needs a bit of cleaning albeit its vacuumed every week and there’s not a huge amount of foot traffic.
What would be the correct procedure now? Do I simply clean the floor with a standard floor cleaning solution in a bucket of hot water and a ringed out mop, allow to dry and repolish with the machine ?
Or, as above plus the addition of more beeswax before repolishing with the machine?
Or should I be attempting to remove the existing polish with a specific product before applying new polish ? I think I’ve seen a floor polish remover made by Liberon but considering the size of this room it sounds very expensive and very laborious to go down this route so I would prefer to avoid it if at all possible.
I look forward to your suggestions and advice.
Two thirds of the length of the room comprises of the original 7” wide pine floorboards, with the remaining third made up of the original pine block parquet flooring. Both floorboards and parquet blocks were sealed and waxed many years ago by previous owners and I have simply added bees wax and polished with a polishing machine on about 3 occasions over the last 10 years so the floor has a rather nice dark brown patina. I’m sure however that it probably needs a bit of cleaning albeit its vacuumed every week and there’s not a huge amount of foot traffic.
What would be the correct procedure now? Do I simply clean the floor with a standard floor cleaning solution in a bucket of hot water and a ringed out mop, allow to dry and repolish with the machine ?
Or, as above plus the addition of more beeswax before repolishing with the machine?
Or should I be attempting to remove the existing polish with a specific product before applying new polish ? I think I’ve seen a floor polish remover made by Liberon but considering the size of this room it sounds very expensive and very laborious to go down this route so I would prefer to avoid it if at all possible.
I look forward to your suggestions and advice.