I mop with hot water and pine-sol mix in a bucket then i proceed to pour the mixture on the floor and mop it around but then when i let the sun dry it out it leaves my floor with these weird water stains on the floor.What is the proper way to mop a floor so i wont have to do it over and over?
Do you give it the second mopping with clean water, to get up the pine sol? You have to mop it twice.
Add a SMALL amount of cleaner to a full bucket of hot water. Dip the mop into the bucket to wet it, squeeze out excess water, then mop a section of floor. Rinse the mop in the hot water, squeeze out excess water and mop another section of floor. Once you're done, you rinse the mop and go over the whole floor again with fresh water.
You are leaving the dirty stuff on the floor? How are you picking up the Pinesol mixture? You wring out the mop, mop, clean in the solution, wring, mop, etc. Then clean mop in clear water and rinse floor by going over it again, changing water from time to time. The put a big bath towel under each foot and skate the floor dry to eliminate water streaks.
You wet the mop in the cleaning solution (hot water and Pine-sol is fine) and wring it out. Then you use the wet mop to clean the floor. You'll need to regularly dip the mop back into the solution, wring it, re-dip, and re-wring to clean out the dirt and grease from the mop in order to adequately clean the floor. Once you're done, you rinse the mop in warm water, wringing it several times until it's clean, and then go back over the floor with the water to get the cleaning solution up. Rinse the mop one more time, wring it out, and you're done.
