Dirt-Devil 5-in-1 steam cleaner and mop

Rating: 4/5

Review:
Good steam cleaner, slightly limited mop

This is a well made and useful device.  The hand-held steam cleaner is excellent, but I did find that floor-mop function had its limitations.

The cleaner is simple to set up and assemble and it works well with very little fuss.  Basically, you just put about 300ml of filtered water into the tank (you need to filter it yourself), switch on, wait 30 seconds or so and it's ready.  I found the hand-held cleaner very good; there's a powerful blast of steam which really does clean those almost impossible crannies in the kitchen and bathroom where, however hard you try, you can't quite get anything to clean really thoroughly; it is great for the sink overflow, for example.  The two brushes work well, and it's good at shifting ingrained or burnt-on grease, too.

The floor cleaner is OK but not brilliant, I find.  Only one cloth is supplied, which is washable but if it gets too dirty in use, you don't have another to finish the job.  It sticks reasonably well to the head of the mop, but does come loose on anything but the smoothest of surfaces, and if the surface is even slightly rough or worn using the mop becomes very hard work for not much reward and the cloth begins to shed fibres.  It's fine for a small, sealed kitchen or bathroom floor, but not much beyond that, I'd say.

This will suit you well if you need a versatile and fairly light-duty cleaner and mop.  It will struggle for any major floor cleaning, but it's a good, durable unit at a reasonable price, and I can recommend it.