Properly Cleaning a Round Dining Table

11/23/2011 14:45

If you haven't noticed, the dining table is one of the most used and abused pieces of furniture in the home. This is not intentional, it just happens because of the type of activity that goes on around and on the dining room table.

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Meal after meal after meals is served on the dining room table. All of those meals mean the potential for lots of spills, mess and problems on the table. Any spills on a round dining table can cause issues with the table surface. The best way to try to avoid spills is to make sure there is something to catch those spills underneath each plate that you put on the table to serve a meal. For example a tablecloth is a brilliant way to try and catch any spills that could be happening. However, a tablecloth may not be enough to catch the spills because some of them could sink through. So you may want to put a protective cover underneath the tablecloth to keep any spills from seeping through.

The next thing you need to think about on a round dining table is drinks that can also be spilled on the surface as well as temperature changes from drinks that are set on the surface of the table. You are going to want to make sure there is a coaster or something similar under each and every glass.

Another thing to think about is all the utensils, plates, etc that the people who are enjoying a meal are going to be using. Perhaps when someone is cutting their meat, the plate is going to slide across the top of the table. Maybe they dropped their utensils because they are a little uncoordinated or are talking with their hands. No matter what the reason they can easily slide some of those hard pieces of china or silverware across your tabletop surface. This is an easy way to scratch and mar the finish of your table.

So to prevent that from happening what you need to make sure to do is protect your table. You should always make sure there are placemats beneath the plates, silverware and other items that you are serving your guests with.

Next you have to consider the threats that come from around the table. Even though you have a round dining table that should be easy to maneuver about, many people are going to move quickly around the table and bump into it, bang into it and depending on what they are wearing or carrying at the time, they could have a hard item that is going to scratch, dent or ding the edge of the table. There really isn't a protection against this other than to try and make sure there is ample space so people don't have to try to cut it too close.

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The next thing you need to think about is your dining room table chairs. Again, with a round dining table you would think people could scoot in and out of their table space relatively easily. But sometimes, they scoot the chair in too far when they are getting up and bang it against the table. Some chairs have soft surfaces that are going to bang against the table, which will keep it from marring and dinging. Others do not. In this case, once again, try to offer ample space around the table to keep people from thinking they have to push that chair in that extra little bit.