This electric scrubbing mop from Bissell will put your grandmother's old floor scrubber to shame. For wet cleaning, pair this mop with one of Bona's spray floor cleaners for hardwood, stone, vinyl and laminate floors or even the PowerPlus Hardwood Floor Deep Cleaner that performed so well in tests, we gave it a Good Housekeeping Best Cleaning Award. In our repeated wash tests, the pads hold up very well. It's lightweight and adjustable to accommodate users of varying heights. What we particularly like about this one is the telescoping aluminum handle. In GH Cleaning Lab tests, we've found Bona mops to be very maneuverable and easy to use. Both attach easily to the 16.5-inch mop head that has soft, flexible corners to keep from damaging woodwork and cabinets. The low looped pad for wet cleaning has scrubber strips on each side to loosen stubborn grime while the center section absorbs and locks it away. The soft fluffy pad with both short and long fibers is for the dry pick-up of dust, pet hair and other debris. Looking for one mop to take care of all your floor cleaning needs? We had to choose this Bona Microfiber Floor Mop as our best value pick because it comes with two washable, reusable and interchangeable microfiber pads.

Replacements cloths need to be purchased regularly. Wet mopping with the Swiffer is as easy as dry dusting, however, the wet cloths can dry out if left unused for too long and a second wet cloth may be necessary to finish especially large jobs.

Along with the Sweeper, the kit includes eight dry and two pre-moistened wet cloths. This Swiffer Sweeper is safe for all floor surfaces and, because the head pivots and locks at 90º, it can even be used to dust vertical surfaces like walls. In fact, we like to say that when Swiffer was introduced over 25 years ago, it changed the way Americans clean, making it easy to mop floors whenever you had a few spare minutes. Swiffer has long been a GH Seal star and favorite of the GH Cleaning Lab for how well its disposable cloths grab and trap the fine dust other tools miss and its ability to reach under low-profile furniture where most vacuums can't go. It has a head that's one-and-a-half times larger than the original, so it makes cleaning large areas quick and easy. With its oversized model, this is the original Swiffer Sweeper on steroids. Based on our extensive testing, these are the best wet and dry mops you can buy for cleaning all types of floors. To find the best mops, we use built-in panels of wood, vinyl, laminate, ceramic and marble floors for testing the dozens of dry and wet mops, vacuum mops and hardwood floor cleaners that we evaluate every year. But wet and dry mops serve different purposes and the Good Housekeeping Institute Cleaning Lab recommends having both on hand to tackle any cleaning job. Disposable or washable microfiber pads and onboard canisters of cleaning solution make them super convenient cleaning tools, while the best robot mops can virtually do the mopping for you and the best steam mops can clean without the need for cleaning chemicals. For those times when fine dust and stuck-on scuffs, stains and grime mar your wood, ceramic, laminate and vinyl plank floors, what you need is a good mop.įortunately, today's mops are neater and easier to use and store more cleanly than the old cotton string or butterfly sponge mops of yesteryear.

But even the top vacuum cleaners can't do it all. Even if your home is covered in wall-to-wall carpeting, you likely have bare floors in the kitchen, bathrooms and other areas that need both dry and wet cleaning. There's no shortage of tools available to keep your home's bare floors clean. We updated this story in April 2023 to add new recommendations and more details about how we tested.

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