Shark mop how does it work

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Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. It's a chemical-free way to clean your hard-surface flooring. It's not made for carpet. The office staff here contacted me about this product, after the company recently expanded. They just moved in, and the girls think the bathroom floor hasn't been cleaned in six months, prior to them moving here.

They're in luck, the Shark promises it can clean caked-on dirt. After filling the Shark with regular tap water, it starts up right away, but Chrissy White notices this.

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Table of Contents. Continue reading. Home Cleaning Apr 15, Professional Deep Cleaning Checklist. How Steam Cleaners Work. They pack a lot of stuff in a small box. As usual with products like this, the handle comes in 2 or 3 parts but within seconds we have it all snapped together. Final step, attach one of two supplied cleaning pads to the bottom of the mop. The reusable, machine washable pads are identical, except one has a blue tab, the other is plain white.

At first we thought one was for wood, one was for tile or something. But the instructions say it's just so you can tell them apart. You can deem one for use in the bathroom and one for use in the kitchen, for instance. If we're going to have steam, we need water. We fill the tank and plug in the mop at an electric outlet. About 30 seconds after we plug it in, we see our first signs of steam. Give the handle a push downward and more water is pumped into the steamer.

It's brilliant design since that pushing motion is natural while mopping anyway. We first try to clean up some serious, intentional black shoe scuffs. We first hover a few times to apply the heat to the rubber. At first nothing, then one by one the scuffs disappear.

Remember, there's not cleaner or chemicals in the steamer. It's just water, turned to steam. It took several passes, but the Shark got it all.

We did the same with a large rust stain on the floor. The Shark got it. Later, we attacked some duct tape residue.