Steam cleaners - a really detailed conversation

[hunkermunker]

Moondog wants one (a detailed convo that is). Think she should have it here

I have the polti 300 lux (2 of them actually - long story moving house, much loved steam cleaner went missing had to buy a new one etc - then 6 months later rogue cleaner turns up!!) it is excellent from cleaning grout (floor and wall), windows, cupboards etc gets right into all the nooks and crannies that normally end up a bit black. It is good for carpets but extremely time consuming if you have a big area to cover. And best of all all those nasty nooks on your high chair if you have one the chicco mama styles like I have. It sanitises, I use it on my mattress every now and them to freshen them up and hopefully nuke any bed bugs. cant live with out mine. Get one with as hihg a bar pressure are you can afford. Oh yes us it for getting creases out of things like coats which have been in wash and have gently cleaned a wool coat with mine also.

did you get one moondog?
and how is bangor?

Bangor's fine SC. It sends its love.
Dropped into Tesco but nowhere else.
I decided it was too big a job with both children in tow.
Will leave it until Thurs or Fri I think,when they are both at school and nursery.

I don't want to squander this treat.

One more question..just bought a lovely second hand chair but it reeks of fags. Would the steam cleaner be able to weave its magic here d'you think??

did you know that tesco is at the end of cytir lane where i grew up and my uncle still lives there! it used to be the rugby club, im a goldmine of useless info me.
you could try with the steam cleaner, if not spribkle some bicarb of soda on it and hoover or wash off.

Ah Spacey,remember the rugby club well.
Had my first snog there aeons ago!

No steam cleaners in Currys. I think it will have to be an internet job.
The Welsh masses obviously not yet awake to the wonders of steam cleaning.

Thanks for the bicarb suggestion.
Have done it.
The study looks like there's been a drugs raid.

Can't remmeber houses there though..I thought it was never a residential area?

pmsl at drugs raid moondog!!!!!!!!!
cant beleive you cant get a steam cleaner!
if you went past tesco and carry on down the lane, past finneys world of interiors, theres a about 3 houses dotted apart, i lived in the large white house

I know exactly where you mean but never noticed them.
Will check it out next time I'm that way and think of you!

my uncle still lives there
i had many a happy time mucking about on the rugby pitch, used to walk into glannadda, in the days before blimmin b&q, matalan et al were there, wqhen it was a lonely road!

I know...those bloody sheds.
A matter of time before the greedy bastards get their hands on that virgin tract on the way to Felinheli I reckon.

you know it will happen

one of my schoolfriends lived in y felinheli

V posh now.
Rather like Deganwy (remember our discussion re D waaaay back??)

yes i do! lol
felinheli, posh??!! that will just be cos its god a marina!!

got*
felinheli is not god{eye rolling emoticon]

A little late to the party...

but what chance does a steam cleaner have of removing that weird, really ingrained, black dirt that sits in the micro dimpled face of laminate flooring ?

Any laminate floor owners know what I mean ? It refuses to come off with laminate floor cleaning chemicals / water / scrubbing brush... and gives a pleasantly gross grungey appearance to whole areas of flooring, particularly when being inspected on hands and knees (as I trust you all do at least twice a day). Will a steam cleaner deal with this and render my floor pristine ?

hub-ive never used a steam cleaner on my laminate floor, but you could try it on a small. discreet area and see what happens.

but spacey, I don't own one (yet), LOL.

Go on... do you have a secret really grimy part ? You have to look real close and then you see the surface is actually a nasty grey rather than wood-looking...

How good are the 'real' ones with carpets?

I have an el cheapo steam stripper that is supposed to double up but it isn't that good.

Note, never put steam stripper into a search engine

How good are the 'real' ones with carpets?

I have an el cheapo steam stripper that is supposed to double up but it isn't that good.

Note, never put steam stripper into a search engine

i wash my laminate floor hub(i know you are not supposed to) with jif!!! hence no grimy parts.
MB-personally i havent found my steam cleaner to be any good on my carpets, i think you need one of those rug doctor things. i use a vax electric carpet shampooer.

pmsl MB-im going to go and put steam stripper into google!

Ta spacey. No jif in our house, and cilit bang was so so... will buy some Jif and give it a bash !