How To Clean The Kitchen Floor

Step 1: Techniques

I'm Robert and the cameraman is Carl and we're going to show you the best method of cleaning a kitchen floor.

Now, there are two ways to clean the kitchen floor. One is to get down on your hands and knees and clean it that way. That certainly is the most efficient and thorough way to do it. And the other way is to use a mop and I'll show you that in a minute.

Step 2: Liquid Cleaners

The homemade ammonia mixes are not nearly as effective as the liquid cleaner. This is Spic 'N Span liquid cleaner. But Mr. Clean and Pine-Sol and the other liquid cleaners are probably just as good. This one can be used full strength.

In this case, because I like the pump dispenser, I poured some full strength Spic 'N Span liquid cleaner into the pump dispenser or it can be diluted and put into a spray bottle.

This is a diluted mixture according to the recipe on the Spic 'N Span bottle of the Spic 'N Span diluted.

Step 3: Hands & Knees

So what I'll do is, I'll pour some diluted mixture into the sink so that I can use it on a paper towel for the hands and knees method. Okay. So what we do is we get a pad of paper towel and we fold it and make a pad.

Then we soak it in the diluted mixture. And we get down on our hands and knees and we proceed to scrub the floor on our hands and knees. Now if I find that I'm uncomfortable to kneel on the kitchen floor, I can use a kneeling pad like that. This definitely gets the floor cleaner than the mop but you may not like getting down on your hands and knees on the floor.

Step 4: Mopping

Now the other way is to use a mop. This is a Swiffer Mop and you can buy the commercial pads that Swiffer sells. Or if you like paper towels, you can lay the Swiffer Mop on the paper towels and squeeze the edges into the mop. Soak the paper towels in the diluted Spic 'N Span mixture and work on it that way. And that works.

Now another way is to use a mitten that you can fit over the mop. I just recently bought this mop at Home Depot. It's made out of microfiber and it fits pretty snugly over the Swiffer Mop head. And you can dip this also into the diluted mixture of liquid cleaner and squeeze it out. And you can use that to mop the floor. Basically that's the information. Now if you'd like to visit my website, it discusses this among other things. You can go to users.erols.com/interlac/homehy/.