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Linoleum — inexpensive and practical coverage, which is why it is often used in construction and repair. It is used in many cases, because it can be easily installed, has a long period of use, and cleaning does not require much effort. However, the care coating is required to retain a presentable appearance for a long time.
How to care for linoleum ↑
To care for linoleum, there are a number of rules that are recommended for execution. They will provide long term use coating and will protect it from stains. When laying linoleum, it is recommended to apply special protective coating on it that prevents damage to the material. This layer will provide:
- Low adhesion material
- The increase of its wear resistance
- The increase of service life
- Presentable
For daily care it is recommended to use a vacuum cleaner or soft cloth dampened with water. As for detergents, not all are suitable for cleaning linoleum. This is often written on the packaging means, so you should pay attention to it. However, most cleaning agents are still valid for use, but require dilution in water.
Applying a protective layer will keep the brightness of the linoleum, protecting it from fading and erasing. Especially in need of heterogeneous cover, where the top layer has a very low thickness.
Means for washing of linoleum ↑
Regular maintenance of the coating requires the use of special cleaning agents. But keep in mind that linoleum is PVC coating, which dissolves when in contact with many solvents. Therefore, the use of cleaning products based on them is prohibited. With regard to fast trouble spots, is highly undesirable, the use of acetone. He easily takes the top polymer layer, destroying it.
This coating is composed of natural ingredients, easily soluble when using aggressive chemicals. Among them note the alkaline detergent and acidic substances. These will include the popular white spirit and its analogues. To apply these chemicals to clean linoleum is strictly prohibited, because they corrode the surface.
Other cleaners, with no solvents or alkaline substances allowed for cleaning the linoleum. However, it is necessary to monitor their allowable proportions of dilution that is indicated on the package.
How to clean linoleum from iodine and ink ↑
Such spots, significantly eating into the very into the coating, it is possible to wash only a few ways. Conventional cleaning products not fit here, because to wash the iodine or ink is too tough for them. You must use aggressive substances, but take into account the proportions, so as not to burn the coating.
The most gentle method, a mixture of water and water. For this you need to soak the baking soda in warm water to the stain for a few hours. If it is not ingrained into the surface, then this method will help.
Also allowed to use raw potatoes. Just need to cut the potatoes and grate them a spot.
If the linoleum was already exhausted protective layer, and the iodine is deposited directly on the PVC coating, here the gentle tools are useless. This substance does not stain, and eats into the material, so you need to use aggressive chlorine-based products. Among them celebrate the same Domestos.
Money ink coverage you can use ordinary soap and water or hydrogen peroxide. Although the methods used against Yoda, efficient and here. Also allowed the use of diluted bleaching agents.
How to wash the paint ↑
When painting is often a drop of paint substances on the floor. Therefore, it is necessary to cover any coated or ordinary papers. But this is not always possible. If drops or splashes got on the linoleum, it is necessary to remove still fresh.
If you used a water-based substance, it is enough to wipe the drops with a cloth and with a cloth soaked in water. Worth several times to walk through the place of paint, because after their elimination may have slight stains.
If you used oil paint, then water is not enough. They are based on linseed oil, so you need to apply appropriate measures. Should:
- To quickly dropwise with a dry cloth.
- Pour any remaining stains with sunflower oil. It will prevent hardening of the paint.
- Paint residues are removed with a cleaning agent or simply soap and water.
In the presence of dry and old paint stains on linoleum cleaning is significantly complicated. Requires the use of special reagents and brute force.
With deep penetration of paint will help its removal with a knife or a sander. Option is not the easiest, but the reagents will simply ruin the surface. We recommend that you replace the affected area.
If paint has dried in a thin layer, it is necessary to recover the solvent and to uniformly scrub the stain with it. You can use acetone or industrial paint thinner. This can be combined with cleaning the surface with a wire brush.
How do I clean the foam ↑
Remove the foam with linoleum through several means. It is often aggressive substances which are harmful to the coating, but without them to remove this substance extremely difficult. Note the following options:
- Cleaner foam. The foam quickly cleans cleaner foam. However, it hurts the coverage, so you should apply the product only tiny and small doses.
- Dimexide. This substance is the strongest solvent you can buy at the drugstore. It is necessary to cut off the remnants of foam, and the remaining traces to eliminate Dimexidum. But apply it to a point, because it is harmful to cover. It is important! When you use Dimexidum need to wear gloves. The substance can leave burns on the skin.
- Universal solvents. For this task suitable and versatile solvents. But they also harm the coating.
- Water. The last option is plain water. Rag moistened with it and placed on the cured foam. You must first cut the maximum possible proportion of foam with a knife, because this will ease your task. If the foam is resistant to water, the method is useless.
Fresh foam has not had time to harden, you can remove with improvised tools, and a trace wipe with a damp cloth. If after removing the left yellow marks, they are removed only by polishing. Other methods are useless.
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If the stain cannot be removed by the above methods, we practiced a complete replacement of the affected area. You need to cut out the damaged area and replace it with a new.
At replacement it is necessary to consider the pattern of the linoleum. This will make the replaced site invisible to the rest of the coating. The whole process of change consists of the following steps:
- A new piece of linoleum is placed on top of the old to match the image.
- With a knife cut both plots, the defective flap is removed.
- The resulting excavation to be cleaned from glue and allow to dry.
- Apply new adhesive and place the new piece of linoleum.
- If necessary, you can seal the seam cold welding.
This will restore damaged linoleum after hardened stains, rips, solvent and other damages. However, for the usual spots such a measure unnecessary, because usually they are eliminated by the above methods.
To clean linoleum, you can use a universal cleaner to eliminate stubborn dirt. In this kind of a comparison of the two popular cleaners and cleaning procedure of coating them. It is recommended to periodically carry out cleaning, which will preserve the color of the linoleum and its image.
