BISSELL SpinWave, Electric Mop, Hard Floor Cleaner & Polisher, Spray Mop With Rotating Pads, For Wood, Laminate, Tile & Marble, Easy to Use Mop Floor Cleaner, Corded, 2052E

Brand new in sealed box great value good cord length easy to use, good weight not too light not too heavy works well

With two toddlers you can imagine that the tiled floors of our victorian terrace get filthy. You might also understand that other than a cursory sweep it can be a bit challenging to clean them thoroughly as it is likely they need to be walked over in the very near future. This, and the fact that the floors are seldom absolutely level - pretty much - eliminates a once over with a traditional mop that leaves puddles everywhere. I've had a steam mop for a while but this can damage the varnish on the floors we have had done and - again - with the toddlers running riot you don't want hot steam everywhere.I've had this electric mop for a week and it is genuinely the perfect solution: there are two spinning microfibre pads in contact with the floor (so it gets into a century of damage to the tiles) and you can control the amount of water sprayed onto the floor easily. Consequently the floors are dry within minutes, streak free, but you can utilise more water when needed. The device is easily used whilst carrying the 1 year old in my arms and its quiet enough to be used after bedtime or when only one of them is awake.Both soft and scrubbing pads can be put into the wash at 40 degrees - without fabric conditioner - so can be washed with clothes if needed. They have to be air dried but they are small enough that this is achieved quickly. It comes with a small bottle of cleaning fluid but thus far it seems that its pretty economical. I've cleaned kitchen, WC, Utility and hallway twice and have only just used enough quoted for a "small space" and the area is hardly that! I think that I might be able to use another set of soft pads to floor polish down too but will have to see.Theres nothing hot or that would be dangerous for the gruesome twosome other than the long cable and its nowhere near loud enough for them to go running away with hands over the ears, both of which are an important measure in most of my household appliances!I bought his on a £99 deal of the day and I feel at that it represents pretty good value. I suspect that at full price and without other mitigating factors (kids, need to walk over a floor quickly after cleaning, something that makes cleaning more challenging) a buyer might feel its less value than I do but certainly for people in my position I can recommend it.

This is a good cleaner that works well - it is not a heavy duty cleaner but will cope with most domestic hard floors. It is easy and quick to use daily - its 4 times as fast as a mop - and over a period of time it improves a floor's appearance, simply by more frequent, faster repetitive cleaning . It can also polish floors using any number of floor polishes.I would recommend buying a spare set of Pads as every time I have used it, the pads have turned from bright white to a very dirty brown - into the washing machine they go.The machine is relatively cheap, but it does have running costs of replacement pads every so often, cleaning fluids (the bissell fluid is £13/l) and the cost of frequent washing of pads.There is one thing to be very careful of. When changing the pads, check the little screws in the centre of the black pad holders that the scrub pads attach to. These can work loose and stick out - screw them back in fast if you see this happening. The reason for this is that if you use the machine with a screw sticking out to any extent, it will damage the threading in the part the screw fits into - which means it will not hold the screw. It will probably run fine without the screw for a while , but it will wear faster and break sooner, and you risk the pad holder falling off through gravity. This could be fixed with a small amount of PTFE tape or similar on the screw when the product is made to help its grip the threading and reduce the loosening effects of vibration whilst in use. From my experience, if you feel wobbling whilst the cleaner is in use, it is likely that a screw has come loose.All in all it works well if you deal with the above.

I love this product.It moves effortlessly across the floor.It is quiet.It is light enough for me, with my back problems, to manoeuvre around, while still having enough weight to enable it to apply pressure on the floor.It is so simple to use.It leaves the floor virtually dryYou use as much or little cleaning fluid as you requireSaves water on washing floorsIt has a really long lead (although I'd prefer cordless but this would possibly make it too heavy)It works really well on my rugs too - again leaving them dry.I have a pale grey textured floor which is 6m x 7m. For three years I've been trying to find a way to easily clean it. I've tried different mobs, steam cleaner, electric floor scrubber, a scrubbing brush on a long broom handle. In the end the only way to get it reasonably clean was to get down on my hands and knees and scrub it, then dry it. As soon as I'd finished cleaning the dog/husband/son would walk over it. Consequently it hardly ever got cleaned. I searched endlessly for a 'textured floor cleaner' which brought up very few helpful results (usually potions mixed up and applied on hands and knees) until I found an Amazon review for this machine. It's brilliant! Thanks to all the reviewers who put 'textured floor' in their reviews. This machine has actually really made a difference, I love my floor now, rather than seeing it as a necessary evil to stop the ancient dog slipping over. Job done in 30 minutes :)