Anyone know how to avoid mopping laminate floor every other day?

[ilovecake]

Apart from averting my gaze from the smears? Had it down two years and regretted it every day since - it is matt which i thought would hide splashs, marks better but in kitchen / diner it is a nightmare and can't afford to replace it - and DH would have pink fit if suggested it as he spent long time laying it. Thought about turtle mat in kitchen area or mat under table (the main areas that look horrid almost immediately) however DS still only 20 months so messy at table. Any wonder tips? Sorry this was so long!

No idea - we are taking ours up in the next few weeks and having tiles instead!

no idea sorry, but i sympathise. had laminate like that and it did my head in.

Should have had tiles all along i think - i had some blue / grey ones with irregular finish in last house and barely washed them once a week!

Wash it properly on your hands and knees with a bucket of water and dilute Ajax and an e-cloth once a week.

Then hoover and mop it with an e-cloth mop once a day/every other day (this takes a minute max).

Tiles are just as much work.

I find mopping the laminate with pledge (I think) soapy wood cleaner really makes a difference. Then I just use the Vileda rapidattractive mop thing (with the pledge cleaner in) for daily quick clean ups.

Often I don't bother though, am resigned to my house looking permanently filty.

I did have a microfibre mop and broke it - this did make sweeping up much quicker. But still any spillages make it smear. Grrr. Is the e-cloth from Lakeland?

You can get e-cloths in any reasonable hardware shop - they used to have them in Woolworths (but not the mop).

I use microfibre pads from poundland on my vileda mop

flash wipes

My laminate just doesn't seem to have that problem I get abit fed up as with hard floor the dust/fluff seems more obvious and i hoover quite alot but it is very rare for me to notice smudges and smears. Occassionally i will glance and see marks from my dogs paws but a quick spray and mop with my videla thing and it is ok again. I am so glad i have got it!

Have to agree with blossomsmine, our floor has been down for 9 years and so far no problems. It has survived various bodily fluids from the children and their friends. I just hoover it to remove the dust bunnies and it gets a mop once a week (approximately!)

ooo... i have the answer

I bought my friends a robomop for xmas, was only £20. does your floors with a microfibre cloth by itself!

Wow that looks hilarious! I don't know why my floor looks so smudgy then - maybe just messy in the kitchen? I don't know.

Oh i want one of those!!! I really wanted the expensive one but that one looks ok, well it looks really good actually!! Sad though it sounds i can't buy it at the moment i am saving for loads of birthdays but when they are over i am getting myself one!! thanks for the link.

I use that wood-soap stuff, and have some ready diluted in an old 'detox' bottle (address labels stuck all over it with contents rewritten ) so randomly squirt it at sticky-looking bits under dining table and wipe with a cloth. I don't spend more than a few minutes on it, and it looks ok to me (even better without my glasses)

Of course, the real answer is ban kids / shoes / husbands / animals ...etc [add your own requirements as necessary]

mm robots eh? does it do caked on weetabix?

slur, i doubt it, I've yet to find anything that removes caked on weetabix, apart from a damn good soaking.... they shpould market weetabix as an adhesive i had to get the carpet professionally cleaned after dp spilt some in the living room!

we get weetabix off the laminate floor with ...wood soap and an ice scraper, yes the sort you use for the car