Once upon a time, I worked at a mom & pop diner and I worked from opening till closing. After we closed at 9pm, it was my job to mop the front-end of the store. My co-worker swept and I had to mop. Think of those big yellow janitorial bucket, and a big and heavy mop where you had to fill the bucket, add pine-sol and then squeeze with all of your might and then mop the big floor… I am average female build, I’m a bit older now so my lower back hurts and mopping isn’t my cup of tea.

Now that I am married, my husband and I share chores and he’s sweet enough to do all of the vacuuming, sweeping and mopping. We both are working professionals and there isn’t enough time to do everything. We live in an pretty small apartment, we have a Swiffer mop that we attach the wet and dry cloth but while it’s okay to sweep, it’s pretty bad at mopping. I’ve been considering buying a household spinning mop kit but that’ll take up more space in our small apartment.

I ordered this mop yesterday, it arrived today, and set up was easy. Sweep the floor as best as I can, use dust pan to pick up dirt or any other debris. Filled the bucket, added some cleaning solution, and mopping was a breeze for me. You insert the mop (it has a magnetic part on one side of the mop that is labeled ‘THIS WAY UP’) and I can mop by myself when my husband is busy.

One caveat is you have to have to insert it only one direction and it has about an inch of the mop pad not submerging in the water. I do flip it around was able to dip it in and “clean” that inch and not break the mop 😅 when done, I dumped the dirty water down the toilet, rinsed out the bucket, flipped it over to dry in the shower floor, rinsed the mop and threw it in the washer.

I haven’t yet clean my walls but when we have time to clean this weekend, we’ll definitely look forward to dusting and washing down the walls 🙂

I’ve seen other reviewers comment about how they hate the dirty water going back in the bucket. TBH, do you think housekeepers or restaurant workers have separate chambers when they mop? Or they’d go and change water often? It’s extremely common that there is only one bucket of wash water and to rinse the mop in the same bucket of water used to wash the floor. Those who have the time, can go dump and rinse the bucket and to do a second round of mopping within your home. I see it being really easy to do so with this mop system. Or you can fill both chambers with water and keep the dry chamber as “clean” and the wash chamber as “dirty” water but that doesn’t really utilize the ability to wring the mop dry.

Overall, give this a try, it’s pretty affordable, lightweight and a space saver! Mopping is so much more convenient for me and my family.