Anyone give up on ALL mops and just "get on your knees"?!
I am fed up. LOL. I bought this mop, that mop, this one....I even have a Swiffer electric thingie that is not a mop but sucks up dust and crap and uses the cloth to get more, etc, etc...
I have Pergo floors, lots of pets, 3 messy kids.....nothing seems to get up the hair *and* the little stains, spills, dots of whatever ends up on the floor......ugh.
Anyone just give up and use the ol' rag and bucket method? How does *that* work for you???
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Yup, I hate mops they never seem to get it really clean. Our kitchen and dining rooms aren't very big so yes, I get down on my hands and knees and clean. It's the only way I feel that they are really clean.
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I scrub floors on my hands and knees. I hate mops. I use watered down ammonia to clean the floors and future to shine them. 2 steps all done by hand. Thankfully my kitchen isn't so big. I used to have an apt with all hard wood floors that I did on hands and knees..
Yup, I hate mops they never seem to get it really clean. Our kitchen and dining rooms aren't very big so yes, I get down on my hands and knees and clean. It's the only way I feel that they are really clean.
Put in dh instead of I ...lol.. So he does all the floor cleaning on Saturday morning. I do clean up spills in between. yk
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When I had a galley kitchen I didn't own a mop. I just used all-purpose cleaner and rags. Now, though, I've got a lot of real estate in my kitchen so for regular use I have a Sh-mop and I only do the hands-and-knees thing once a week or so.
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I have laminate flooring too and it always seems smudged. After reading a thread here I ended up buying some microfiber clothes and just used a bucket. My girls get a kick out of it and help out a whole lot. We have A LOT of wood floor on the lower level.
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We have porcelin tile in our dinning,kitchen,entry way's and linoleium in our bathroom.
All are done on my hands and knees.The kids think it is a great game so they often help. I have not used a mop in years
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I sweep my floor, and then get a bucket and a rag and get on my hands and knees and wash them. I do this in the kitchen, the entryway, and the bathrooms (where we have tile/linoleum). I've tried using mops and swiffer thingies, but I evidently couldn't get the hang of it, because my floor wouldn't get very clean and it just pushed the dirt around! This way is more *uncomfortable*, but I can at least see all the spots and get into the cracks and corners so I know it's clean.
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I gave up on mops, too, but I think it's due to my kdis being supermessy! I have laminate floor in the kitchen,and I get on my hands and knees to scrub it about once a week. I sweep alternately between times whenever it getts looking bad, and I will do spot touch--ups if there is some sort of smudge or spilled something. I think it does get them cleaner. I don't hand mop my whole house, though, just the kitchen and bath. I have hardwood floors but they don't seem to get that dirty, so a sweep will get them clean,a nd then a quick polish once a month if I'm lucky! I have a rug in the LR (over the hardwood) and I vaccuum it almost daily!
Hands and knees the bathroom and the woodfloors in the hallway, playroom and living room (there are area rugs in there so just the few feet around the edges.
We have a huge eat-in kitchen that is white tile and I use a steam cleaner with just water. Works great. I vac every other day and wet rag the splats as they happen so it doesn't get too bad between washes. The glaring white tile (what were the builders thinking???) makes it hard to leave the drips and splats when the kitchen is most of our downstairs and what you see first when you come in the house.
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I tried a swiffer but always wound up down on my knees scrubbing something sticky or gooey off the floor that the swiffer didn't clean. So now I just do the bucket thing. The kids think it is fun so I usually let them do it and then just get any spots they missed.
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