Fantastic price for a powerhouse of a steamer with attachments for bath, kitchen and auto plus.
I've had a few high-pressure steam cleaners and knew a bit about them. One of my earlier Amazon reviews was for a device similar to this only somewhat larger. In that review I compared it to a 40-dollar handheld steamer that was heavily marked on TV informercials. My father had bought one which provided only a few minutes of team. The outer body was all a heat-resistant plastic, so you held the whole device. I thought it to be dangerous as the electric cord was in the handle you held it with. My dad turned suddenly in the bathroom doorway and the front steam jet part broke off and the device was then trash. My solution was to look on Amazon for a replacement and found a unit for around 160 dollars which had a large tank a steam mop, sprayer extensions and a lot of attachments. It was on a roller base so you could pull it around with you if doing a large area. It became my dad's birthday gift and he loved it. I can't remember the exact number, but I believe it garnered over 1000 likes on Amazon. This was years before I was invited to become a Vine Voice. Strange and spectacular that we have a smaller version of that birthday gift at the price my dad paid for a worthless piece of TV infomercial junk. While not as much steam or overall coverage as the gift I bought for my dad back then, this has all of the function, attachments and is similarly portable. It makes for an easier decision to consider breaking it out regularly for cleaning. I've reviewed other steamers but none at this price point and compactness. One of the things I point out with all the new forms of diseases, and the problem with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Steam kills those bugs and very few bacteria, and viruses have a chance to survive a high temperature steaming, and even if some do it does not create a new superbug or invalidate any of the few remaining antibiotics. Steam and UV light of a certain wavelength are the best purifying tools. Like UV light some of which is ionizing and can damage skin and some materials, steam has its downsides. One of which is of course heat. I have some vinyl Venetian vines on three picture windows in the front of my house. Over time they developed a lot of dirt scum, so I decided a long time ago to clean them with steam. In a little while I realized the first one, I worked on was starting to melt. I have premium 130 mil once piece vinyl floors in my kitchen and bathroom. I've steam cleaned it before with not issues, but many inexpensive vinyl floors are much thinner. My folks lived in a modular home where the flooring in the laundry room was so thin the washer ripped the vinyl flooring. Some cheap flooring can be 50-60 mil and that might be thin enough to be damaged by heavy steaming. In the category of useful vs non useful for the same traits, you can used steam to easily remove latex paint from woodwork. The non usefulness comes into effect if you don't wish to remove it. So, it's not good for cleaning walls or painted woodwork if painted with latex. It will not remove old lead-based oil paints however that requires a solvent and a lot of elbow grease with a scraper. Lots of uses cleaning the right materials, there's a list on the product page what this is safe for, but when in doubt test a small area. Some of the copper brushed may work for cleaning BBQ grills, but the plastic or nylon brushes should be used on grout or highly polished tile or other surfaces as it can be scratches with the metal brush. The base machine has a convenient integrated handle so it can be picked up and moved. Larger machines do not offer this flexibility they have rollers to roll on the floor. This machine had a separate roller bottom that when attached it can roll around with you as well. The mop portion uses microfiber brushes; they are similar to those kitchen mops, and some could be used as replacements. That said they are machine washable to you can reuse the ones it comes with for a good while. Another caution is to use with a dedicated circuit, preferably a 20 Amp or 25 Amp breaker or better. 2500 Watts equates to a little over 20 Amps, so it may trip a lower current circuit breaker or fuse. You must also use only distilled water, the minerals in tap or even some filtered waters will build up scale quickly and could damage the machine. Recommended. Read more




























