Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Housekeeping

Find cleaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Housekeeping forum.

Original poster

I can't believe I'm asking such a boring question but - mops - talk to me

26 replies

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/03/2008 10:55

We haven't had one for years as I can't stand the sloppiness of them, but we have wooden floors throughout and I am sick of cleaning them on my hands and knees.
Is there some kind of magic mop that will make life easier for me?

OP posts:
Cappuccino · 28/03/2008 10:57

yes

this will change your life

littleducks · 28/03/2008 10:58

Will watch this with interest as i buy mops that break or then never have spare heads in stock anywhere when i need them so i end up with a new mop again, dh thinks i am addicted!

Swedes · 28/03/2008 10:58

DO you ever watch the Phonejacker? Because your OP reminds me of Terry Tibbs.

MrsBadger · 28/03/2008 10:59

Capp is right

I however am a cheapskate and tie a cheap microfibre cloth over a normal sponge mop

Cappuccino · 28/03/2008 11:01

MrsB I got mine from the bargain shop for £1.99

I wouldn't buy it from Lakeland but I don't think Primark lives around 'ere

Original poster
TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/03/2008 11:17

What bargain shop? Point me towards it.

OP posts:
Cappuccino · 28/03/2008 11:18

where are you?

Original poster
TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/03/2008 11:35

I've ordered the lakeland one. Too lazy.

OP posts:
2GIRLS · 28/03/2008 22:13

I have become obsessed with mops lately in my quest for clean floors.
I've got a bucket and a vileda supermocchio one but it's such a hassle to fill up the bucket, plunge, squeeze, mop ect.

Then I got a great mop from Kleenezee, it's got a tank that you fill up with whatever you clean your floors with, attach a cloth onto the end and on the handle it's got a spray so the liquid sprays onto the floor and you mop.
Brilliant idea, loved it but it broke on the third day so I sent it back.

Now, for quick cleaning, I bought a bottle of Dettol spray and mop floor cleaner that you squirt straight onto floor (no need to rinse) and got a sponge head mop that I just mop it with.
It's brilliant and when the dettol stuff runs out just fill it up with ordinary diluted dettol-much cheaper.

And yes, I don't have a life apart from mopping.

AnotherFineMess · 28/03/2008 22:15

Ha! Good question. I too will watch with interest because if I have to scrape another sodding rice crispie off my dining room floor with my own fingernail I will do a major flounce to an exotic country where they don't have said cereal.

PotPourri · 28/03/2008 22:19

Ooooh, am loving all these cleaning threads recently (nesting). I recently got a morrisons own mop, it is really huge, and made of a nice cloth- cut-up-like material. It squeezes out really well in a mop bucket. I have wooden floors throughout and find it cleans really well, and not too wet. The best bit, when it gets a bit mucky looking you can twist it off and put it in the washing machine with normal washing and it comes out good as new.

Yes, I am sad sad sad. But I blame my pregnancy nesting - what's you lot's excuse?

Prufrock · 28/03/2008 22:23

And get a robomop. I recommended them on a thread the other day and since then lots of other mumsnetters have bought them and all have been positive so far.

Prufrock · 28/03/2008 22:25

I have the lakeland one as well btw - I robomop every day, and normally just wet mop once a week (well, cleaners do) all through, and in the kitchen at the end of the day of tehre are dog paw prints

WendyWeber · 28/03/2008 22:26

I find a large microfibre cloth pushed around with a foot works quite well...(helps to have a trainer on as the sole grips nicely)

AnotherFineMess · 28/03/2008 22:30

Prufrocks - you have cleaner (s) multiple?!?

Prufrock · 28/03/2008 22:44

Only because they work together. 2 of them come for 2 hours on a Tuesday (so 4 hours in total) and I have a big house, 2 dogs and 2 kids so they don't even manage to do everything.

ScienceTeacher · 29/03/2008 12:17

I use a Flash powermop for day to day cleaning. It is fairly effortless.

readytoswiggin · 29/03/2008 12:28

How good is the robomop/any others for getting into corners? got lots of fiddly corners in my kitchen which i have just done on hand and knee.

nb, is fab for getting babies into launch position though!

Cappuccino · 29/03/2008 13:48

I was just in B&Q and they have microfibre mops

I am having an exciting Saturday as you can tell

bobsyouruncle · 29/03/2008 13:50

I've got the flash powermap, quick & easy.

bobsyouruncle · 29/03/2008 13:50

powermop

mysonsmummy · 29/03/2008 13:58

i got the vileda flat wooden mop. it was £10 in woolworths and loos the same as the lakeland one. great that it goes in washing machine though

Carameli · 31/03/2008 11:14

I recently got an e-cloth mop system from john lewis and its brilliant. Its very much like the lakeland one that is mentioned about just uses e-cloths instead.

e-cloth mop

Celia2 · 04/04/2008 14:50

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

littlemadam · 04/04/2008 15:45

Oooh, I have to have a robomop!! We have nothing but hard floors downstairs and they never seem clean! What a great idea!