[Stepford Wife] What is your favourite mop?

[frumpygrumpy]

New mop needed! What is good for wooden floors and tiled floors? I use one of those with the big sponge pad at the mo..........

Its not a message to someone called Stepford Wife btw, I was merely attempting to be funny. Clearly not funny. [desperate]

its karma

someone is bound to get fed up seeing it up at the top of active convos..........

I think all the good housekeepers are busy with their cleaning at the moment

But I've got a Vileda Super Moccio with a bucket, if that helps any? It's the sort of "strips of j-cloth" sort of mop - I like it better than the foam blocks with builtin squeezer kind.

And do you need a special bucket?

I have yet to find the perfect mop, the floor never looks clean

I want one of those industrial type jobby things

My spongy block thing does an ok job, if a little wet.......I have been known to be a hands and knees sort of a girl....... but none of that is sounding very polite.

my house doesn't bear evidance of the fact but my friend is convinced i'm a stepford wife (albeit a slightly rocked up, scarier, pierced, heavy metal version )

having conducted extensive research on the subject i have concluded the absolute best, far better than those stoopid microfibre jobbies or the spongy things is a proper old fashioned mop with all the stringy dangly bits... i'm sure they have a name but i have no idea what it is.

you have to deck swab though.... basically you dip the mop in the water and slop it all over the floor really wet, then use the wringer to get he mop as squeezed out as possible and mop up all the water on the floor. i go a step further and give it one last go over with a big flat microfibre mop after this to get it as dry as possible as there's a limited amount of time it has to dry before kids and cats start stamping around on it again

i have a mix of wood, laminate and tiles of various types to mop and all of them come up lovely like this, even with namby pamby ecover all purpose cleaner

I never mop. I use a cloth, hands and knees and elbow grease.

I knew if I waited long enough someone (PinkTulips) would come along and say they had done the science research!!!! Thank you hen and there you go......a good old fashioned dangler does the job.

MrsMerry, this is where my heart lay. But the area I need to do is too damn big. It would be like painting the Forth Road Bridge.......

You need a, well, mop bucket! You can get a matching red one, which I have, but any with a bit on the top for you to squish the wet mop in would do.

oooh you can get matching!!! A girl after my own Stepford heart!

Feel free to keep sharing the knowledge......I have to do school run!

And how many of you replied through the Chat thread? Did my plan work?