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Why wash linoleum with ammonia?

Linoleum is an inexpensive and very popular flooring option. Is there a reasonable reason to wash linoleum with ammonia, how will the product affect it? Ammonia is often used around the house and can be useful for cleaning floors, among other things.

Ammonia

Ammonia for cleaning floors - why?

Ammonia, or ammonia, is an ammonia-based solution with a characteristic pungent odor. The product is used in households as a stain remover, cleaner of mirror surfaces and plumbing fixtures. This substance is also suitable for cleaning floors.

Use of ammonia in everyday life

Advantages:

  • ammonia will help restore shine to linoleum;
  • The product removes greasy stains, so the solution is very useful if the kitchen floor is dirty.

Advice
Be sure to ventilate the room and use protective gloves for your hands: ammonia is an aggressive agent and can make you feel worse.

Linoleum in the bathroom

How to wash linoleum with ammonia

First, look at what not to do with linoleum:

  1. Use hot water for washing - the coating will swell.
  2. Use chlorine-containing products and aggressive powders.
  3. Be careful with alkaline products, including baking soda!
  4. Be careful with abrasives!

Otherwise, cleaning linoleum is much easier than cleaning laminate or cork.

Mop and ammonia

How to use ammonia for washing:

  1. Before washing with ammonia solution, as with any other product, dry clean. Remove dust and dirt with a vacuum cleaner or broom.
  2. Prepare the following solution: for every liter of water 1 tsp.ammonia.
  3. Wipe the linoleum and baseboards with a rag soaked in the solution. Do not wet the floor, but remove dirt with a damp cloth.

Advice from purity-en.htgetrid.com magazine
Cover the new floor with a special wax or mastic polish. The protective coating will protect it from dust, heavy dirt and fading.

floor cleaning

By the way, washing with ammonia repels cockroaches due to its pungent odor. This is one of the most budget-friendly means for combating annoying insects. To prevent the same smell from bothering your household, simply ventilate the apartment. Otherwise, this is one of the best tools to clean and renew linoleum.

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  1. Maksim

    Write about some ammonia and use an aqueous solution of ammonia.

    • Alex

      Maxim, you are either kidding me, or you didn’t learn chemistry well at school, because ammonia (not to be confused with ammonia) and an aqueous solution of ammonia are essentially the same thing.

  2. Maksim

    Googled, ammonia up to 10% ammonia, ammonia solution from 15 to 30%

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