Talk to me about mopping

[berri]

I don't get it. I need to mop my floors...

But after you've dunked the dirty mop back in the water, surely you're just 'cleaning' the floor with black water?

Unless you're supposed to change the water every dunk, I don't understand!

are you serious?

Yes!!!

If your floors are so seriously filthy that the water is black after one rinse of the mop, then you'll need to repeat mop with several changes of water. Very hot water.

Well they're not black black, just brown-ish! From where kids come in from garden etc...

But, no,don't change the water after each rinse of the mop. It's done after each room / floor depending on filth levels.

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Have you never mopped a fkloor before????

First wipe up actual mud trails with a cloth. Rinsing regularly. Then mop the whole floor. Repeat the mopping with clean water if necessary. Do use multi-surface cleaner or some such in the water.

I do not mop. I find that you really can't clean a floor effectively with a mop and certainly not the corners or edges of the floor.

I get down on my hands and knees and use a floor cloth with hot, soapy water from a bucket. Very effective and very satisfying.

Course I have - but I've always been thinking that I'm just trailing dirty water around the rest of the floor so the only really clean bit is the first bit....so thought I'd see what everyone else thought!

I also tried those floor cloths you can just keep changing and chucking, but they just kept falling off the holder while I was cleaning, so I gave up and went back to the normal mop.

you are right of course. Just like one can't actually get properly clean in a bath full of ones own fithly water. Mopping regularly and cloth cleaning to the edges properly once in a while is good enough. A proper scrub with a scrubbing brush before mopping is best, of course. One bowl to rinse and one for clean water. Fuck that for a game of solders though.

I mop but i do change the water a lot too - dull i know but necessary when toddlers eat food from floors

i have no intention of scrubbing on hands and knees - almost clean is clean enough

I have two toddlers and two cats. No time for scrubbing. A cursory mop every couple of days does the job.

I don't mop either. I can never figure it out and end up with a floor dirtier than before. I get DH to do it - he has much experience from working in pubs as a young man

you need a scooba... google it!

I use a floor cloth made by ecloths. It velcros on. I wash it on hot water after each room then in goes in the washing machine.

I want a scooba!!!! Wow - excellent idea! Going to schmooze DH now....

life's too short to mop

The dirty water you are pouring away when you have finished is evidence that there is now less dirt on your floor. If the water remained clean then you would be mopping a clean floor. I want a scooba too but where does the scooba put the dirt?

Right I might not have a degree but you can (almost) eat off my floor. Hot water and Flash in bucket, mop floor all over dipping and wring into water. Before floors drys clean water and rinse mop. Clean bucket of hot water. Mop floor again. Then Wait for it...I go over the floor with a clean but old bath towel. I have no life

scooba has a clean tank and a dirty tank, so it only ever puts clean water down!

Nutty my dear... sit down and drink tea, you are doing WAY too much mopping there

Right then, what do you lot do with your mops after washing the floor?

berri, i am totally with you. i have often wondered this. after the first dunk you are effectively swishing dirty water round teh floor. i hate it. i have 3 mop heads and try to get teh floor done with the three, then they go in teh machine.

put it back on charge

if i use a proper mop (like i did this morning in honour of the annual visit from anal SIL) i stick it in the washing machine with the towels/bathmats etc.

I wash the floor first with a slightly wetter mop the rinse and wring out as much as possible and mop again. 1 bucket per room.
when finished I put the mop/cloth thingy into the washing mashine for a rinse and spin cycle and leave out to dry.

I hate the tinsel type conventional mops that only do round corners. I use a square one with a removabel cloth e-cloth type.

Haven't read the whole thread, but I could never do that either, OP.
I spill a small quantity of hot soapy water, spread out on floor. Mop it up, toss it out. Then repeat until the water I'm mopping up is coming up fairly clean. I can't understand how any other system could be clean and efficient.