That's why I like you Todd, your honest! I do the same, there's to much of a risk in wood. Especially where I live, because in many homes there's not real wood here (to expensive). So to many chances to take, not worth it for us. Unfortunately Todd I can't say the same about your candidate! But we're still TMF family!
when I clean hard wood floors, I have everything ready at my disposal, I treat it as a strip and wax except I rarely use scrub pads on a wood floor unless its horrible and real wood,, pergo I use a bonnet wetted with the cleaning chem I am using but basically,
1- sweep dust mop floor,,, I usually use my dust wand on the floor first
2- my squeegee wand is read and I spray the floor put the wand down and run the bonnet over
the floor to power mop it
3- change pads to water wetted damp bonnet and rinse followed by a dry bonnet
4- buff floor with a tan pad to get it ready for finish
5- if I am using floor finish I use NCL one (finest shine off the mop on the market) just made for wood in my opinion
6- use a flat finish mop and apply heavy so you don't have to do but one coat
7- stand back and admire the shine while im packing up,,
I don't recommend ever to flood floor like a basic strip and wax on wood,, use the bonnets to do the dirty work and if need be spray and area scrub with red pad and immediately put on a bonnet to pick it up and follow with rinse bonnets ,,, let the 175 do all the work
usually on Fridays I do service work on a lot of my wood houses,,,, I charge triple what its worth,, basically I use a damp bonnet with neutral floor cleaner, and clean the floor really fast, switch to dry bonnet and start buffing floor, then hit with white or champagne pad to buff,,, if I need to add finish I do but usually I don't,,, im talking only thing I take in the house is squirt bottle pads and 175 and do the houses in 30- 45 mins , and 350$ min charge.
