Hoover H3045 FloorMate SpinScrub Wide-Path Hard-Floor Cleaner

I owned two and would not buy another. The first worked great but died just about 14 months so I didn't bother trying to fix it. I read the reviews about noise and suction lost but decided the first worked well for a year and they must have fixed the problems by now. I liked the red color, looked durable - sold itself. The second started making a horrible sound about 7 months then suction went. I bought a new filter, filter cover to see if would help. The suction improved but the noise increased and started leaking black fluid, maybe oil, from the enclosed motor. I went back to Target and asked if they could look up in the history when I purchased it so I could call the mfg about limited 12 month warranty. They couldn't go back over 3 months. I couldn't find my receipt. They no longer carried it, Walmart no longer carried it. If the chains want nothing to do with it head the reviews.

This set up quickly out of the box; I purchased an affordable refurbished unit. Cheap thrills.

My project is a smaller (700 sq. feet) rental unit with sealed hardwood floors and travertine. I know that nothing works as well as elbow grease; that's the truth. That said. this helped speed the project of cleaning lightly soiled , sealed hardwood which I had carefully vacuumed with my Dyson first. I used a PLEDGE cleaning solution from H. Depot.The unit leaks a little and I've checked the seals twice. After cleaning, I followed up with an application of glossy Rejuvinate floor sealer. Ta daaah! IT's good to go.

Attention:Has anyone found a way to by more brushes; I can't seem to find them anywhere and that might be a problem down the line? They will eventually wear down from use.The provided brushes (one set/ white) are not meant for travertine/marble/grout and, again, are not the gray ones specified for these surfaces.

This is the biggest waste of money ever. Anyone who sings the praises of this machine, in my opinion, has neither dirt, dust, pets or children in their home. I am so disappointed with this machine I can't say anymore without being borderline obscene. Get a mop, bucket, washcloth and knee pads for a better cleaning job with less effort than the Spinscrub.

The Hoover Floormate is a must have if your home has wood floors or ceramic tile. This machine scrubs the floor clean and is easy to use. I highly recommend it!

I ordered this product because I have a very large ceramic tile floor with light colored grout. I still use the mop and bucket once a month for deep cleaning but this Hoover wide path floor cleaner is amazing for everyday cleaning and freshening. It vacumes first. Then is washes and scrubs the floor. Afterwards it picks up the water leaving the floor dry and clean. All this in a quarter of the time it takes me to use my mop and bucket. The cleaning liquid that comes with it smells really good and leaves the floor shiny but it is not cheap. I have to refill and empty the machine four times to clean my floor. That process is no problem but it uses a lot of cleaning fluid. So I purchesed Mr. Clean or Top Job and just used that, mixed with water, in the machine and it works just fine. I have three complaints. 1.The machine is heavy. 2. The rubber edging it very rubbery and when it hits a wall or corner, it completely stops the machine from moving, unlike a plastic edging that sort of slids off of corners and walls. 3. The handle must be constantly depressed in order for cleaning solution to come out. It is hard to depress and hold for a long time and my hand gets really tired of depressing the handle. It should come with an option to continually dispense cleaning fluid along with individual squirts of fluid. All in all I highly recommend this item for daily cleaning and freshening of ceramic tile floors.

Living in Florida tile floors are a must. Tile is very nice but can be hard to clean. This Hoover Floormate makes it much better to clean our tile floors. We are very pleased with the performance of the device and would give it our recommendation.

Hoover floormate did not clean as thoroughly as I thought it would. It did not get up all of the dirt and the rollbars were not that effective in cleaning the dirt off the floor.Hoover H3044 FloorMate

This is my third Floormate. The others lasted years despite heavy use, almost everyday, due to my dog. The dog passed away so I do not use as much but have no idea how I would wash 2300 square feet of porcelain tile so easily. When you look at the waste water you know how dirty a floor can get, especially a kitchen floor.

It does the job 70 percent the water dispensor is to small. There needs to be more weight on the scrubber-picker-upper hits and misses, also it is a hassel to drop the handle to get the water dispensor out, however if they would fix these problems it would be rated a hundred. I still use it because it gets the floors cleaner than a mop, it just takes longer than I want it too.

I had a maid service because I didn't want to mop the floors. But it seemed to me that too often they were just sloshing the mop back and forth and not picking the dirt up.

So I bought this cleaner. Wow. Works great and as described. I was right about the dirt. Took me three tanks to get the kitchen floor cleaned up. Even though they might look clean, you will be amazed how dirty floors can be. Now, it's easy and I wheel this guy out any time I see anything on the floor. Easy to use. Highly recommended.

Plus, I canceled the maid service so this will pay for itself pretty quick.

I have alot of white ceramic tile in my house, so keeping it clean is challanging. I had purchased a Bissel Floor Steam Cleaner and was disappointed because the floor did not shine and the steam left streaks. So I was a little skeptical with purchasing this appliance. In fact, it sat in the box in my laundry room for 2 weeks because I was debating about returning it.

My tiny dog, left mudy paw prints all over the house, so I needed to clean the floor fast. I was amazed at how well the cleaner worked!!!
I used the entire sample bottle of cleaner with GREAT results. However, I still had tile to clean, so I used my "regular" cleaner(Once & Done),and just watered it down more. My floor looked AMAZING!!!!!!!!
I actually liked MY cleaner BETTER than the sample that came with the machine!! Once & Done cleaned the grout and floor and left an amazing shine. The manufacture says you can use any floor cleaner as long as it's not solvent based (FYI I can only find Once & Done at Loews & Home Depot)

I loved the fact that you "vacuum" the water up, and the floor virtually dries immediately!!! The only downside to this appliance is that the collection reservoir and water/cleaning solution reservoir are NOT big enough. I had to keep stopping to empty the collection reservoir and refill the water/cleaning solution one.

I really like the vacuum feature!!! After my floor dries, I always find
pieces of dust or hair that didn't get picked up(a white floor shows everything), I just switched to the vacuum setting and vola it was gone!!

HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!!!!! BETTER CLEANER THAN THE STEAM FLOOR CLEANERS.

I love this machine! We have a large kitchen and dining room with rough-surfaced ceramic tiles that seem to grab and hold soil. We are elderly, and getting down on our hands and knees to scrub the tile had become an impossibility. We were considering having this flooring replaced with something else, when I bought this Hoover Floor Mate. It does a great job, in our opinion. You do have to make sure that every single part is snapped into place exactly right, but other than that, I think it is a life saver.

I just got this machine a few day's ago and used it in a high traffic section twice and cleaned all my floors once. I live in a house with three men who do not have a clean gene and three big dogs. As you assume, the amount of dirt, spilled drinks and saliva on the floor are great.
This machine did pick up a lot of dirt/grime seriously you'll be amazed once you see the dirty water section, but your first run through isn't as amazing as I was hoping it would be. The saliva from around the water bowl and where the dogs eat take quite a big of work to pick up...you'll have to go over the dried saliva spot's 10 times before it starts to come up. The amount of build up I had is higher than normal, I hadn't mopped the floors in about a month. I also have so much hard ground to cover that I may have not been going as slowly as I needed.
So my end review is, it's good - nothing in this price range could beat it...it's just not as amazing as I hoped the first run through on tile. The wood (in my case bamboo) looks pretty good on your first run through.

I researched automatic hard floor cleaners for a few months before I purchased this machine, the Hoover H3045 FloorMate SpinScrub Wide-Path Hard-Floor Cleaner some weeks ago, and didn't use it until today. Conversely, I purchased two steam cleaners prior to this machine, because I thought they would be better. The problem with the steam cleaners is that they use cloths that have to be washed, so I don't use them very often. They are cumbersome to use and I was looking for something more practical; something that required less work and effort on my part. This machine is it. Even after I received the Hoover in the mail, I remained a bit skeptical and continued to clean my floors the conventional way every few days--on hands and knees. I have three large dogs--each over 100 lbs--and they track in quite a bit of dirt, especially when it rains, and I have about 800 square feet of tile flooring in my kitchen where everyone hangs out and life happens. So, today was the day I broke out this amazing little machine and viola, within a half hour my kitchen floor was sparkling clean. Based on the reviews I read, I didn't use the dry vacuum, opting for the conventional method instead. However, the machine sucked up the dirty water so well that I didn't have to use the wet pickup option either. Although I didn't use the grout brushes, the machine cleaned the grout lines just fine. I venture to guess that if they had been really dirty, I would have had to use the grout brushes and cleaner. If I were to change anything about the machine, it would be the water reservoirs--I'd make them larger to avoid frequent emptying of the dirty water and frequent refilling of the cleaning water solution. I would also have the machine dispense more water onto the floor as it's cleaning. The bottom line is that I think this machine I worth every penny I spent on it and I'm only kicking myself for not using it sooner.

Just picked up one of these machines today, it works very well but feels cheaply made. The body is made out of flimsy lightweight plastic. One reviewer noted that the vacuum feels heavy but in fact it is very lightweight when empty. It does however feel heavy when you use it because the suction is so powerful it creates alot of friction. The machine is definitely not underpowered, lets just hope the motors are sturdier than the plastic exterior!

One thing to note is that to really get a good cleaning with no residue you have to move quite slowly and methodically, this is not necessarily a flaw with this product but is just due to the nature of wet vacuuming, either way it is certainly much faster than mopping or scrubbing by hand.

Pros:
* Powerful motor, strong enough to suck the dirt
out of the crevices in porous natural stones such as
tumbled marble and travertine
* Deep clean, works with most types of cleaning solution
* Doesn't scratch my hardwoods
* Long power cord

Cons:
* Flimsy plastic body
* Questionable longevity
* Dirty reservoir could be a bit larger

Overall, I'd say the pros outweigh the cons, it will save you a lot of time if you are somewhat anal about having clean floors like I am.

This machine performs as though it has been refurbished, although I purchased it as a new machine. The recovery tank never completely fills to allow the automatic suction shut-off to activate. The reason I believe, is because the dirty water leaks on the tile floor when the recovery tank is about half full. Another problem or "feature" is that the machine is impossible to move when the tiles are dry. Is this deliberately designed, or is it a defect? This is the second time that I've used this machine, and I'm tempted to use a mop the next time. At least the floor appears clean enough to overcome the frustrations.

I have used the Floormate for 6 months and it cleans our tile floors well. It limits the yucky build up of dirt and soap that darkens grout but the Floormate (and really no household machine) can clean grout -- hand scrubbing is the only remedy for this problem. Because I do not like to leave a soap residue on my floors, I spray my floors first with a floor cleaner (I use one of the enzyme pet cleaners because I have four dogs) and I place clean water in the Floormate's tank and use that to rinse away the cleaner I sprayed on the floor. Finally, the machine does a nice job of removing the residual water on the floor.

One person said "The best thing since sliced bread" This is exactly what I said to my husband when I finshed my floors the first time. I read many reviews on every type and model........I am so pleased I chose this one. I have cleaned my floors on my hands and knees since high school....I want tell you how many years it's been.....I'll just say these bones are not up to this kind of labor anymore :) Not only do my floors look like glass and are by far cleaner than I could have ever done myself with all that labor....I never even broke a sweat. I think the attachments on the larger model sound nice but I clean my floors about every other day......This machine is so light and easy.......With fantastic suction power!! I would purchase this bad boy again and again!!!! The best purchase I have made since the microwave!!!!!!!!!!

This machine does a great job in cleaning our tile floors. Even when the floor didn't look dirty, the brackish water showed it was! I have to admit that the machine is rather heavy and you have to take your time to push it back and forth slowly, but I don't plan on using this as a weekly cleaner, but rather, maybe once a month. I'm pleased with the round spining action of the brushes as I feel this does a better job than the "forward roll" of the earlier machines. All in all, I'm pleased with it.

I owned the very first model of the floor mate and loved it more than anything. I tried out this one today and I couldn't even push the darn thing across my floor no matter what setting it was on. The rubber part where it sucks the water up is way too long. I ended up cutting the rubber just to make it move. Once I did that it works great but the original model is by far the best one yet.

Never lay the floormate down with water in it. It spills immediately.

This cleaner works so much better than a mop, and it's easier to use. With one quart of water we can clean about 500 sq feet of tile. And it does a great job of cleaning. The floors feel clean for about one week. The really nice thing is that you're always using clean water, as opposed to using a mop; with a mop, you're always putting dirty water back on the floor. I strongly recommend this floor cleaner.

With a toddler, cat, dog, 160sf kitchen, and 3 bathrooms this machine gets a weekly workout in my house. I LOVE IT!!! I hated cleaning the floor before owning this, now I find excuses just to get it out and use it. My son was crawling at the time I first purchased it. I was grossed out by how dirty his knees and hands were after crawling around all day... I never took note until then how dirty my floors were. This cleans up every thing my son tosses on the floor within minutes (watermelon, rice, juice, oatmeal, etc). Sticky messes are no more in my house. I also LOVE how it easily glides under the kitchen cabinets and how close it gets to an edge.

I also use it in the bathroom and it is great for picking up hair, short or long.

Like a previous post said, this is perfect for floor maintenance. I still need to get on my hands and knees every so ofter and clean out the corners with a scrub brush but I'd need to do that with a mop too. But no mess is too big or too small. It is just as easy to get this out as any vacuum would be. I actually think this gets my floor cleaner than any mop or scrub brush I used before. I would think my floor was fairly clean, use it to clean a small spill then continue cleaning the kitchen's entire floor since I had it out and find the water filthy in the chamber.

My only con is I wish the container that you put the cleaning solution in had a lid that really locked and sealed. The cap just kinda sits on top and I've had some spills carrying the full container from the sink to the machine.

Well worth every cent.

I've had the Hoover Floormate (red) for several weeks now. I loved it. I won't ever go back to regular sweeping and mopping again. My husband and I just purchased our first home. It's new and I wanted to "prevent" the floor from becoming stained. We have tile in kitchen, foyer, hall way, landry room, and two bathrooms. I can run the sweeper option and afterward walk across the floor and feel nothing under my feet. It really sucks up the pet hair. I have a Great Dane that stays in the landry room when where away and the floormate sucks up all the pet hair she leaves behind. It's hard to do that with a regular broom because it just gets pushed around and gets released into the air. It's also nice to mop (don't know if I would call it that with new way of doing it). After the cleaner is release and the scrub brushes do their job the floormate just sucks up all the dirt and cleaner left behind. After I do this it might take maybe a minute for the floor to be dry! Great with pets because the first thing they want to do after you mop the floor is walk on it and leave their paw prints behind. I gave the floormate 4 stars because it does take a little time to clean the floors. You can't rush the process. The slower you move the cleaner your floors will be. This is more with
the mopping feature. With sweeping you can moved at a normal pace. Not a problem for me. Using the floormate is a lot easier and cleaner than using a traditional broom and mop. Like some of the other reviews, I also only use less of the cleaner than they recommend. If you use the recommended amount you see what I'm talking about. The cleaner smell is to strong. I use about 3/4-1 oz. It's also nice because there is a built in measuring cup- connected to the nob that opens the cleaner/water tank. I would recommend this product to anyone who has hard floor surfaces in their home. This would be a great wedding or house warming gift.

Super fast shipping, 3 days. Used it today and it did what I wanted. Scrubbed the floors, wood and tile, and throughly picked up every drop of solution. I had the older floor-mate and it was used up. WOW this is sooooo great. Love the new and improved recovery tank as it comes apart for easier cleaning. Good job.

Love this machine, cleans our tile better than anything i have ever used. Better than scrubbing on my hands and knees, cleans well, rinses well, our money was well spent on this machine.

I'm Julie and I have been toying with the idea of getting this type of machine for more than a year. I'm glad I waited and got this particular model. I bought it April 7, 2008.
This is a great investment. The product works great! I tried it yesterday and my floors which I hadn't mopped in a month looked FANTASTIC. I love that I am not hurting my back anymore trying to mop all the floors. It took half the time to do as a bucket and mop and way less water! When I do my floors, I usually end up using about 4 buckets. With this machine I didn't even use enough water to fill 1 bucket!! And my floors were so clean! This is a great way to conserve water! Also, I didn't have to wait for them to dry like you would with a mop! I loved that! Also the handle folds down for storage!
Today I accidently spilled a glass of water on the floor and this machine made for a speedy clean up! Less than 2 minutes! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this machine!

THIS IS A NEEDED PRODUCT.. WORKS GREAT, BUT PLASTIC PARTS BREAK IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS. (UNDERSIDE CASING HOLDING WHEELS.) I KNOW THIS WELL, AS I HAVE TO BUY ONE EVERY SIX MONTHS.. MOTOR HOLDS UP, AS DO OTHER PARTS, BUT UNDERSIDE IS ALL PLASTIC... I HAVE NO OPTIONS. THIS IS "THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN".. I HAVE TRIED OTHER BRANDS BUT THEY AREN'T EVEN ON THE MARKET ANYMORE. THEIR'S FELL APART EVEN FASTER. FOR THE MONEY, THIS IS GREAT FOR WHAT YOU GET. JUST REMEMBER, IF YOU USE IT EVERYDAY LIKE I DO, YOU WILL NEED ANOTHER ONE DOWN THE ROAD. WISH HOOVER WOULD SPEND MORE TIME MAKING BETTER QUALITY PARTS..
BUT.. LIKE I SAID, I NEED THIS MACHINE . WOULDN'T GO BACK TO A MOP.. I WILL KEEP BUYING IT...

Although I thought this did much better than a swiffer wet jet or even a pregular mop and bucket, it wasn't a miracle worker on my floors lke others said. It never sprayed solution from the first time I tried it. I had to use a seperate spray bottle from the start. Then over the course of a month or two it kept dying and had to be turned on again. Finnally after a few months it would not turn on at all. I sent it back and did not repurchase.

I purchased this hoping it could be my one-size fits all floor solution. Most of our house is hardsurface with a few area rugs and living room carpet. The wet option works wonderfully. I am very pleased with its power and even cleans up muddy paw prints and kitchen sticky messes. However the biggest drawback for me is a design flaw when using the dry vacuum option. We have a dog and cat and when I vacuum I get a lot of pet hair. Unfortunately there is a round plastic "flap" that hangs down in the canister and it becomes clogged with pet hair after about five minutes of vacuuming. I have to stop, open it up, push the pet hair down into the canister and go again. It also doesn't seem to have very good power over carpet as it won't vacuum up fuzz from pet toys or other small stuff like a normal vacuum would. I'm still going to keep it for "mopping" but I am disappointed to learn I will have to purchase another regualr vacuum cleaner to clean the carpet and area rugs. This model also has no attachments which is a bigger drawback than I first thought it would be. It is not a one solution for all types of floors.

I think this is a excellant product. I had it delived and took it apart reading the directions and it was very easy. I put it together, again, very easy.
I washed my tile floors and two shower floors and it picked up so much grit and dirt, sucked up the dirty water and dried my floors with such ease.
I would highly recommend this floor cleaner to everyone who has tile floors and wants to keep them very clean.

The cleaner is quite useful for cleaning tiles, but with some draw backs:
1. heavy, become even tougher to move around when vacuum is on.
2. never lay it down when there is dirty water captured from the vacuum in the receiving compartment. Otherwise dirty water will leak out from the back of the compartment and spill all over. This is a design error.

I just bought the WidePath SpinScrub yesterday, and I love it so far! It is relatively light-weight, easy to use, and does a great job cleaning. The dry vacuum setting does as good a job at picking up stuff as my regular vacuum does. Although it is a bit difficult to push when on the wet setting, as long as you don't rush the job and take your time, it gets the job done. You don't even need to use the dry option because it sucks most of the water up. My ceramic tile floors are dry after about 5 minutes.
One important note...When I first assembled the machine yesterday and used it, after a few minutes it was shutting itself off like a previous reviewer mentioned. It kept turning itself on and off and I was so frustrated! I put it away and took a fresh look at it this morning. What I discovered is that the handle was not fully locked into place. (Even though I swear it locked into place when I first assembled it!) Once the handle was locked into place (again), it worked perfectly!

I was so excited to use this on my completely hardwood floor house. I swept the floors, then used the dry vacuum option before I started washing them. It kept shutting off, every 5-10 minutes! I would empty the dirty water, it started back up then shut off 5 minutes later. Refill the cleaning solution tank, restart it, this happened over and over. It took 2 hours to do about 500 square feet. The dry vac worked well but the wet vac kept leaving water streaks that I had to wipe up. Definitely NOT worth the price! The floor to floor cleaning solution does smell really good, however.