Every time I walk through the dining room, there it is, my big oops. Poked into the corner of the room, next to one of the food pantries is a whitish-grayish triangle, large enough to fit in a couple of small kid feet. Yup, I ruined a part of the dining room floor.
It happened the way these thing usually happen, I was trying to multitask past my allotted multitask amount, I had just a few more minutes to go before I had to start making dinner, and then my youngest hurt himself and needed attention.
I was trying to get the floors steamed as quickly as possible: the kitchen, the hallway, the half bathroom, the dining room and the living room. I put the steam mop down for just a moment to attend to my son, and forgot about it. I forgot that it was still hot and shouldn’t sit on the hardwood floor.
My husband found it later when he got home, lifted it up and revealed the ugly mark on the floor. The steam and water must have penetrated the wood, causing the wax that the previous owners used on the hardwood floor to rise up and make a stain.
I have few options at this point. I tried some home grown solutions, such as buffing it out with a mild abrasive, such as non-gel toothpaste, but that only went so far. The real solution will be to sand it lightly and then stain or coat it. The problem there is that I don’t know what the original coating was, so I’m not sure how to match it. We might just have to live with it until we can have all of the hardwood floors redone, something we are planning to do after some other repairs in the home.
Perhaps a large potted plant would look nice there.
This stain is not the only one in the dining room. We inherited a large oily stain in another part of the dining room floor that was there when we purchased the house.
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