Steam Mops Hard Floor Cleaners (hardwood, vacuum, refinish, bathrooms)

[LoveDesign]

Years ago i owned a Hoover Floor mate. It was fantastic. Cleaned 4000 square feet of wood floors and tile like a breeze. It was light weight and easy to manuever and my favourite part was it sucked up all the dirty water and dried the floor. So i never felt like it was just pushing dirty water around like a mop does. We moved to a house where i had no need for it so i got rid of it. We now just moved into a house with 2700 square feet of wood floors and tile and went and bought one. It is nowhere near as good as the one i had all those years ago. I don’t feel like it cleans. Doesn’t dry floor well. It tries but leaves streaks of water/cleaning fluid. It’s heavy and not easy to manuever. Due to this I’m going to return it. I noticed when i bout it that Biseel had a floor cleaning machine as well as Shark. I think they were both steam based . Sharks was a steam mop and Bissel looked more like a micrfiber roller inside a vacuum. My question is do these really clean the floor or are they more like a mop or microfiber mop that just push dirt around? The Bissel is over $100 more than the Hoover Floormate is. Trying to figure out if it’s worth making the switch or not.

[NC211]

I can speak to this perfectly! I’ve had the Floormate for years, and have sung its praises to any who would listen! Recently refinished my hardwoods and decided to give the Bissel Crosseave a shot (Hoover was getting a little long in the tooth.)

Worth it? Depends. Hardwoods? Absolutely! Best part is that it takes very little solution to clean an entire floor. I’d say it covers 3x’s the area of the Hoover with one tank. And can use it on area rugs too, and it honestly vacuum while it mops at the same time too. Hoover was spinning nylon brushes. Bissel is a microfiber roller. It’s great and have no regrets. BUT - grout on tile floors. Hoover’s brushes seemed able to clean the grout better than the microfiber approach. That’s the only area where the Hoover wins, but even at that it’s not by much.

Either is great, but the Bissel is much easier to use and does a fantastic job!

[LoveDesign]

Originally Posted by NC211

I can speak to this perfectly! I’ve had the Floormate for years, and have sung its praises to any who would listen! Recently refinished my hardwoods and decided to give the Bissel Crosseave a shot (Hoover was getting a little long in the tooth.)

Worth it? Depends. Hardwoods? Absolutely! Best part is that it takes very little solution to clean an entire floor. I’d say it covers 3x’s the area of the Hoover with one tank. And can use it on area rugs too, and it honestly vacuum while it mops at the same time too. Hoover was spinning nylon brushes. Bissel is a microfiber roller. It’s great and have no regrets. BUT - grout on tile floors. Hoover’s brushes seemed able to clean the grout better than the microfiber approach. That’s the only area where the Hoover wins, but even at that it’s not by much.

Either is great, but the Bissel is much easier to use and does a fantastic job!

Thank you for your reply! This is exactly what i was hoping someone could tell
Me. My bathrooms and laundry aretes but every other inc of myhome is wood floors, even the closets! I am more concerned with the wood maintenance .