ᐅ How do you clean your floors?

We have a small cordless stick vacuum from AEG, which can also be used as a handheld vacuum. We use it to clean up daily dirt from the entrance area and dining space. Additionally, we also have a Crosswave vacuum mop, which is really great—especially for our rather rough tiles on the ground floor.

seth0487 schrieb:

We have a small cordless stick vacuum from AEG that can also be used as a handheld vacuum. We use it to clean up daily dirt in the entrance area and dining space. In addition, we have a Crosswave wet vacuum, which is really great—especially for our quite rough tiles on the ground floor.

We once bought a similar cordless vacuum for the entrance area to quickly pick up some dirt (sand). Unfortunately, it didn’t work at all; the vacuum just pushed the sand around, it really felt like a toy.
I’ve also heard about this Crosswave; apparently, it can even wet-clean carpets. Does that really work?

Regards,
Sabine

The robot vacuum runs daily, unless there is too much toy clutter on the floor.

Mopping is done with a cloth, after careful planning.

The kitchen is quickly cleaned with a steam cleaner when needed.

I have also been thinking about how to keep everything as easy to clean and maintain as possible so that it stays nice for a long time, even though we haven’t moved in yet.

We will have tiles throughout the entire ground floor. For this, I am considering buying a steam vacuum cleaner or a wet vacuum cleaner. In any case, I want a device that sucks up the dirty water because I find that with normal mopping, the dirty water remains in the grout lines, which causes them to turn black.

Regarding cleaning agents, I have heard multiple times that for tiles (porcelain stoneware), one should use a product without surfactants, as otherwise deposits or cleaning streaks form which are difficult to remove.

Curly schrieb:

We once bought a cordless vacuum cleaner like that for the entrance area to quickly clean up some dirt (sand). Unfortunately, it didn’t work at all—the vacuum just pushed the sand around, it really felt like a toy.
I’ve also heard about this Crosswave; apparently, it can even wet clean carpets. Does that really work?

Best regards
Sabine

You need a cordless vacuum with a motorized brush for that; then it works. The nozzles are pretty good.

The Crosswave is really great, but the company also has a separate product specifically for carpet cleaning. It will never be as good as a dedicated carpet cleaner, partly to avoid competing with their own product line.

For the carpet, we use only the carpet roller on our Crosswave without pressing the wet cleaning button. So far, this works quite well on our high-pile carpet.

@Katdreas
Then I can also recommend the Crosswave to you. We also have very rough tiles throughout the entire ground floor, which are only cleaned with great effort using a regular mop. Especially when the little one spills some sauce or something sticky, the combination of mechanical cleaning and moisture is great. The only annoying part is having to clean the vacuum thoroughly each time—that means removing and cleaning the roller and the dirt filter, as well as emptying the dirty water.

The small cordless handheld vacuum from AEG isn’t perfect, but it does a good job picking up loose dirt (sand, soil, dust)...