Best floor mop for a large house with hardwood
Cleaning a large house with hardwood floors takes too much time with standard tools, leaving people overwhelmed by endless chores. Choosing the right mop means cutting down on scrubbing time without adding complicated steps like steam cleaning that just create extra work.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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Best floor mop for a large house with hardwood
- 1Using an O-Cedars spin mop with hot waterDid this help you?
- 2Switching to a robot mopDid this help you?
- 3Using an O-Cedar H2Pro flat mop with a squirt-gun mechanismDid this help you?
- 4using traditional vacuumsDid this help you?
- 5spending time researching multiple replacement optionsDid this help you?
- 6Using spray mopsDid this help you?
- 7Switching between traditional mops and newer spray mop modelsDid this help you?
- 8Researching and shopping for inventive alternative mop brands on AmazonDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I find getting it to dry is very labour intensive, wringing and re-mopping, etc.”source ↗
“My latest one from Vileda has suddenly stopped misting so it's essentially a mop to mop after mopping.”source ↗
“I'm moving into a larger house with hardwood floors.”source ↗
“I'm on the hunt for any other recommendations (specifically ones that might cut down on cleaning time).”source ↗
“I hate giving Vileda more of my money since the last one I bought has been a colossal fail.”source ↗
Where this came up
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