Cleaning with ammonia?

[pumpkin]

I am wanting to give my new floors a good cleaning before I move in. On a regular basis I tend to clean such floors with vinegar and water but for a really good move-in clean a co-worker was suggesting I use ammonia and water. She was saying something about it really cleaning them, but not smelling as bad as bleach. Has anyone cleaned with ammonia before and can give me any pointers? Or, how do you really clean your kitchen and bathroom floors when moving into a new place?

[pitterwoo]

Personally I think ammonia is way worse with fumes. I only use it to clean my oven drip pans. And even then I set them on the back porch to soak. I'm a cleaning wuss though, but I would use the vinegar water.

[pumpkin]

I was originally going to use vinegar and water so may just stick with that.

[jena]

I had to use ammonia to clean floors in college. The fumes are horrific. If you really want to do it, you'll need to open every window and door in the house and have all the fans you own blowing fresh air in and fumes out.

We had to use ammonia because the floors were waxed with those big industrial buffers, but when the floor wax gets too many scratches and too much embedded dirt, you have to strip the floors and start over.

Unless someone actually waxed the floors or made a mess of them with those shine and glo type things and the surface seems uneven, I would avoid ammonia.

[sierramist03]

I use ammonia sparely. I like the way it gets grease off my black stove and microwave though. I would stick to your vinegar/water.

[IIOY]

Aug 24, 2012 12:18:33 GMT -5 pitterwoo said:

Personally I think ammonia is way worse with fumes. I only use it to clean my oven drip pans. And even then I set them on the back porch to soak..

Ditto all of the above.

[Deleted]

Another vote for vinegar and plain water. Ammonia fumes are awful - they can make your lungs burn if you breathe it in for too long.