How to Clean Wooden Baseboards
If you have a parquet or a normal ceramic floor in the house, you can also install wooden skirting boards, particularly suitable for a rustic environment or an attic. The problem is related to cleaning, as their uneven position forces those who own them to carry out operations that are not very easy and often with unsuitable products. So let’s see together specifically how to clean wooden skirting boards properly.
Wooden baseboards are typically about one and a half centimeters thick and twelve centimeters high. Depending on the color of the floor, the surface can be natural wood and then beige or many other shades, obtained from aniline that give colors such as walnut, mahogany, and cherry.
When the surface becomes opaque and loses its luster, following the consumption of the protective flatting that is applied at the time of installation, it must be cleaned and then painted again.
For this operation, get some sandpaper and eliminate both the dirt and the gloss residues, then with other paper but with a wonderful grain, create a smooth and perfectly smooth layer, allowing you to take root the new coat of aniline.
If the surface is only dirty, you can apply many specific wood products, not before removing the dirt with a rag soaked in water and possibly using a neutral soap. After this phase, you can intervene with both beeswax and straw yellow oil; remember that both products tend to polish and moisturize the wood after cleaning.
You can certainly apply beeswax both when it is in a solid or liquid state with a brush, after which should leave on it for about fifteen minutes before proceeding with polishing with a woolen cloth, or with an electric drill equipped with a plush bonnet, just like with the car body.
Even straw oil requires the same application methods, but with the advantage that the wood largely absorbs it, only a rag is enough to eliminate the grease generated by it. With these simple but effective cleaning interventions, the wooden skirting boards will undoubtedly be shiny, shiny, and above all, free of dirt. Good job!
