How do you clean your kitchen floors?

[coolpatterngirl]

Hi all,

What do you use to deep clean your kitchen floors?

Regular mopping doesn't shift the dirt and the only thing that seems to work is down on my hands and knees scrubbing with bleach (which I don't do nearly often enough)!

Hoover and steamer, also have a handheld steamer to get into the dodar round the edges every other day. Works for us.

What is it made of?
I scrubbed ours today on hands and knees then dried it with an Emop! Normally the Emop is thorough enough. I used Jif

Steam cleaner. If it's really shit I squirt some cleaner down before I start.

I blame VicarInATutu. It was her idea.

My new steam cleaner !
Got it for Christmas but wish I'd had it years ago .
Quick vacuum / sweep then steam .

warm water + bio washing powder + square leifheit mop thingy

Hoover then steam cleaner.

Which steam cleaner would you recommend? They seem quite expensive.

Got my Morphy Richards off Groupon. I think I paid about £50 for it, it was something like £90.

Mines a karcher - has quite a large tank which I find handy .
Also love for bathroom .

Great, thanks. £50 seems a good deal, I'll check groupon.

I have a steam cleaner but don't particularly rate it. I use a mop but was looking at my lino tonight and decided it's looking a bit meh.

Following this thread but am thinking a good old scrubbing brush and bleach session is probably in order. I might try one of those deck brushes to save my knees and back first.

Wet kitchen paper.
A floor wipe.
Just occasionally, when I can be arsed to set it up - and when DS2 doesn't turn out to have hidden all the attachments, it get steam cleaned.

Mops are revolting things.

Oh - and it's ceramic tiles, so if something has got really ingrained, one of us has a go at it with a bit of magic eraser.

I have laminate.

I have a vileda flat mop (attach a cloth thingy).

I use jif floor cleaner weekly with water. And proper jif cream every other month which gives it a proper clean. Same mop. Then wipe up with a wet flannel.

Steam mop. Meh. Rubbish.

Do your steam mops have two tanks, one each for clean and dirty water?

Thank you btw :)

I'm having this dilemma. I usually steam clean my floors but we moved house a few weeks ago and new kitchen has horrible Lino that gets so dirty I feel it needs washed 3 times a week. Hubby said I can't use steam cleaner on it in case it lifts it but it's horrendous. Mop doesn't seem to shift the dirt. It's grained wood effect and all the dirt sits in the grain yuck.

No, they have one tank (some have another if you want to use a branded liquid cleaner in it but it's a waste of money imo) the steam goes to the floor to deep clean it so there is no dirty water. My first steam mop was pants and left the floor really wet but my next one was much better and leaves it mostly dry or dry by the time I'm done.

Hoover and steam clean, we have ceramic tiles.

Thank you. I've never had a steam cleaner. Can you recommend one?

Mines a small karcher, v easy to use. No chemicals needed would recommend.

Flat mop daily with a mix of water, zoflora and washing up liquid in a spray bottle

I have a shark steam mop that I highly recommend, the dual side one so when one side gets dirty you flip the mop over to use the other side.

I dream of owning the X5... The clean with the power of steam advert demonstrations on the shopping channel were all that got me through the first three months of my sons life. wanders off to ponder what became of my life as I'm obviously a big saddo

No shoes house so floors stay reasonably clean.

Nothing complicated, just vac first to pick up bits then a flat microfibre mop (vileda, I think), boiling water from the kettle, splash of flash concentrated all purpose & a squirt of bleach. Pad gets chucked in the washing machine after use. Spills etc get cleaned up when they occur so floor is pretty much visibly clean when I mop anyway. Pale stone floor.

It gets mopped once a week, no need or time for it to be done more frequently. Vac is run over a few times a week.

I use a joseph scrubbing brush and jif !