Anyone get the mop and bucket out

Me too I enjoy a bit of 'moping'.

Teetime

I still use a mop and bucket-----nothing wrong in that. I wash/mop the floors in the bathroom and kitchen before finishing with the front door step. I'd donkey-stone the step if the product was still around, though I'd have to get on my knees to do that, otherwise I'm quite happy with a mop and bucket.

I'm happy with my cleaner. She likes cleaning floors but I don't.

Mop and bucket for me - occasionally I use a one or two Dettol floor wipes under my slippers and dance around the kitchen?

“My cleaner” and I take turns in vacuuming and mopping . He does the stairs ( of which I have rather a lot) and I do the flat bits.

To pass the time we do it to Country Music played rather loud “YeeHaa” ( sorry neighbours ) . I often get down on my hands and knees to do it too, which has a much more satisfying end result
now, now come on, cut it out .....

I find it too knackering these days. Used to do the kitchen floor every day. Now I have a little robot thingy who that does it for me. Just once a week on a Friday.

I wash the washable floors on my hands and knees, but am sure that won’t always be possible, so then I will mop.

I scrubbed my very small kitchen floor the other day; no particular satisfaction, but instantly reminded of my mother, whose most detested job was scrubbing the quarry tiles in the kitchen and scullery every Friday morning, then anointing them with Cardinal polish.

I bet they looked lovely though eazybee! I've got quarry tiles on my kitchen window sill. They rarely see the polish these days though.

In a word - 'NO'.

I'm eyeing up my GD to do any future cleaning once her youngest starts school. It'll lighten the load for me and also help her financially too. I'll have to see if this can be done " legally "as she gets some sort of benefits. I don't want her to get into trouble and I certainly don't want anyone coming after me either. I know nothing of these kind of laws.

I woudn't bother about the legality of it, she is your grandaughter, she is just helping you out,
Also if she is on benefits they will reduce what she gets by the amount she earns, so will be no better off
Not worth the hassle

Lidl have a steam mop coming up on Monday so I’m off to get one (€39 with a 3 year guarantee) - so handy here in Spain where everything is tiled.

Always do my little kitchen/bathroom in Wales on hands and knees- they’re so small I squat in middle and just spin around like a dervish a couple of times a week!

My kitchen and bathroom floors are cleaned with a mop and bucket.....

by DH

Very occasionally. More often, I use the steam mop, but sometimes I think the old elbow grease way is required.

I own a steam cleaner, one of those five in one jobs. I never use the thing. I do my kitchen and bathroom floors, and the wooden staircase and hall floor with my good old mop and bucket. I treat it as a bit of a workout.

Gillybob

EllanVannin just do it "cash in hand". She is a relative helping her granny out. Who's gonna know if you give her a few quid?

I suppose so Gonegirl, and I don't suppose anyone would know she was here other than visiting. It just scares me.

Obviously my guilty feeling.

I'm sitting on the stairs waiting for it to dry just mopped the whole of the downstairs i do it once a week. I do quite enjoy it.

eazybee how I hated that cardinal polish and all the work which went with it.
I steam clean once a week and use wipes on a stick the rest of the time as I can't kneel. My husband will occasionally do the floors on his hands and knees when things need a good
'bottoming' .

Love that word ‘bottoming’ soda pop...wonder where it comes from? I always do a good bottoming before leaving Wales/Spain but it’s a bit of a ‘cat’s lick’ in between times nowadays. My standards in some areas have plummeted as I’ve gotten older and yet other stuff I still insist on a proper job!

I have a steam mop but recently bought one of the spinning mop buckets and it's much more satisfying and dries my ceramic floor tiles much better. Quicker too - I clean my laminate flooring with it too.