Hoover FloorMate Deluxe Hard Floor Cleaner Machine, Lightweight Cleaning Machine, Floor Scrubber with Spin Scrub Brushes, Wash and Dry Mode, Ideal for Hardwood, Vinyl, Tile, Laminate and More

Cleaning is my life. With 11 cats and a clumsy husband, it has to be. I owned the original model Floormate back at the turn of the century. It worked fantastically for 9 years and then started to fail in various ways. I've been using a Swiffer wet mop ever since. Lately, the Swiffer has been leaving streaks and some sort of white film on all my floors, so I bought another Floormate. Right out of the box, this one is superior to the first. The tanks are on either side, allowing you to get under lower objects when cleaning. The controls are straightforward, allowing even an instruction manual tosser like me to use it right away. The brushes scrub dirt off the floor. Now, if your careless spouse dripped syrup on the floor and nobody noticed for a week, you're going to have to go over it quite a few times. The Swiffer would never get that up. To address the issues some others have had: Go slow. Give the brushes time to work. Remember that the brushes engage and the nozzle pressurizes and sprays with each forward pass. On the backward pass, all of that has to switch gears and the squeegee has to engage. Also remember that none of this happens instantly. It's a floor cleaner, not a life support machine. If you run it back and forth quickly like a vacuum, no, it won't clean well. As for the leakage: Yes, it does leak a bit. But again, you have to remember the mechanism and the fact that the entire bottom of the machine gets wet while it does its thing. Give it an extra backward pass to compensate. And when you stop cleaning and take off the tanks, that little reservoir where the cleaner tank connects has water in it. Blot it out with a paper towel and it won't leave a puddle on your floor. This machine cleans really well, judging by the gray and brown water in the holding tank. That came off my freshly Swiffered floor. It handled my tile extremely well, cleaning muck off of it in one pass and doing a halfway decent job with the grout. The regular laminate floors worried me because any amount of water on them makes it swell and curl, so I went gently, not using too much solution and making sure to get it extra dry. Yes, it did leave streaks, but that smooth, shiny surface is prone to them. The LVP came clean in the wink of an eye and because of the wood grain texture, had no streaks. My sheet vinyl came clean easily, though there were a few extra passes to get up the kitchen grease that spatters in front of the stove. I love that this is so light and compact. I'm a small person and large machines make me not want to use them. It feels quite sturdy and I think it might well last as long as my old one did, or perhaps longer. I have no trouble at all recommending this to a friend because the darn thing simply works.

Totally love this updated model. We had one for years at another home and used it mainly for our entrance way & kitchen tile floor. With 3 dogs and a lot of foot traffic given the central location in our home, it got a lot of hard use and served us well. That model had a much smaller container for the cleaning liquid so it required multiple refills to finish the floor. It really never stopped working, we just decided it was time to let it go so it didn't make the move with us. The new model we just received has a larger container for the cleaning fluid and works great! We have a lot of tile floors as we are in south Florida now and I didn't but this right away -- so I just used a manual spray/push mop and soon decided that was ridiculous :) In looking at all the different floor cleaners available, I decided once again this was the best bang for your buck! Certainly cuts the time in half and much easier on your back than a manual mop! This is worth every penny and a lot of bang for your buck without going to a more expensive machine. I usually sweep up at least in the kitchen first, so I don't expect this to be a vacuum cleaner, but it does have enough suction and pull up whatever is left behind. I don't expect to use it to clean our area rugs, but I have run it over a thin throw rug and it works fine. We don't have wood flooring but this seems to put out just enough moisture to do the job so it would not oversaturate your flooring and should work well. I like that it also has a trigger you can use for extra cleaning solvent to be dispensed for a tough spot on the floor. Just like after I would mop, I don't expect the floor to be completely 100% dry when I'm finished, but this does have a "wet / dry" lever and the dry side does pull up any excess fluid on the floor so in my book it works great and whatever is left behind dries up quickly. I hope it lasts us as long as the other one (many years!) and this one won't have to work quite as hard because our layout is different and we have fewer dogs now. So this is a good little workhorse and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it!

The first time I used the Hoover Floormate it leaked all over my floor. I chalked it up to user error and tried re-seating the tanks. It still leaked to some extent but was usable. Initial impressions were good. As the floor dried, I could see that the unit only cleans the "loose" dirt. Any dried stains (in my case dog drool from his food and water dish) will not be cleaned unless I go over the area 4-5 times, and sometimes they still persist. The Floormate worked moderately well for about 2 months until it suddenly started emitting a high shrieking sound and a burning smell. I checked the Hoover web site for information, and it directed me to a service number. I called 3 times, each time I waited for over an hour only to give up out of frustration. Before I disconnected eact time, I requested a call back. One week later I received a call from an out-of-state repair shop. The technician asked me a series of question and told me that the unit was under warranty. The person asked me what the specific issue was and after I explained she requested that I turn the unit on she could hear the issue for herself. I complied and she said, "I don't hear anything out of the ordinary". After a bit of back and forth she finally agreed to solicit a repair request with Hoover. I said, "you're not from Hoover?" and she replied "No, we're an independent repair shop that just assess as to whether a warranty claim is valid". 40 minutes into the call she finally entered the claim and told me that Hoover would be in touch via email. She also said that I would have to drop off the unit at a local repair shop, which is an 80-minute drive from my home. I received the email form Hoover and contacted their service rep. The rep wanted me to go through the entire process again, this time requesting video proof of the problem. Before we got too far into the conversation, I told them that I had surgery scheduled and would be out of commission for 3 months, so I could not drop off the faulty item at the repair shop. They said that a drop off is my only option. At this point I had enough of this nonsense and decided it was better just to take the loss, toss the unit in the garbage and never buy products from Hoover again. I also have a Hoover rug cleaner which broke after about 6 months due to a rusty turbine, which is a known problem they refuse to address. BUYER BEWARE!

I was apprehensive to order the FloorMate as I had a Hoover Spin & Scrub (or something similarly named) awhile back and it didn't do the job I had hoped it would. Living on a farm and having the kitchen with tile floor as the main point of entry makes for a nasty, dirty floor most of the time. In my case, I can say that this machine has put the nails in the coffin of my steam mop. The FloorMate arrived yesterday and was easy enough to put together. In fact, my 9 year old inserted the handle and screwed it on, it was that easy. The unit is very lightweight; great for me to take it up and down stairs. At first, I thought the tanks were a bit small as I have a large area, but in using it I found them be quite sufficient (ie the water usage wasn't as fast as I thought it would be, so I was able to do a decent sized area). The instructions were easy to understand, and the machine was easy to operate. Switching from "wash" to "dry" was easy enough. As mentioned, my floors were quite dirty, and it did a great job. My only real complaint with this purchase is the width of the cleaning head; it's not even wide enough to cover a 12" tile! It took me awhile to get my kitchen done, with the combination of the size of the room plus the width of the unit. But, in the end I was very, very pleased with the quality of cleaning. I'm hoping that now I have the worst of the dirt and grime up, future cleanings will take less time. The vacuum part (sucking up of the dirty water) worked very well. Switching the unit to "dry" mode sped up the process of drying the floor. In the end, I only had a couple of very wet spots, and that was due to my own oversight. Some reviewers have commented on the loudness of the unit. It IS loud, but to me it's no more so than a vacuum or similar product. It was not so loud that I wouldn't use it. Also, some reviewers commented that if you leave the unit sit, that dirty water will leak back out. I have not observed that in my one day of use.

This came in the mail on Friday and I got to use it Saturday. It was triple packed so no damage was incurred via shipping. ASSEMBLY & USE: This floor cleaner was easy to assemble - almost intuitive. Using it needed directions. I didn't realize that while cleaning I should be pressing down on the dispenser button built into the D-shaped handle. Solution still is released even if you don't push it (it can be tedious to press down constantly) but just not as much. Then there's a boost button to press for extra detergent which was intuitive and self-explanatory. Using it while pressing down on the solution dispenser button does not "drown" your floor. When NOT pressing down on the solution dispenser button when pulling the cleaner back, it expedites your floor drying. VACUUM: A word on the vacuum part, which can be "activated" by switching to the "Dry" mode - keep in mind that this is primarily a wet floor cleaner and not a dry vac. Just like your advised not to order a steak when you go to a seafood restaurant, you shouldn't use this as a vacuum the way you'd use your regular dry vacuum. You're going to wear out the squeegee faster, for a start, but the solids you vacuum up will go into the dirty water tank making it more disgusting to clear out. If you have hairs on the floor from yourself, family members, or pets, that will more likely tangle in the suction parts or the filtered part of the dirty water container and that's sick to clean and weed out. Then when you dump that in your sink, you're dumping solids that don't always dissolve in water, so you're in turn doing your sink a mis-favor. True, one of the reasons to get this is the superior cleaning this does to traditional cleaning methods and the ease, oh, the ease! Nonetheless, you're way ahead if you sweep away solids with a broom and dust pan first, or use your regular dry vacuum instead of this. Cleaning that gunk will have to be done manually one way or another. Better to get at it before using the floor cleaner than not. If you use the floor cleaner to get it, the energy and extra work you thought you saved will get you anyway when cleaning out the suction section, brushes, filter of the dirty water container and from the sink hole. I did sweep very thoroughly before I used this but I didn't vacuum. There was a minimal amount of gunk and hair, but I was grateful it wasn't worse, like if I hadn't swept. Get it? Good :-) CLEANING QUALITY: Most of my house is carpets but my kitchen and hallway (connected) are imitation wood laminate and my bathroom floors are ceramic with brown grout. I did the bathrooms last - the dirty water dispenser wasn't so bad. But the kitchen... Check out the photos some people have shared (black mud water) and that's how my dirty water container looked after the first run. Nevertheless, the floor felt different. My spouse said it even looked lighter in color (blushing cheeks). After the second run, it was a slightly lighter black mud water. With the third run it was mud colored... I tell you, it was starting to get tedious and I was starting to grow suspicious that maybe the solution had a chemical reaction when touching the floor to turn a certain color. My suspicions were wrong and yes, paranoid. There was sediment with every cleaning in the dirty water dispenser. Then I went over the floor a fourth time and the water was a lot closer to looking clean. Really it needed a fifth or sixth time but I was beat (I had to move heavy things out of my hallway and bathrooms, plus I was house cleaning other things in between.) While the floor cleaner didn't get the corners and baseboards, doing so the old fashioned way - by getting down on my hands and knees with solution and a brush was infinitely easier and definitely way more enjoyable since with the floor already cleaned. And that's when I noticed something else: the smell of my floor: fresh. There was a slight solution smell but that is only close up. Before cleaning the floor, I remember dropping something that creeped its way under the stove. The floor smelled like it had a lot of foot traffic - not a foul smell, but like black pepper mixed with floor, if that makes any sense. Side note - I cleaned under the stove and refrigerator too...got rid of so so so so so much dust (first sweeping it, then wiping the floor with a Clorox wipe). Behind the fridge I found a collection of dust around the fridge vents, thank goodness I found it before my motor burnt out or a fire hazard happened. It was time to wrap everything up so I made sure both containers were empty and relatively dry. Then I popped out the brushes and rinsed them and cleared out the squeegee. That was that. EFFECT ON ALLERGIES: Normally I wake up slurpy - thanks to the "benefit" of allergies. This morning was different. Even though my bedroom is wall to wall carpeting, much like the rest of my house sans kitchen, bathroom, and hallway, I didn't think about how the minority clean hard floors would impact my allergies. I woke up still having allergies but no slurpiness - no runny nose and less crusty eyes. Yes, cleaning under the stove and the booming Dustopolis under, on, and behind my fridge I'm sure were a great help, but I also believe having such clean floors for the first time really made a difference! BOTTOM LINE: I love this floor cleaner. If I move, I'd try to find a way to take this with me in my car instead of ship it with the movers. I'd use this magic machine to clean floors in a place I'm moving out of to make the floors as good as new and definitely use it in a new place to clean the floors like they've never been touched, even if it takes more than 4 runs like my floor did (blush).

This is the second unit I have bought. The first one lasted three years before the motor went out. Pros: Scrubs and cleans the floors Sucks up the dirty water better than any mopleaving my floors clean without any residual dirt Easy to use Narrow enough to fit between chair legs Fresh cleaning solution dispensed- no reused dirty water like a mop Cons: Doesn’t pick up dry dirt such or dog hair; you must sweep before using machine Suction tube between suction head and upright body broke after 10 months of use and had to be replaced. Electric suction motor only lasted 2 1/2 years After one year of use, machine became incredible noisy and I had to wear earplugs Only has two modes - scrub with cleaning solution or dry to suck up the dirty water. I would like a rinse with clean water ability using only water-no cleaning solution As you can read there are a lot of cons to this machine, however, I still bought the exact same machine to replace the one with the motor that started to smoke. (Motors for these units can run up to $40, and at that point you’re half way to a new one. The warranty is only for one year.) So why did I buy another one knowing all these problems? It’s because it does a great job at cleaning my floors. It scrubs the floors and then sucks up the filth leaving my floors looking and smelling fresh and clean. I bought extra suction tubes for my last machine and I know how to replace it when it cracks. I plan on using this machine for two to three years and replacing it when it breaks. I’m willing to spread the cost out to $50 a year to get clean floors. Too bad the motors don’t last any longer than that. Only spend the extra money on the folding handle if you transport it often in the car trunk, but the straight handle unit is easy to move too. You only have to remove one screw to remove the handle that makes it the same size as the folding version, but I wouldn’t like to do it every time I needed to make it smaller.

This is a very handy machine . This is actually my third floormate in about 12 years . The first one was what is now called the Classic . Second and third were the Deluxe . In my opinion the first one was a slightly better scrubber but the deluxe sucks up more water and I have never had to use the DRY feature . These are not commercial floor scrubbers and are not intended to be . These machines are to replace a mop and bucket to clean hard floors and they do a very good job at that . The dirty water is sucked up off the floor and if you see what would have been left had you used used a mop and bucket you would see the value of this . As stated by many others it wont do much for the grout on tile floors but neither will a mop . It is east to fill,easy to empty and easy to clean .The Hoover hard floor cleaning solution is not real expensive and does not use a lot if you mix it according to directions, I also add a little bit of mr clean or spic and span to the solution but it is not necessary .Some people have complained of short motor life but both of mine lasted over 5 years,The motor for the brush head in the second one did burn out but the Classic fell down the stairs and broke the case so that was not a motor issue .My BAD . I really like the Hoover and I think the brush system is more effective on tile than the OTHER company that makes this type of scrubber and the Hoover is half the price . Even if this machine only lasted 3-4 years I would still reccomend it for the ability to not have dirty water left drying on the floor as I have two dogs and a mudroom with an entrance from the garage and outside plus about another 600 sq. ft. of tile Can't comment on wood floor usage as I am only doing ceramic tile ..Shipping was fast and price was the best through Amazon .The Classic offers a vacuum feature but it does not do carpets only hard floors and is about 50 dollars more so I just run over the floor with a regular vacuum first to get up the dog hair then start with the scrubber, the Classic would eliminate using the regular vacuum . If you were using a mop I would be doing the same thing instead of pushing wet hair and dirt around so that is not an extra step .The noise is the same as a vacuum cleaner because it is a vacuum , DUH.

Okay, I've only used it once, but I'm sold. I used this on tile floor in 5 areas on our residence. I bought the deluxe version so that I had the tile and grout brush, along with the wood floor brush, rather than just an all purpose brush that comes with the lower priced model. Also, I bought a bottle of the tile and group cleaner from Hoover, rather than use the all purpose cleaner that comes with the unit. The unit worked great. It was easy to set up, and easy to push around the floor. It has a special cleaning capability on tough spots, and that worked just fine. It also has a dry-only mode, and I only used that on one area. I picks up dirty water as it goes along, and left the floor reasonably dry. You just run the unit over an area a second time without spraying more cleaning fluid, and it picks up the dirty fluid on the floor. And the dirt really came up. I had run our steam cleaner over the floor a month ago, but the floor apparently was in need of a cleaning. The dirty water that is vacuumed up shows you just how much dirt was on the floor. This can help you judge how often you need to clean. If the water comes up fairly clear, maybe you can wait longer, and vice versa. Picking the dirty water up is just about the best feature. No more moving dirt around with a mop, or scrub brush, or steam cleaner. The dirt get vacuumed up, and is gone. Clean up was a snap. Easily rinse the two tanks out. Take off the squeegee thing in the front, and rinse it off. The brushes were not dirty and needed no cleaning, but they come out easily for cleaning, or to swap out another brush type. Although I vacuumed first with a new vacuum, by the way, the FloorMate seemed to pick up even more dust. It showed up on the dirty water tank, and in the squeegee area, as clumps of dirt. I even noticed one small dust clump that vacuuming missed. I watched it get sucked up into the brush area of the FloorMate. It seems to have a pretty good vacuuming ability. There is a filter that the dirty water flows through, but it didn't seem to get very clogged. Rinsing it out was easy too. Okay, there might be one or two criticisms. The power button is mounted pretty low on the unit, not near the handle. I don't like that. Also, it does not have a self-storing cord as on the new Hoover vacuum we bought at the same time. That would be a nice feature. These are not major points though, but I wanted to point them out to be fair As you can tell, I'm sold. I'll be telling my friends about this. One of my better purchases, for sure.

Es mi primera aspiradora y al recibir buenas criticas de la pagina de amazon de EU decidí probar suerte con esta, tengo pisos de azulejo tipo madera en mi casa y el uso del trapeador y la escoba solamente al principio fue suficiente pero con el tiempo empezaron a acumular entre los bordes suciedad que no pude quitar con escoba y trapeador y que solo cepillando se removía. El cepillar todos los pisos de la casa no era algo que me gustaría hacer constantemente para que los pisos amaderados lucieran bien, por lo que adquirí esta aspiradora, y fue una agradable sorpresa ya que con la primera pasada se vio una mejora que si lo hacia con puro trapeador, al pasar la aspiradora cepilla realmente los pisos y los deja muy bien, no tan bien que si pasaras cepillo manualmente. Una de las cosas que me encanto es que ahora no tengo que ensuciarme las manos para secar el trapeador y cambiar el agua constantemente por lo sucia que queda despues de una pasada, ya que la aspiradora cuenta con un tanque para el agua con jabon y otro para recoger la suciedad, por lo que el agua que el piso recibe todo el tiempo es limpia y no agua sucia o medio sucia por las pasadas que se le da con la jerga. La Floormate cuenta con un boton que de acuerdo a las instrucciones se utiliza en los casos en que hay una mancha mas pegada o el piso esta mas sucio sin embargo en mi caso en particular tengo que presionar todo el tiempo este boton ya que de lo contrario no limpia el piso bien, pues por los bordes de los pisos estos absorben mas agua. Por esta misma situación he decidido mejor antes de pasar la aspiradora pasar la jerga rápidamente por el piso para que este se humedezca y al pasar la aspiradora pueda remover mejor la suciedad. Un dia se inundo una de las habitaciones por una fuga y con ayuda de la aspiradora seque inmediatamente, ya me habia pasado alguna vez en otro cuarto por tener mucha presion en la tuberia y para limpiar todo me llevo una hora aproximadamente pero en esta ocasion con ayuda de la aspiradora secar me llevo unos 15 minutos. Por ultimo cabe mencionar que la aspiradora no es capaz de aspirar mas que polvo, pelos de animales cuando mucho, pues si por ejemplo hay un grano maíz palomero este no sera aspirado, por lo que antes de pasar la aspiradora debe pasar la escoba. Después que se acabo el limpiador liquido que viene en el paquete utilicé fabuloso con agua y me funciono muy bien.

I got tired of mopping my floors, so I bought myself this. I love it. Description is exact. But heavier than a vacuum and a bit louder too. Cleans my apt laminate floor and tiled bathroom floor with ease. Easy to snap together. Comes with a small bottle of cleaning solution. Only thing, it is hard to find the cleaning solution that goes with it in stores, most is carpet cleaner from this brand, cant use solution that has lots of suds. DIY solution should work as long as its not bleach or dish soap.

Worst and waste....don't buy.......first non return....second no spares and service available in india....even one min its not working.....0 🌟 is not there to give my rating....

El producto es bastante bueno. Lástima la capacidad que lo obliga a uno a tener que llenar el receptáculo varias veces. Tal vez para áreas pequeñas funcione bien una sola llenada, pero para áreas grandes hay que llenar dos o tres veces el tanque. Fuera de eso, talla los pisos de maravilla, ojo funciona aún mejor si se pasa muy despacio y se deja actuar bien a los cepillos y a la succión. De hacerlo así los pisos quedan como en su anuncio secos, así que si hay que dedicarle un tiempo. Los productos de limpieza duran muchos usos si se compran en original. En realidad limpia bien pero no es el producto de 10 minutos antes de que lleguen los invitados, hay que darle su tiempo a trabajar para que deje los pisos como tallados a mano. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.

I am disgusted at how dirty my floors were!! I have been living in filth. This machine works so well. You have to take your time over each spot but it gets the job done!