Many house holds are moving to steam cleaners for floors nowadays and ditching the old bucket and mop eliminating those detergents. Do you ever wonder why this is becoming a trend with U.S.A households? Let's quickly look at some of the pros and cons aye?
The Bucket and Mop, plus Detergents and Disinfectants.
Okay so you get this hot and soapy water which after 5 minutes will no doubt be as dirty as the floor you're cleaning right? you bet. It won't be long before all you're doing with the bucket and mop is spreading the germs evenly over your Vinyl, Tiled or Wooden floors.
To effectively clean your floors with a bucket and mop you actually should be change the water and cleaning the mop of dirt and germs two to three times per room. That's right, could take you all day to do your house right? You bet!
Then there's the Detergents and Disinfectants. How safe are you really going to be leaving these chemical residue all over your house hold floors? Over time how cost effective is it really? Hmm now there's something I didn't think about, till now that is...Cost! Now let's look at the alternative shall we?
The Steam Cleaner For Floors.
A steam mop as some people call them, is eco-friendly, environmentally friendly as you only use water and the steamer without any chemicals. You'll only need to clean the floor once as the hot steam will remove any kind of stain easily. It will eliminate dust mites, most of those other organisms that end up in your home and, definitely kill the germs on your floor. Now lets look generally at the costs shall we?
The Bucket and Mop.
Now I don't know for certain what the cost of detergents and disinfectants are but for this article let's say you might spend $8.00 a month on floor cleaning chemicals shall we? Why not.
So, on a yearly basis let's say spend $8.00 times 12 months total annually equals $96.00 and you could spend the same amount again the following year. Then there is the electricity used to provide you with hot water, okay it's not major but it counts.
The Steam Floor Cleaner.
You can get your hands on a steam cleaner for less than say $90.00 even cheaper if you know where to look. That could be good for say two years maybe three. Then there's the electricity you would use when cleaning.
Okay common sense tells me that the steam vacuum is definitely the more economical of the two methods of cleaning hard surface floors. Whatever your conclusion after reading this, if you have young ones crawling around on your floors seriously think about their health and safety.
