Steam cleaner

welsh_mummy

I am considering buying a steam cleaner for cleaning around the house and to do flooring. However, when doing research I am bamboozled with mixed reviews and comments bout various brands etc.

Do any of you use a steam cleaner or can recommend a particular one.

Many thanks

Pink.

Hi welsh mummy,

There are some recommendations and lots of advice on using steam cleaners in this thread:

Steam Cleaner - is it worth getting one?

This thread on the I wanna board may help too:

Steam Cleaner recommendations please

Once you've had some input from Old Stylers I'll move your thread over there.

Pink

POPPYOSCAR

I have a polti steam cleaner and vacuum cleaner combined.

The difference is you can suck up the wet as you clean rather than using cloths. I find it useful for sucking up water spills etc.(as when we had a burst pipe after all the cold weather!!)

However, I find it quite cumbersome to use and although I do use it quite a lot, I think I would use it more if it were easier to use.I find it quite heavy to lug up the stairs etc.I have had mine for a few years now so perhaps the more recent ones have been refined?

Having said that I would not be without a steam cleaner.

jammy_dodger

i have a polti vaperetto 950 and find it very useful , it is used on at least a weekly basis great for cleaning bathroom , shower door tiles , it gets into all the hiddden places a cloth cant reach , the grooves around the kitchen white goods where grease collects etc , i use it to clean the oven , paint work, skirting boards , windows and have just been using to help me strip woodchip paper off the hall

i would recommend this model i too searched about am not disappointed in this model , i got it from amazon i think

hth

JD

meritaten

I have an Earlex - its great for large areas like Carpets - and I find they dry within a couple of hours.
I wish I also had one of the little hand steamers though - I hate getting the darn thing thing out and setting it up and waiting for the steam (tho I do fill it up with the hottest water from the tap). So I only get it out for 'big' jobs.
might get one next time I see them on offer.

thenanny2die4

I have a Karcher 1010. It's a brilliant machine although I don't use it as often as I should because I'm lazy.

It's especially good for cleaning the oven (makes short work of baked on spills on the oven floor) and to defrost the freezer in no time at all. Highly recommended.

seafarers_wife

jammy_dodger wrote: »

i have a polti vaperetto 950 and find it very useful , it is used on at least a weekly basis great for cleaning bathroom , shower door tiles , it gets into all the hiddden places a cloth cant reach , the grooves around the kitchen white goods where grease collects etc , i use it to clean the oven , paint work, skirting boards , windows and have just been using to help me strip woodchip paper off the hall

i would recommend this model i too searched about am not disappointed in this model , i got it from amazon i think

hth

JD

I could have wrote this post. I LOVE my polti as its so easy to use.

joedenise

I used to have an Earlex which I found brilliant. The reason I haven't got it now is that my DD borrowed it and accidentally left it at her old house when she moved! She didn't even realise until I asked her for it back. Will get another one as soon as I can find one on offer - not paying the full price for it (very MSE!).

Denise

mardycow

I recently bought a Vax 2 hard floor steam mop from Amazon, was on offer for £40, its great for kitchen floor, tiles, lino etc, My mate at work got one as well, saves so much time

sunflower76

I have the Vax floor mop which is great for mopping and cleaning the floors. Beware of using it on lino though, a friend has one and used it on her kitchen lino to find that the pattern was steamed right off after a few months.

I used to have a hand held steamer but found it was never used after the initial fussy wore off.

daska

Which? best buys are the Montiss CSM5761M and Bissell 90T1-E.

HTH