Steam Mops

[Prudie]

Anyone got a steam mop? We've got some kind of lino flooring in kitchen and through hall that looks like beech laminate and I'm always on my hands and knees cleaning it. I was wondering if a steam mop would be easier but OH worries that it will lift the flooring and the ones on Argos under £100 don't get good reviews either.

[society]

The demonstrations of them always show them to be very effective. My personal experience with it is - it's not all that which it's cracked up to be.

[Prudie]

Hi Society (tee-hee) - that's what I was thinking too, could be an expensive mistake. TY

[society]

I have two of those steam thing - a mop and another hand-held jug-looking one that's supposedly used for cleaning ovens, counter-tops, windows etc. They don't work for me. What a waste of a lot of money!

[woofgang]

my issue with steam mops is that the dirt stays on the cloth..once the cloth is full of dirt you need to change the cloth as you can't rinse the head like you can with a normal mop. I use a normal squeegee type mop for when my floor needs a good clean and a microfibre head mop with dettol floor cleaner for once overs...I have no experience of using a steam mop on laminate but if it is glued down then yes the moist heat might melt the glue IMO

[mrs.chappie]

I don't know about laminate but I used to have a ceramic tiled floor and love the steam mop for ceramic tiles. It did a brilliant job, also on vinyl. The mop I have is made by Hometek and cost me about fifty quid a year ago.

I've also got a hand-held steam cleaner (I'm a sucker for gadgets) but I'm not impressed with that at all. It takes absolutely ages to get to temperature, whereas my steam mop takes seconds. The floor dries very quickly too, as it doesn't get as wet as it would with an ordinary mop.

If my steam mop packed up, I would buy another without any hesitation.

PS: I don't work for Hometek. [:o)

[Prudie]

I haven't heard of Hometek MrsC is it online? The floor isn't laminate just looks like it, I think it's a hard vinyl which is why it gets dirtier than laminate, the grubbiness seems to sink in and only a spray with bleach and sponge seems to lift it. I found a normal squeedgy (?) mop just pushes the dirt around in stripes.

[mrs.chappie]

Hiya, yes - there's something online about Hometek steam mops. Would like to put you up a link but I'm not that good on the computer. [:o(

[Prudie]

Many thanks anyway, they're on amazon and I've found one around £50 that most people seem to rave about so I'm going to give it a try. You've made my day!

[mrs.chappie]

Good luck with it, Prudie. Hope you'll come back on and let us know what you think of it.

[ethandron]

don't know if you're a member of costco, or know someone who is, but from tomorrow they have a hometek steam mop with £5 off, making it £35.24. no idea what it's like but seems good value.

[Sachs]

Hi Prudie,
yes I have one, does the job! Quite happy with it! The only thing I would say is to order extra cloths as usually only one is supplied, they get dirty and you need to change them although you can reverse the cloth too!

[Sachs]

Here's the one we bought from jml ( yellow one ) ....
you can order extra cloths too! http://www.jmldirect.com/find.asp

[mrs.chappie]

Have a look on eBay for your pads (if you use eBay). I got mine off there, cheaper and good quality.

[Sachs]

Hi mrs :0)
did you mean for that particular steam mop I bought? I did have a look originally before ordering from jml and couldn't find them x

[mrs.chappie]

Hiya Sachs.

No, I meant the Hometek mop. I bought about ten pads and the chap gave me free delivery, although I think I went a bit overboard with them. I have only used two so far and both of them are still going strong, with no particular signs of wear and tear.

[Sachs]

Ah right mrs! x