To clean tile laminate floors, you need a mop, bucket, and Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Bath with Febreze Lavender Scent. Prep your tile laminate floors by moving furniture out of the way and picking up any objects, including toys or rugs. Use a buffer to redo the entire floor, but don’t rely on it. Gather your tools, including a mop, bucket, and Mr.
For scuff marks and tough stains, use a magic eraser or a soft, damp cloth with baking soda. Gently rub the stained area to lift the marks without causing damage. Avoid using abrasive scouring pads, as they can scratch the surface.
Mopping with Mr. Clean® Multi-Purpose Cleaner is the best way to clean laminate floors. However, Magic Erasers are very fine sandpaper and should not be used on wood, laminate, or LVP, nor stainless steel. They can be used on laminate, Corian, quartz, and other solid surface countertops, but do a spot check.
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is great for bathtubs but not for wood floors. It may remove the finish completely, and you may need to refinish the floor.
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A step by step tutorial on how to clean your floor with a magic eraser. So the next time you need help using a magic eraser to …
@Thrifted Living, please be very careful using magic erasers on vinyl flooring. Magic erasers are abrasive. They can scratch the top urethane layer on the floor. Having a zillion tiny scratches in the top layer will trap dirt, making the floor require constant cleaning. And I don’t mean just normal cleaning because the dirt is embedded into the scratches. You’ll have to repeatedly use a magic eraser to get that dirt out. That will wear down the top layer even more. Over time, it can become so worn down that it no longer protects the decorative layer beneath it. At that point, the dirt not only goes into the scratches, but it gets into the decorative layer and is very hard to remove. Neither my Hoover FloorMate SpinScrub nor my BISSELL Powerfresh Steam Mop was able to clean it. I had to get a McCulloch Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner, but it’s extremely time consuming and tedious since it forcefully pushes out only a tiny bit of steam (similar to a power washer, but with steam). And after doing all that work, guess what… the dirt comes right back because the root problem of not having the protective top layer still remains. All of this didn’t happen overnight or from just one use of a magic eraser. It happened over time. I thought I had found the miracle cleaner so I started using it more and more to clean high traffic areas, such as in front of the pantry and trash can. Then I noticed that those areas kept getting dirty again very soon after I had worked so hard to clean them. That’s when I discovered how the magic eraser had damaged my floor by scratching the top layer — which trapped dirt — which acted like sandpaper, causing even more scratches — which trapped more dirt — which required that I use a magic eraser again to clean — which caused more and more scratches — which trapped more and more dirt… and on and on… to the point that the top layer is now so damaged in those areas that it’s virtually impossible to keep them clean.
Many years ago when I was a busy young mother. I had light coloured linoleum and it had little dimples in it..it would hold the dirt and the floor would get washed but it still was dirty in the dimples I literally sprayed a small portion and down on my hands and knees I would spray fantastic on my linoleum and then I would let it sit a minute then I would scrub it with a floor like a scrub brush and clean out all the dimples give it a wipe and then when I was all done my floor then I went back and I re-washed it and then I rinsed it again to make sure I had all the fantastic off of it on my floor it looked brand new.
great article…thank you was wondering if this would work on our floors…can’t wait to try now…was perusal another article and he happened to mention that mats with rubber or latex bottoms can leave the orange or yellowing that you may be seeing…I didn’t know that and thought it was a great tip…he also stated to never use ammonia bases cleaners on linoleum…thank you again for the great article
YOU SAVED MY ASS!!!!! I burned my roommate’s floor and it created dark yellow-orange stains on the Vinyl flooring. I tried this and it got the stains out 100%. Thank you so much! I felt so bad for burning his floor. OMG!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS ON YOUTUBE!!!! YOU SAVED THE REST OF MY YEAR!
I appreciate the tip, but I’m a bit puzzled by this article–she referred to her floor as linoleum, which many people do as a generic reference to patterned resilient flooring, much in the way people use Kleenex as a generic term for facial tissue. It appears she does not have linoleum floor, but rather vinyl. Vinyl is made from a chemical polymer that is very different from linoleum, which is made from linseed oil mixed with cork dust or wood flour. Linoleum was used by home builders early in the 20th Century, but vinyl replaced it as a primary flooring material after 1960 or so because it required less care. In the last few years however, environmentally conscious people have been returning to linoleum because it is made from natural, renewable materials. Vinyl is waterproof forever unless you gouge or puncture it, but linoleum’s water resistance is provided by the linseed oil. It can actually be damaged by water-based cleaning products. Since wood is a component of linoleum, linoleum floors should be treated like wood floors. Wash water (and spills) should be wiped up immediately to avoid damage. Vinyl can be wet-mopped and left to air-dry, but linoleum should be gently cleaned with a pH-neutral (non-alkaline–never use cleaners that contain ammonia) detergent, then wiped dry. Linoleum should also be re-sealed/polished periodically as the linseed oil will eventually dry out, making the floor brittle and susceptable to damage. So be sure what type of floor you have before deciding on a cleaning method.
Wow this is AMAZING!!! Thank you for your article. Surprisingly, a lot of people have this problem, including myself. I will definitely try this. I have a lot of yellow discoloration on my kitchen and bathroom floors. I have tried using a steamer to remove the stain…to no avail. So hopefully this will work for me. Thanks again. Happy Holidays!!! God Bless!!!
Here’s a little hack for you I learned doing this in my camper. Get yourself some velcro and tape one side to 4 magic erasers in a row, then put that on the bottom of your swiffer wet jet. It makes this WAYYY less time consuming and it works great with the cleaner already in the wet jet. Actually surprised Mr. Clean hasn’t come out with a magic eraser refill you could use with one by now! Cheers!
I would like to see you try cleaning your kitchen floor with 4 cups of warm water and add 1 cup of Oxiclean. Stir your Oxiclean to mix in water. I use a mop that has cloth scrubbing pad on it and it cleans my white floor ( it has to be a man who designed a white floor to walk on or spills). It could be a OCD Woman Lol. I have ivory colored linoleum bathrooms and the Snow White linoleum kitchen. Oxiclean is the only thing that has cleaned it for me. Trust me I have tried everything to clean my floors.
Tried the Lysol and magic eraser too. It didn’t clean like the original finish, but a bunch of junk came off. The edge of the floor under the counter tops still looks new. My floor is only a few years old, but apparently the scuff marks will continue to stay on it. Scrubbed for two hours, while taking a 5 minute break to let the Lysol soak in good. Still pleased with it. Thanks
NO!! A MUCH better method, IMO: sprinkle baking soda over the floor and scrub with a damp mop. (Better = cheaper, faster, doesn’t require getting on your hands and knees.) I also used the mop and bucket recommended at The Wirecutter (O Cedar microfiber mop and Quick-Wring bucket), which were great. That article also says to NOT add vinegar to the water, as it neutralizes the alkalinity of the baking soda. I used plain water, and it was fine. The eraser worked, but the textured linoleum (probably Armstrong 5352 from the 1970s) with deep ground-in dirt required hard scrubbing, which the eraser isn’t designed for. It quickly started falling apart. And it was slow going. After doing a small patch, I thought “there must be a better way” and found the baking soda tip. Disclousure: I have no affiliation with baking soda manufacturers or O Cedar! 😉
I do agree with you about using a string mop for a large area, that is the only way to clean a large area. Remember after every use of that mop, leave it in the bucket with bleach so it can stay clean. and you change it every 2 to 3 weeks, but if it looks real bad change it sooner. I will also be writing a book on cleaning tips, it will be on Kindle. Don’t forget to subscribe to my you tube website.