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If you have chosen to add hardwood floors to your home renovations you have made a great decision if you are planning to maintain the hardwood floors. Flooring that is hardwood is made using mature trees, it is then treated and finished. Maintaining this type of floors can be difficult because they scratch easy and also absorb moisture.

Leaving a puddle of water in your hardwood floors would not be a great idea. The moisture will go into the cracks in between the slates and they will swell as they absorb the water. If this happens in even a little spot it will still be noticeable. If any liquid is spilled on the floor you need to soak up the fluid right away. Use a damp mop only when you clean your wood floors. There are also floor cleaners that are specially formulated for wood floors that you could use. Either way only a damp mop should be used.

Another thing that can happen to hardwood floors are dents and scratches. High heels are enemies to these kind of floors. Over a long periods of time furniture legs cause dents and scratches also. You can choose to put area rugs under the furniture to protect the floors or you can put felts on the bottoms of the furniture legs. Also you could add some area rugs to the highly circulated areas in your home such as kitchens, hallways, in front of the couch.

There are some people that feel that the scratches and the dents give their wood floors some kind of character. But when you feel that you are in fact sick of them, you can get your hardwood flooring refinished. If you have your hardwood floors refinished every decade or so and keep on top of protecting your oak hardwood floors, they will look the best. Moving anything across your wood floors to letting your dog run in the house can cause scratches and dents.

The author is a writer and publisher on home improvement information more useful tips can be viewed on the author’s site http://www.ezhardwoodflooring.com/.