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Back when I lived in Lebanon, I used to have a Dyson V8 vacuum that I vroomed everywhere in my 1,400sqft apartment. It did the job, but it became tiring after about 10 or 15 minutes and I had to change the rolling head between carpets and tile floors. For that reason, I vacuumed the most-used areas daily but did the other rooms every two to three days. Mopping was a weekly occurrence, but with a regular handle and bucket, it felt very \u201cMop 1.0.\u201d<\/p>\n
We tried a newer Dyson:<\/strong> Lasers make everything cool, vacuuming included<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
When we moved to France, a friend recommended a Tineco Floor One S3 ($400 on Amazon), which is sort of like a Dyson, but it mops too. Excellent on paper, not so practical in reality. Don’t get me wrong, the Tineco cleans. It really cleans. Even exploded raw eggs with their shells, or soda, or juice, or sauced-up pasta. You name a gooey, yucky thing, it’ll gobble it up in four or five goes and leave a shiny clean floor. Seriously, seeing it in action is magical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
From Dyson to Tineco, floor cleaning was often a time and energy sink.<\/q><\/p>\n\n
But the Tineco is heavy (the water’s weight plays a role, obviously), is not as easy to manoeuvre around corners and angles as a Dyson, and is almost impossible to get under any furniture. Daily maintenance is annoying too. Do you know the breast about you becoming the vacuum cleaner when you clean a vacuum? Yes, that, every day. You have to throw out the dirty water and remove hair and random things that get stuck on all the small pieces of the water tank. And you have to remove the brush or it’ll soak in water and develop a bad smell. Every couple of weeks, a deeper cleaning of the brushes and tanks is necessary. When all is said and done, an old-school mop bucket is \u201cnicer\u201d to maintain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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And this is why I ended up mopping less often than I wanted. The time-consuming ordeal meant that my apartment’s floors were clean one or two times a week, and a little dusty all the other days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Embracing the roaming robot revolution<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n\n