Yesterday I started a load of wash then went out to pick up a few groceries. When I came home, I saw the hose had popped off the back of the clothes washer and all the wash and rinse water had been dumped on the basement floor. I stopped the washer, reattached the hose, then grabbed lots of towels and set to soaking up the water. I then hung the towels outside to drip-dry. This morning there were still some signs of the flood, a few damp spots. So I grabbed some sudsy ammonia , mixed with water and scrubbed the entire floor. I then rinsed and dry-mopped the best I could. When it's done air-drying I'll have a completely clean floor. It was really gross, as that's the room where I keep my cat's litter box, and she has a tendency to kick the litter granules onto the floor. If you've ever dealt with a cat box, you know that cat litter plus water equals slimy slippery dirty sludge. So now my floor is clean, and I turned a disaster into an opportunity to get the whole floor clean.