I heard about the Hoover Floormate about a year ago. A friend of mine was telling me she cleans her bathroom floors in 5 minutes with the Floormate and how much she loved it.
When Hoover contacted me to review the Floormate I jumped. Literally. And then waited at the door for 2 weeks until it arrived. Finally my little box of heaven arrived and I tested it out that same day. We have a lot of carpet in our house but the kitchen floor and I are arch rivals. We have linoleum floors and a 1 year old baby that prefers to throw her meals on the floor than actually eat them.
So the kitchen floor is filthy basically 100% of the time. Now the floormate is designed for hard floors and it has 3 features- it can vacuum the floor (no sweeping needed!) and then scrub the floor and then it dries them for you!
So I tested the power of this baby by letting Maya have her way with the floor for 2 days. Usually I am scrubbing away after every meal so the floor under her highchair was pretty bad. I found the Floormate did an amazing job. It vacuumed all the little crumbs up perfectly. The scrub feature got most of the stuff off the floor but I still had to scrub a tiny bit myself to get everything up. To be fair, Maya had thrown several tomato slices on the floor so there were seeds and things that were a little much for the Floormate. It did get nearly all of her mess up though and I am guessing normal people won’t have quite the level of mess that I have. The Floormate does allow you to use a trigger to concentrate the soap into certain spots and there are rotating brushes that work to get it all up. This baby will get your floors really clean and it is nice and easy to use. Then just switch it to dry and viola- the floors are all done!!
We have had the Floormate for about a week and I can tell you our floors are cleaner than they have ever been. I typically vacuum the kitchen once per day and that keeps everything crumb free. Then I do a scrub every other day- it is pretty simple to do. Overall I have really loved this machine. If you have hardwood floors I could see this making your life a lot easier. For sure it makes cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms so much easier and honestly I think it is cleaner than using a broom and mop.
The Floormate runs on scratch free rubber wheels and has 2 tanks- one for clean water and one for dirty. You will easily see how much dirt this baby picks up and you don’t have to worry about dumping more dirty water onto the floor when you are cleaning.
This sells for about $149 and you can purchase the Floormate from Target.com for $149.00 with free shipping!
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If you want to check out the new Hoover T-Series Floormate for yourself you get 4 chances to win!
1. Leave me a comment and tell me what your least favorite household chore is. For me the bathrooms are probably my least favorite- so if Hoover could only create a floormate that worked to clean the shower and tub I’d be in for sure!
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My least favorite chore is putting laundry away. I’m fine with everything else!
Least favorite would have to be cleaning the bathroom….
I do not enjoy laundry one single bit! I would rather clean 100 bathrooms than do the laundry!
I follow you on Facebook and I follow thru work on Twitter. 🙂 I hate laundy..folding it, washing it EVERYTHING about it! LOL! OK thanks for having the contest! Have a great day!!!! ~Jen
my least favorite chore is bathroom tubs! thanx =)
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My least favorite chore is making laundry
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My least favorite chore is scrubbing floors….kitchen, entryway, laundry roon, dining room, bathroom….with 4 kids it is awful at times!
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My least favorite job is mopping floors. We have all hardwood floors except the bedrooms and I sure hate to mop them! This would definitely make my least favorite chore a little more bearable.
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The kitchen floor and the sink gotta be the worst. I would die for a shiny sink but can’t keep it that way. The floors go back to the same way right after I wash or sweep. Major display of the law of entropy.
I hate mopping. I have so much tile that sometimes I go so long that my children’s feet get black and that’s when I decide enough is enough. The floor mate would be awesome!!
My least favorite chore is dusting. Why? Because no matter what I use or how often I do it, dust accumlates way too fast!!
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My absolute least favorite household chore is cleaning our 1980s pitted linoleum! Ugh! It never seems to come clean, no matter how many hours I spend scrubbing! I’d like to see what the Hoover Floormate could do to it!
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Toliets are my least favorite, but any help cleaning is appreciated
my least favorite chore is cleaning the bathroom. thank goodness my husband doesn’t mind cleaning all 3. lol.
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I hate to clean the kitchen!
My least favorite chore is definitely mopping. I do not mind sweeping, but I hate mopping!
My least favorite chore is getting all the clutter put away so I can actually do the “real” cleaning!
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I hate cleaning baseboards. 🙁
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I am torn between cleaning bacteria infested toilets and showers and the monotonous task of folding laundry=)
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My least favorite chore is mopping!
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I hate cleaning the shower!
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i absolutely hate it when i get a stain in my carpet that i just can’t remember what its’ from, and you just can’t figure out what to use to get it out with and it becomes an all day marathon of scrubbing and rinsing!
i hate doing the dishes more than anything in life. especially after i have to do the cooking, too!
I have to say that my least favorite chore is cleaning the bathrooms…tub, sink, toilet, floor…etc. I would love to win this floormate to make cleaning the floors easier…now if only they would make something like this to make cleaning the tubs, sinks, & toilets easier. 🙂 thank you for all of the tips on saving that you give on a daily basis!!! You rock!
I hate doing the bathrooms – bathtub and shower specifically.
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My least favorite chore is mopping the floor. This would be an awesome addition to my household, considering I have a 1 and 3 year old as well as two large dogs!
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I honestly hate doing our floors. the bathroom used to be relatively quick and easy, but our floors especially in the kitchen since we took over my mom’s dog when she got sick and she isn’t house trained properly(she was a rescue) she pees on the floor i had gotten a steamer to clean the floors but i have been looking for something like this since G will be crawling soon.
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I hate vacuuming up the floors after the dogs. They shed like mad! That combined with two little boys makes for dirty floors!