Hoover FloorMate Deluxe Hard Floor Cleaner Machine, Lightweight Cleaning Machine, Floor Scrubber with Spin Scrub Brushes, Wash and Dry Mode, Ideal for Hardwood, Vinyl, Tile, Laminate and More

My new bestest friend
Cleaning is my life. With 11 cats and a clumsy husband, it has to be. I owned the original model Floormate back at the turn of the century. It worked fantastically for 9 years and then started to fail in various ways. I’ve been using a Swiffer wet mop ever since. Lately, the Swiffer has been leaving streaks and some sort of white film on all my floors, so I bought another Floormate.Right out of the box, this one is superior to the first. The tanks are on either side, allowing you to get under lower objects when cleaning. The controls are straightforward, allowing even an instruction manual tosser like me to use it right away. The brushes scrub dirt off the floor. Now, if your careless spouse dripped syrup on the floor and nobody noticed for a week, you’re going to have to go over it quite a few times. The Swiffer would never get that up.To address the issues some others have had: Go slow. Give the brushes time to work. Remember that the brushes engage and the nozzle pressurizes and sprays with each forward pass. On the backward pass, all of that has to switch gears and the squeegee has to engage. Also remember that none of this happens instantly. It’s a floor cleaner, not a life support machine. If you run it back and forth quickly like a vacuum, no, it won’t clean well.As for the leakage: Yes, it does leak a bit. But again, you have to remember the mechanism and the fact that the entire bottom of the machine gets wet while it does its thing. Give it an extra backward pass to compensate. And when you stop cleaning and take off the tanks, that little reservoir where the cleaner tank connects has water in it. Blot it out with a paper towel and it won’t leave a puddle on your floor.This machine cleans really well, judging by the gray and brown water in the holding tank. That came off my freshly Swiffered floor. It handled my tile extremely well, cleaning muck off of it in one pass and doing a halfway decent job with the grout. The regular laminate floors worried me because any amount of water on them makes it swell and curl, so I went gently, not using too much solution and making sure to get it extra dry. Yes, it did leave streaks, but that smooth, shiny surface is prone to them. The LVP came clean in the wink of an eye and because of the wood grain texture, had no streaks. My sheet vinyl came clean easily, though there were a few extra passes to get up the kitchen grease that spatters in front of the stove.I love that this is so light and compact. I’m a small person and large machines make me not want to use them. It feels quite sturdy and I think it might well last as long as my old one did, or perhaps longer. I have no trouble at all recommending this to a friend because the darn thing simply works.

I love this machine mostly for its excellent functions in scrubbing and sucking up dirty water. Personally I find the water release function not satisfactory because I find it hard to control the release for an even spread of water. I bypass this function by manually (and easily) spreading a bucket of water with my window washing tool. Last Thursday my bedroom and kitchen were flooded with water when my toilet leaked. I used this machine to suck up water. It did the job efficiently and saved my day!

Worst and waste….don’t buy…….first non return….second no spares and service available in india….even one min its not working…..0 🌟 is not there to give my rating….

Hoover Wet-Dry Floor Cleaner, so sad to see you go buddy.This floor cleaner has its pros and cons. I wanted to love it—and in some ways, I do—but it didn’t quite hit the mark for my needs. Trust me I tried to love it 100%Here’s what I loved:• Powerful suction: It pulled up more grunge than I expected (and never wanted to see 😅), so it’s definitely doing its job. 10/10• Lightweight build: It’s not overly heavy, which makes it manageable to use. Understanding that others may find it difficult. 6/10• Easy to understand tank setup: When facing the machine, the clean water tank is on the right and the dirty tank (think “what left your floor”) is on the left. Clear indicators are a fluorescent green sponge and a black bobble help show when it’s full.• Quiet-ish: It’s not louder than any other cleaner I’ve had. However, you’ll be focused more on what the machine is doing.Now the not-so-great bits:• Brushes are too soft for tile grout: They just glide over bathroom tile grout, not really digging in. I’d only recommend it for light maintenance after a deeper scrub. I don’t recommend doing this but I did place my hand on the bristles while they were spinning and they were soft…almost facial scrub soft.• Not friendly with uneven floors: In my old house, not a floor is level (everything’s on a “a la 45•” 🤣), and the stiff rubber nozzle made forward motion a bit clunky. You see the squeegee is fully enclosed. Meaning it will suck up what water is in between the squeegee. Pushing the machine forwards will meet with some resistance. The brushes are placed behind and as you move forward, water will be left where it’s washing.• Storage is awkward: The handle was easy to attach, but it doesn’t fold down. For small-space storage, that’s a miss.• You have to move slowly: To dry properly, you need to go at a snail’s pace. It’s not a quick cleanup machine. Trust me, I have tried to speed things up on a time crunch. I believe that it is due to the brushes.Overall, I think this cleaner could work well for newer homes or even condos with smooth floors and minimal grout. As a dog owner and a mom to two teens this machine will pick up and clean the soul of the home. For homes with older, uneven surfaces—it might not be the best match. The brushes do not work with the floors. If it were let’s say pressurized and rise and fall for the unevenness I would keep this machine.I must say Goodbye. I don’t want to talk to myself and be negative cleaning. I’m returning this product.