Wood Flooring Q&A: What Should I Do To Get Rid of Polish on a Wood Floor?

Wood floor “polishes” sold at box stores can often leave wood floors looking like this, and they must be removed before recoating.
Wood floor “polishes” sold at box stores can often leave wood floors looking like this, and they must be removed before recoating.

Johannes Boonstra, technical manager at Spicewood, Texas-based Rubio Monocoat USA, answers:

When you are applying a maintenance coat to a wood floor that was treated in the past with some kind of floor polish, you must remove that residue first by deep-cleaning the wood floor prior to abrading the floor. When you abrade the floor without removing the residual floor polish, you are just spreading it around and can expect an adhesion problem or perhaps fish-eying with the maintenance coat you are going to apply.

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