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!
****WIN IT!****
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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The bathroom is definitely my least favorite. I want a magic wand for cleaning it!
Doing a house full of hardwood floors is my least favorite.
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I would have to say my kids room is the least favortie! Yeah, I know – they should do it themselves, but they just don’t! Once they go back to school, Goodwill will be very happy!
I HATE cleaning the floors. We have all hardwood floors, a baby, and a dog. A good portion of my time is spent on this chore!
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Thanks for the entry! The bathroom is the bane of my existence…
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I hate cleaning the base boards… seriously boring!!
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the job I dislike the most is the one I am currently doing – whichever one that I am doing at the time. 🙂
my least favorite chore would have to be dishes. Hope to win!! really enjoy your site!
Least favorite chore? Picking up toys strewn by my little hurricanes.
my least favorite chore is cleaning the laundry room, it gets so dirty so fast because i always throw stuff in there when i cant find a place for something and it gets filled with stuff that doesn’t belong there which makes it hard to me to want to do laundry..lol..anyway my second least favorite chore is doing the kitchen floors I sometimes have to clean twice a day!
Cleaning the shower.
I follow you on Facbook , and my least favorite chore is moping floors!! yuck that left a bad taste in my mouth.
I HATE cleaning bathrooms! My Very least favorite job. I bribe my husband on occasion!
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Hello follow you on facebook & subscribe to your emails. My least favorite show and I’d have to agree with everyone so far is scrubbing the tub/toilet…bathroom related chores!
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This thing sounds awesome! The floors are my least favorite chore, we have all laminate flooring in our house and I feels like they take an eternity to clean!
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I dislike the kitchen floor. It just never seems to stay clean. This vacuum seems perfect.
Hi! I would have to say that my least favorite chore is actually a toss up between bathrooms and sweeping/mopping the floor. I am a 27 year old fiance (due to be married this fall), and I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia about a year ago. Since then, doing that elbow-grease sort of cleaning has taken much longer and much more energy. I can only imagine how that will be multiplied with a messy husband in the house! Ha!
My least favorite is dishes!
My least favortie chore… all of them! But really it would have to be mopping and cleaning the bathroom. (I follow you on Facebook.)
Least favorite chore is cleaning our floors in the kitchen daily after the kids have had their meals and the bathroom is runner-up!
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My least favorite household chore is mopping the kitchen floor!!
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My least favorite chore is cleaning the bathrooms.
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My least favorite is vacuumming and mopping floors. I’d love to win this! Might make mopping the kitchen and bathroom floors a little more bearable. 😉
the bathrooms are my least favorite, i pretty much ignore them, until the toilet bowl starts screaming CLEAN ME!
This is sad but.. folding laundry is my least favorite chore. Give me 10 bathrooms and I’ll clean them willingly but a basket of laundry probably waits a week to be folded at my house.
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My floors!! My whole house is either wood or tile!! With 3 kids and 2 dogs I have to sweep and vacuum every day!! I also hate mops so I clean the bathroom and kitchen floors on my hands and knees with bleach, sponge and wash cloth!! Uggg!!!!
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My floors are in dire need of this vacuum! They are my least favorite!