None. You should not use a steam-cleaner on hardwood floors. Water, and especially steam, can damage wood by swelling it at the seams, and then causing it to crack and split later. Use only cleaners approved for hardwood floors, or a window cleaner containing alcohol, or a vinegar/water solution. Mist it onto the floor or onto the head of a damp (not wet!) sponge mop or swiffer-type mop, then wipe clean.
A Shark Steam Cleaner can be used to clean hardwood floors. All of the surfaces safe to clean with the steam cleaner can be found within the instructions of the product.
There is no steam cleaner that should be used on hardwood floors. Although products claim to be safe on wood and laminate, they are not.
Under no circumstances should a steam cleaning devise be used on a hardwood or laminate floor! Steam is essentially hot water. Water will damage your beautiful wood flooring. Consumers should contact their flooring manufacturer for safe cleaning methods and products.
Hardwood should not be steam cleaned. Virtually every hardwood flooring manufacturer states that steam on a hardwood floor in time will damage it. Forcing steam down into the seams of the floor will inevitably cause moisture damage.
With the X5 steam cleaner.
The Shark Steam Mop
Using a steam cleaner on natural stone floors can damage the stone's surface by eroding the protective sealant and can cause discoloration or cracking. It is best to avoid steam cleaning and instead use a pH-neutral cleaner specifically designed for natural stone floors.
No manufacturer recommends the use of a steam cleaning device on ANY type of hard surface flooring. Consumers should contact the flooring manufacturer for cleaning and care advise for their flooring as well as for specific safe cleaning products. Steam is essentially water...water is hardwood flooring's worst enemy.
A floor steam cleaner permits one to clean all the dirt, let it be invisible or uninvisble from hard wood floors. The color of a floor steam cleaner is often white.
no, never. Steam cleaners and steam mops leave to much water on a laminate floor.
because wood and water dont mix! you should never do anything more than DAMP mop hardwood, if its that dirty get on your hands and knees and scrub it
Yes you can as long as you are not concerned about damaging the underlying floor. If the floor is old and the finish in unimportant to you, you are fine. If you are looking at steam cleaning an area rug which is on a hardwood floor, that's a definite no-no and the as the water and steam can stain or buckle the hardwood.