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To think my way of mopping is the correct way

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Peonii · 06/06/2024 02:08

My way of mopping:
Step1. add desired cleaning solution to mop bucket and then fill mop bucket with hot/boiling water.
Step2. Get mop, and submerge mophead in solution, wring as much as possible and start mopping a small area.
step3. Repeat step 2 until all the floor has been cleaned.

DH's way of mopping:
Step 1. Add desired cleaning solution to mop bucket and then fill mop bucket with hot/boiling water
Step 2. Get mop, and submerge mophead in solution, do not wring mop but instead slosh a small amount of water on the floor.
step 3. Repeat step 2 until every row of tile has its own little pool of water.
step 4. Using the pool of water, mop the respective row of tiles.
step 5. Repeat step 4 until all the floor has been cleaned.

I just feel like the way DH does it means that he ends up cleaning with a cold water which maybe might make the floor have soapy residues and perhaps not clean as well.

Whereas my way means the whole floor is cleaned with very hot water as the mop is being dipped back into a bucket of hot water as you go along.

YANBU: your way is correct/cleans better
YABU: DH's way is correct/cleans better

OP posts:
swimsong · 06/06/2024 03:56

You're both doing it wrong. DH less so.

The point of mopping is to get dirt off the floor into the bucket. You're not really doing that - you're mixing the dirt with soapy water and spreading it evenly over the floor. You don't need to start with hot soapy water in the bucket at all, you can pour it hot over the floor from any container (straight from the kettle, then a few squirts of floor cleaner works well). Then you make mud and use the mop to get the mud off the floor and into the bucket.

I was taught how to mop by a school caretaker - and have since watched hundreds of people using your largely futile dip and spread, dip and spread method, glad that he was not there to witness it. "People don't know how to mop", he'd say. And he was right.

SpringerFall · 06/06/2024 03:43

A floor mopped that I don't have do myself, win win

Why the need to control mopping?

Johnhasalongmoustache · 06/06/2024 02:58

Or way 3

get a cleaner

itslunicorns · 06/06/2024 02:55

If the floor is clean at the end, then there isn't a more correct way.
Are you ok OP? Is there something more to this?

Dontsparethehorses · 06/06/2024 02:40

I’d let dh mop any way he wanted but it does sound bizarre. I can highly recommend a steam mop if it would help end disagreements!!!

Rubbishconfession · 06/06/2024 02:35

YANBU. DH’s way sounds silly.

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