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New products make floors
easy to care for and preserve.
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Bill Yerke, 4th generation owner of Yerke Floors, demonstrates that
sanding with the "Atomic" system is a clean and classy act.
Yerke Floors is proud to be the first retailer in the area to offer this
advanced "truck mounted" dust containment system.
Hardwood & exotic species
, Pre-finished hardwood
• Borders & inlays
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Medallions & herringbones
Refinishing of existing floors
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Milk hardwood floors are
a lot of work? Many busy
homeowners want elegant
floors but have little time available for
preserving the life of fine wood.
The following tips will demonstrate
the ease having great floors and time
to enjoy them:
Choose a cleaner without silicone,
wax or oil soap, and hold the vin-
egar!
Permanent damage can be the
result of excessive wet mopping as
water and vinegar can cause wood
expansion and also dull the finish.
Vinegar and water, oil soap, furniture
polish and window cleaners all have
their place in home maintenance,
and it's not as cleaning agents for fine
wood floors.
Cleaners with silicone, wax or oil
soaps can leave a residue that will
adversely affect the adhesion of a new
coat of finish, requiring a complete
sanding and finishing of your floors to
remove it.
Cleaners that do not have any resi-
due allow you to periodically "pad and
recoat" your floors — which involves
engaging a hardwood floor refinishing
professional to deep clean and abrade
the floor, then add a new coat of fin-
ish. This process conserves time and
money and keeps your floors looking
like new
One product available now is
BonaKemi's Swedish Formula
Hardwood Floor Cleaner. It's a proven
cleaner formulated specifically for
polyurethane-finished hardwood
floors. Environmentally friendly and
non-toxic, this pH-neutral waterborne
product effectively cleans dirt, grease
and sticky spills without leaving any
dulling residue.
It also meets the stringent require-
ments for Greenguard's Children and
Schools program for indoor air quality.
For more information go to
www.greenguard.org.
Regular vacuuming or sweeping,
promptly removing spills, placing
mats at outside doors to trap sand and
grit, and using protective pads or caps
on "feet" of furniture can all help in
keeping hardwood floors fresh. Also,
avoid walking on your floors with
Top: Bona's Hardwood Floor System
is safe and easy.
Bottom: BonaKemi's Hardwood
Cleaner for polyurethane finished
floors.
high-heeled shoes and keep the nails
of pets trimmed.
When hardwood floors become
worn or damaged beyond what peri-
odic recoating can restore, you will
need professional help to refinish
your floors. It's process traditionally
thought of as dusty and inconve-
nient.
New products and services, however,
include sanding systems that eliminate
dust, and Swedish waterborne finishes
without the harmful fumes.
For information on the Bona sys-
tem, to contact BonaKemi USA, Inc.,
or to buy products online, go to
ww-w.bonakemi.co. ❑