The floor is the last area of a visit and the first thing people judge the result by. The difficulty is not the area but the mix: parquet in the room, tiles in the kitchen, laminate in the hallway — and each is cleaned differently.
Parquet and board floors
The rule is minimal water. The cloth is wrung almost dry, no water stands in the joints, and the floor dries within half a minute of the pass. Standing water lifts the blocks, and that is refinishing rather than cleaning.
The product is neutral, with no alkali or abrasive: alkali strips the lacquer and abrasive leaves matt streaks visible at an angle to the light.
Laminate
It looks like wood but fears the joints rather than water itself: moisture gets into the click joint, the board swells and the edge lifts. So laminate is also cleaned almost dry, and along the joints rather than across them.
Tiles
The only surface that tolerates plenty of water. The task here is the grout: grey deposit collects in it and a cloth will not lift it. Every few months the joints get a brush or a steam cleaner (UAH 299).
Carpets and fitted carpet
Within a clean they are vacuumed. Wet cleaning of the pile is upholstery cleaning: UAH 130 per square metre with a minimum order of 2,000. The difference is real — a vacuum lifts what sits on the pile, an extractor pulls out what soaked into its base.
Skirting and corners
Two places that show whether the flat was really cleaned. Dust on the skirting and in the corners is invisible from standing height and obvious when you sit on the floor with a child. They are part of a base clean and are done separately from the open floor.
Winter: salt and grit
From December to March a mix of salt, sand and de-icer comes in on shoes. It leaves white streaks that ordinary mopping does not remove: the salt dissolves, dries and shows again. A weak vinegar solution takes it off, and it should be done promptly — salt attacks both lacquer and tile grout.
The mat at the door
The cheapest measure that reduces work across the whole flat: most of the abrasive grit stops there. It is the grit rather than the dirt that wears a floor out — it works like sandpaper underfoot.
How long it takes
A two-room flat is 20–30 minutes of floors in all rooms. With animals or small children the floor is done twice — vacuum first, then damp — and the second pass takes as long as the first.
What we do not do
We do not sand parquet, apply lacquer or polish with wax. If the surface is already water-damaged or worn through to the timber, cleaning will not bring it back.
How to book
Floors are part of a flat clean. The full base list is on the what a clean includes page.
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