My kitchen floor gets cleaned once or twice a week. In many different fashions. On Fridays we schmop it properly, but mid-week it may need a quick wipe down or even just a schmop swipe with water in the kitchen sink. Sometimes it's paper towels to the rescue. Every other week or so i get down on my hands and knees with a bucket and rag. Possibly a Norwex rag, or maybe a 'real' rag with soapy water. My point is for you to know that we do not have bi-monthly cleanings here, we are regular. And even extra. But.....
...recently i've had a hunch that my tiles need a real serious scrub down! Today was the day. I got a bucket of soapy water with a scrubbing brush, a rag, and a Norwex scrubby. I also got a rinse bucket with only hot water and a Norwex rag. This was going to be a 5 or 6 step process! Firstly i scrubbed.
Then i swooped up the dirty water with the rag.
3rd step: Scrubbed some more with this little pad.
Cleaned up all that water.
Lastly ( and twice) i wiped the floor with my rinse water and Norwex rag. As i was moving along i realized that my rinse water was appearing to be as dirty as my soapy water!! That's when i decided to blog about this otherwise-never-mind cleaning job. I find it truly fascinating that after all those dirty scrubbing steps, and with no more water laying on the floor, my Norwex still managed to clean up that unseen tough stuff still out there where the naked eye cannot see!
Josiah came home from school just now and i had him document me doing the job. I also checked on the granola as i was passing by. I also yelled "No shoes in the kitchen!" ........."for weeks!"
So here are the two buckets of dirty water. Almost embarrassing because i am telling the hand-on-the-courtroom-Bible truth about how often i clean my floor. This does bear reflection on how thoroughly tho! And notice how dirty the rinse water on the right is! Unbelievable.
And here we're all done! It looks fabulous. And i've made it clear that i'd like to keep it that way. Dave was slightly annoyed when he came home this afternoon (as i was blogging this!)with his wet work boots on and i stopped him short of going into the kitchen ( he'd already come thru the laundry and across the hardwood hallway!). He just doesn't understand why i had to 'clean the floor AGAIN' in his words. He thinks by mid-week he should be allowed free reign until Friday rolls around. He feels tortured on the weekend because his (small) conscience tells him he really 'should not wear shoes in the house just after she cleaned'.
Poor chap. So he just lay down for a snooze.
He has NEVER stepped on the carpet with his shoes on. He's a smart man.
Back to my point: Norwex rags are the greatest! They clean deeper than you expected. Go get yourself some, if you are lacking!
