Mopping

I know this should go on the home board but this board gets more traffic.

What do you use to clean your laminate, hardwood and tile floors?

I am seriously looking into the Bissell Crosswave Max but it's stupid expensive.

I use the Swiffer Wet Jet but it leaves a film on my floors. Then to get rid of the film I will use water, a little fabuloso and white vinegar. This leaves streaks on my floors.

My other issue is the mop bucket. I have that spin bucket from O-Cedar. I like that I can spin out the water but I find it gross that you start with clean water and then as you are mopping along the water gets dirty and then you're using dirty water. Is there such thing as a dual basin bucket?!?! I am also not changing the water a million times as I am mopping because my house is all hard surfaces and if I changed the water after...let's say 5 rinses of the mop...it would take me hours to clean my floors.

Edited to add that I use to have a steam mop and I hated it.

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I use the ocedar micro-twist mop with a bucket.
Purple Lysol cleaner and hot hot water. Mop 1st floor with 1 bucket. Then change water and mop second floor. I agree, mopping with dirty water is useless.
I also began drying the floors with an old towel. 1 towel per floor. I just use my feet. It’s not perfect, but it helps it dry faster (especially on my wood floors)

In between mop & bucket cleaning, I use the bona mop. Sometimes with bona, sometimes with watered down lysol cleaner in a spray bottle (spray and mop, spray and mop) and sometimes with just white vinegar & water. I clean the floor this way every other day and mop w a bucket once per week.

Since we stopped wearing shoes in the house, the bucket hardly gets dirty.

I have the steam mop and use that every so often as an extra cleaner. I feel like it helps pull out dirt the Lysol doesn’t always get (could be my imagination)

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For my hardwood floors I use a mixture of water, oil (I use olive oil but others work too), pine essential oil (sometimes cedarwood), and vinegar. For my tile floor, I use a mixture of water, a little bit of dish soap, any essential oil (for the kitchen I love clove, cinnamon, lemon, and orange), and vinegar. I don’t use a mop for the same reasons u have, I instead use old towels, I wet them, squeeze as much water as possible, wrap it around my sweeper (the swifter stick), and mop that way, changing the side of the towel when it gets dirty. I mop both floors this way but once I’m done with my wood floors, I pass a dry towel to polish the floors because of the oil in the mixture. The end result is...

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Oh and if u feel like it, try putting some orange and lemon peels in a mason jar, add whole cloves, a stick of cinnamon, and add white vinegar. Close the container and let it stand by a sunny window for about 2 weeks. After that, keep the vinegar and throw away the rest of the ingredients. U can use this to clean floors, kitchen counters, bathrooms, etc. The smell is lovely!

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I use Bona hardwood and hard surface cleaner.
My tile guy said NOT to use vinegar on hardwood or tile. Over time it wears the finish away.

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Careful with the swiffer wet, that can damage your wood.

On my wood floors I use method wood squirt and mop which is so easy. I use that with a big microfiber mop pad. I only have a little tile (just the bathrooms) so I just spray either diluted bleach or mr. Clean and either use the mop or wipe it by hand.

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We have the Crosswave and use it on all of our floors.

It's nice but, I don't see any difference from our previous steam mop.

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I use a Steam Mop made by Oreck

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These responses make me realize that I clean much less often than others! I sweep the kitchen floor every night after dinner. The rest of the house, I sweep or vacuum about once per week. I never mop. My husband will do it probably once every few months!

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I have tile and hardwood.
I use the same stick vacuum on both, a Shark
It's great

Then I mop the tile with a hurricane mop and Mr Clean diluted in hot water

I use a swiffer wet jet for wood on the wood floors. They are more of a matte finish and don't show any streaks from the wet jet.

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Posted by NervousNell

Posted by nycbuslady

These responses make me realize that I clean much less often than others! I sweep the kitchen floor every night after dinner. The rest of the house, I sweep or vacuum about once per week. I never mop. My husband will do it probably once every few months!

You're not alone. LOL

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I use diluted Mr Clean or any other type of antibacterial floor cleaner (lysol etc.) on my kitchen tile. On the wood floors I use the method wood floor cleaner. I pour it in the bucket though, I have no patience to squirt it as I go and I really don't like a residue left behind. I'll do the whole floor then dump the bucket and refill with clean water and go over it again to make sure it's clean. The second time, the water is always cloudy but not brown. If it was brown, I would do it again until it's clean.

My MIL always talks about what a clean freak she is, but my kids walk in socks on her floors and they are black in no time. My floors need refinishing, so they don't look the nicest right now, but they are clean.