It’s not the most powerful steam on test and yet it’s the cleaner we’d pick up and use again and again. There’s also a mesh bag for if you buy additional tools or don’t want to store them on board.Ĭleaning is versatile and the two steam levels are good enough for all uses. There’s a Velcro strap for stowing the 7.6m cord. The fill hole for the 300ml tank is a good size and it comes with a jug. There are a great many other thoughtful design touches. If your steam cleaning is a mix of floors and fiddly smaller things then the Bissell is hard to beat because your tools are always on board and converting is a doddle. We loved the plastic tray that clips to the underside and holds all four supplied tools (concentrator, scraper and two shapes of brush). We liked the design and how easy it was to convert back and forth. It won’t stand up by itself then and there’s no carpet glider. You hold the handheld and then add tubes below to clean floors. This, however, is designed more like the best cordless vacuum cleaners. Pretty much all convertible steam mops have a handheld that pops out of the middle of the upright cleaner. Read our full Polti Vaporetto Smart 100_B The controls are excellent, the design is practical and it feels weightless in the hand, so much so that you can lift it to clean tiled walls, windows, curtains and more. It’s powerful: the lowest setting is similar to the steam offered by most steam mops, the highest setting is much stronger. Steam took over one minute to heat up and then can stop and start instantly with a press of the trigger. It also features a small tank for optional detergent. The floorhead is slim to fit under furniture and has a small brush on the back so you can reverse slightly to scrub stains. It comes with a floor glider and one cleaning pad. The floorhead is an unusual shape: neither triangular nor a rectangle. It comes with a squeegee with cloth cover for cleaning upholstery, plus concentrator, scraper and two sizes of nylon brush. You can stow the cleaning head and two-part tube when not in use, or to pause, and there’s onboard storage for tools. The body boasts variable steam control and an anti-calc collector. Think of it as a squeegee on steroids.The Polti Vaporetto Smart 100_B has a large 2 litre water tank that feeds the boiler, but you can pop out the tank at any time for a refill without waiting for it to cool down or even disrupting cleaning. Kärcher is a German company that specializes in high-pressure hoses, and while this yellow device might not win any awards for aesthetics, it has become my go-to tool in keeping my shower clean. She liked it so much she got me one because, as a northerner, she comments every time she visits on how different the water is down here. Mom was given one by her sister last Christmas it was a bit of an odd gift, but we are a notoriously hard family to buy for. A few months ago, I was given a Kärcher window vacuum by my mom, which, well, clue’s in the name: It’s a vacuum for windows, or any kind of glass or tile, actually.
It doesn’t help that water in London is known as “hard” - meaning it has high levels of calcium and magnesium compounds, which cause limescale.īut I found a solution. I live in a third-floor apartment, and the bathroom has no windows so even raking a $1 Ikea squeegee over the screen after every shower and spritzing on every kind of antimicrobial spray just doesn’t keep it clean or streak free. You know how Renata Klein screams about money in every episode of Big Little Lies? That was me but specifically about shower screens. But I do know at some point I stopped being chill about it and started to stress out about limescale, streak marks, and general perfection. I can’t put a finger on the precise age I was when the cleanliness of my shower screen started to bother me. Since the squeegee is also available here, we’re publishing this for our readers on this side of the pond. , our recently launched, Brit-specific shopping-recommendation site.
This story first appeared on the Strategist U.K.
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