BISSELL Steam Mop Select, Titanium, 80K6

This really works!
Review summary: Light and easy to use. Cleaned really dirty floors with just the steam from distilled water. No need for other cleaning products. Steam cleaning leaves the cleaned floors lightly damp but they dry quickly. Cleaning pad is larger than other models with a two-sided pad (13 inches by 4-5 inches). Comes with two different cleaning pads, one soft pad and one with scrubbing strips. Because the pads and cleaning surface is two-sided, you can clean twice as much area with one pad.

Recommendation: If you want to clean your floors without a bucket of water and a mop or scrub brush or without the chemicals and disposable cloths of Swiffer-type products, this will work for you. If you want to sanitize your floors (crawling baby?), it will do that but will take longer as you have to hold the mop in place for a certain number of seconds for germ/bacteria killing.

Now for all the dirty (literally) details:

I gave this steam mop a test like it...

No chemicals
I've used a variety of floor cleaners ranging from two different iRobot Scooba models, switers, a Hoover floor cleaner and now this steam mop from Bissell.

The primary advantage of this cleaner is that it works with just water. If you have very young children that LIVE on the floor (as in crawling) this can be very attractive because you don't need to use harsh chemicals to clean the floor as nearly all of the other cleaners do. (Although the latest Scooba from iRobot uses an enzyme based cleaner -- it is HORRIBLE at cleaning).

I found the Bissell cleaned well and the removable mop head easily washed. Environmentally, this is THE best possible solution.

Disadvantages include that this is certainly more work than an iRobot to USE (but this is less work to clean-up). Clean up is simple, remove the mop head and put it into the washer. The Hoover and iRobots machine have to be disassembled and cleaned.

Although it may be possible to use it on...

Works well but a few steps backwards from my H2O mop...
My first thought when I unboxed this was "This is all the water the tank will hold?" It's a fraction of my H2O mop's water tank. Second thought was that I didn't like it being all the way on the bottom, compared to the higher position on the H2O mop. But it turns out that this mop doesn't use as much water as the H2O mop, so that smaller tank lasted at least as long as the other mop's larger tank did.

Annoyance - unlike the H2O mop, it's not a turn on / turn off trigger. You have to HOLD the trigger the entire time. That's a definite minus in the comparison. It gets to be a pain when you're trying to maneuver and keep pressure on it while scrubbing the floors.

The other letdown was that there's no positive indicator that it's hot enough. You just have to wait 30 seconds and then go ahead. The H2O mop had the power indicator change color to indicate when it was hot enough to use. Little touches that made it seem to be a better thought out product...

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