For many, ’tis the season for dragging a tree across your living room floor, placing it in a metal base, and watering it to keep it from drying out.  Maybe that’s not a very festive way of putting it.  But the point is, when you’ve got a real Christmas tree, it has an impact on the rest of your life too, including your floors.

Here’s an article which submits a few Christmas tree tips when you’ve got a real tree and wood flooring too.   And for good measure, there are a few tips too about controlling moisture and foot traffic that comes with having friends and family over.

Here are a few suggested the article makes:

• Put a plastic sheet down beneath the base, so that when you water the tree, your floors won’t suffer from any spillage
• Watch for increased ‘pet activity’, by which I mean pee.  Think about it.  You’ve put a tree in your living room.
• To control spills, and moisture from the boots of visitors, dry mop spills as soon as they happen.

I love Christmas, and all of the things that go with it.  But, sometimes when I think about it in a certain way, it seems absolutely absurd to put a tree in my living room.   Sometimes, I think it’s just a weird thing to want to do.  Still, as long as we’re doing it, it makes sense to get the best practices on it, like anything else.

Cheers!

Rob.

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