Funny, I just posted this on my quilting newsgroup!  The shampooer machine
is rather large and heavy, but it pushes around very easily and the water
container has a bucket-type handle and isn't too heavy even when full- it's
easy to carry to the sink to empty the dirty water and refill with clean.
But it's not steam- just very hot water and a passel of rotating scrub
brushes.

I found my carpet shampooer does a wonderful job on my vinyl floors-  it
heats the water and the scrub brushes get down into the little 'dimples' in
the vinyl where the dirty water used to pool up when using a standard mop.
And the suction action of the shampooer slurps the floors almost dry as a
bonus.  I'm really happy I accidentally ran off the carpet and onto the
vinyl and discovered this!  It's a Bissell Pro-Heat 2X and I highly
recommend it!  I paid $170 at Wal-Mart- the price of having my carpets
professionally cleaned 1.5 times.  VBG  (And the brushes dig out all the dog
hair that's worked it's way down into the nap of the carpet- another bonus.)

Leslie

I'd love to hear as well.  Charlie keeps recording the commercial for
me.  I'm not impressed but could be by someone who has actually used
one.

I do have a floor cleaner that is similar to a 'steam' carpet cleaner.
Hot water and cleaner in one compartment and dirty water sucked up off
the floor in another.

Does a really good job but an awful lot of work anyway.

Jo

I have one, Donna, as I can't use chemicals around Dundee. I have a
Shark. It works great and after I clean, I just throw the pad into the
washing machine, so it's a lot more green than the other types of mops
where you have to keep buying the pads.

Carole

Honestly, I wasn't even familiar with these.  The discussion got me wondering
about them though, especially as we have this essentially unheated breezeway
that needs mopping several times each winter, whcih i always put off as long
as possible.  (I have to let the room warm up some by leaving the door into
the house open for a while, or the water will just freeze when it hits the
ceramic tile floor!  How much easier a steam mop would be!)

Anyway, if you haven't done so, you might want to read through the reviews of
the various steam mops on Amazon.com   There's some good info in both the
good & bad reviews, as well as some comparisons between different ones.

Hi Donna  I was wondering about these mops also.  I am finding it more
difficult to scrub my floors with the old fashioned mop.
Thanks for bringing up the topic.
Bonnie

This is kind of off topic and kind of on topic!
Am wondering if any of you have used any of the steam mops that are
out
on the market for cleaning your floors?   Seems like they would be a
good thing with no chemicals to bother my lungs and would make
cleaning
floors perhaps easier and quicker without having to kill my hands
wringing our something or scrubbing really hard, etc.
Any of you out there tried any of these or had any experience with
them
at all?

You thoughts?
Donna
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