ILoveRed....just a mop and a bucket. I did not mop the subfloor where hardwoods were installed. They did get an extremely thorough vacuuming though.
It was frustrating trying to get things clean with workers still doing things there. I thoroughly vacuumed and mopped one room only to find the carpenters trimming the bottom of doors in that very room with their electric saws the very next day. Talk about frustrating. I had to redo the entire room. Then, when I had completely finished everything, the carpet guys showed up and using a floor scraper, scraped some of the stuck on debris off the sub floors....again making a mess and creating lots of dust...so back to the drawing board. Luckily they did things over several days. Came the first day and scraped and put the tack strip down and I was able to clean up after them and mop the floors (again). Then they came two days later and put down the padding, so that gave me time to clean after all their scraping and also gave the floors plenty of time to dry (you don’t want to lay your padding on wet or damp floors!). Even if all you did was a thorough vacuuming, it would really help keep the dust down and your future house dusting chore to a minimum. Have you ever noticed that in many homes with carpeting, there’s a lot of gray and dingy discoloration all along the place where the baseboards meet the carpeting? That’s because very rarely do houses under construction ever get that area vacuumed prior to carpet installation, so there is tons of dirt and grit from all the many months of construction. Every time the homeowner turns on the HVAC system, all that dirt is being sucked out of those crevices and onto the carpeting.
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Carpet subfloor cleaning advice
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