Kahrs Wood Floor Care

Immediately: Blot up spills or spots with a lightly damp (well-wrung) cloth.

Frequently: Vacuum or sweep your floor daily to prevent dirt, dust and grit from scratching or dulling its finish. Keep mats by doorways to prevent grit from getting into the room.

Periodically: To help extend the life of a Kährs floor and to remove all cloudy residue or dulling dirt-film layers, clean it regularly with Kährs Wood Cleaner. Complete instructions can be found on the label of each bottle of cleaner.

Kährs Wood Cleaner is specially formulated to clean no-wax wood finishes like Kährs' factory finish. It's a cleaner, not a polish, and it contains no waxes or oils. However, since it removes the dulling residue that builds up on the surface of the floor and dries clear with no streaking, it appears to enhance the shine.

Easy & Safe to use in your home!

• Non-toxic vapor
• Non-flammable
• Highly transparent
• Extremely effective

Floor Care Tips

Do:

• Support furniture and heavy appliances with wide-bearing, non-staining glides or casters.
• Moving appliances and furniture into place by sliding them slowly over the floor on a clean piece of carpet (turned upside-down), or on masonite with the smooth side down.
• Place a quality door mat at the entrance of your home to help protect your floor from abrasive dust and grit and to help save unnecessary clean-up tasks.
• Maintain normal interior humidity levels (Kährs requires a relative humidity range of 45-60%.
Relative humidity should never fall below 30% or exceed 60%).
• Place area rugs in high - or concentrated - traffic areas to make long-term maintenance easier and less expensive.

Don't:

• Do not use wax conditioners, oilsoaps, or acrylic wax.
• Do not use steel wool on the floor.
• Do not use soap or detergents on the floor and never pour water directly onto the floor.
• Do not use ammonia-based cleaners.
• Do not use vinegar on the floor.

Added Protection

Once your floor is installed, nothing is more discouraging than discovering dents or scratches that you could have easily prevented. Because wood is a product of nature, it can be dented or scratched by sharp appliances and heavy loads on furniture legs. Some furniture manufacturers place small-bearing metal or plastic domes, or hard rollers on furniture legs that can cause damage to a Kährs, or any, wood floor.
Combat this potentially-damaging problem by using wide-bearing and non-staining glides and casters and by placing Kährs Floor Protectors beneath the feet of all furniture legs.

We offer both Steel Shank Floor Protectors for wooden legs and bases and Peel-and-Stick Floor Protectors (95% wool felt) for metal or plastic legs and bases. Both provide maximum protection against scratches and dents commonly caused by furniture and appliances.

Minor Touch-ups

No matter how carefully you treat your floor, accidents do happen. Dropped packages and equipment and other things can dent or scratch any wood floor, regardless of how hard it is. Kährs has designed easy-to-use, user-friendly Touch-Up Kits so you can make minor repairs. We offer kits to match each flooring color.

Each kit contains a filler stick, touch-up market, and a bottle of clear finish. Both simple and inexpensive, Kährs Touch-Up-Kits can be the perfect remedy when you need to repair minor flooring blemishes.

It's rare and extremely unfortunate, but if you damage your floor too extensively to repair by yourself, contact your floor covering dealer and ask for a professional to repair your floor.

Radiant-Heating Systems: Additional Care

Kährs floors are engineered to withstand the rigors of radiant-heating systems. If your Kährs floor has been installed over a radiant-heated subfloor (water-filled tubes run throught the concrete or sleeper subfloor and are heated by a radiator), it is imperative that you follow these guidelines:

• Upon completion of the installation, solwly raise the temperature to its desired operating level (over a period of one week, beginning two days after installation).
• Never allow the surface temperature of your Kährs floor to exceed 81 F (27 C).
• It is especially important that you maintain proper humidity levels (45-60%) in the interior of your home at all times during the year. Run humidifiers and fans as necessary to maintain normal humidity variations.

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