What do you use your steam mop for?

cheerfulness4

I'm now the very happy owner of a steam mop and absolutely delighted with it so far.

Its got the stains out of my rug (that had been there a while ) beautifully. Its risen the pile on my old stair carpet a treat. My laminate floors are spotless. The bathroom tiles gleaming and the door of my inherited oven isn't smoked glass after all. :eek:
DH is now planning to steam clean his car inside.

But I've spent our hard earned money on this new appliance and I'm after getting every possible use out of it. So.... what do you all use yours for?

tattycath

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

I'm now the very happy owner of a steam mop and absolutely delighted with it so far.

Its got the stains out of my rug (that had been there a while ) beautifully. Its risen the pile on my old stair carpet a treat. My laminate floors are spotless. The bathroom tiles gleaming and the door of my inherited oven isn't smoked glass after all. :eek:
DH is now planning to steam clean his car inside.

But I've spent our hard earned money on this new appliance and I'm after getting every possible use out of it. So.... what do you all use yours for?

Not got one but I'm open to recommendations as we could do with one. Which one is yours please? And price range? TIA

cheerfulness4

We bought the Morphy Richards 9 in 1 steam mop that was on sale for £59.99. We fortunately had some vouchers from survey sites so only paid £30 odd.

I bought it because I have arthritis and struggle a bit with day to day 'elbow grease' jobs and I'm finding this a marvel.

I'm not sure how I'd get on with lifting it to do higher jobs (when I use it as a hand cleaner). It has some weight to it but its not extremely heavy. DH did the tiles and he's strong so would think it was no problem.

It reaches steam almost instantaneously. Very pleased with it to date although I only bought it in the hols so early days.

Linda32

I'm a cleaner in a Nursing Home and one was bought for us yesterday for wood effect laminate flooring. The flooring is the sort that you can mop, it comes on a roll rather than the boards which slot together which I understand you shouldn't get wet.


I was quite impressed with this mop. The washable pad indicated that the floor was dirty anyway!


The boss says this one was £30 from Sainsburys.


Its very light weight. I tested lifting with one finger and it was easy. Its like a stick with a water reservoir on. I think you could only use it as a mop though, which perhaps reflects the price rather than the 9 in 1 applications as mentioned above for £59.00


HTH

Ladyluck1

Just to mop my floors... Ingenious I know!

bossymoo

I absolutely did not use mine to defrost the freezer. Because that would be dangerous.

azzabazza

bossymoo wrote: »

I absolutely did not use mine to defrost the freezer. Because that would be dangerous.

I use another everyday item to defrost the freezer (hairdryer!)!

luxor4t

Mine is just the floor sort . It doesn't like being lifted for walls etc but
off to try it on the grubby spot on the carpet made by DH's shoes.......

cheerfulness4

bossymoo wrote: »

I absolutely did not use mine to defrost the freezer. Because that would be dangerous.

:rotfl:
And I naturally never queried with my hubs whether or not I could use it for that, or jumped a jig when I saw someone else 'absolutely didn't use' hers for that purpose.

azzabazza wrote: »

I use another everyday item to defrost the freezer (hairdryer!)!

My friend was doing that and her little girl was mesmerised watching it melt till she got her head too close and her hair got tangled in the hairdryer. Ended in tears.

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off to try it on the grubby spot on the carpet made by DH's shoes.......[/QUOTE]

I thought I'd never get these marks out of my rug. They were months old and wouldn't shift with my standby Fairy Liquid. Just held the steam on the patches for a few moments and went back and forth a few times and lifted right off.
Amazing, with no needs for chemicals.

pollypenny

Oh, wow! I didn't know a steam mop would work on carpets!

I love the way it does my hard floors, especially the vinyl in the bathroom, which is very slightly ridged,


Oooh, I will try oven door now!

rustyhead

so is it ok to use a steam mop on laminate?