Damp microfibre, pH-neutral cleaner, no steam. The routine that keeps a hybrid floor looking new, and the four things that quietly ruin one.
Sweep or vacuum with a soft brush head, then mop with a well-wrung microfibre mop using plain warm water or a pH-neutral floor cleaner. Do not use a steam mop, harsh chemicals, abrasive pads or a lot of water. That is the entire routine, and it takes about five minutes a room.
Last reviewed September 2026
There is not much to it, and that is the point of the product.
The thing that actually wears a floor is sand and grit tracked in on shoes. Walked across a surface, it acts like fine sandpaper, and it dulls a wear layer far faster than any amount of ordinary use.
Which means the highest-value floor maintenance you can do is not cleaning at all — it is stopping grit at the door. A decent mat at every external entrance removes most of it.
This is also why sweeping before mopping matters. Mopping a gritty floor drags the grit around under the mop head.
A flat microfibre mop, wrung out until it is damp rather than wet. Plain warm water handles most of it; a pH-neutral floor cleaner handles the rest.
pH-neutral matters. Strongly alkaline cleaners — including some general-purpose sprays and most oil soaps — can dull a wear layer or leave a film that attracts dirt faster than the floor did before you cleaned it.
If the floor looks streaky or feels tacky after cleaning, you are using too much product or too much water, not too little.
Steam mops should not be used unless specifically permitted by the applicable product care and warranty documentation.
Waterproof flooring does not automatically mean steam cleaning is suitable. That is the confusion the whole category suffers from, and it is worth stating plainly: a waterproof core resists water. A steam mop applies heat and pressurised moisture, which is a different stress entirely, and heat is what can affect the adhesive bonds between a plank's layers.
We recommend avoiding steam mops and excessive water when maintaining the flooring. The final care requirements come with each collection's warranty and maintenance documentation.
None of these are dramatic. They are all slow.
Scuffs from shoes usually come off with a dry microfibre cloth, or with a little pressure and a damp one. Do not reach for an abrasive.
Grease near a cooktop needs a pH-neutral cleaner and a bit of dwell time rather than scrubbing.
Pet accidents should be cleaned promptly with an enzymatic cleaner, mainly for odour — the floor itself will be fine.
Rubber marks from castors or shoe soles are the stubborn ones. A soft cloth with a small amount of isopropyl alcohol usually lifts them; test in a corner first.
Felt pads under every chair leg, and check them twice a year. A felt pad that has worn through or embedded a piece of grit is worse than no pad at all.
Soft rubber castors rather than hard plastic on anything that rolls — office chairs and bar stools are the usual offenders.
Keep pet nails trimmed. Hybrid handles claws better than timber, but nothing is scratch-proof.
Put hardboard down before sliding an appliance in or out. Most serious scratches happen during a delivery, not during ordinary life.
A light surface scratch in the wear layer usually cannot be repaired, but it also usually cannot be seen from standing height. Deeper damage through the decor layer means replacing the plank.
On a floating floor, replacing a single board is genuinely feasible — the floor can be unclicked back to the damaged plank and reassembled, which is one of the underrated advantages of the construction.
Spare and replacement planks can be purchased subject to current stock availability.
But keep the offcuts from your original installation if you possibly can. Normal production-batch variation means a plank bought two years later may not match exactly, even in the same colour from the same range — that is true of every manufacturer, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing.
A few spare boards in the garage is the cheapest insurance against a future repair looking like a repair.
Everything above is the general routine and it applies across our ranges. Laminate has different moisture limitations from hybrid and its own specific care requirements.
The SILVA and AXEN warranty documents name the cleaning failures that void cover, and they are worth knowing because most of them look harmless: steam mops, abrasive cleaners and pads, waxes, polishes, strong solvents, and excessive water. Steam mops are the one people are most surprised by — forcing hot vapour into a click joint is exactly the moisture path the core was never meant to seal.
The matching installation guides also ask for felt protectors under furniture and entrance mats at doorways. Grit tracked in from outside is the single largest cause of wear-layer damage, and the warranties exclude damage caused by grit and sand — it is not a manufacturing defect.
TITAN's care document is being finalised. Ask us for the one covering your range and we will send it.
Yes — the stone-plastic core is waterproof and will not swell, warp or delaminate from normal moisture, which is why hybrid suits kitchens and laundries. But waterproof is not flood-proof: water from a burst pipe, a slow leak or a damp slab can still cause damage, and that is usually excluded from warranty cover.
Hybrid, in almost every case. A kitchen combines standing water, dropped weight, point loads from appliances and constant traffic, and hybrid's waterproof stone-plastic core is the only one of our constructions that handles all four without qualification. Laminate is the better floor in a dry room, and a kitchen is not one.
Hybrid flooring is a rigid plank built around a waterproof stone-plastic composite core, with a printed timber-look decor layer, a clear wear layer on top and acoustic underlay already attached underneath. It clicks together as a floating floor, needs no glue or nails, and handles moisture that would destroy a laminate.
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