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Bissell Steam Mop Select, Titanium, 80K6
- Maneuverable, dual-sided swivel mop head that cleans twice as much floor with one pad. Simply flip the mop head over to use the other side
- Includes 2 washable dual-sided ,microfiber mop pads; one soft, one with built-in scrubbing strips
- 100% chemical free; just use ordinary tap water
- 17 oz. removable tank; no need for cups or funnels
- Steam on demand trigger; control how much steam goes on your floor, no pumping needed!
Bissell’s Steam Mop Select features a two-sided, flip mop head that allows you to clean twice as much floor before changing the mop pad. Additionally, Bissell has included two distinctly different mop pads with the Steam Mop Select. One pad is soft for use on delicate flooring such as hardwoods and laminates. The other pad has built-in scrubbing strips that make cleaning tough, stuck-on messes easy. The Bissell Steam Mop Select delivers the steam right where you need it, at the floor. It has a static steam manifold that allows the mop head to rotate around it; ensuring the powerful steam is always directed straight to the floor. The Bissell Steam Mop Select is designed to give you an easier, more effective clean, while saving you time so you can get back to doing what you like most.
List Price: $ 79.00
Price: $ 69.99
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This really works!,
Review summary: Light and easy to use. Cleaned really dirty floors with just the steam from distilled water. No need for other cleaning products. Steam cleaning leaves the cleaned floors lightly damp but they dry quickly. Cleaning pad is larger than other models with a two-sided pad (13 inches by 4-5 inches). Comes with two different cleaning pads, one soft pad and one with scrubbing strips. Because the pads and cleaning surface is two-sided, you can clean twice as much area with one pad.
Recommendation: If you want to clean your floors without a bucket of water and a mop or scrub brush or without the chemicals and disposable cloths of Swiffer-type products, this will work for you. If you want to sanitize your floors (crawling baby?), it will do that but will take longer as you have to hold the mop in place for a certain number of seconds for germ/bacteria killing.
Now for all the dirty (literally) details:
I gave this steam mop a test like it has never been given in any demonstration you’ve ever seen for a floor cleaner and it performed better than expected. I have 50-year-old linoleum that has lost any shiny surface it ever had, so dirt sticks to it much more than it would on newer floors. The seam is starting to loosen so I worry that all the water from traditional mopping will open it up even more. True confession time: I haven’t mopped my kitchen floor all summer and it was really filthy. Under the toe kicks in front of the sink, it was simply disgusting. Add to that, I dropped and broke a jar of enchilada sauce on the floor last weekend. I used a dry paper towel to get up most of the mess but I knew this steam mop was on the way so I left the residue to see how this steam mop would handle it. I saw a demonstration of this product on one of the TV shopping channels and I guarantee that none of the “messes” they had on the floors were anything like the condition of my floor.
OK, enough about my terrible housekeeping. The package arrived last night. The box looked a little small for what I was expecting and that’s because the mop comes in three pieces. I pulled out the instruction booklet and it was really easy to assemble. No tools required. The floor piece snaps into the bottom of the main body and the handle piece snaps into the top of the main body. I continued reading the instructions on how to use the product and realized they recommend using distilled water. I have super hard water and no distilled water on hand so I made a quick run to the store. NOTE: If you don’t already have some distilled water, put it on your shopping list to pick up before your order comes so you don’t need to waste the gas for an extra trip.
Now I was ready to test this baby out on my disgusting kitchen floor. I wrapped most of the 18 foot cord around the hooks on the handle because I was going to first concentrate on the spot where the enchilada sauce was and that was near the outlet. I put the scrubbing cloth on, filled the water tank, plugged the steam mop in and waited the 30 seconds for it to be ready to use then compressed the steam trigger and ran it over the dried mess. Nothing. What? I pushed it back and forth a couple times and there was no visible change. Then I realized that the steam may be coming but the cloth was still dry. I held it in place and squeezed the trigger for about 30 seconds and tried again. It wasn’t immediate, but gradually the dried sauce started coming off my floor. The longer I worked, the better it worked. I think they must pre-dampen the cloths for the demonstration videos to make them work so soon after starting. And it took more than a couple swipes to get it off. The thicker the dried sauce, the longer it took. In fairness, if I were mopping I would have put some water on the spot then go elsewhere until it softened. And it emphasized that the “dried on” stuff they use in the demos isn’t real world dried on crud. But most importantly, the steam mop worked to remove the dried on enchilada sauce without scrubbing or pouring a bunch of water on it.
Then I moved on to the simply dirty parts of my floor. The steam mop worked much more quickly on these areas, but because my flooring is so old with no shiny surface, it still took a few passes to clean. But again it cleaned without a bucket of water and didn’t leave dirty sloppy water behind. Because my floor was so dirty (not to mention the sauce residue), the first side of the scrubbing cloth soon got so dirty it started smearing the floor rather than cleaning it. Here is where the new feature of this steam mop comes in. You lift the mop so the cleaning pad goes vertical and then put it down so it flips to the clean side of the cloth!
Last, I went to the disgusting dirty build-up under the toe kick in front of my sink. This was the true test of this steam mop. If it can clean this, it can clean anything…
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