Best steam mops please?

I have a vax. Very pleased and much more efficient than a mop and bucket especially with two dogs in the house.

It would be a good deal cheaper to buy your grandchildren slippers to wear in your house, you know.

I live in a rural area and we have two cats that go out and in as they please, but hoovering once a week or ten days and washing the tiled floors in the back kitchen and hall weekly, leaves me with clean feet and I very rarely wear slippers indoors.

In my experience ‘best steam mop’ is an oxymoron

I am on my third one and definitely the best. It is a Shark that has a good size mophead that can be easily switched to get another clean side. It has a decent cord length too. I use it along with a spray bottle of floor cleaner for the worst bits.

I have a quite old Vax and it's never been very good at steam cleaning tiled floors or carpets. Have recently tried the upholstery attachment and that was just rubbish. Looking for a replacement now.

have used a bissell for 2 decades
main thing i learned was do not use tap water use filtered
still works fine

I had a VAX steam mop for one whole day. It was a disaster. The whole kitchen filled up with steam, me pouring with sweat, condensation running down the walls. The floor was clean, yes, for about a square metre, but then the mophead was filthy and just spread dirty water all over the rest of the floor. Complete waste of time for me. Returned same day.

I’ve had the same experience with a steam mop - it stopped steaming after a while. I also noticed that our laminate floor in the hall was lifting and my brother told me that he had been warned against using a steam mop on his Amtico floor in the kitchen (as we have) because it melts the glue.

I was given a second hand Vax steam mop over 2 years ago and it's still going strong. Much better than a normal mop. I only us on cushion floor but it is the non slip textured cushion floor which was impossible to clean with a normal mop and bucket.
A word of advice don't go to close to the plinths under kitchen floor units it will ruin them.

I use a Russell Hobbs it’s lightweight and very quick and simple. Only for use on my ceramic tiles though not anything laminate. Highly recommend.

I have had endless numbers of males and models of steam mops and they have all stopped working or flooded the floors after a few months. I am currently using a Flash Speed Mop after sending my wonderful robot vacuum round, followed by a floor polisher that also vaccine as it goes. It’s a Ewbank. I also have a Bissell Crosswave that scrubs floors and rugs with clean water only. That is also good. But I’ve found the key is vacuum, wash then polish. The floors seem stay cleaner for longer. I also live in a rural area so mud and leaves get traipsed in and I have 3 kittie cats.

I’ve had several steam mops over the years - started with an H2o, then Vax, Shark and now Russell Hobbs which was a fraction of the cost of the first one. In my opinion, they’re all much the same, but when they ‘break’ they can’t be repaired. I wouldn’t be without one and use it on tiles and sealed wood (not laminate).

Most important thing for me is height, I need to find one that has a slightly longer handle as.the one we had cleaned well but gave me back ache from just doing the kitchen, hall and lounge in my small 2 bed terraced. 1st one now broken but will try any further purchases for a non-stooping model, I am only 5ft 5.