Floormate V-120

My Wife has limited mobility, so I used the machine. My Wife has to use crutches & finds wet surfaces very hazardous to try walking on, the Floormate hard floor cleaner left the floor with so little water that it dried in the short time my Wife was in the shower, and the floor was safe & clean.

I used the Floormate in our main living area, kitchen, and hall way. It worked absolute wonders on all the floor surfaces, especially the main room with a black floor. It was very easy to use, and very quick too - far more effective than a mop. I would recommend it, without a doubt. It was a fantastic machine, and I'm looking forward to using it more & more!

I have used the Foormate all over my house: laminated floors in bedrooms, lounge & hall and tiles in bathrooms and kitchen. I was amazed to see how dirty the water was afterwards even though it was not long since I had cleaned them all using a mop & bucket. I now feel I can get all my floors really clean and I would certainly recommend it to anyone with hard floors as with the old mop & bucket you never knew what was being left behind and of course you were using dirty water over & again but with this system you know you are always using clean water.

I have a large tiled kitchen/diner and utility rooms. We also have a large slobbery dog and 2 slobbery kids and this machine is an excellent alternative to mop and bucket. There are a few areas I would improve though:

1. Cleaning fluid and waste reservoir could be larger, I need to refill 3-4 times for the large tiled floor area I am cleaning.

2. brushes could be longer and a bit stiffer to get the crud out of the grout. pre-treating helps but longer and stiffer scrubbing action would be better still.

3. The cleaner has dry vac, wet clean and suck up modes of action. I would add a pre-treat option that disables the vac and lets you apply cleaning solution with scrubbing action to the floor. This would improve dwell time and also cleaning efficacy, as the wet clean option is just too effective at sucking up the cleaning fluid as soon as it is applied to the floor.

finally, I also own a bissel pro-heat carpet/hard floor cleaner. It is heavy, cumbersome and is not much use at hard floors though better at carpetted areas. Suffice to say it is hardly ever used (last time was to clean vomit from a childs mattress) and is never used for hard floors due to the ppor quality of the hard floor attachment. By contrast the VAX is used 3-4 times a week and is no more effort than a vacuum cleaner is for the carpetted rooms.