To ask how you clean your kitchen floor?!

[lazyfecker]

It's me again - lazyfecker

Just wanted some ideas from you if I may! These are my issues:

Swiffer - too expensive.

Old-fashioned mop - can't wring them out and they smell before they dry.

Microfibre cloth mops - don't want to put washing machine on for a cloth! Can't wash them with anything else. Would need to disinfect machine after (expensive to do regularly).

Steam mops - see microfibre mops.

Sponge squeezy mops - had one about 30 years ago - pretty good but how to dry? I no longer have a utility room.

At the moment I leave it as long as possible and do it on my hands and knees with a sponge.

I have a Bissell cross wave, it hoovers washes and dries the floor for me. I love not having to cart mops and buckets round.

@ProperVexed

Oh my Christ! I've heard of robo vacuum cleaners... but a robot mop! This could be life changing. *@nodogz* which make do you have?

That is exactly how I felt when I read it!!

Roll it up and take it down to the car wash.

P. S. Let me know if this works OK as I have not tried it myself yet.

Old towel rag soaked in boiling soapy water use sweeping brush to push rag along. Thick microfiber cloth to dry.
Change water to boiling water for each room.
Soak them in basin ring out and hang.
It gives a lovely shine.
I was going to mention on your other thread "The secret slob" on YouTube she breaks down the fly lady into easier tasks.

Spray mop most days (under the high chair), proper mop weekly, on my knees with the scrubbing brush/drill brush occasionally to actually clean in the wrinkly dirt trapping bits.

The spray mop (and a cordless vacuum) are game changing, no way would I have vacuumed and mopped most daysdays otherwise.

www.lakeland.co.uk/24523/Lakeland-Hard-Floor-Spray-Mop

*wring

Spray mop with a microfibre cloth, filled with whatever cleaning solution I have. We have plenty of cloths to wash - daily facecloths for 3 plus loads of cleaning cloths. At least once a week on hottest wash, kept in a little bin like pp until then.

Microfibre cloth mops - don't want to put washing machine on for a cloth! Can't wash them with anything else.

Why? I wash pretty much anything with anything. I'm 49 and it hasn't done me any harm yet! The whole point of the washing machine is that everything comes out clean. I hoover, then use a flat micrifibre mop. The microfibre bit goes in with the normal wash.

I use a good old fashioned mop and bucket.
I stand the mop upside down in an old patio brolly holder between uses to dry out. It doesn't smell.

I use a carwash sponge as it's nice & big,on hands & knees. (Small kitchen). Soak in washing up bowl for 15mins afterward with washing powder. Then leave on radiator to dry. Have been hankering after the Flash Speedmop tho .

Yabu

I hoover it then mop it with an old fashioned mop using very hot water & a multi surface cleaning liquid.

@Searchesforhipbones

@BoyTree

@nodogz

What make of robot hoover/mop do you have?? Sounds amazing and I want one!

Get a dog!! 😂

@lazyfecker

We have this spray mop, use it with a bit of flash floor cleaner or zoflora in it. I just chuck the microfibre pads in with whatever is in the washing machine with a bit of dettol laundry cleanser. The kitchen gets mopped twice a week (takes less than 5 minutes) and we don't wear shoes in the house so it's not really that dirty.

www.dunelm.com/product/vileda-1-2-spray-mop-1000140946?defaultSkuId=30634519&branchCode=0650&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=Cj0KCQjwreT8BRDTARIsAJLI0KIZqhK4yQk41zvIkV_F1qGHz22zS0lOtahQQhUu9bg_MiacbIzEkJkaAnKuEALw_wcB

I sweep then used the vileda squirty mop. Pads go in the machine at 60 or 90 with towels, and all the microfiber cleaning cloths. I defy anything to come out unsanitary after that! It's the only load that gets washed that hot, but I do feel happier using it.

Good old fashioned mop & bucket here. After Hoovering, fill bucket with very hot water + cleaner + slug of Zoflora. Change mop head regularly. Our cleaner has a steam mop but it doesn't appear to go into corners or behind the kitchen bin

I have a Roomba and a robomop. I love the Roomba but I wouldn’t ever buy a robomop again. Unless I lived in a massive one floor apartment with no children or furniture. I had hoped for gleaming floors but the robomop is a faff and a good, hearty normal mop is more effective.

If using a mop, if you use very hot water, ie from kettle it all dries super fast, mop included. That's what I do. Never noticed a smell.
Kills more germs too i guess?

I use microfiber mop cloth thingy. Just keep them in a lidded bucket and wash all of them at the end of the week on 60

E mop with water.

@Hobnobsandbroomstick I have a Coredy one - you can take out the dirt catcher (ALWAYS astonished at how much it picks up!) and put in a water tank with a cloth on the bottom, so it really just beetles around wiping the floor, but it's really effective. I usually fill it with warm water and every week or so I spray floor cleaner onto the floor and let the robot smoosh it around, but it really doesn't get that dirty because it's so easy to do it as soon as it starts to look a bit grubby.

I highly recommend it - I never thought I would be so evangelical about a hoover!

I'd like to have the Flash mop but we have a tiny kitchen and downstairs toilet so can't justify the cost
Hopefully we'll have a bigger kitchen when we move and I'll get one then. At the moment just do it the old fashioned way with a bowl of hot soapy water and a cloth but only takes around 5 minutes as it's so small.

Some very complicated stuff going on here.
I use a brush to sweep, then an old fashioned mop and a bucket.
Water is boiling hot from a kettle with a small amount of detergent and a touch of bleach.
Mop is hung outside to dry- lives outside in a with the bucket a dry corner of the garden.