Kitchen floor cleaning procedure

[Paddysmom]

1. Remove all stuff sitting on floor into other room
2. Broom sweep major piles of dog hair out back door
3. Watch minor piles of dog hair blow back into kitchen
4. Repeat (2)
5. Vacuum entire floor
6. Swiffer wet mop
7. Realize I have just moved all the dirt around to make a thin gray film on floor
8. Sit on butt with wet rag and wipe down entire floor
9. See stray, wet dog hairs clinging to floor - wait for them to dry
10. Use vacuum wands to suck up now-dry and stiff dog hair strings
11. Watch dogs begin to loll around on semi-clean floor
12. Contemplate stiff drink but backs out of kitchen, shaking head

NOT tra-la!

[amazongold]

Nance, I got one of those cheap floor steam cleaners because the Swiffer wet just didn't cut it on the horrible linoleum we have in the kitchen. Does a great job!

[Paddysmom]

I'm thinking of looking into that, Jackie. It seems that no matter what type of mop I use it just pushes the dirt around into a less visible layer.

How does the steam cleaner work?

[amazongold]

Mine has two micro-fiber heads, so I can switch them out. You fill a little tank with water, wait until the light goes on, then mop - as you push, it forces steam through the head onto the floor. I usually swap the heads about half-way through. It takes a while, because our linoleum is so old, but it does the best job of anything I have tried in the 5 years we've been here.

[Seamus Lab]

I use a Hoover Floor Mate and it does an awesome job. Expensive, but I have a lot of tile flooring to clean. Scrubs, sucks up the dirty water and leaves the floor "squeegee" dry.

[Wendy]

I have a steam mop, I really like it, but I suggest buying more of the cloths. I usually go through 3 of them while I mop. You can also rinse them in your sink and put them back on after ringing them out. Not to mention a little bit of pine sol if you like to have that clean smell.

[amazongold]

I have a steam mop, I really like it, but I suggest buying more of the cloths. I usually go through 3 of them while I mop. You can also rinse them in your sink and put them back on after ringing them out. Not to mention a little bit of pine sol if you like to have that clean smell.

If my kitchen were larger than a postage stamp, I would get more heads, too. Or, like you said, rinse them out and re-use them. The two I have get very dirty.

[zoezoe]

I spent most of the day vac'ing and wiping dust and never made it to the upstairs...dog dust; dog dander.....bitching the entire time...and then i look at those soulful eyes and get all that snuggling from my loves...makes it all worth every minute!

[Labs4life]

I still do my kitchen floor the old way. A bucket of soapy water, a rinse bucket with a big sponge all done on my hands and knees. I keep a huge collection of old towels to dry the floor with. I really need to rethink this approach. It's getting to be too much.

I've heard great things about the hard suface steamers and should get one. I have ceramic in 3 rooms plus the laminate in the kitchen.

The hardwoods in the living room,dinining room, and upstair bedrooms/hallways get cleaned with a generic Windex and towel dried. The wood manufacturer recommended this method and it works well. The high tech urethane coatings on the wood clean up very nicely.

[kaznalf]

Sounds like me! I move everything, have the vaccum on full and mop, seems to work