Clean Up With a Hoover Floormate
The Hoover FloorMate is a series of cleaners manufactured by Hoover. They are specifically designed to clean floors and hard surfaces using a variety of settings: vacuum, wash and dry.
The vacuum cleaners in this series include the Hoover H3044 SpinScrub FloorMate Wide-Path Vacuum Cleaner as well as the Hoover H3060 SpinScrub FloorMate 800 Vacuum Hard-Floor Cleaner. It also comes with a portable detail kit.
Information about the vacuum cleaners can found on the sites of many dealers that sell products online. Having this information is important, because you can’t purchase products and return them easily. Although some models of cleaners are replaced promptly, there are some instances where replacement or repair is difficult to do. That’s why it’s important that before you decide to make a purchase and invest your money in a Hoover FloorMate, you should research each model that is available on the market first.
Here are some short overviews about the four Hoover FloorMate models mentioned earlier. The below overviews also give you necessary information obtained from user feedback provided by customers who have purchased the cleaners.
Hoover H3044. An all-in-one cleaner, the H3044 is not only capable of vacuuming dry debris from your floors, it can also make use of wet-cleaning or dry-cleaning to clean surfaces like ceramic tiles and sealed hardwood, among others.
An EZ Select dial is used to change between one cleaning mode to the other.
The H3044 Hoover FloorMate is packaged with SpinScrub brushes. These brushes provide gentle wet-scrubbing for hard floors. You can also grout brushes that are intended to clean the grout on most large surfaces. Plus, you can control the amount of cleaning solution to apply as well as the location where you can apply it using controls that you can press with your fingertips.
The H3044 is equipped with two tanks: one for storing the solution and the other for recovery of dirty water. This way, the dirty water that you have extracted from your floors will not return to it. The tanks can be easily removed and replaced.
User Feedback
The H3044 has been dubbed as loud by some previous buyers in Amazon.com, and that it doesn’t vacuum dry debris very well. However, positive feedbacks have been received about the FloorMate’s performance in sweeping, especially in linoleum floors.
The H3044 also showed good performance on ceramic tile surfaces, even though it has been good enough when used on laminate wood floors because evidences of the brush strokes are left on the floor irregardless of the chemical or products being used.
Hoover H3060. Like the H3044, the H3060 can clean your floors in three modes. You can use dry vacuuming, wet-scrubbing as well as squeegee-drying. This Hoover FloorMate hard surface cleaner is ideal for cleaning surfaces such as ceramic tile, sealed hardwood, marble, vinyl and laminate. The Hoover Floormate H3060 also uses SpinScrub brushes as well as grout brushes for cleaning tile grout.
It comes with a portable detail kit, which includes tools for cleaning hard-to-reach areas. It also comes with a telescoping wand featuring a swivel nozzle, which can be used to clean toilets. The wand gives a maximum reach of over 8 feet.
Fingertip controls in the handle give you maximum control over the application of your cleaning solutions. The H3060 Hoover FloorMate also features an EZ Select dial to choose between the three cleaning modes, as well as two separate tanks for the solution and extracted water.
User Feedback
The H3060 has received a lot of positive reviews on Amazon.com. Out of 173 customer reviews, 86 (roughly half) were five-stars. This resulted to a 4-star rating in Amazon.
Unlike the H3044, the H3060’s vacuum feature was considered amazing and impressive by most users. It was able to pick up almost any kind of dirt including cat food, leftovers by people, and cat hair, among others. The H3060 also effectively removed grout residue from new tiles.
Part of the reason for the H3060’s positive reviews is its user-friendliness. Users have found it easy to use. It could also dry floors quickly, with noticeable cleanliness compared to its previous state. Users found it easy and convenient to switch between cleaning modes with its EZ Select dial.
The tools, though, have received some not-so-good feedbacks. One user found them useless, and that she had to do a lot of manual labor just to get off the grout, and to clean corners. Judging from other positive reviews regarding the H3060’s grout removal capabilities, though, this could be a case of user error rather than a product-oriented one.
Some reviews have also noted that the reservoirs are quite small, thus they require to be filled up frequently which could be time-consuming if you have quite a big space to clean. The wand attachment has also been seen to have a tendency to collapse when under extreme pressure.