How do you clean a 70 year old oak floor?
The floor is in good shape but its filthy. What do I do?
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Here's a good article from This Old House on cleaning wood floors: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/how-to-clean-wood-floors
This article may help https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Old-Hardwood-Floors
The finish coat is probably long gone and therefore lots of changes of cleaning solution will be important to keep from re-depositing the dirt and have it sink into the raw wood.
I would use Murphy’s Oil Soap Solution. This is going to be worth your time & money, if the floors don’t have pet stains or other difficult stains.
Pet stains require wood bleach.
Since this Floor is 70 years old, I would tell everyone you want $ for Xmas and it’s for my “Floor Refinishing Piggybank”. Get it professionally sanded and re-urethaned.
I would use ammonia and a scrub brush and then wash with soap and water then give a coat of varnish when done
Try liquid Gold Floor and Cabinet Cleaner!! Value stores