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80-year old vinyl floors need some love

sardino
5 years ago
Hello friends. My house was built in 1940 and has the vinyl kitchen floor to match. This floor looks dirty and disgusting no matter how I clean it - I regularly use an ammonia/detergent combo and we've tried steaming it a few times.

Today, I hit it with ammonia and a plastic scraper to get whatever wax remains off. This backfired spectacularly. One, DH saw what I was doing and offered to help, which in his enthusiastic way resulted in visible scrape marks/gouged vinyl. Two, it restored the overall color of the pattern but did nothing for the dirt that seems to have embedded itself into the material.

Is there a nuclear option here? Scrubbing bubbles, hard core floor stripper? Or do I just put new vinyl over until we reno the kitchen?

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