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I almost named this post “My Children Have Met Their Match”.  Before I get all excited about the Hoover Floormate, let me give you the company description about it.

• The first vac-wash-dry cleaning system specially designed to clean most hard-floor surfaces. Switching between cleaning options is a snap with the EZ Select dial
• Exclusive SpinScrub Brushes
• The first vac-wash-dry cleaning system specially designed to clean most hard-floor surfaces
• Fingertip Trigger Control – lets you control where, when and how much cleaning solution you apply
• Folding handle – for easy assembly and compact storage
• Dual tank design separates the cleaning solution and pick-up so you never put dirty water back on your floor
• Includes specially formulated Hoover Grout and Hoover Floor-to-Floor cleaning solutions
• 13″ removable nozzle helps you finish the job quickly and clean up easily

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Hoover Floormate.  Totally my new favorite house cleaning tool!  My children have put this to the test many times since I got it.  Everyday I use the vacuum part to do the basic cleaning of the floor and every other day I’ve been scrubbing the floor.  The first day I used it (Pato beat me to it the first time period), the kitchen floor was bad.  I mean bad.  The night before not only had cereal been spilled on the floor (with milk – Alyce helped herself, Nano pulled it down, Kat used a towel to dry clean it up.) then Katiana spilled her entire glass of orange soda in another part of the kitchen – and cleaned it up with a dry towel.  Then Jordan knocked over apple juice.  At that point I was so tired I said, it’s dry at least, I’ll scrub it in the morning.  In the morning it was sticky and gross and had dirt marks on it from where Pato dragged in snow and slush and crud.  I got out the Hoover Floormate and went to work.  First Jordan and I removed all the chairs, the high chair, garbage can, everything.  Then I vacuumed the floor and it did really good.  I was impressed because many hard floor vacuums I have tried spit stuff out back at you.

Then I followed the instructions and filled the top tank with water and the cleaning solution.  Time to go.  As I’m stick stick sticking across my floor.  My floor was heavily soiled at this point.  I had to go slow like a steam cleaner on your carpets but the Hoover Floormate made my floor clean enough that if I just hadn’t cleaned my floor, I would have eaten off the darn thing.

Normally when I use the mop and bucket method I have to do it twice.  Once to scrub with PineSol and water, then I dump it out and start all over again.  Mopping it all over with clean water.  It still has a filmy feel to it and my floor seems to get dirty again really really fast.  Not with the Hoover Floormate.  First, can I tell you how amazing it was to scrub the whole thing and for it to be dry as I was going?  Yep, it dries too.  Just flip the switch over to dry, go over the wet part a couple of times, dry.  Usually I have to pile chairs in front of the entryway because it’s a safety issue when you have kids and a wet floor.  Both Alyce and Christiano fall right on their butt.  Plus then I have to go over the floor again if someone makes footprints.

The Hoover Floormate took me about the same amount of time (with the floor being disgusting) as it does for me to mop twice because I was going really slow.  On a normal day it takes me less time because I don’t have to go quite as slow getting sticky cereal milk off my kitchen floor.  My back didn’t hurt when I was done.  And it was clean clean clean.  I felt good about Nano crawling across it.  (He doesn’t crawl as a rule anymore, but he does chase his cars around the house on hands and knees.)

I’ve got linolium in my kitchen and both bathrooms (and Jordan is not very good in the bathroom if you get my drift).  Jordan’s bathroom disgusts me with a mop.  I’m afraid I’m going to touch the water.  Ew.  This helped out in there too.  Jordan’s bathroom felt good to step on and smelled good too!  Something I have to do a few times with a mop and a bucket and TONS of PineSol.

I’m giving the Hoover Floormate a big huge fat

Actually, if I had made a graphic with 2 thumbs up they would totally have gotten that just for saving me some back pain!

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