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I am using a cloth hardwood floor mop and using M*** *** on my floors. It is leaving a greasy residue that shows footprints. Why would it do this? What should I use to clean pre-finished hardwoods, without leaving spots or residue?

I’ve got paint spots on my newly installed, pre-finished hardwood floors. What is the best way to remove them without harming the wood floor?

We put down wood flooring and some of the adhesive was accidentally dropped on the carpet. How do we get the adhesive out of the carpet? Do you have a solution?

We came home tonight to find that our dogs had spilled a gallon of paint primer on our hardwood floors- while we were able to get the wet paint off the floors using water: how can we get the splatter and the white residue that has settled into the grain off? Our floors are unfinished and were 1920′s cherry.

I need to remove the tar paper and tar backing left behind while stripping my pine floors of years of layering from laminates. I believe this material was laid sometime in the 1940’s or 1950’s and it was adhered directly to the pine plank flooring. How do I remove this tar paper like material?

I am removing a laminate floor that has 1/2 inch plywood underneath. I need to prepare the plywood to lay ceramic tiles down. I have removed most of the laminate flooring but the adhesive is still on the plywood. Is there a product that will remove this adhesive, or would it be a huge problem if I tile over it?

How can I safely remove glue residue from my newly installed hardwood floor?

We just started removing vinyl tiles from a gorgeous hard wood floor. The tiles were removed with a heat gun and a putty knife. The floor looks great underneath, but there is a film of adhesive on the floor and we don’t know how to remove it. The adhesive is REALLY sticky and if you walk across the floor and stop, you may not move again! We used mineral spirits to remove some, no luck. We also used lacquer thinner, this removed a little, but not all of the stickiness. Should we just continue with lacquer thinner over and over, or is there something that will dissolve or help to remove the stick without hurting the hard wood?

I just hired a local wood flooring company to refinish the entire first floor of my house this past April. Since that time the polyurethane has seeped out from between the boards and formed small globs or crystals of poly that are now stuck on the floor. Every room that was done shows evidence of this problem….

I recently stained my deck with a cedar natural tone (*********) product. It looks great, but now around the knot holes there’s a white color coming out. It almost looks like its growing like a fungus. What is that and how do I get rid of it?

My wife and I just bought a new house which has hardwood floors throughout. Overall the floors are gorgeous but there are some high traffic areas which you can tell the urethane is getting worn. I would like to sand the top of the urethane and then apply two more coats to hopefully last another 10 or 15 years. I’ve been reading around the Internet about how ******* Oil soap is leaves a residue on hardwood floors which makes it difficult if you want to refinish the urethane. That is all the previous owners used to clean the floors and I was wondering if you could recommend to me a way that I could recoat my floors without having to sand down own to the wood.

I just removed the carpeting off my hardwood floors, and under the padding was this clay like material that I had to scrape off. It left a terrible film on the hardwood floors. I don’t want to sand and refinish the floors. How can I get the film off of it?

We have a few areas in our hallway that the large, industrial floor sander could not reach. When these edges are sanded with a heavy-duty hand sander, the surface appears to ‘melt’ and causes the sander disk to burn and circular burn marks appears on the floor. I think the substance is tar, which I cannot seem to remove through sanding by hand. Can you suggest any cleaning products that will help dissolve the tar or any other way to remove it?

How do I remove spilled candle wax (oily) residue from hardwood floors?

My husband recently put 2-sided adhesive on the bottom of our chairs so they would not slide around. I now have gooey adhesive on my wood floor. What should I use to clean it so as not to ruin the wood flooring?

I have carpeted stairs and painted stringer with shoe (looks like) over it. I am replacing all painted trim in my house with wood so it can be stained. How do I strip the paint off the carpeted stringer without damaging the carpet?

Q: My daughter has painted metal chairs in her room. As she has moved the chairs around her room, paint has come off the bottom of the chairs and onto the hard wood floors. How do I remove the paint marks?

I started ripping out an old shag rug from a hardwood floor and found that it had been glued down, much to my dismay and surprise. What is left is a red, chalky substance about ¼ of an inch thick, with a weird line design that makes it look like a truck floor. The work was done by an old company in Philadelphia in 1972, and the glue/adhesive has dried into a chalky substance that is almost impossible to remove by hand (e.g., scraping). Do you have any suggestions on how to remove it?

On the second floor much of the hardwood floors are painted very bright and vibrant colors. It is expected below the layer of paint that the previous owners painted, is lead paint ( or the hardwood floors were painted with lead paint some years ago). So it seems the floors were painted a few times at least over the years. My wife and I really like the look of the original hardwood like is on the first floor. We would like to remove the paint from the second floor. What would be the best way to do it? Also our contractor said we could put a wood laminate over top of the painted hardwood floor to cover it.

Our installer did not clean the glue up off his knee pads/shoes as he installed. We have tried mineral spirits, lighter fluid. Any other ideas. It was a Bostik adhesive?