Hoover Floormate H3060 Cleaner

I am disabled.I am not very mobile so cleaning is very hard for me.I found that cleaning the floors took to long.I was lugging a vac then getingt a mop then towels to dry because the floors took to long to dry.Doing the floors took forever.Now I use one product and I am done in no time at all.The floors take no time to dry.My floors have never been so clean.My hard wood floors are so clean and bright.I love my floormate.You can't pay me to give it up.Everyone should have one!!!!!!

Great machine, but I wish the tools would work better. This is a long review of what I used previously to compare it with the Hoover H3060 machine. I have 1,800 square feet of tile floors. After using a mop and bucket and seeing that the floors were not really clean, I bought the Bissell 5200 Flip It bare floor cleaner at Walmart a year ago. I would first go over the tile floor with a microfiber dust mop because it is quicker than to use the Flip It for a dry vacuum pickup. It has a small container for the dirty water, and it worked well for a year, and then it stopped picking up the dirty water. I called Bissell and since my one year warranty was up, and a repair shop said it is not worth repairing; I went back to my mop and bucket. I then bought the "Swiffer Wet Jet" battery operated mop and used the pads that came with the mop. I found that the pads going over the tile and grout would not last and it would leave small pieces of the pad on the floors. I then made a small microfiber pad to use, and would take it off and rinse it when I went from one room to another room but found that the microfiber pad moved the dirt from one area to another and it also left residue on my tile floors. I also did not want to keep buying their multi purpose cleaner so on the top of the plastic bottle I cut out a round circle and took the top off of a plastic water bottle and glued it in the hole that I cut, and then I could refill the container with water and a diluted cleaner. This worked great, but I still felt that the floors were never clean, all I was doing was moving dirty water from one area to another. NOW FOR MY REVIEW OF THE HOOVER FLOOR MATE H3060: When I had wall to wall carpeting several years ago before changing to tile, I bought the Hoover Steam VAC 2 Cleaner with on board tools and a hard wood floor brush. This was excellent for my carpeting, and I never called a professional carpet cleaning company to clean my carpets again. Before buying the “Floor Mate” I got this machine out and put in my tile floor cleaning solution to see if I could use this instead of buying another unit. This machine is too big and heavy to use on my tile floors, and it is really loud. I tried the hard floor brush but found that while the suction worked great on carpeting, it did not pick up the water on my tile floors. So that is when I decided to buy the Hoover Floor Mate H3060. The suction on the dry vacuum is excellent, I used the machine in the dry vacuum mode and went all over the tile floor, and in the smaller areas like around the toilet area, I would put on the smaller floor attachment and selected the dry vacuum mode to get into the small areas. I then took off the lower container and saw dust, pet hair, etc in the filter area and cleaned it before using it in the wet mode. This was excellent for the dry vacuum pick up. I then mixed the floor cleaner solution with hot water and put it in the upper container and started to clean my tile floors. This unit is a little loud, but not as loud as my steam cleaner machine. I used the tile floor brush attachment for the tile floors; it is the one with the grey brushes. I put the dial in the wash mode and went back and forth over an area on my tile floors, then I would move the dial to wet pick up. In the wash mode, the unit is picking up the dirty water but in the wet pick up it stops the brushes and picks up the water even better. So I would say to put the dial in wash mode, and scrub over an area and then switch the dial to wet pick up to dry the floors faster and pick up the dirty water. I saw dirty water in the container and felt that it was really getting my tile floors clean. I attached the small floor tool and after cleaning the tile floors in my bathrooms, I tried it around the toilet area, when I put the dial in wash mode it would put water on the floor but in the wet pick up it had very little suction going through the small floor tool, and I was disappointed that it did not pick up the water better. I called Hoover customer service, and they said that when you use the tools, you cannot shut off the suction from the brush area to the tool area so you have only a small amount of suction for the tools to pick up the water. This maybe a problem for people with wood floors because they don’t want the water to stand for a long time on wood floors. With my tile floors, it will take longer in the small areas to dry and that is not a big problem. I then decided to try the grout tool in my tiled shower to see if it would be easier than standing in the shower as I do now and spray on a tile cleaner, wait for a few minutes and then take my scrub brush and clean the tile and grout by hand. I used the grout cleaner and mixed it with hot water and put it in the container and opened up the shower door with the machine outside of the shower stall area. I stood in the shower and turned on the machine and use the grout attachment and while the water with the solution was coming out on my tile walls, the brush attachment has a small head and it does not rotate, it is awkward to use and the telescoping handle kept closing down, and I would have to pull it back up to the longer position. I did this for about 5 minutes and gave up and decided that it will not work in my two bathrooms with tile walls. I stepped out of the shower and got my hand scrub brush and spray tile cleaner and finished the job. I also decided to use the hard floor brush attachment that has an area with more bristles to clean the tile floors. The tile floor brush has only one ring of brushes, and the center is open and so I feel that it is not cleaning my floors as good. I also wish they could make a stiffer brush because my tile has a raised pattern and is a matte finish, not glazed or smooth. Overall, using this machine with the wide floor brushes and good suction is excellent, and I can see the dirty water being picked up in the container which has very good capacity. The machine construction is very good and sturdy and I know that it will last for a long time. Even though the floor tools could have better suction in the wet pick up mode, I would definitely recommend this item.

I was so tired of getting on my hands and knees scrubbing my whole downstairs tile. Mops gross me out, so we did have the Scooba for 2 years before that died. My husband and I love this machine because it takes the hard work out of scrubbing yourself. It constantly uses clean water verses pushing dirty water all over like a mop does. It is loud like a vacuum and you have to push it like a vacuum but at least you have clean tile afterwards. The robot I had only went at most 45 minutes and it took 3-5 rounds of that before my whole downstairs was clean, and lost suction after a year, so the floors were left wet. This machine has scrubs and sucks, then you can also do a "pick up water" function to help with drying. This machine quicker and easier than mopping, but you have to be willing to stand there and move it back and forth. It is worth it in my eyes. Now I just hope it lasts more than 2 years using it every week!

This is the second Hoover floor cleaner I've purchased and I'm sadly disappointed. I have an early 300 model which I love but it's started leaking water and I wanted to upgrade. This 800 model is terrible and does not leave my floors clean. I read the previous reviews and was very excited when the cleaner arrived. It leaves streak marks on my light shade wood floores. Call the manufacturer and they said to try wet pickup. Did not work, terrible streak marks left. On tile it did not clean them. I passed a wet paper towel over some of the tiles after cleaning and they were still dirty. I am getting my old 300 series fixed and returning this one back asap.

I asked my husband for this mop for Christmas but he was unable to find it in the store. He got me the Shark steam mop but it wasn't what I wanted so I returned it and ordered this mop instead. I love it! I have used it 2 times now and it is great! Its a little loud, about like a vacuum cleaner, but that is okay. I love how it sucks the dirty water back up and boy, was I surprised how dirty the water was! I love to walk barefoot on my floors now because they feel so clean! Not difficult at all to use and I actually enjoy it more than a regular mop or the Swifter WetJet because I'm not killing my back to put alot of pressure on the mop to get the grime up. I have told my mom about it and I can't wait to take it to her house for her to try! She is a little bit of a clean freak so I know she will love it! I would definitely buy this mop again. I wish I had bought it 2 years ago when my daughter was crawling and constantly putting her hands in her mouth before I could wipe them off!