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A fine machine indeed. I have been using this unit for a few years now on my tile floors and it works great. My floors even have some pretty wide grout gaps but this unit still sucks all of the water up. There are two things that I think could be improved. #1 is the placement of the on/off switch, it is in a bad location but was probably cheaper to put it there. #2 are the small clips on the waste water tank, they are unnecessary and I removed them after the first time they got in the way when I was putting the tank back in. I have had my machine almost entirely taken apart and it is actually pretty easy to work on. It uses all of the same size screws throughout the machine. After a couple of years of use I had to replace the sucker hose assembly because it simply broke in half from all of the up and downs of the handle. I also replaced the detergent valve assembly because the seal on the bottom of the piston would pull off of its rib that holds it and the button wouldn't pull the piston high enough to let a good amount of detergent flow onto the floor. The parts are pretty cheap and all you really need is a Phillips screw driver to disassemble the entire unit. It's not a task for the feeble minded for sure, you need to pay attention to where stuff is when you take it apart. But overall, it's the best unit of its kind that I have used. I love it.Read full review
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This is the 4th Floormate I've owned. Very easy to use and clean up. Does a great job on laminate flooring. I used to use a mop, but it would leave too much water on the floor that would seep into the seams of the flooring, causing them to swell. The Floormate leaves very little moisture on the floor. It's usually dry within a minute or two. The only thing I've noticed with these machines is that the quality seems to be going downhill the past few years. The first two that I owned lasted almost three years each. The third lasted about 15 months, and the last one was shot by 10 months. The common problem with them is the suction motor/pump assembly. There is an obvious engineering flaw in that the motors are not waterproof, or ever water-resistant as far as I can tell. They start to rust, then start squealing, and eventually seize up completely. You would think that something that is designed to pump water would be waterproof. I see that they have been discontinued. I hope they can come out with a better, more reliable design before the one I just bought seizes up.Read full review
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This is my 4th Floor Mate. My prior one had a handle that folded which made it easier to store between uses, had larger head and 3 settings rather than 2. If you want a more deluxe model be sure to get that and not this model. The floor mate did a good job as have the others that I bought. The previous one stopped sucking up the dirty water after many years use. I very much like the new storage units for clean water, dirty water on the side. Both are larger than previous model. I would have like the folding handle feature, size of head not important- may take another 5 minutes to complete the job with smaller head. Would have given 5 starts if it had the folding handle. Overall FloorMates are great for cleaning expansive areas of hard surface like tile. Recommend getting one. I may simply have purchased a more basic model than the one I had.Read full review
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Love machine while it works This is my 4 th one ..1800square house of tile in sandy Florida and three fur babies...best to sweep floor first if have time but will clean to a shine.Does not last more than a year..larger container would be nice but they hold a lot now.. Wouldn't use anything else to clean tile.!!
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My experience with other Hoover products has been all positive and this one continues to impress. Very similar to a carpet cleaner in operation, it only lacks one important feature- a rinse cycle. Sure it sprays cleaning solution and scrubs the floor nicely and has incredible suction leaving the floor virtually dry when done, but I was always told to make sure not to leave any soap/cleaning solution behind as it will attract dirt, This unit only has a tank for cleaning solution and another for the dirty water, There is no clean water to rinse with so that is why I'm only giving this 4 stars. We will see if not having rinsed the soap from the floor will be an issue, The good news is its ability to almost completely dry my wood floor when done with an area. Leaving water on a wood floor is a no-no. But the dirty water it removed was clear evidence that it had cleaned my floors and removed every drop. I cleaned my linoleum, ceramic and wood floors with this the other day. It was easy to use once I figured out the trigger system. The directions were not very clear or detailed. Now that I have this, I probably will never use a mop again.Read full review
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