Shark Steam Mop Verdict

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I LOVE it!! :) I bought it Saturday and went home to use it as fast as possible. It recommends distilled water to prolong the heating element but I didn't have any and I wanted to use it (I will get some before I use it next time). Put it together fairly easy but I thought adding water to it was difficult, this was before I noticed the little funnel it came with!! Oops.

You have to prime it to begin with and once the water heats up it really creates a lot of steam. Pushing it across the floor wasn't as easy as I had hoped, especially since I have stone floors, but once the steam gets going, the floor gets nice and clean. I also noticed that the handle wasn't that sturdy either, just like everyone else was complaining about.

Luckily the pad wasn't as dirty as I expected, this is a good thing, obviously my floors weren't that bad to begin with! I did my entire house (minus roomie's bedroom) on 8oz of water. This is definitely better that the standard mop and broom, interestingly the floors were sticky when I was mopping, meaning sticking to my shoes; this is probably due to the chemicals it was picking up. But once it was done, it was no longer sticky! I am now able to walk on my floors barefoot, before this grossed me out, but they feel so clean, even after one use!

Even bf noticed a difference, in one place I didn't move a piece of furniture and you could tell. I definitely give the Shark an A-, the minus is for it being hard to push across the floor and for the pad being difficult to stick to the bottom of the mop, and for the flimsy handle.

I highly recommend my Steam Mop! :) I'll post a pic of the pad later.

Shark Steam Mop

I am a sucker for informercials; always have been, always will be. I remember watching them as a kid late at night. There's just something about them, I'd rather watch them than regular TV. Have I ever bought anything? Nope. Just like watching them :)

After seeing the one for the Shark Steam Mop, I thought it looked like it was a definite potential for the stone floors throughout my house. I HATE using chemicals and I've been using an environmentally/people/pet friendly cleaner on my floors, but still, YUCK.

So, I hit the internet looking for reviews on the mop to see how well it would clean. Surprisingly they are more positive than negative (yay!). The only complaints are that you have to fill it up quite often (better than going to put a mop back in a dirty bucket, so I'm not concerned), you should buy extra pad refills (I think Target carries them) and that the handle seems flimsy...boo, nothing I can do about it. The reviewers say that it takes about 3 times to really see the difference because it's getting all of the chemical residue off of the floor (YUCK) but once it's clean and you maintain it, the Steam Mop delivers. I can't hardly wait!! :)

This weekend I'm hitting up Bed, Bath, and Beyond to purchase my Shark Steam Mop for $79.99 (with a 20% off coupon for a whopping $16.00 discount!). I think by using the steam as opposed to chemicals, it's going to clean my floor a heckuvalot better than the mop. I'm also hoping that it may control the odor, but I don't know. I went out last night and bought some OdoBan Pet spray that I can use in the air and on fabric. I think you can use it on the litter as well, so we'll see.

Tonight I'm going to attack the litter box by scrubbing it (again) and giving it a good spray with OdoBan and putting in fresh cat litter. Maybe the combination will eliminate the odor, cuz the cats aren't going anywhere!!