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3catwoman3

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3. When we had our house built in 1994, I chose a textured linoleum...

Reply to intrepidity (Original post)

Thu Feb 23, 2023, 06:49 PM

Feb 2023

…for the kitchen floor. I really liked the pattern. Little did I realize that it would be damn near impossible to clean because of the textured surface. Dirty water would settle into the little pits that were part of the textured design.

Our sons at the time were 1 1/2 and 4, a really messy age. I had to clean the floor very a lot, and within a matter of weeks, I was referring to it as “my goddamned, son-of-a-bitching, mother-fucking kitchen floor.” When we redid the kitchen, we did an untextured tile floor.

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Unable to clean certain surfaces; a new phenomenon? [View all] intrepidity Feb 2023 OP

older surfaces have micropits and scratches that tend to hold dirt Kali Feb 2023 #1

With some of these plastics, it seems electrocharge related somehow intrepidity Feb 2023 #4

I find the same problem with certain... ret5hd Feb 2023 #2

It's as though the pressure washer and steam cleaner folks got together intrepidity Feb 2023 #6

When we had our house built in 1994, I chose a textured linoleum... 3catwoman3 Feb 2023 #3

Ugh!! I have shower tiles like that intrepidity Feb 2023 #5