Caring For Kahrs Wood Flooring
Once you’ve shopped around, are in possession of the best quotes and are ready to install your Kahrs wood flooring, it will be advisable to make sure that you have a care and maintenance guide on hand. Wood flooring is a life-long investment and should therefore be maintained carefully to preserve its overall look. If you don’t have a printed guide, the Kahrs website has an extensive guide for floor owners to download (and print).
On the website there is a clear link to the maintenance pages under the heading ‘Support and Tools’. This is an important link to have as new technology may make the care of Kahrs wood flooring even easier and then the owner needs to know about it.
Under the ‘Support and Tools’ heading, the link ‘Maintenance Guides’ takes you to the two available options: Silk Matt / Matt Lacquer or Nature Oil. These are the types of finishes that the Kahrs wood flooring is available in and each one of them needs their own care and maintenance.
Under the ‘Silk Matt / Matt Lacquer’ tab, there are detailed steps for caring for these types of floors. The first section is about general care procedures like putting down doormats in- and outside to prevent dirt from being brought into the house and ground into the wood.
Another general protection hint is to place cloth protectors on the feet of your furniture – especially metal feet – to prevent them from marking the wood. Where there are frequent liquid spills, Kahrs recommend that the floor be re-lacquered after laying so that the seams are sealed and the possibility of liquid damage is minimized.
After the general protection section, there are sections dealing with cleaning, removing marks, repairing the UV-lacquer and renovating the UV-lacquer. All these guides are applicable to the Silk Matt / Matt Lacquer category.
The next category is the ‘Nature Oil’ category. Here there is also a section on general protection with more or less the same guidelines as for the Silk Matt / Matt Lacquer section. However, because this is an entirely different kind of finish, there are more specific instructions on the care of the flooring. Here there are still the various categories of cleaning and protecting, but the additional category of maintaining the natural oil floor is added. This is because this type of floor uses wax to be cleaned and maintained. It is therefore extremely important to know which kind of floor your home has so that you can take appropriate care of it.
After all is said and done, it is not difficult to care for your Kahrs wood flooring – especially not with so much help at hand.