How to Use Cardboard Boxes to Protect Wood Floors
Wood floors are highly prized for their durability, longevity, ease of cleaning and the warm color they add to a room. However, their durability is not unlimited; sliding large pieces of furniture or other large heavy objects across a wood floor will often leave scratches in the finish and can even leave permanent scrapes in the wood itself that would not be fixed by refinishing. However, new furniture often comes with the very materials necessary to protect your wood floor as you move the furniture into place: cardboard boxes. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Cleaning materials for wood floors
- Cardboard boxes
- Assistant(s) (if needed)
Instructions
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Wash the floor along the path that you're going to move the furniture along. This will prevent small pieces of grit from getting trapped under the cardboard and scratching the floor as you move the furniture along it.
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Gently lift the furniture onto a flattened cardboard box or boxes so that the entire bottom of the piece of furniture is sitting on cardboard, not on the wood floor. This step might require two people, as well as enough cardboard to cover the entire base of the piece of furniture, either as a number of small boxes or one big cardboard box.
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Slide the furniture into place along the path you have cleaned, making sure that the cardboard stays in place as you slide along.
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Lift up half of the piece of furniture and pull out from under it one half of the cardboard if it is in separate pieces, then do the same with the other half. If you have just one big cardboard box, you will need two people to lift up the furniture, and a third person to pull the box out from underneath it.
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Tips & Warnings
Make sure that there are no staples in the cardboard you use to protect your floors as you slide furniture--they will badly scratch the finish of your floor.
