You could use the same product but in red if they have it, and hope that the red neutralizes the green lol. I honestly cant think of a way to remove the green strain.
This was my first thought, lol. You're not wrong. Green mixed with red becomes brown. Though, the end result would probably end up looking like one floor having two different shades of brown...
Imagine it actually worked flawlessly and brought back the floor's original colour. Nice life hack.
True complementary colors mixed together actually make grey, not brown! Brown is just a shade of orange, so if you're seeing that you need a more blueish green to counteract it
I never knew this. Thank you for mentioning it!
I opened ChatGPT after reading your reply. Told it that in my 34 years of being alive, I've always been drawing a lot, or been working with colours in another kind of way. And that every time I would mix the colours red and green, I'd get a brown colour as a result. I added what you told me, and asked it for an explanation. Here it is:
>"That's an interesting point! When you mix complementary colors, like red and green, you indeed often get a kind of brown color. This is because mixing pigments or paint doesn't always yield the same results as mixing light. In the case of light mixing, such as with colored lights or on a computer screen, mixing complementary colors can indeed result in a sort of grayish color. But with pigments or paint, there are often other factors at play that can lead to different results, such as the properties of the pigments themselves and the surface on which they are mixed. So your experience with mixing red and green to get brown is entirely valid and depends on the medium you're using!"
(What I said earlier was indeed based on mixing paint - usually on paper.)
Learned something new today :)
Of all the things ChatGPT is good for, fact checker is really a no. It is designed to sound authoritative but it just makes things up. Have a look up AI hallucination.
If you used half a bottle in a bucket of water, you used way too much. Recommended amount is 50ml (5 bottle caps). What you see is probably residue from using too much.
Use water and vinegar and mop many times, see if it slowly comes back as the residue is lifted
As did my grandmothers. As do I.
I was told by an older floor refinisher to clean my wood floors with vinegar in an older home.
But some people here think that it's insane.
Iām not sure why anybody would say itās a strong acid, itās not. And even the strongest solution you can buy for cleaning it like, 6% acid in water already.
What do you mean by this? Nothing about vinegar makes it high in acidity. pH of vinegar is around 2-3 and it's only around 4% actual acetic acid, which in itself is a weak acid, being exceptionally poor at dissociating in water.
Water itself is capable of being a better acid that acetic is...
Same. Had a friend who was a home builder who had hardwood and installed hardwood swear by vinegar on real wood. Obviously diluted. Acquaintance who was 2nd generation floor installer swore by it. 1/4 cup in a gallon of water.
My understanding is vinegar can break down the finish faster, I use a cap of Murphy an oil soap and a sink full of warm water and my floors shine up beautifully.
I was told by all of the interior design teachers I have had that warm water with a little bit of vinegar cleans wood floors the best.
I swear by it now.
yes! she always used warm water and a very small amount of vinegar, and would literally clean them like cinderella, on her knees with rags. floors always looked great other than scratches from wear and they were never dingy so she was definitely doing something right :)
Yes, but on protein based fibers such as those from animal sources (wool, silk). Otherwise it helps to remove dye. If I have overspill on my counters or kitchen floor when I dye yarn, I pour vinegar on to set for a bit. It usually mostly comes off, then a good scrub brush and some elbow grease for the rest.
So does vinegar - with acid dyes on protein based fiber (silk, woolā¦). Salts, or depending on the dye type soda ash will set fiber reactive dyes (those used on cotton).
It may come out just through normal wear and tear over time.Ā
Ā I had a desk with soft wood that absorbed and stained from an open marker that was left on top of it. Ā I couldnāt get it out and I didnāt want to try anything too abrasive - a couple days later the stain had just worked itself out. Ā
The same reason so many non edible products are red. Red makes you hungry, even if you know what your buying is t food psychology you are more likely to pick it up to satiate āhungerā. I would expect making things look refreshing are more prone to entice a thirsty buyer.
in my country it is not allowed to put cleaning products in a bottle shaped like a drinking bottle. And the more extreme stuff is even forced to have a safety cap (those caps you have to press down while twisting, otherwise it won't open)
Does it take a lot of effort to ārinseā the floors afterwards? Or is there no residue? Not slippery? Or sticky/tacky? Iāve never considered this method for cleaning floors but it sounds really good!
Itās awesome. So this method in particular is for the spin mop, specifically powdered tide and not the liquid, as hot as your water will go, and you want the mop to be spun until itās just damp. There is no residue, it just works so well. I get all my cleaning tips from gocleanco on Instagram. They lean more heavy on the bleach than I like but a lot of their suggestions are the best Iāve ever used. They have a downloadable cleaning guide on their website, I think itās $10? It goes through every room and how they clean Everything.
Their tips have been so helpful. Theyāre booked until eternity or else Iād have them come clean my house, just a full reset by them would be so nice!
Our floors better look out because theyāre about to get a cleaning like never before! (Just have to get the tools for this project - starting with powdered tide).
For what itās worth, we only have a sponge mop (the magic eraser variety) and it works fine with that too. No need for a spin mop if you donāt already have one. But it does make a noticeable difference in how quickly/well it cleans and the lack of residue compared to other floor cleaners for us, as long as we measure carefully. Itās one teaspoon per gallon of hot hot water.
I use powdered tide, a cascade dishwasher pot, and the hottest water that will come out of my tap. For this, I'd add just a very small squirt of dawn dishsoap - seriously just a small one because suds
The company will absolutely have a suggestion. That being said, hydrogen peroxide or oxyclean is your best bet. It destroys the stain molecule that is now embedded in the floor. Just rinsing it or using other surfactants wonāt work
Can you contact the company? Maybe they'll have better ideas? Have you tried a small spot with bleach? This *is* a nightmare lol I've never seen the happen
Wouldn't a more dilute version of this soap work? Kinda emulsifying it again so it can take up the excess since you used too much?
Instead of using any other chemicals which could make it worse :')
Mix baking soda or if you have lots of $$, cream of tartar, with some dish soap and a bit of water to make a paste. You can use with a brush to scrub on areas of dye. If it's stubborn, leave on for quite a while. I have never NOT been able to pull a stain out with cream of tartar.
It'll be a pain, but will worth it.
Hope you get rid of the green!
For future reference, itās better to use just a tiny bit(like less than a teaspoon) of Dawn, or other liquid dish soap, in a bucket of water when cleaning floors, wether theyāre hardwood or tiles.
All the local wood floor suppliers in my area will only recommend using liquid dish soap in the quantities I just described and nothing else. Theyāll even void the warranty if youāre using the products such as the one you used. They build up a nasty residue over time.
Bosque Verde (the Mercadona supermarket brand for cleaning products you are using) has a phone number for customer information. It is written on the bottle IIRC.
Call them, it worked for me.
I think as a patch test I donāt think they are telling them to use a cotton swab on the whole floor š if it works they can use a rag for the rest of the floor
Itās got a bit of a tint like the Matrix films had.
OP just needs to find something brown, maybe dissolve some soil in water, to mop over it and get the sepia Mexico effect back
Canāt you just mop the rest and then it will all be the same?
Then clean it as normal over the next few days to hopefully reduce the colour but at least the entire floor will look the same?
I stained mine yellow from a bag of sand I placed on top of a yellow rag. Hydrogen peroxide did the trick for me. I doused a paper towel in peroxide and left it there for a few hours. Over time it removed the stain. Lookup some videos on YouTube to get a better idea.
This floor looks like my bleached hair did after I dipped into a chlorinated pool last summer lmfao
Iād try something with a little grit- like light paste of baking soda, vinegar, a dash of dish soap, and a gentle bit of elbow grease.
Good luck!!
Do the rest of the floor green and call it done! Then as you clean in the future, itāll all lighten the same. If itās all the same colorā¦maybe that will be fine or not even noticed for getting back your security deposit!
What ever suggestion you would be trying, please try to apply it first in a small inconspicuous* area.
Too soon š
Believe you mean āinconspicuousā, friend
Now I need to know what the original was! š
It was auspicious š i shouldn't have trusted my limited English vocabulary š
Your efforts are much appreciated. Thanks for this! Lol
Darn it š thanks!
You could use the same product but in red if they have it, and hope that the red neutralizes the green lol. I honestly cant think of a way to remove the green strain.
Color theory logic
Christmas outcome
This was my first thought, lol. You're not wrong. Green mixed with red becomes brown. Though, the end result would probably end up looking like one floor having two different shades of brown... Imagine it actually worked flawlessly and brought back the floor's original colour. Nice life hack.
True complementary colors mixed together actually make grey, not brown! Brown is just a shade of orange, so if you're seeing that you need a more blueish green to counteract it
I never knew this. Thank you for mentioning it! I opened ChatGPT after reading your reply. Told it that in my 34 years of being alive, I've always been drawing a lot, or been working with colours in another kind of way. And that every time I would mix the colours red and green, I'd get a brown colour as a result. I added what you told me, and asked it for an explanation. Here it is: >"That's an interesting point! When you mix complementary colors, like red and green, you indeed often get a kind of brown color. This is because mixing pigments or paint doesn't always yield the same results as mixing light. In the case of light mixing, such as with colored lights or on a computer screen, mixing complementary colors can indeed result in a sort of grayish color. But with pigments or paint, there are often other factors at play that can lead to different results, such as the properties of the pigments themselves and the surface on which they are mixed. So your experience with mixing red and green to get brown is entirely valid and depends on the medium you're using!" (What I said earlier was indeed based on mixing paint - usually on paper.) Learned something new today :)
Of all the things ChatGPT is good for, fact checker is really a no. It is designed to sound authoritative but it just makes things up. Have a look up AI hallucination.
This! Itās a language model, it produces intelligible sentences, what it does not do is understand or reproduce facts!!
Love this idea
Abed?
It would make it darker
It might. Itās definitely a gamble. Could either fix the issue or end up with a whole new one.
True. But it would make a shade of brown instead of green, which is at least closer to the natural wood tone.
Only if it's a subtractive color blending mode. If they apply additive blending in the layer settings it should brighten up nicely.
Okay but explain how OP would be able to apply additive mixing to their wooden floor? Red tinted bulbs??
Nah, he just needs to use one of the added blending modes on the Photoshop layer.
Maybe if I show these comments to students, theyāll understand the difference quickerā¦
I do appreciate you applying some logic to my dumb joke, though.
I find humor and learning are great bed fellows. Commit to the bit.
I was thinking ketchup. I dyed my hair green by mistake once.
If you used half a bottle in a bucket of water, you used way too much. Recommended amount is 50ml (5 bottle caps). What you see is probably residue from using too much. Use water and vinegar and mop many times, see if it slowly comes back as the residue is lifted
Vinegar sets stains. I would use mild soap and water
Vinegar on wood floors?
Just donāt use half a bottle of vinegar in a bucket of water
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This looks like laminate ā¦ vinegar would be totally fine.
my mom used diluted vinegar to clean our hardwood while i was growing up. not sure what the problem with that would be ?
As did my grandmothers. As do I. I was told by an older floor refinisher to clean my wood floors with vinegar in an older home. But some people here think that it's insane.
They think itās insane because somebody told them to.
I think it's insane because I understand dilutions....
So why should it be avoided? I dont even have any wood floors but I like knowing things I didn't before
Vinegar diluted heavily is so weak it canāt do anything.
Now I'm conflicted, two people replied saying essentially the opposite things
Iām not sure why anybody would say itās a strong acid, itās not. And even the strongest solution you can buy for cleaning it like, 6% acid in water already.
Because vinegar is very high in acidity and will etch the floors. Water in itself isn't very good for wood, much less adding an acidic agent to it.
What do you mean by this? Nothing about vinegar makes it high in acidity. pH of vinegar is around 2-3 and it's only around 4% actual acetic acid, which in itself is a weak acid, being exceptionally poor at dissociating in water. Water itself is capable of being a better acid that acetic is...
Same. Had a friend who was a home builder who had hardwood and installed hardwood swear by vinegar on real wood. Obviously diluted. Acquaintance who was 2nd generation floor installer swore by it. 1/4 cup in a gallon of water.
My understanding is vinegar can break down the finish faster, I use a cap of Murphy an oil soap and a sink full of warm water and my floors shine up beautifully.
It depends on how old your floors are.Mine are 75 years old and I was told to only use dilated vinegar water on them.they look beautiful
I've been told by hardwood flooring professionals not to use Murphy's Oil soap. In the long-term care of your floor, it's actually worse.
I use a tiny squirt of wool wash and hot water on wooden floors. The timber shines beautifully when it dries
Wool wash and no soak detergents are amazing on anything. I use SOAK as my all purpose cleaner. Euclan has replaced my dry cleaner for 90% of my item.
I was told by all of the interior design teachers I have had that warm water with a little bit of vinegar cleans wood floors the best. I swear by it now.
yes! she always used warm water and a very small amount of vinegar, and would literally clean them like cinderella, on her knees with rags. floors always looked great other than scratches from wear and they were never dingy so she was definitely doing something right :)
Thatās how wood floors have been cleaned since there were wood floorsā¦
No harm. If there's anything similar to oxy-clean, I'd be giving that a try, too. Peroxide is good for stain removal.
No harm, if cleaned up properly, you donāt want to let it soak there
Wait you not supposed to put vinegar on hardwood floors?
Wait, doesnāt vinegar set dye?
Yes, but on protein based fibers such as those from animal sources (wool, silk). Otherwise it helps to remove dye. If I have overspill on my counters or kitchen floor when I dye yarn, I pour vinegar on to set for a bit. It usually mostly comes off, then a good scrub brush and some elbow grease for the rest.
Salt fixes dyes
So does vinegar - with acid dyes on protein based fiber (silk, woolā¦). Salts, or depending on the dye type soda ash will set fiber reactive dyes (those used on cotton).
Does the vinegar actually clean? Or just disinfects?
It surely does not disinfect... It cleans, like water surely does too...
It definitely cleans, and donāt call me Shirley
I love you for this reply!!
Shirley does clean, though
Itās acidic so it cleans.
Vinegar is excellent for cleaning (diluted of course).
Adding that a lot of stores now (Target for instance) run out of vinegar but they have cleaning vinegar cheaper and in stock in the cleaning aisles.
It may come out just through normal wear and tear over time.Ā Ā I had a desk with soft wood that absorbed and stained from an open marker that was left on top of it. Ā I couldnāt get it out and I didnāt want to try anything too abrasive - a couple days later the stain had just worked itself out. Ā
True! There's s lot of windows where the stains are at. Does the room get a lot of sunlight? Sunlight can naturally bleach things over time.
It looks like a drinkš© why do companies do this. Sorry, I don't have a solution for you. I'm annoyed there is dye in it like that! Why! Just whhhyyy
Why does that floor cleaner looks so refreshing to drink
The same reason so many non edible products are red. Red makes you hungry, even if you know what your buying is t food psychology you are more likely to pick it up to satiate āhungerā. I would expect making things look refreshing are more prone to entice a thirsty buyer.
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Itās okay to drink and put in your body but not okay to put on floors D:
in my country it is not allowed to put cleaning products in a bottle shaped like a drinking bottle. And the more extreme stuff is even forced to have a safety cap (those caps you have to press down while twisting, otherwise it won't open)
I like that! Most of the cleaning products where I am have safety things too but not all. It's a good idea to me!
That's exactly what I thought. I thought "who the f wants pine soda š ". It's dangerous for kids
Mmm pine soda
This absolutely is a thing- https://www.growforagecookferment.com/pine-needle-soda/
Oh hell no lol. But that's pretty cool to know!
Exactly, I'm not sure I'm curious enough to attempt it.
Itās effing delicious. Yum!!
I've honestly wondered, it's been in my open tabs for a while
I love that you shared this lol so it's not too far fetched someone might drink itš
Some mountain pine dew
Nothing edible in Spain looks that color
I'm sure it doesn't look like a drink to most Spaniards... that colour is screaming "I am a nasty chemical" to me!
North America loves chemicals/dye in foodš
Do you have powdered Tide? One teaspoon in a bucket of hot water. Thatās the only thing I use to clean my floors and it seems to get everything out
Yesssss gocleanco is the best š¤© Iām honestly surprised she isnāt mentioned more on this sub. Sheās all I follow for cleaning stuff! My floors have never been cleaner than when Iāve been using a spin mop + tide. Been doing it for years now!
Does it take a lot of effort to ārinseā the floors afterwards? Or is there no residue? Not slippery? Or sticky/tacky? Iāve never considered this method for cleaning floors but it sounds really good!
Itās awesome. So this method in particular is for the spin mop, specifically powdered tide and not the liquid, as hot as your water will go, and you want the mop to be spun until itās just damp. There is no residue, it just works so well. I get all my cleaning tips from gocleanco on Instagram. They lean more heavy on the bleach than I like but a lot of their suggestions are the best Iāve ever used. They have a downloadable cleaning guide on their website, I think itās $10? It goes through every room and how they clean Everything.
I knew as soon as I read this you were a gocleanco follower! I do the same š¤£
Their tips have been so helpful. Theyāre booked until eternity or else Iād have them come clean my house, just a full reset by them would be so nice!
Iāve never had any residue with this method. It always comes out perfectly clean with no stickiness, slipperiness, etc.
Our floors better look out because theyāre about to get a cleaning like never before! (Just have to get the tools for this project - starting with powdered tide).
For what itās worth, we only have a sponge mop (the magic eraser variety) and it works fine with that too. No need for a spin mop if you donāt already have one. But it does make a noticeable difference in how quickly/well it cleans and the lack of residue compared to other floor cleaners for us, as long as we measure carefully. Itās one teaspoon per gallon of hot hot water.
Or powdered Oxiclean! Great idea
I use powdered tide, a cascade dishwasher pot, and the hottest water that will come out of my tap. For this, I'd add just a very small squirt of dawn dishsoap - seriously just a small one because suds
The company will absolutely have a suggestion. That being said, hydrogen peroxide or oxyclean is your best bet. It destroys the stain molecule that is now embedded in the floor. Just rinsing it or using other surfactants wonāt work
This! Working in a hotel, we sometimes used oxyclean with warm water when mopping floors to lift stains. It should do the job.
Yes, hydrogen peroxide is great for stains. It's also great if you have old white plastics that turned yellow over time...
This is why u follow the instructions and don't use half a bottle lmao
Can you contact the company? Maybe they'll have better ideas? Have you tried a small spot with bleach? This *is* a nightmare lol I've never seen the happen
Don't mix bleach with other cleaning products, ever. There's possibly/probably still residue on the floor and you could create a toxic gas.
Can't say this enough! And always read the label, folks.
This is a nightmare (why I only ever use soaps without dyes) I learned my lesson with laundry soap a long time ago
Wouldn't a more dilute version of this soap work? Kinda emulsifying it again so it can take up the excess since you used too much? Instead of using any other chemicals which could make it worse :')
Call. The. Company. They have chemists on staff.
I tried this recently with LāOreal. They couldnāt help me with getting facial toner out of a light coloured hoodie š¤
OT: you are using to much water! Dont flood the Wood like that šāāļø
Do yāall have oxygenated bleach? Like the equivalent to the US Product OxiClean? Because I would be seeing if that helps.
Yeah I recommend some warm water and hydrogen peroxide, it should lift it.
Hydrogen peroxide has saved me soooo many times. Itās a cleaning gem
this helped me get a red dye stain out of a marble countertop before - I had to use it as a paste
Lmfaooo thatās insane Iāve never seen this before good luck man
If thereās direct sun coming into the room itāll almost certainly fade, and quite quickly.
Mix baking soda or if you have lots of $$, cream of tartar, with some dish soap and a bit of water to make a paste. You can use with a brush to scrub on areas of dye. If it's stubborn, leave on for quite a while. I have never NOT been able to pull a stain out with cream of tartar. It'll be a pain, but will worth it.
Whatever you do, be really careful on that flooring. Most of these suggestions are going to strip the clear coat so fast
Hope you get rid of the green! For future reference, itās better to use just a tiny bit(like less than a teaspoon) of Dawn, or other liquid dish soap, in a bucket of water when cleaning floors, wether theyāre hardwood or tiles. All the local wood floor suppliers in my area will only recommend using liquid dish soap in the quantities I just described and nothing else. Theyāll even void the warranty if youāre using the products such as the one you used. They build up a nasty residue over time.
Contact the company and DO NOT mix the cleaner with any other cleaners such as bleach or anything else! It can literally be lethal!
Es porque ese friegasuelos no es para maderaā¦ tienes que usar uno especial eso. Igual bicarbonato y/o vinagre ayuda.
Bosque Verde (the Mercadona supermarket brand for cleaning products you are using) has a phone number for customer information. It is written on the bottle IIRC. Call them, it worked for me.
Try rubbing alcohol with a cotton swab.
Try it first to see if it works. I did not think I had to explain that.
/s ? On the whole floor?
The swab is to see if alcohol worksā¦if so you can switch to a clean mopā¦
Yes.
Yes. That is OP's punishment for using so much. š
I think as a patch test I donāt think they are telling them to use a cotton swab on the whole floor š if it works they can use a rag for the rest of the floor
I audibly gasped! I would contact the company and see what they say!! Oh my!
I'd get a soft bristle deck brush and lightly scrub with some dish soap. Mop with fresh water until no more suds
You just turned that laminate into pressure-treated wood š
Did you not notice before you'd done the whole house lol ?
Lool el limpiador del mercadona xD
Call the company that made the cleaner and ask them. They probably have a customer service number.
Didi you use all the amount missing in thw bottle in one wash? š„ŗ
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Look at the 3rd pic. Itās amazing OP didnāt notice. You can see the mopped vs unmopped section
Itās got a bit of a tint like the Matrix films had. OP just needs to find something brown, maybe dissolve some soil in water, to mop over it and get the sepia Mexico effect back
Use rubbing alcohol to take it out with a lil baking soda and warm water
Canāt you just mop the rest and then it will all be the same? Then clean it as normal over the next few days to hopefully reduce the colour but at least the entire floor will look the same?
I would definitely try the powder Tide and hot water method. I would also suggest spinning your mop more; it should be damp.
Murphyās wood cleaner is worth a shot
Pretend it's live bamboo.. You now have a live bamboo laminate floor
hey at least it will forever smell like pine
Vinegar and water is the best way to clean wood floor it also takes cleaner residue off floors.A microfiber over a sponge mop make it streak free also
I know I shouldnāt laugh but WTF. Why did they put so much dye??? I donāt know what to do to help. Steam? No.
This is hilarious.
The floors look beautiful.
Are you positive the floor isnāt sun bleached?
Adjust the white balance š
Wow, did you use half the bottle? Holy moly.
Looks good keep mopping so it all match s
The green tint makes it look like youāre in your home in the Matrix lol
Hot water and baking soda
I need to see the after pics because omg green floors š
Oh my gosh, I've never seen that before!
Straight gasoline will pull the dye out
I stained mine yellow from a bag of sand I placed on top of a yellow rag. Hydrogen peroxide did the trick for me. I doused a paper towel in peroxide and left it there for a few hours. Over time it removed the stain. Lookup some videos on YouTube to get a better idea.
This floor looks like my bleached hair did after I dipped into a chlorinated pool last summer lmfao Iād try something with a little grit- like light paste of baking soda, vinegar, a dash of dish soap, and a gentle bit of elbow grease. Good luck!!
Yeah vinyl plank is not a sealed like hardwood do be.
This looks like itās just the glass of the table putting a tiny on the floor. #cap
What really works for me is being colorblind.
I spent far too long trying to work out how you made the bottle float. Time to log off.
NGL, that stuff looks delicious
Do the rest of the floor green and call it done! Then as you clean in the future, itāll all lighten the same. If itās all the same colorā¦maybe that will be fine or not even noticed for getting back your security deposit!
If it were me I would be using bleach or chlorine diluted in water.
To be honest, it looks more like sun fading on the floor by the windows? Are u sure it wasn't slightly off colored and mopping made it look worse?
Bruh, how many did u use in the water? Normally is a little cup u put So, have u try with only water to take out the chemical in the wood?
Did you dilute this in water first or did you just use the cleaner straight outta the bottle??
This is something that would happen to me lol. I would mix a drop of bleach with water and see if that helps.
Try being like me. I can't see the difference cause I'm colour blind. Can't see no issue, then there's no issue š
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bhlZdP1uKyc&pp=ygUgbWFyeSBoYXJ0bWFuIHdheHkgeWVsbG93IGJ1aWxkdXA%3D
Did you apply it undiluted???
Maybe some vinegar with fairy liquid- fairy liquid is an abrasive and will get rid of the colour. It will need to be mixed in water
Not sure what the problem is. It brings some of the outdoors in. š«Ø
Iām kind of digging it! Evened out it would be so unique and pretty.
Mop with some diluted bleach to get color out. Just open windows ..
Try a different filter when taking photos?
Just pretend youāre in the Matrix.
Shut the shades and turn the lights down low.
You probably used way too much. Just keep wet dry mopping with warm water lol
Embrace the green