Kitchen Floor Cleaning

Iocori- Noting that, uhm...different paints can be different...my painted concrete floors are *not* particular about what I use on `em. Really nasty grease-messes get a spritz of degreaser/All Purpose Cleaner to help emulsify the stuff, and that hasn`t hurt anything yet. BUT again, if yours have something different on them I`d hate for you to try my suggestion and [mess] them up.

Oh, and Welcome to Autopia!
 
It might sound weird, but I`ve heard laundry detergent works well for cleaning up oil spots on driveways/garage floors. Seems like it`d be plenty safe.
 
Late to the party , but the best linoleum/vinyl floor cleaner I`ve used is Armstrong`s Once `n Done Floor Cleaner. Expensive, but it does work without streaking.
Never thought of using Optimum`s No-Rinse (ONR) and their Power Clean together for cleaning kitchen floors. If someone comes up with a home-made recipe of how much of ONR and OPC to add to a gallon of water for floor cleaning, let us know.

As far as cleaning garage/shop floors, I use Stearn`s Packaging Corp.`s Jungle-Jake Cleaner/Degreaser diluted to two ounces to a gallon of water. It`s a "less-expensive" degreaser soap I found at Mills Fleet-Farm in the upper Midwest. I`ve never used something like Zep`s Heavy Duty Citrus Cleaner or their 505 Fast Industrial Cleaner/Degreaser, which might be suitable soaps as well. I use a Schmop to clean the floors, which is a large, rectangular mop head with a removeable elastic-banded cotton-nap cloth that is stretched over this rectangular head. The "hard part" is that it must be removed and rinsed in the degeaser soap solution, wrung out, and reapplied/stretched over the head to wipe the floor. It covers a very large area in a short time, depending on how dirty your floors are. It is a GREAT tool for cleaning walls and ceilings, provided that wall or ceiling texture is not too rough, like a stucco. If you are using TSP-substitute soap for cleaning walls or ceilings prior to painting, wear some type of rubber or nitrile gloves to protect chemically chapping your hands.
 
I used to be very particular about having things perfectly clean. While I like things neat, due to circumstances in life and age, I`m at the point where spotless isn`t a priority anymore.
 
Iocori- Heh heh, might not thank me until you get that floor clean, what works OK for me might not work at all for you :D

wannafbody- And here I`m getting *more* inclined to keep things spotless as I get older :o

CleanIt- Did you mean *mix* the ONR and PC together or use the PC first and then the ONR?

I`m using a RW on two of our (granite) tile floors...ONR on one and IUDJ on the other. Note that depending on the floor such products might leave things a bit too slick for some applications.

Ever since I started steam-mopping the kitchen floor (ceramic tile) every night, I`ve hardly had to do *any* real deep cleaning, even the grout is staying nice (it`s sealed with an epoxy-based colorant so I guess it *oughta* be low-maintenance, but then again it`s been 20-some years).
 
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