Steam Floor Mops Steamers

Review by TTechGuy : Couldn't believe it!!!

So here's the deal. I've read just about every review there is on every floor steamer that exists. I've used old school mops, swiffer wet jet (useless) and even hands/knees with sponges and magic erasers. After my first use, i stared at the floors and was a bit disappointed. However, after really looking at the floor under bright natural light, I realized that all the streaks I was seeing were a result off all the old pinesol/swiffer/orange glo/pledge I was blasting off my hardwoods. With this in mind, I conceded to a double scrubbing and was pretty happy with the results. Now that I've used the steam mop a couple of times, I'm amazed with how clean/non-sticky my floors are. While The first few times may have been a bit more time consuming, i now find that my mopping time is literally 1/4 of what it used to be. Maybe even more impressive is that I've found myself mopping the floor at least every other week whereas it used to be put off to a once every other month, with spot treatments as needed. To address some of the concerns, yes, you do have to vacuum first, and if there's a huge mud clot on the floor you're going to have to scrape off the bulk. I'd say for the price it can't be beat.

Review by Housewife "Amber" : Love it!

Title says it all -- I love it! Easy to use, heats up quickly and does a great job at cleaning. I used to have the Eureka Enviro Steamer (yellow) which was bulky and did not a good job of getting into corners and up along the edges of the floor. The Shark glides along and reaches under cabinets and the lip of the stove and refrigerator. I love the pad for the professional vs. the deluxe Shark. The professional pad has little "fingers" all over it which does a super job of cleaning the toughest dirty floors. I have two toddler boys who spill everything on the floor. This machine has saved my life!

Review by Nancy : Shark Professional Steam Pocket Mop

This is a great product. Its easy to use, the water tank is large so you can do a couple of rooms without having to refill, you can do the whole house with the one pad. Its three settings are great, the one thing is if there is a dried mess on floor you need to scrub with something else or go over a million times. It dries really fast and as long as pad isnt super dirty it doesnt streak. Its lightweight so you dont have to struggle or fight with it. I truly love it.

Review by Peakperformance Ken : Absolutely Superior Steam Mop

Wow.. after having used the very good regular steam mop by Shark, I saw in Sam's the professional model and before purchasing it checked the few reviews I could find online. They looked good so for $100 I purchased it but kept it in the box because I really do not think I had enough hard floor space until I got my 2 cats and then out of necessity I decided to open the box and try it out.. Wow am I glad I opened the box and decided to try it as now I am using it every day and my floors have never been cleaner. Indeed the new fingers on the pads make a huge difference from what I remembered with the original mop, and just the fact that the steam comes out at 3 different levels makes it that much more useful to me. Of course with this professional model the steam is emitted without pumping as with the previous model and that is good too. Finally, I took the temperature of the steam with my thermocouple and it was more than 220 degrees and perhaps that is also why the floors dried so quickly even after using the "scrub" cycle. In conclusion, after having used this I am as impressed with it as I am with the Shark Navigator vacuum that I have used for the past 2+ years and will most likely purchase the new lift-away soon.

Review by Sharol Collum "Rose" : Just what I needed!

I've been looking for a floor cleaner that would clean the crevasses in my stone flooring. Heavy machines hurt my back for weekly cleaning, small automatic cleaners that use pads and spray chemicals don't get into the deeper portions of the floor. Also, I don't like drying the floor with an additional towel so we can walk on it right away. So when I saw a commercial for this product I thought "what the heck" and bought it. I thought that it would be fine for daily dusting, but had my doubts that it would clean that well, and figured the pads would become prohibitively expensive, but I had to try it. I can't comment on the pads as yet, but one pad worked well for all three areas, and is still not too dirty to use on the other side next time, but I do tend to clean my floor regularly. An especially dirty floor might need more than one pad. It's easy to assemble, heated up quickly, comes with an extra long cord so you can clean more at one time without unplugging, and the hot steam lasted through the bathroom, dining area, and kitchen. I had it on the scrub cycle through the entire cleaning just to test how long the water in the reservoir would last. When I was done, I had 1/4 of a tank full left, which was better than I expected! (call me Doubting Thomasina) I have two small parrots and their droppings are notoriously hard to clean up; usually I have to use a paint scraper on the dried stuff. This cleaned it up easily, and cleaned even in the deepest crevasses. The floor was immediately ready to walk on, and it's squeaky clean... literally, my bare feet squeak on it, and the floor glows. I would highly suggest this product, make sure you use it as instructed, and use only filtered or distilled water in the tank so you don't leave hard water residue on the floor.

Review by lawmillion2005 "lawmillion" : Every kind of floor, every kind of way!

Bought this steam mop after hours of research online and talking to friends. Snapped together fast, working 5 minutes after unpacking. I have tile, real wood floors, linoleum, carpet and stone in my house. I tried it on all and with one fillup, did 1300 sq feet of house thoroughly and still had some water in there to go. Kitchen tile (with deep dirty grout no less) is spotless, wood floors are shinier than I have ever seen them, sticky dirt just cleaned right off. I have two cats, two dogs (medium and large), two small kids and two adults to contend with and this thing is making my houseselling soooooo easy! Took about 20 minutes to do all house and running a swiffer over it comes up totally clean. Would definitely recommend if you have lots of traffic or little kids and you want a really, really clean floor!

Review by stacylynn386 : Works great IF you get the mop head wet before mopping

I got this mop on sale at Costco a couple of months ago. The first couple of times that I tried using it, I was disappointed. I set the mop to the heaviest "scrub" setting, and it still wasn't getting up even small spots on the floor. If I hovered over the spot for 45 seconds to a minute, it might start coming off... but it was disappointing and time consuming to say the least. The third time I used the mop, I decided to dampen the mop head with warm tap water before starting to scrub. Wow! It made a huge difference!! And my floors ended up spotless and squeaky clean (and the mophead completely saturated with dirt on both sides)! Get the mop head wet, and you won't be disappointed! (unless of course you want to clean your floors without getting them wet, but in my opinion, that just isn't possible ;).

Review by KrisL : FANTASTIC STEAM MOP

I have practically tried them all. The Shark Professional Steam Pocket Mop has a water tank that fills from the top, so it is very easy to empty ALL of the water from the tank when you are finished. It has 3 steam settings which are all wonderful. The steam is HOT and my tile floor does not streak, nor does the mop leave it wet (even set at the hottest setting. The one really nice feature about this model, is the constant steam. You do not have to pump the handle, as in previous models (which I have also owned). You simply mop. So far, so good and my floors are cleaner than they have been with the prior models..

Review by Kristin Ingle "Rivyan" : Shark Professional Steam Mop

I got my mop around 3 weeks ago and have used it 2-3 times so far. I like it better then the regular steam mop because the water tank opening is facing upwards istead of on the side of the machine and makes filling it easy, it produces automatic steam instead of having to pump the handle and has 3 different levels of steam for dusting, mopping and scrubbing. The pads it comes with are different from the regular mop but the old mop pads fit on this one also so I can reuse all the extras I bought instead of having to buy more. It does pretty well on my ceramic tile floors and picks up most of the spills and dirt spots. The only problem is any hair or larger items on the floor wont stick so you have to vacuum or sweep before which I have the pet vacuum for hard floors that is quick and works well on my floors. I really love that is doesnt use any chemicals because I have 2 dachshunds which are low to the ground and 70% of my house is tile so that is a lot of floor to clean and makes the chances of them getting sick from a cleaning product much higher. It's very quick and leaves the floor mostly dry and no stickyness. I originally bought this one because my regular steam mop broke after only having it for less than a year. I really loved my old mop but this one is even better and I hope they have worked out the problems from the old mop so I can keep it for more then a year. Other thanthat I think this mop is great and so far I love it..