"Alright, you've got a fantastic vacuum cleaner right? And your vacuum cleaner does a fantastic task pulling dust and dirt from your carpets. However you have begun to discover areas on your carpet that do not look as excellent as they used to. And you don't think that the stains on your tile floor will be showing up anytime soon without some serious effort.

Having spent excellent money on your vacuum cleaner, do you really need to spring for more cleansing devices?

Recently you have actually been becoming aware of two devices that you feel might be an aid in your fight to keep your house looking its best. You may not make sure if the functions of these 2 home appliances can overlap. That is, can you utilize one rather of the other and vice versa. Or do you require to own both in order to attend to the tidiness needs of various kinds of floor covering? The two cleaning devices you have been hearing about are the steam mop and the steam vacuum cleaner.

As its name implies, the steam flooring mop is simply that. It is a mop that offers steam to the floor surface area to be cleaned up. However instead of the old sponge mop that you would dip into a progressively unclean pail of warm water before wringing out and mopping your flooring, the steam mop materials steam through the mop head to the floor. These flooring steam mops incorporate a small container on the handle with a 1 - 2 cup capacity. The water in this container is warmed up in about 30 seconds and applied to the surface area you are cleaning by squeezing a trigger on the handle. There is no vacuuming action with the steam flooring mop.

The dirt and spots that are released by the action of the steam are mopped up with a micro fiber cleaning pad that you will later toss into your cleaning maker. Because you do not add chemical cleaners to the container and are using steam alone, some folks feel that this is a cleaning system that is more friendly to the environment and more secure to their household than utilizing chemical cleaners.

The other cleaning home appliance you have actually been hearing about is the carpet steam cleaner. The carpet steam cleaner can be likened to your upright vacuum cleaner in its size and general appearance. And although it does offer a vacuum function, it supplies a few other essential cleansing functions as well. Like the flooring steam mop, this carpet cleansing machine does offer heated water or ""steam"". However it also provides a scrubbing brush driven agitation system and as its name indicates and as discussed above, a vacuum function too.

As you may have currently guessed, the flooring steam mop is utilized primarily for difficult surfaces such as the tile floorings of your cooking area and bathrooms. The steam vacuum cleaner on the other hand is designed mostly for your carpets. Can the floor steam mop be used on your carpets and can the steam vacuum be utilized on your difficult floorings?

Some of the flooring steam mops do include a carpet glider attachment that allows you to spot steam trouble locations of your carpet. Nevertheless, these mops do not provide agitation or vacuum. You would require to hand scrub the steamed area if this area of your carpet needed agitation to loosen a stain. This mop will not give you the vacuum necessary to draw out the excess wetness that the stream mop could leave in your carpet. You would need to wick this moisture up will a cotton towel for example. In my viewpoint, although the steam mop will do a great task on your hard floorings, it is not the perfect tool for your carpets.

Some steam vacuum cleaners such as the Hoover carpet cleaner come with an attachment needed to carry out on tough floorings. Combined with the agitation and vacuum, these can do a quite good job on your difficult floorings along with your carpets.

So if you know you are going to need another cleansing device for your floors in addition to your vacuum and can manage both the steam mop and the steam vacuum cleaner then have at it. Nevertheless, if yours is an either/or situation as it is for most of us nowadays, then I believe your decision is a no brainer - choose the very best carpet steam cleaner.

Obviously, this is just my decision. You would be best served by leaping online and reading the technical specs in addition to the reviews prior to making your decision."