SPRING CLEAN IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Have you any idea how much filth lurks on your hard floors? It’s time to really wash the scum off your parquet flooring with the Bissell Crosswave Cordless Max. And it does rugs too!
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Vacuum and mop your laminate flooring simultaneously with this clever combi cleaner
Spring is here, and spring has been officially designated as both the time of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the time to clean. Hence ‘spring cleaning’. Although, if you really only clean your home once per year in spring, just before it gets hotter and dustier, you are probably not someone whose home we want to visit, outside of spring.
If you have hard floors and are interested in cleaning them, you may be aware that there is a growing range of machines for doing just that. Kärcher, Vax and more make vacuum cleaner/mop-type devices replete with whirling rollers that buff your parquet, lino and laminate to a fine sheen, while sucking the filth from their surfaces. Now, however, Bissell has come up with a hard floor cleaning machine so advanced, it lays waste not only to floor-borne foulness but can also clean ‘area rugs’. We think this is an American term for ‘rugs’.
Here’s how Bissell’s Crosswave Cordless Max works (£430, bisselldirect.co.uk). You place water and detergent in the upper water tank. This is then pumped into the main roller, which cleans your hard floor. Simultaneously, the powerful vacuuming action sucks the now dirty water, plus whatever debris there may be in its path, into the waste tank. The result: you have immaculate floors, and the waste tank is full of disconcertingly grey water with lots of hair and bits and whatnot in.
This tank features a removable divider that niftily separates pet hair and debris from dirty water to make it a lot easier to dispose of its contents.
Even more brilliantly, the Crosswave Cordless Max can also turn its hand to a light refresh of your ‘area rugs’. It’s not a full-spectrum carpet cleaner, but it’s good for general maintenance and removal of stains below red-wine grade.
This floor frotting monster is fully cordless, with battery life of around 30 minutes per charge. Its water tanks slot firmly in and out with very satisfying clacking sounds and, after use, it’s selfcleaning – which is more than can be said for your floors.