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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Frequently Asked Questions & Useful Resources => Topic started by: jaydee on February 14, 2013, 09:38:39 am

Title: steam floor cleaner
Post by: jaydee on February 14, 2013, 09:38:39 am

Hi looking to buy hard floor steam cleaner any advice please

Title: Re: steam floor cleaner
Post by: Kev Martin on February 25, 2013, 04:14:09 pm

Yep!  In a nutshell Don't bother!!!

Kev Martin
Marblelife Ltd
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Title: Re: steam floor cleaner
Post by: Tadgh O Shea on February 25, 2013, 08:11:16 pm

Hi Jaydee

Steam cleaners are great for detailed cleaning, for example grout lines between wall or floor tiles, if you want to deep clean floor surfaces steam cleaners are not very effective for this purpose as the wider the path you want to clean the less effective they are.
If you are using a steam machine with the steam jet focused on grout lines you will see the impacted soils being blown away in front of you, if you then put on a 6 0r 8 inch scrubbing brush you will find that it has not much impact on removing ingrained or impacted soils.
For Deep cleaning floors pre spray with your preferred safe to use cleaning solution then use a damp microcleaning mop pad which are 30 times more effective than steam for deep cleaning floors, if you have large areas to deep clean microcleaning pads are available to fit slow speed floor scrubbing machines.

Title: Re: steam floor cleaner
Post by: cleantech on March 04, 2013, 08:07:07 pm

Microfiber pad would only clean a flat surface. surely you would need a brush for most tiles?
Or am i missing something here  ???

Title: Re: steam floor cleaner
Post by: Tadgh O Shea on March 04, 2013, 09:01:25 pm

No it was a microcleaning pad  (magic eraser pad) i recommended totally different than microfiber pads.

Regards

Tadgh

Title: Re: steam floor cleaner
Post by: cleantech on March 05, 2013, 04:31:51 pm

that explains that.

Thanks Tadgh