legb4rsk

Fellow Scoobynet skivvies & house slaves.
I am in need of a new mop & there have been a massive amount of advertising 'steam mops'on TV.
Are they any good & what would you recommend?
I see they need replacement pads.Are these washable or just a one shoot deal?


Cheers.

boosted

Wife has an X5, utter pish, snapped in half on me, had to highly modify it with an m6 bolt and nyloc nut to get it back on the road.
What's wrong with a bucket and old skool mop?

legb4rsk

Worked fine for years & years........................until my little darling daughter decided to move out & to take it to her new house.Without telling me!!!!!

To cap it all I was about to Hoover the living room carpet this morning................................you can guess the rest.

Don't you just love 'em?

Still,small price to pay to get rid.

Better start nailing down the furniture & changing the locks.

*matthewturb2000*

iTrader: (11)

My Mrs has a steam mop think it's a vax, works well on ceramic tiles,not well on lyno,ok on real wood flooring, pads are washable and came with a few, she still uses the old school mop and bucket aswell, I've never used it personally but ive watched haha, one good thing the floor drys alot quicker the using the old mop and bucket

Graz

Pretty much same as above, Vax one for cleaning tiles (ceramic and slate) and a solid oak floor.

Seems to do a reasonable job and dries quicker but I'm not really sure it offers that much more over a mop and bucket.

boosted

How much cable do you get with the vax? You only get 6ft with the X5!

BBB3

iTrader: (7)

My missus got one a year ago, used it for a week then not seen it since.

SPEN555

Superb for getting into cracks so then soaking things out of sight First thing you know you will have a rotten kitchen unit or you tiles falling off

All fine if it's all spanking brand new like on the demo's in the adverts lol.

MOTORS S GT

iTrader: (2)

Got a Vax one, seems to loosen the dirt with steam, but the pad doesn't pick up most of the dirt, so you end up mopping the floor with paper towel to get a decent finish & the residue muck.

b3nmw

I've got the x5 mop only used it a handful of times, think on my third go the mop burnt out, sent it bk and got another. The water tank is also small u need to keep an eye on it. I think someone a few months ago posted a similar thread

JJTurbo

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As a floor layer I just have to say that there are two things that will mess up a wood floor, Heat & Moisture.
Stream mops can also attack the adhesive under flooring like Karndean and Amtico, this will cause gapping .
They are really just for ceramic tiles, so just use them with caution on other flooring.

legb4rsk

Thanks for all the replies & info.
It's not looking good for the Steam Mop.
Just goes to prove,once again,what a load of bo**ox they spout on the adverts.

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Affirmative

b3nmw

The x5 advert makes it look **** hot but in reality it fails to live up to my expectations

Turbohot

I've not yet had and used one, so can't comment how good they're. But I saw an advert that someone was going over kids' toys in some play school and on the oven glass door with the nozzle of one of those multi-function one. It would throw out steam on dirt and then suck back the loosened debri. It looked quite impressive on the TV. I don't really need one. I have quarry tiles just on the small entrance hall and in the upstairs bathroom. For such small areas and minimal need, I'd rather use Aldi's floor wipes than hope another appliance to take up room. My oven door doesn't beckon to the need for it either. Therefore it's a miss for me, not a hit.

ScoobyJawa

Got a Vax and it works a treat. Much easier than bucket and water.

Use it on tiles and wooden floors.

Turbohot

Our rest of the house is wooden floor. Office and attic have laminated wood floors, and the rest has old wood flooring. I'd be hesitant using steam mop on either, because the steam would seep through the gaps (no matter how invisible they are) and can't be good in long run for wooden flooring. It can loosen the tacky lamination by weakening the glue, and it could slowly rot the original wood floors from underneath. With no young children and 'no mess' squeaky clean animals, dry dust/dirt and pet hairs/our hairs are easily gobbled by our super efficient Dyson Animal vac. Occasional accidents are managed with the use of Aldi's Power Force super efficient floor wipes, which not only removes the hardest of the muck but also claim to kill 99.99% of bacteria. I'm not fussed about the remaining 1%.