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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My least favorite household chore, by far, is changing bunk bed sheets. I swear I need to invent a clever device for making that task easier!
My least favorite chore….cleaning in general. When I put my mind to it I can get it done, but I am such a procrastinator that it usually doesn’t get done! Bathrooms and cleaning the kitchen island (otherwise down as the drop zone) are the worst!
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Oh my goodness! My heart skipped a beat when I saw this giveaway! I have been wanting one of these for a few years now. My sister has one and I’m oh so jealous!!!!! My least favorite chore is scrubbing my endless hardwood floors!
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My least favorite chore is vacuuming the floors. 🙁 I have to vacuum almost every day because we have a Golden Retiever.
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I hate sweeping and mopping the floors, so this little baby would make my life so much easier!
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I hate dusting. It seems so pointless. 🙂
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I hate to do floors so this would be a perfect win for me!!!
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I’m a subscriber! Thanks so much for all your hard work!
I hate cleaning my bathrooms too, they take forever.
I follow you on Facebook and receive your daily newsletter! My least favorite chore is cleaning the shower..specifically the grout, followed by any grout in the house. did I say, I hate grout?! lol
would love to put this baby to good use!
My least favorite chore is folding laundry – it is never ending!
Cleaning the oven!
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I have to say, emptying the dishwasher. I do a great job of filling it though! :o) I subscribe and receive your emails!
I just “Liked” you on FB…thought I already had. Thanks for the reminder!
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My least favorite chore is washing the dishes & cleaning the floors!
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Cleaning bathrooms. Whose stinking ideas was it to buy a house with 3 bathrooms! Oh, yeah, my DH. gotta love em! Sounds like this tool might just make life easier. Hope I win!!
My leaset favorite is the kids because barbie shoes get stuck in the vacumn! So hopefully this is barbie shoe proof! 🙂
My least favorite chore is my floors! I have 4 kids, 2 dogs, and 2 cats…needless to say I constantly feel like I am vacuuming/mopping.
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I follow you on Twitter and FB and I hate dusting!
my least favorite chore is putting away laundry. i can do it, fold it & put it in the right room, I just hate to put it away
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My least favorite chore is the cleaning the dirty wood floor!
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I’m with you…cleaning the bathrooms is probably the most time-consuming chore and my least favorite.
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I agree with you (and all your other subscribers), bathrooms are the worst! However, I would love to have the Hoover Floormate to make cleaning my kitchen floor easier!
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Typo.. My least favorite room to clean is the kids room. The kids room hides all kinds of things that the vacumm gobbles up and stops like Barbie shoes. So again hopefully this is a Barbie shoe proof vacum haha
I hate mopping the floors. I am six foot tall and can never find a mop that doesn’t hurt my back. Plus we have a lot of tile.
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My least favorite is the bathroom and kitchen floors uggghhh with three young boys 6,3,and 8 months you can imagine what they look like at the end of the day lol …. This vaccum sounds amazing I would love the chance to try one out …. I love ways to save time so I have more time to cuddle my babies!!!