Hard Floors

I’m still trying to get to this “back in order” for functionality thing since the end of May. One thing I have to give me the “counter” space I need is a table in the kitchen space. I have a smaller one that I want to swap the big one in the kitchen right now, for. It’s not that either are very large, one is bigger than the other, that’s all. The smaller one will do better to aide moving about a changing kitchen. Currently that little table is in my bedroom on the side of the room that is “mine”. It’s chocked full of the stuff that has flown into the masterbedroom the last few weeks, so it’s a major undertaking to get it uncluttered, and move it out of there. That makes for a larger job too, getting to all that stuff finally. Ugh.

The other day I did a small “mop and glo” session on the back end of the kitchen, where the table exchange will go. I didn’t like the results, decided I didn’t use enough Mop and Glo guck, would need to “do it over.” We then went out on some errands, and when we got back home it was late, I was tired and walking into the house it was a “What is that smell?” session that began, and went on all night for me. I knew exactly what it smelled like, chemicals, floral-ish, cleaning, ick. I found out the next morning. The bottle of Mop and Glo from the previous day must have been left out on the counter and it fell by itself, or aided to that fall by a cat, whichever, it was on the floor, and the top had busted off. There was a great CSI-able splash pattern that had dried overnight, a thick layer of plastic-y stuff, which pointed to the hiding place of the broken off top of the bottle. 🙂 Or not. It was nice to find the top using a pattern recognition criminal technique for spatter, I wasn’t happy to have to clean up the mess. Me and ammonia are not friends, and that is what I needed, according to the bottle, and I grudgingly agreed with it.

So DH went and got me what I needed while out on another errand, and I let it all sit that day. The next day was yesterday, and I mixed up the slosh and got it on the area a had to de-mop-and-glo, and let that sit awhile. It didn’t all come up easily. I ended up using an old switch cover plate to scrape up the stubborner stuff. In the end I didn’t get all of it up, there are thin swatches of shiny surface here and there, but they will combine well, from what I can tell, when I re-apply the Mop and Glo in the true fashion.

Moral of the Story: Never leave a bottle of Mop and Glo on any surface where it could conceivably fall to the floor without supervision.

I don’t like having to baby floors, but I do know that I want the Mop and Glo effect so that it’s easier to get dirt off of the floor, which there is ALWAYS PLENTY OF!!!

I have to also say that those commercials on TV for all sorts of floor cleaners are starting to drive me nuts in my non-tv time, they are in my brain from when we had subfloors only. I have brooms, dustpans, recently got a new dirt devil electric broom (I used to have one, but it fell into disuse and the childre mangled it to death since then.) It’s nice to have one again, a very useful too. I also have a cordless Dust Buster now, it’s not as powerful as I need, but it’s better than nothing. I see the value of all those swiffer things, and all the other brands. I don’t have a utility closet, but what I have is already filling my utility closet to the brim! 😉 If clutter on the floors would go away entirely I’d be happy to have one of those i robot thingies. Otherwise it’s about sweeping and disposing of loose dirty stuff manually with aide of electronic variety that I have. “Cleaning” is thoroughly manual, as in getting stuck on stuff off, and shining, or plainly just “making fresh looking” anything.

I know that most people don’t really like hard floors, and want carpets cause carpets eat dirt, vaccuums then eat it back (they think,) but I know better. Carpets are horrible, way worse than being a slave to hard floors. Amen.

🙂

I’m cured. Back to cleaning the floors! 🙂