Cleaning floors

RedFraggle

Hoover all floors including the hard ones.

For wood/laminate I like the Method Soapy Wood cleaner and a mop or the Flash Speed Mop dry wipes. The wet flash wipes and that mop would also do the job.

olb81

OK sounds good a basic wireless vac, and a mop with spray cleaner method x

Bigphil1474

We have more hard flooring in our house than carpet. We stick the vac round on all of it. You would normally turn off the spinny head thing for hard floor, and just have it on when doing the carpet. The kitchen floor is a more hard wearing laminate type stuff so we mop it, but the other hard flooring downstairs is engineered wood so it gets more of a dry mop. The bathroom is tiled but not massive so we tend to wash that with soapy water and cloth. 3 of our bedrooms are a cheaper laminate and they just tend to be vacced as they are unoccupied most of the year.

olb81

so I will get a wireles vac cleaner for the whole place, and use the spinney brush on the carpet.

and on the hard floor I will get a method spray and a mop……..

just what mop… do you know which one I can wash the mop part and re use it?

would i wash it with towels at 40?

MysteryMe

You could consider a steam mop for the hard floors, I have a Shark and keeps the floor pretty dry as the hot steam evaporates quickly. I do vacuum the hard floor first to pick up debris and dust.

olb81

Steam sounds good does it use any soap or just hot water

MyRealNameToo

Wood, be it solid or laminate, has more issues with dampness than tile or vinyl.

There are a wide range of options out there, many are marketed as being suitable for laminate floors. You can get what is effectively a giant wet wipe, attaches to a plastic thing to keep it stretched out, you throw it away after each use. Some steam cleaners you can add detergent to, others explicitly tell you not to but personally wouldnt use it on laminate for the same moisture reason particularly with the joins which steam will penetrate.

Microfibre mop and spray is another legitimate method with low risk of damage; you could use it with a bucket as long as you wring it out well before using. Certainly some you can put in the washing machine (for spray style), won't last 1,000 washes but certainly isnt one use either. The ones for use with bucket you just normally clean it in the bucket before putting it away.

casper_gutman

For our hard floors (both tile and engineered wood) we vacuum to pick up loose bits then use a BONA spray mop. This gets it all looking like new, without risking over-wetting the wood.

MysteryMe

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82040683#Comment_82040683

Just cold water with my Shark steamer. The steamer heats the water to generate steam so evaporates and dries far quicker than water from a mop.. On mine there are 3 steam levels, with more steam released for areas with heavier soiling.

Bigphil1474

@olb81 We've since bought a spray mop. Put water and a bit of cleaning liquid in the bottle and off you go. Bottle detaches. Great little thing for giving the wood floor a quick clean over. I just pull the cloth off at the end and stick in washing machine. Cost £15. Like this -