Kitchen floor woes

[BitzerMaloneNotSkinnyOrBoney]

It's driving me up the wall.

We have non slip vinyl flooring in our kitchen which ha lots of benefits (not too hard or cold or slippery etc) but is a bugger to clean as it has thousands of tiny dirt collecting holes.

I sweep it at least once a day but when it comes to mopping I just seem to be sloshing dirty water from one end of the kitchen to another without the floor getting any cleaner

The best way I have found to get it properly clean is to get down on my hands ans knees and scrub it with a bleach solution but this is at least an hour's job and not one easily undertaken with a 2 year old in tow!

Any advice??

Sounds to me as if you keep your kitchen floor clean enough. Sweeping is great, it prevents the crumbs etc from being trodden into the rest of the house. If you are mopping with a bucket and a wringing thinging and rinsing and doing again and the water is dirty at the end, then job done, the floor is clean. I have vinyl, and agree it is much warmer than tiles but it does have a grain to it so not a completely smooth surface, but tbh with hot water and a good splash of grease busting product it comes up lovely and clean. I have a seriously irregular patterned floor (deliberately chosen) as it does not show every mark. Clean it and then don't look down, it's fine, please don't worry about it to the point of getting you down.

Steam mop.