Hardwood Cleaning Solution: Swiffer Steamboost

This holiday cleaning tips post is brought to you by Swiffer® as part of a Type-A Parent Community Sponsored Post.
Now that winter is upon us, I have discovered a challenge in our new house: Keeping our hardwood floors clean!

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Our new place doesn’t have a mudroom, so everyone is coming in from the snowy, mucky, salty outdoors and dumping everything right on the beautiful hardwood floors. Which are getting dull with dirt and salt. EW! And the kitchen gets super grimey, too. Between my messy cooking and the dog, it needs mopping at least twice a week. Add holiday guests and entertaining into the mix? It just gets messy!

I’ve been researching cleaning hardwood floors – but I’ve been concerned about using harsh chemicals between the dog and the kids. And they’re in great shape. I don’t want to use something that will damage the finish or cause a build-up or get them all dull and sticky. I was thrilled to check out the Swiffer Bissell Steamboost

The Steamboost combines Bissell steam cleaning with Swiffer convenience to make one awesome product for cleaning your home. I use a Swiffer Wet Mop normally, but this blew it away! The steam helps loosen dirt and dried foods, so they can be mopped up and removed.Just fill up the reservoir with water, attach a steam pad and plug it in. In just 30 seconds (mine was ready in about 10), the steam is ready to go. Just push the lever on the handle and let the steam go to work.

First I used it on my tile floors in the bathrooms. It was super easy, and got even dried toothpaste up off the kids’ bathroom floor in seconds. The floors were glowing and looked so clean and had no residue or buildup left behind. The mop itself was easy to fit into nooks and crannies to get the whole room clean.

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The difference it made on the hardwood floors was incredible. I vacuumed first (to get up all the bits and pieces), and the difference was incredible!  I didn’t even realize how dirty our floors were until I looked at the pads afterwards.  (I really don’t recommend that, actually, its pretty gross! At least in my house!)

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I loved it! I will be using this for years – its a very easy way to keep things clean that doesn’t take any more time than using a Swiffer and takes much less time than a traditional mop! The replacement pads are very affordable and come in Open Window Fresh or Febreze Lavender Vanilla & Comfort. (I preferred the Lavender Vanilla! Heavenly!)  And now my mom wants one, too.

This sponsored post was brought to you by Swiffer®. For a limited time, get a $15 prepaid card when you purchase a SteamBoost Steam Mop Starter Kit between 11/24/13 and 12/31/13. Swiffer BISSELL® SteamBoost™ combines a dirt-dissolving cleaning solution with the power of steam for a deep clean that gets messes mops can leave behind. Also be sure to like Swiffer on Facebook and follow @swiffer on Twitter.

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About Melissa

Written by Melissa Angert, editor of this fashion blog and author of Girlymama. You can also find her on Twitter as Melissa Angert. She is a mom of 3 living in Providence.

Comments

  1. Thanks for the review. I wanted to get one of these but for $50 it seemed kind of expensive. The coupon is a great incentive to try.

  2. Love this! I am obsessed with clean floors and I just got hardwood in the kitchen. I’ll have to look into this! Thanks!