Given the predominance of hardwood floors throughout Boston condominiums, a recent article from the World Floor Covering Association on how to care for and maintain hardwood floors gives you the advice, as well as do’s and don’ts, on how to keep your hardwood floors looking as pristine as possible for as long as possible.
Some of the advice includes:
- Use welcome maps at the entrances of your home
- Invest in a vacuum without a beater bar to get in between the planks of your floor
- Leverage a high quality mop with a rotating head to get into “hard to reach” corners
- Cover furniture legs with felt or flannel protectors
Buyers moving into a unit with hardwood floors should consider re-sanding and re-finishing the floors before they move in. If you’re considering making any investments into your home, and the hardwoods are somewhere on the list and you think that you’ll eventually get around to it after you move in, think again. You’ll save yourself a tremendous amount of headaches and inconvenience if you quickly knock that job out immediately following the closing of your home when there is no furniture in the unit – plan ahead and line up your hardwood flooring contractor well before closing so that they can start immediately upon you taking possession of the home – the seller should accommodate reasonable requests to gain access to the unit prior to closing should your contractor need to see the unit in person.
Keith Munsell 
