BISSELL Flip-!t Bare Floor Cleaner, 5200
- Upright bare-floor cleaner with trigger control for solution dispensing
- 3 cleaning modes include dry vacuum, wet vacuum, and drying
- Machine-washable, floating, soft-scrub brush and interchangeable pad
- 22-foot power cord; 2 trial-size chemical solutions included
- Measures 7-1/2 by 11-1/4 by 44 inches; 1-year limited parts-and-labor warranty
Bissell 5200 Flip-It Bare Floor Cleaner – The safe and powerful way to effectively clean bare floors
List Price: $ 79.99
Price: $ 79.99
Hoover H2510 Impulse Cordless Electric Power Mop, Lavender Mist with Mystic Lime
- Cordless power mop washes and dries hard-surface floors
- Scrub mode cleans; Pickup mode dries and picks up liquid spills
- 2-tank system keeps dirty and clean water separate; fold-down handle
- AC adapter/charger and 8-ounce bottle of cleaning solution included
- Measures 7 by 11 by 44 inches; 1-year limited warranty
The Hoover Impulse Cordless Power Mop washes and dries hard floors. The rotating Power Brush roll loosens dried on dirt and powers out tough messes. The squeegee leaves floors virtually dry. The Impulse Cordless Power Mop is also great for picking up spills on hard floor surfaces. It is cordless and rechargeable which provides up to 30 minutes of cord free running time. The Impulse has a very sophisticated NI-CD battery and charging unit. An indicator light glows red while charging, green when fully charged, and blinks orange when the battery has only 2 minutes of power remaining. Because of the Auto Shut-Off feature on the charger, the battery can remain on constant charge when stored, without any fear of over-charging, damaging, over-heating, or weakening the battery. Generally, the battery can reach a full charge overnight. The Impulse is very lightweight and portable. It weighs only 8 pounds which makes it very easy to move from room to room. It comes with a folding handle
List Price: $ 109.00
Price: $ 109.00
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Finally a clean floor with no pain!,
I live in a one bedroom apartment that is approximately half vinyl/linoleum flooring, half carpet. I’ve had a Swiffer Wet Jet All-In-One Power Mop Starter Kit for a long time, and it’s never gotten the floor quite clean, so I’ve had a dingy quality to the floor building up, plus the edges always had to be hand scrubbed. Finally, I got sick of that, so I bought an ordinary sponge mop on a stick (with green scrubby pad on one side) and put all my weight on it with bleach water, with mildly successful (and painful!)results. One night, after another hands and knees with scrub brush session, I decided I had to try something new.
Here comes the Hoover Impulse (on sale, even)! The day it arrived, (exactly the date predicted by the delivery estimate) in checking the order status, I discovered the price had dropped by 20 bucks from the already low sale price. Dang! I checked through Amazon.com help FAQs, and found no mention of price matching policies, so I emailed customer service to ask. One thing I’ve learned in life is that it never hurts to ask, and being nice often helps your cause more than anything. Just a couple of hours after I emailed, I received a very nice response saying that while they do not have a past sale price matching policy, they would extend the courtesy to me for this one special case. Thank you Amazon, you sweet things! I’m spending the 20 dollars right back on the site for xmas presents, and then some! Big kudos!
After charging it overnight, I couldn’t wait to try it out, and put cleaning solution and warm water in. The tank for clean water and solution is a funny shape, but it’s got a flat bottom, so you can stand it up on the counter while you measure the 1oz of solution in the cap and fill rest of the way water. Bonus, no awkward two handed manipulations. I vacuumed my floor first, as recommended. I checked the directions, thought I had it all figured out*, and took it to my first section of dingy kitchen floor. I was surprised by how quiet it was in scrub mode, and gave it several slow passes over each admittedly dirty section of floor. I worked in two foot sections of floor, using liberal amounts of cleaner, then flipped the switch up to pickup mode. The switch itself is a little tough to do one handed, but not impossible. It sounds like a small vacuum cleaner in pickup mode, and sucks the water up really well. I was happy to see that the scrubbing and pickup cleaned all the way to the wall, I hadn’t expected it to be that good! The section of flooring was only the slightest bit damp after pickup, but I had planned for that anyhow, working my way backwards out of the kitchen, so I wouldn’t walk on newly cleaned sections. My work was a bit slow, mostly because I knew the floor wasn’t very clean to start with, so made a few slow passes, but no big deal.
After I had used most of the cleaning solution, I opened up the dirty water tank to see what I had picked up, and to make sure it didn’t get too full. The dirty water tank was definitely dirty, dark grey, and yucky. All that came up off my floor!
Here’s where the * from above comes in. When I opened up the dirty water tank, there was a piece of cardboard labeled “remove before use” that wasn’t mentioned in the setup directions. It didn’t appear to have harmed the unit at all, because all it did was sit in there and get wet, but, heads up everyone!
All in all, I’m very happy with how well it scrubbed the floor, as it’s saving me large amounts of back and carpal tunnel wrist pain, and I’m sure it will be quicker the next time I use it, as the floor will not start out dingy in the beginning. 🙂
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|Works great on flat surfaces, but does have some limitations,
I bought this electric mop for a very specific purpose. I have a 3’x5′ area of my kitchen that needs mopped everyday. It’s where my cat’s litter box and food is. Our cat eats an all raw diet, which means he usually gets raw meat on the floor where he’s been tackling a chicken neck. Getting the mop out everyday is a pain. So, I went in search of a solution.
What I really wanted was a machine that would vacuum the litter and mop that area. The only one I found that would do both was the Bissell Flip Eaze (http://www.amazon.com/Bissell-Flip-Eaze-Upright-Vacuum/dp/B000H6D2UW/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1221329733&sr=1-7). However, the reviews were very mixed and it used pads which I would need to keep ready. For those to reasons, I decided to pass. I also looked at Swiffers. I had a Swiffer wet mop back when they first came out. It most likely would have worked fine for this project, but it has an ongoing expense with the replacement pads costing about .30 a day. For my use, over the course of a year that’s ~100.00.
After a weekend of researching other machines, I decided to go with the Hoover. I have a full size Hoover carpet cleaner and am well satisfied with it. For what I bought this one for, I’m extremely happy with it. It easily handles the morning clean up of the kitchen (which is linoleum). I’ve used it to clean my whole kitchen (~200 sq. ft.) and it works very well. I’ve had good results using it on the tile in my utility room as well. However, it does not work well on the tile in my entry hall. The tile in my utility room is a 12 inch tile with a shallow, narrow grout. A little deeper than what you would have in most bathroom showers. The tile in my entry hall is 9″, with beveled edges and a deep, wide grout. When using the electric mop it is just a little narrower than the tiles, which means the wheels run on the edge of it which makes it difficult to use. While the suction is great on the flatter surfaces, it’s not strong enough to pull the water from the deeper grout.
As far as battery life, it gets about 20 minutes of use. If my floor is pretty clean, I can do my entire kitchen on a single charge, but it does struggle towards the end and I have to work fast. My sister has a larger tiled area and used it on her floor for heavier cleaning. She said it did a pretty good job, but she did have to charge it once and it barely made it through with the second charge.
All in all, I’m very happy with this product. I’m giving it the 4 stars because it works perfectly for what I bought it for, but I do wish it could handle the tile in my entry way better. Just be aware if you buy it, this is not a heavy duty cleaner. It’s for small jobs and messes. While the suction is pretty strong, the scrubber does little more than get the floor wet and pick up what could easily be removed with a towel. The flatter the surface, the better it works.
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|Works fine!,
Having all hardwood and tile floors, I went on mission to find something convenient to clean with. I read dozens and dozens of reviews on every conceivable type of hard surface floor cleaner. There seems to be 2 complaints about this mop…short charge time, and it didn’t get the floor “hands and knees” clean. Well, if you are that anal that you still mop on your hands and knees, more power to you! I wanted something that would clean the floor after a new puppy accident, grandchildren spills and tracked-in mud on a day to day basis. And this mop works great! I can clean all my floors twice on one charge (which is about 1600 square feet, so not huge), and as far as the complaint about the water not staying real hot, news flash, if you use a antibiotical cleaner, you don’t need hot water. I have not had any streaks, it picks up all the water and leaves the floor just damp. Apparently, some buyers expected it to leave the floor totally dry…and just how would that be managed? Built in hair dryer? And no, it is not a vacuum; you have to broom sweep first. But who doesn’t sweep before they mop?
For the money, I think it’s a great answer to the problem. It is easy to fill, easy to empty, and easy to store. I would (and have) recommend it to family and friends. If I had any suggestion for improvement, it would be to lower the brushes about a 1/4 inch to get even better scrubbing action.
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|Don’t find the Bissell any worse than the Hoover Floormate,
I don’t think that this little machine is nearly as bad as some of these reviews make it out to be. I think alot of people have much too high expectations on what a product like this should do.
A little over a year ago I purchased the hover floor mate, And I thought it was the best invention ever. For a person like me who hates a mop and bucket and hates waiting for the tile floor to dry because it is deadly when it is wet. Fast forward to this week when I started to mop the kitchen and the motor blew up on the hover. With three children and three dogs I needed to quickly replace it. Despite the many poor reviews on the bissell I decided to try it figuring I could return it if it was too awful. I was pleasently supprised with how it performs. I wouldn’t say that it cleans the floor any better or worse then the hover did, especially considering the much lower price. But I will point out what qualities I noticed right away that I do like better. For one it is much lighter than the hover. It is easier to switch from wet to dry vac and back when you notice that tuft of dog hair you missed. The hover would get clogged very easily if you tried to vacume dog hair while the inside of the vacume was still wet from mopping. And finally, I find the bissell much easier to clean out and put back together when done cleaning.
I don’t feel that any of these machines are really designed to ‘scrub’ deep down into grout lines and yes, as with any mop, you sometimes have to make several passes over a tough spot, but atleast you don’t have to put any pressure down on it to get the spot up. Just let the scrubber part rest on the spot for a sec. All in all, it works great for me as a daily quick clean up for the dog hair, drool and sticky mistery goo that the kids always seem to leave behind 🙂
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|I have 3 shedding dogs and a tough floor to clean.,
I have 3 large dogs that drool any water left in their mouths after a drink, and a large textured ceramic floor that collects dirt in the grooves of the texture. I bought a Hoover Floor-mate in hopes of eliminating the mop and bucket, and because I felt that after a while I was pushing around dirty water. The Floor-mate did pick up a lot of dirt, but it is too large to get under cabinets and the brushes are too soft and too high to get into the crevices of the texture in the ceramic.
I decided to try the Flip-It because it is supposed to vacuum and wash the floor. First of all, you really have to vacuum first and clean the receptacle before washing. Otherwise, you will end up with a yucky mess to clean from the receptable and filter. I didn’t find that the vacuum blew the hair as one other buy had reported, but I agree that it doesn’t vacuum very well. It picked up some hair and small crumbs, but didn’t get all of it. This was obvious when I washed the floor. More hair was picked up in the washing process.
With the rubber brush and a little pressure, this cleaner did get much more of the dirt out of the floor texture. I still had to scrub some with the brush on the unit, but I would have to do the same with a sponge mop. At least with this cleaner, the dirty water is vacuumed up and clean solution is dispensed for the next section. Even with my uneven floor, the unit did pick up the water, and the floor dried quickly.
The first floor bathroom, hall, kitchen, and foyer are pretty large, kitchen alone is about 12′ x 18′. I had to refill the cleaner 3 times. I filled the unit with hot water from the tap. So maybe that helped. I don’t think this is too bad because I had to refill the Floor-mate as many times and it didn’t get the floor as clean.
I wouldn’t use this unit as a vacuum again, but as a hard floor cleaner, I think it works well on floors that need more scrubbing than a soft brush.
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