Steam mops

I’ve a spin mop too - in fact I’m slightly obsessed with floor cleaning equipment! I need to get out more.
A spin mop is just a bucket and a mop which has a round head. There’s a spinner in the bucket and you pump the wet mop up and down to spin out the water.
You can get the mop as dry of wet as you want. Mine was about £16 from QVC.

I think I need to get out more! 😉

I’d never heard of spin mops. Perhaps that’s the way to go when this one goes kaput.

Useless my cleaning lady told me not to bother replacing it
I got a spinner mop it cleans great and the spin on the bucket dries the mop so well the floor dries in no time

Ruined the floor grout on kitchen and bathroom terracotta tiles and lifted my Karndean hallway strips.

My one is ok, I have just bought it as well. I find them good on sealed hard wood floors.

I've had a few over the years, from cheap to expensive, and none of them have been any good. They are great at first, but after a while stop producing steam. Mr Dog is good at keeping things going, and repairing electrical items, but there is something about the design of steam mops that makes mending them difficult. Something inside gets clogged, if memory serves.

I won't be getting another one unless or until they are redesigned. It's a shame, as they were all great on my (tiled) kitchen floor when they were new.

I was going to buy one as my tiles in my bathroom go up to the ceiling and are now hard for me to reach without standing on either side of the bath which probably isn’t the safest thing for me to do at my ‘advanced’ age
Am I wasting my money or is there another way ?

Practically given up on mine.
I ended up hand scrubbing some white lino which was turning a nasty colour with the steam machine. It's ok on the tiled floor but I use the modern mop and bucket more now

I love mine but only use it on my kitchen tiles not the amtico in the hall.
Everywhere else bar the bathroom is carpeted, that has its own mop a fibrecloth one.

I haven’t found mine a faff compared to regular mop.

It dries quicker, the kitchen is very shady, slow to dry even with the window open No pouring mucky water down the drain, getting the mop to dry and storing the bucket and mop.

Will I replace it when it breaks? Not sure, not keen on ‘disposable’ electric gadgets.

I love mine - I’ve hard floors downstairs - ceramic tiles in the loo, kitchen, conservatory and kitchen, with sealed hardwood in the hall and lounge.
My only gripe is that when a steam mop breaks it can’t be fixed, so I’m probably on no4 now. I have found that the most expensive isn’t the best though.

I bought one, thinking it’d be good for a small floor at DD’s that had got very grubby looking, despite mopping. TBH it didn’t work any better than just an ordinary mop - it probably needed a hands and knees scrub, but it’s never going to get that!
I did try it on my bathroom tiles, but found it too much of a faff. Haven’t used it since.

Just looked at mum’s net, sorry should have looked there first.