I hate mopping AND I'm a sucker for infomercials

I hate mopping too. I am currently using the O'Cedar spin mop. You'll have to let me know if the Shark is any good.

I currently vacuum, then mop. When I did my renovation, I got rid of all the carpet in the house and I'm kinda regretting that decision....but only until one of the dogs throws up, then I'm good with the decision

I was looking at the Shark, Crosswave, and Tineco iFLOOR 3 Breeze but haven't pulled the trigger on any. And every time I'm vacuuming/mopping I think "hmmm, maybe I should pull the trigger".

My office mate has one of those and loves it. She said it was a game changer in terms of keeping the floors clean but the cleaning solution is expensive. She just got a swiffer for a quick clean up but mostly relies on the hydro vac.

I hate mopping, but I like a REALLY clean floor... So the dilemma.

I do have the spin mop and I don't dislike it. I have the original one, that is just dirty water. The new one has two buckets, in one, that allow you to spin the mop out into the dirty water side and dip the mop to use in the clean water side. I wish I had this - but what do to do with a perfectly good one that has the single water. So I just use a separate clean water bucket.

My ideal way of mopping my vinyl floor is to use a broom. Not a natural corn broom, but my good Libman broom. I pour or spray a little household ammonia (open your windows!) and scrub my floor and edges with the broom. I follow with a clean mop - either the spin mop, or most of the time I put a clean micro-fiber into my Swiffer. I mop up the dirty water with that, then put a clean wet microfiber in again and mop that area until I am satisfied it is clean. I do the floor in small sections.

The broom really dislodges any dirt, and gets the edges good. The microfiber in the Swiffer picks everything up so well. And a couple passes with the clean wet microfibers in the Swiffer really pick up everything. And I am left with a really clean broom too!

IMO, Ammonia cleans vinyl floors like nothing else. I never mix anything else in with it, and I do ventilate.

I see people using laundry detergent and all kinds of other concoctions in the Spin mop - and that just leaves residue for the dirt to stick to. And some of the stuff they mix is dangerous. Also - Fabuloso smells good - doesn't clean worth a darn.

My vinyl floor gets dirty. Mud, crud, cow poo, spilled coffee and food. It's a real farmhouse. There is not a 'no shoe' rule here... sometimes you have to hot foot it through the kitchen to get to the bathroom fast, or get that emergency cup of coffee....

The Spin Mop has saved the day on some big spills for me.  I dropped a huge pitcher of bottle calf milk.  Oh gosh.  It went everywhere.  The spin mop made it easier.  I first just mopped up the milk with it, and spinning that head made it easier to soak up.  Then a few more passes with water, then ammonia and water to get it clean.  I popped on a clean head and did the baseboards and cabinets that got hit with the splash.   

I do wash my walls with the Spin Mop.  Mostly the stairway wall to my basement.  That is where the mud and crud goes.  And often a dirty/muddy sleeve slides down that wall.  So a clean head will really do well cleaning walls.  

I really want to try a steam Mop.

Our steam mop works great on our tile floors, no streaks unless DH doesn’t switch out the mop head frequently enough. Occasionally when the floor is particularly dirty he works in sections to spray first with vinegar and let it sit for a few minutes. It’s an Oreck.

I have a spin mop (not O'Cedar - no idea what brand) and currently I'm happier with it than any other mopping system I have used. I vacuum first with my Dyson V11 stick and then mop. With two German shepherds, we battle not only doghair but muddy footprints. I generally only do a small amount of water/solution in mine because I just dump and refill several times during my mopping session. I find that easier than having a second bucket to haul around. I like how well the spin mop head cleans. I have two heads so there's always a clean one and they wash up really well in the washing machine.



I use really hot water with a squirt of Dawn and a splash of Fabuloso.

I vacuum with my stick vac and mop with my Shark steam mop--all good and not hard at all.

This is what I have (Shark) and I love it. My first one worked great for over 15 years before it finally died and I quickly went out and bought another. They work great! I bought a Norwex microfiber tile pad and put that on there and it really helps gets my tile clean. At the lake cabin we can’t use a steam mop because we have LVP so there I use a non steam spray mop with a microfiber pad with water and a little white vinegar in it.

My most regretted mop purchase was that unwieldy Norwex mop. I thought that long bar would make the job go faster, but I really think it's more of a negative feature. It's hard to get good even pressure all along it to really get dirt up and it flipped over on me all the time. I found I was using my foot on top of it to push into corners and work on spots. Just awkward and wasn't worth the effort it took to use it.