How to Clean Wood Floors of Animal Feces

When your pet has an accident on your wood floors, you will need to know how to effectively clean it up without ruining your floors. By reviewing a few simple suggestions, you will learn how to clean wood floors of animal feces, simply and effectively.

Remove as much material as you can. To clean wood floors of animal feces, you'll first need to remove as much of the solid material as you can first. Make sure that when picking up animal feces, you wear gloves or otherwise scoop it up without touching your skin. If some of the material does make contact with your skin, wash your hands with soap and water.

Clean off semi-solid material. After you have removed the feces from the wood floors, wipe away any semi-solid or wet material left behind. All wet and semi-solid material needs to be removed as soon as possible before it hardens; if you wait too long, the material will get so hard that you may have to scrape it off and this might ruin the finish of your wood floors.

Use white vinegar. Using approximately one-half cup of white vinegar to one-gallon of water, combine the mixture to clean wood floors of animal feces. Make sure the water is warm to hot, and using a sponge mop, squeeze out the excess liquid. Next, mop the area with firm back and forth strokes to make sure all traces of fecal material have been removed. White vinegar is a non-toxic cleaner, and after a few hours, all traces of the vinegar odor will be gone, leaving only a fresh, clean scent behind.