What am I doing wrong with my floors? Pic!

[carriedformomentlovedforlife]

My Karndean floor constantly looks like this, you can't see it as clearly in the picture as in person but I just feel like it constantly looks streaky and dirty, if you try and look beyond the pattern can you see what I mean? It just never looks clean. I mopped this morning! Help!

After mopping do you just leave it to dry? I have to shuffle over my floor with an old bath towel to dry it or I get streaks. It’s a pain.

I have black tiles in my kitchen, the only way I feel that they are really clean is if I get on my hands and knees , give it a good scrub with washing up liquid and then rub it dry. If I use my flash squirty cleaner thing , then it ends up streaky and sometimes a bit sticky.

I have LVT in hallway, the textured surface means that I have to scrub it on hands-and-knees occasionally as mopping doesn’t do enough.

I don’t understand why people like LVT so much....!

Missing the point of the thread entirely, but I really like that floor, @carriedformomentlovedforlife

(I would also shuffle over it with a old towel after mopping.)

Yes I binned off the flash mop and went to an old fashioned mop and bucket and I really put my back into it this morning hoping it would help but it didn't. I did just let it dry on it's own though so I will try and dry it tomorrow and see if it turns out better.

I was sold a dream with Karndean but it seems to scratch very easily and never look clean! You can't tell from a distance but if you look closely it's got lots of small scratches in various areas despite being less than a year old!

I have a floor buffer it's changed my life ! I have marble floor and it looks amazing every time. Highly recommend for this type of floor x

What are you using in your bucket? I found Flash to not give a particularly good finish. Ecover multi purpose is my preferred option.

@Saz12

I have LVT in hallway, the textured surface means that I have to scrub it on hands-and-knees occasionally as mopping doesn’t do enough.

I don’t understand why people like LVT so much....!

@Saz12, I bought the Aircraft powerscrub which is amazing but exhausting to use on my lvt textured flooring. (I’m selling it, it’s nearly as much work as scrubbing on hands and knees) I then got the Vax Glide which is easy to use, takes a lot longer than the powerscrub as you have to keep going over anything very dirty, but a bloody joy compared to scrubbing on my knees!

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Dunno why it’s not a clicky link 😳

@carriedformomentlovedforlife The Vax will work a treat on karndean too.

Sorry, you have to dry it after, otherwise the dirt just sticks around. I discovered this woefully late.

What I do is mop with the usual flat mop and then take off the pad and replace with a tea towel or two.

Use boiling water to mop with ;)

I find just washing up liquid in hot water pretty good for not leaving smears.

One of our rooms has bastard high shine large white tiles (WHYYYYY did i pick them?) and even they look pretty smearless with just the w up l in hot water.

@Laiste

I find just washing up liquid in hot water pretty good for not leaving smears.

One of our rooms has bastard high shine large white tiles (WHYYYYY did i pick them?) and even they look pretty smearless with just the w up l in hot water.

What ratio washing up liquid to water please, @Laiste

What mop are you using? Vileda are the best.

I don’t know if you can on that flooring, but I have shiny black kitchen floor tiles (put down by previous owners!) and for only thing that works without being streaky is a steam mop.

I just use a squirt of fairy liquid in a bowl of hot water and mop my karndean with an emop. It doesn't look smeary.

@halfpasteleven i confess i use the kitchen sink sort of half fill it with good hot water and a 'good squirt' of washing up liquid.

I have vileda mops (the blue fabric strip ones) which i keep very clean (i use a different one for toilet floor/living room/kitchen)(bit anal, i know!) and i dip and wring it out nearly all the way and mop.

When done i clean the mop head in the soapy water, rinse it under the hot tap and stand up to dry somewhere.
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Have you got the specific cleaning kit (3 bottles) for the karndean? Try using that - it strips off the layer of polish, cleans, then repolishes in a similar way to properly autoglymming your car. I always forget and use normal flash etc but it looks 100% better when I use the proprietary stuff (about once a year).

[quote Laiste]**@halfpasteleven i confess i use the kitchen sink sort of half fill it with good hot water and a 'good squirt' of washing up liquid.

I have vileda mops (the blue fabric strip ones) which i keep very clean (i use a different one for toilet floor/living room/kitchen)(bit anal, i know!) and i dip and wring it out nearly all the way and mop.

When done i clean the mop head in the soapy water, rinse it under the hot tap and stand up to dry somewhere.
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@Laiste
Thank you- I will use this ratio to tackle my bastard cream tiles
Wish me luck I'll definitely need it