Hoover FloorMate Deluxe Hard Floor Cleaner Machine, FH40160PC, Silver

7 reviews for Hoover FloorMate Deluxe Hard Floor Cleaner Machine, FH40160PC, Silver

1. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   Venkata Subba Rao – July 27, 2024

   Worst and waste….don’t buy…….first non return….second no spares and service available in india….even one min its not working…..0 🌟 is not there to give my rating….

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Amazon Member – August 1, 2024

   This came in the mail on Friday and I got to use it Saturday. It was triple packed so no damage was incurred via shipping.

   ASSEMBLY & USE:
   This floor cleaner was easy to assemble – almost intuitive. Using it needed directions. I didn’t realize that while cleaning I should be pressing down on the dispenser button built into the D-shaped handle. Solution still is released even if you don’t push it (it can be tedious to press down constantly) but just not as much. Then there’s a boost button to press for extra detergent which was intuitive and self-explanatory. Using it while pressing down on the solution dispenser button does not “drown” your floor. When NOT pressing down on the solution dispenser button when pulling the cleaner back, it expedites your floor drying.

   VACUUM:
   A word on the vacuum part, which can be “activated” by switching to the “Dry” mode – keep in mind that this is primarily a wet floor cleaner and not a dry vac. Just like your advised not to order a steak when you go to a seafood restaurant, you shouldn’t use this as a vacuum the way you’d use your regular dry vacuum. You’re going to wear out the squeegee faster, for a start, but the solids you vacuum up will go into the dirty water tank making it more disgusting to clear out. If you have hairs on the floor from yourself, family members, or pets, that will more likely tangle in the suction parts or the filtered part of the dirty water container and that’s sick to clean and weed out. Then when you dump that in your sink, you’re dumping solids that don’t always dissolve in water, so you’re in turn doing your sink a mis-favor. True, one of the reasons to get this is the superior cleaning this does to traditional cleaning methods and the ease, oh, the ease! Nonetheless, you’re way ahead if you sweep away solids with a broom and dust pan first, or use your regular dry vacuum instead of this. Cleaning that gunk will have to be done manually one way or another. Better to get at it before using the floor cleaner than not. If you use the floor cleaner to get it, the energy and extra work you thought you saved will get you anyway when cleaning out the suction section, brushes, filter of the dirty water container and from the sink hole. I did sweep very thoroughly before I used this but I didn’t vacuum. There was a minimal amount of gunk and hair, but I was grateful it wasn’t worse, like if I hadn’t swept. Get it? Good 🙂

   CLEANING QUALITY:
   Most of my house is carpets but my kitchen and hallway (connected) are imitation wood laminate and my bathroom floors are ceramic with brown grout. I did the bathrooms last – the dirty water dispenser wasn’t so bad. But the kitchen… Check out the photos some people have shared (black mud water) and that’s how my dirty water container looked after the first run. Nevertheless, the floor felt different. My spouse said it even looked lighter in color (blushing cheeks). After the second run, it was a slightly lighter black mud water. With the third run it was mud colored… I tell you, it was starting to get tedious and I was starting to grow suspicious that maybe the solution had a chemical reaction when touching the floor to turn a certain color. My suspicions were wrong and yes, paranoid. There was sediment with every cleaning in the dirty water dispenser. Then I went over the floor a fourth time and the water was a lot closer to looking clean. Really it needed a fifth or sixth time but I was beat (I had to move heavy things out of my hallway and bathrooms, plus I was house cleaning other things in between.)

   While the floor cleaner didn’t get the corners and baseboards, doing so the old fashioned way – by getting down on my hands and knees with solution and a brush was infinitely easier and definitely way more enjoyable since with the floor already cleaned. And that’s when I noticed something else: the smell of my floor: fresh. There was a slight solution smell but that is only close up. Before cleaning the floor, I remember dropping something that creeped its way under the stove. The floor smelled like it had a lot of foot traffic – not a foul smell, but like black pepper mixed with floor, if that makes any sense. Side note – I cleaned under the stove and refrigerator too…got rid of so so so so so much dust (first sweeping it, then wiping the floor with a Clorox wipe). Behind the fridge I found a collection of dust around the fridge vents, thank goodness I found it before my motor burnt out or a fire hazard happened.

   It was time to wrap everything up so I made sure both containers were empty and relatively dry. Then I popped out the brushes and rinsed them and cleared out the squeegee. That was that.

   EFFECT ON ALLERGIES:
   Normally I wake up slurpy – thanks to the “benefit” of allergies. This morning was different. Even though my bedroom is wall to wall carpeting, much like the rest of my house sans kitchen, bathroom, and hallway, I didn’t think about how the minority clean hard floors would impact my allergies. I woke up still having allergies but no slurpiness – no runny nose and less crusty eyes. Yes, cleaning under the stove and the booming Dustopolis under, on, and behind my fridge I’m sure were a great help, but I also believe having such clean floors for the first time really made a difference!

   BOTTOM LINE:
   I love this floor cleaner. If I move, I’d try to find a way to take this with me in my car instead of ship it with the movers. I’d use this magic machine to clean floors in a place I’m moving out of to make the floors as good as new and definitely use it in a new place to clean the floors like they’ve never been touched, even if it takes more than 4 runs like my floor did (blush).

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   CM – August 3, 2024

   This is the second of this model that I have owned. The first stopped working after about 4 years. The unit itself works very well on any hard-surfaced floor. There are some accessory brushes of differing stiffness, for different levels of dirt. We have porcelain flooring and 2 dogs. The combination of cleaning solution, scrubbing action, and suction work very well, keeping our floors nice and clean.
   Be sure to vacuum the floor first so as not to clog the brushes on the unit.
   If you think your floors are clean, get this unit. You will be surprised at just how dirty your floors really were.
   Definitely worth it.
   I was a bit disappointed at the short life of the unit. I expected it to last longer. But, it worked well enough that I got another.

4. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   KMM – August 20, 2024

   The first time I used the Hoover Floormate it leaked all over my floor. I chalked it up to user error and tried re-seating the tanks. It still leaked to some extent but was usable. Initial impressions were good. As the floor dried, I could see that the unit only cleans the “loose” dirt. Any dried stains (in my case dog drool from his food and water dish) will not be cleaned unless I go over the area 4-5 times, and sometimes they still persist.

   The Floormate worked moderately well for about 2 months until it suddenly started emitting a high shrieking sound and a burning smell. I checked the Hoover web site for information, and it directed me to a service number. I called 3 times, each time I waited for over an hour only to give up out of frustration. Before I disconnected eact time, I requested a call back. One week later I received a call from an out-of-state repair shop. The technician asked me a series of question and told me that the unit was under warranty. The person asked me what the specific issue was and after I explained she requested that I turn the unit on she could hear the issue for herself. I complied and she said, “I don’t hear anything out of the ordinary”. After a bit of back and forth she finally agreed to solicit a repair request with Hoover. I said, “you’re not from Hoover?” and she replied “No, we’re an independent repair shop that just assess as to whether a warranty claim is valid”.

   40 minutes into the call she finally entered the claim and told me that Hoover would be in touch via email. She also said that I would have to drop off the unit at a local repair shop, which is an 80-minute drive from my home. I received the email form Hoover and contacted their service rep. The rep wanted me to go through the entire process again, this time requesting video proof of the problem. Before we got too far into the conversation, I told them that I had surgery scheduled and would be out of commission for 3 months, so I could not drop off the faulty item at the repair shop. They said that a drop off is my only option. At this point I had enough of this nonsense and decided it was better just to take the loss, toss the unit in the garbage and never buy products from Hoover again.

   I also have a Hoover rug cleaner which broke after about 6 months due to a rusty turbine, which is a known problem they refuse to address.

   BUYER BEWARE!

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   mrOmarV – September 4, 2024

   El producto es bastante bueno. Lástima la capacidad que lo obliga a uno a tener que llenar el receptáculo varias veces. Tal vez para áreas pequeñas funcione bien una sola llenada, pero para áreas grandes hay que llenar dos o tres veces el tanque. Fuera de eso, talla los pisos de maravilla, ojo funciona aún mejor si se pasa muy despacio y se deja actuar bien a los cepillos y a la succión. De hacerlo así los pisos quedan como en su anuncio secos, así que si hay que dedicarle un tiempo. Los productos de limpieza duran muchos usos si se compran en original. En realidad limpia bien pero no es el producto de 10 minutos antes de que lleguen los invitados, hay que darle su tiempo a trabajar para que deje los pisos como tallados a mano.
   Lo recomiendo ampliamente.

6. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Cati – September 13, 2024

   We inherited an old linoleum floor in our kitchen. It had an embossed design and dirt had embedded itself into the low points of the design. The areas with the most traffic held the most dirt (around the fridge, in front of the fridge, in front of the stove, path from the back door). I tried the machine directly on the high traffic areas and although it cleans very efficiently, and sucks up most of the dirty water after it has been over an area, it did not take out much of the ingrained dirt. My husband then took a long-handled scrub brush to the floor, using the same cleaning fluid, and I followed along behind with the Hoover. This worked very well. After that, in preparation for applying linoleum acrylic sealer we washed the floor with water. He mopped and I followed along behind with the Hoover. This worked very efficiently.
   PROS:
   long cord and place to wrap it on the handle
   efficiently sucks up any standing water on a floor
   easy to maneuver
   holds a lot of cleaning fluid and water mixture
   clean and dirty water tanks are easy to remove to empty and fill
   visible evidence of the dirt being removed in the dirty water tank
   strong suction
   easy to assemble
   CONS:
   will not remove heavily embedded dirt
   HINT:
   This is not a vacuum-cleaner, but a scrubber, so move slowly over the area that needs to be cleaned and use the cleaner boost trigger for especially dirty areas.

   The picture is of our linoleum floor after the clean (I forgot to take one before). Yes, we removed the air vent covers. The machine has no problem going over the openings and because it sucks up the water, water doesn’t pour down the air vents.

7. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   Venkata Subba Rao – September 28, 2024

   Desepcionada no cumplió con lo descrito no funcionan los cepillos y el tanque de agua limpia se vacío en un instante provocando encharcamientos y no hacen efectiva la garantía en CD de México