Floor Care Products for Timber Floors
Start with your finish, not the bottle
A timber floor wants a cleaner matched to its finish. Lacquered and oiled floors behave differently, and the wrong product will dull a good floor over time. Pick your finish below and we will show you the cleaners, soaps and maintenance oils that suit it.
Two finishes, two routines
Lacquer sits on top of the timber as a sealed film. You are cleaning the coating, so a pH-neutral cleaner keeps it clear and the timber never gets wet.
Oil soaks into the grain and leaves the timber open. It is cleaned with a soap that puts a little oil back each wash, and topped up with a maintenance oil when it starts to look thirsty.
Same floor, different chemistry. That is the whole reason this page splits in two.
Find your products
For lacquered floors
Everyday cleaners, spray mops and polish for floors with a lacquer or hardwax coating. Most modern engineered floors sit here.
Shop lacquered floor care →
For oiled floors
Floor soaps, intensive cleaners and maintenance oils for oiled and natural-finish floors that need feeding as well as cleaning.
Shop oiled floor care →A quick way to tell
Put a drop of water on the floor in a spot no one sees. If it beads and sits there, the floor is most likely lacquered. If it darkens the timber and soaks in slowly, it is most likely oiled. If you bought the floor from us, ask your rep and we will check the order.
Our guide to cleaning and maintaining timber floors walks through the routine for both finishes, including what to keep off the floor.
FirstFloor, our own floor-care brand
FirstFloor is Vienna Woods' floor-care brand. It carries the timber range you see here, plus care for the rest of the hard floors in the house, and it ships nationwide.
Browse the FirstFloor timber floor-care range, or start at the FirstFloor floor-care store.
Related
Cleaning and maintenance
The routine we recommend, the mistakes that do real damage, and how to refresh a floor that has gone flat.
Read the care guide →Maintenance oil, step by step
How to re-oil an oiled floor yourself, from prep to drying time, without hiring anyone.
Read the DIY guide →The flooring range
Engineered European oak in a range of grades, formats and finishes. Order samples and see them in your own light.
See the collections →Not sure what your floor needs?
Tell us the floor and the finish and we will point you at the right product. No hard sell, and no guessing.