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Post# 323204   4/24/2015 at 21:51 (3,260 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        

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It's white,  trimmed in blue, spinscrub.  Haven't used it yet.  It is missing the owner's manual. 

 Best part?//?  Only $20.00  Yay!


Post# 323375 , Reply# 1   4/26/2015 at 10:40 (3,259 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)        

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Floormates are such great cleaners. The SpinScrub brushes are fantastic at removing layers of dirt yet are equally gentle. They seem to last awhile too. Let us know how you like it! Hoover has such a long history of hard-floor cleaners, but I've never had the opportunity to compare past machines.

Post# 323499 , Reply# 2   4/27/2015 at 22:56 (3,257 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
I'm looking forward to using it this week

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I'll let you know.


Post# 323528 , Reply# 3   4/28/2015 at 09:49 (3,257 days old) by oliveoiltinfoil (England, UK)        

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I love my floormate (Vax). It seems to be the most thorough and most hygienic way of cleaning hardflooring. Works very well. I just can't understand why no other manufacturer outside TTI have caught onto the idea.

Post# 323539 , Reply# 4   4/28/2015 at 11:28 (3,257 days old) by Sensotronic (Englandshire)        

Bissell produced a model called the Flip It, but it didn't have any rotating brushes.

I had the first Hoover Floormate we got in the UK in the late 90s/early 2000s and have owned most of the subseqent Vax versions with the cordless model being my favourite to date.


Post# 323542 , Reply# 5   4/28/2015 at 11:55 (3,257 days old) by kloveland (Tulsa)        

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I really like my Floormate! It seems to me that the Floormates do a better job than than most steam mops! I bought mine at the Goodwill outlet in Kansas City for one dollar! It just needed to be cleaned up.

Post# 323552 , Reply# 6   4/28/2015 at 15:03 (3,257 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
I have 5 different types of FLOORMATES

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One is cordless....rechargeable battery, form a while back. I got it at Tuesday morning, brand new, of course. Arthur wouldn't have it any other way.
I'll show them all together as a 'family'.


Post# 323625 , Reply# 7   4/29/2015 at 13:14 (3,256 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)        

The one I own Model H3000 Hoover's best FloorMATE!

Post# 323874 , Reply# 8   5/2/2015 at 09:38 (3,253 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
Can you believe.......

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 I jusy found another one.......  lurking in a spare bedroom!  Yikes. These floors should be immaculate.

 John


Post# 323881 , Reply# 9   5/2/2015 at 10:01 (3,253 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)        
I jusy found another one.......

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I wish I could look around my house and just "find" vacuum cleaners!!

Jealousy is a sin, but I do get slightly envious of your Hoovers John! wink


Post# 323944 , Reply# 10   5/2/2015 at 23:17 (3,252 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
Don't be jealous, just enjoy.

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Jealousy can actually be a terrible thing.  Many suffer from it.

  I'm very fortunate to have all these fine Hoover products.

  Tom "A" and I share a lot of the same items.  We're lucky...  You never realize how much stuff you acquire over the years.  Part of the fun is finding it all.  Another part of the fun is sharing it all. Of course,  my collection in rather "concentrated',  being that it is only one brand.  And,  it'll remain that way.

  So,  enjoy...

 John


Post# 324796 , Reply# 11   5/13/2015 at 17:47 (3,242 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)        

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I love mine. I found it at a thrift store in like-new condition for $20. Someone had used it to vacuum a bare floor, never emptied the cup or changed the filter, and there it sat. I don't think they ever washed a floor with it. It was quite a find.

 


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Post# 324810 , Reply# 12   5/13/2015 at 20:33 (3,241 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)        

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wow, great find!

Post# 324853 , Reply# 13   5/14/2015 at 13:42 (3,241 days old) by jfalberti (Visalia, CA)        
Floormate

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I also have a H3000 model Floormate I fount at a thrift store for $20. I looks like it was used maybe once or twice. None of the stores around here have the cleaning solution for it. Is there something else I can use as a substitute? I know not to use Pine Sol from the warning stickers on it.

Post# 324979 , Reply# 14   5/16/2015 at 11:44 (3,239 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)        

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"Of course,  my collection in rather "concentrated',  being that it is only one brand."

 

But that is what makes it so unique!  Never change that.


Post# 325006 , Reply# 15   5/16/2015 at 19:20 (3,238 days old) by kirbysthebest (Midwest)        
The first rule in collecting is

To collect what you like.  If you like pink pencil erasers, then it's your collection, and it's ok.

 

Years ago my Aunt had a Floor-a-matic. It would shampoo as well as do hard floors, suck up the dirty water and polish.  It was a cool machine.  The floor mate reminds me of her machine. 


Post# 330546 , Reply# 16   7/30/2015 at 10:23 (3,164 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)        
floormates

I actually had a floormate h3000 several years ago. This was the one that could do dry vacuuming as well as scrubbing. A friend of mine got the floor mate deluxe, and I think Hoover actually took some steps backward with it. For one thing, it no longer has the dry vacuuming feature, and it just didn't seem to remove a lot of the water from the floor, it was almost as if the squeegee wasn't close enough to the floor. My current set up is, I actually bought one of those wands with a jet on it. I connect that to a faucet with a 40 foot water hose, and put a squeegee attachment on the end of the wand. I can connect the wand to one of my wet dry vacs, or one of my central vacuum units using a wet dry vac interceptor, works really well, the only thing you don't get with this set up is the spinning brushes.

Post# 330567 , Reply# 17   7/30/2015 at 14:50 (3,164 days old) by Miskini (Northville, Michigan )        
I agree

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With you on the floormate deluxe. I bought a manufacturer refurbished model for $50 on eBay. It leaves a lot of the water on the floor. You have to go over it a few times in the dry setting to get the water up.

Post# 330576 , Reply# 18   7/30/2015 at 16:14 (3,164 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)        
floor mate motor

Unless they have changed it, apparently the floor mate only has a 3 amp motor. Of course, the amount of amps only indicates what the motor pulls, not cleaning power, but that's quite low. That's the advantage of using a wand and squeegee attachment, you can attach it to any vacuum that can vacuum water rather than being limited to one motor. Interestingly, canister extractors, whether for carpet or hard floors don't seem to be as common anymore, they're mostly all uprights now. That's why I got the parts and sort of built my own.

Post# 330578 , Reply# 19   7/30/2015 at 16:25 (3,164 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)        
floor mate history

I wonder how the floor mates have changed over the years. I think there are currently 2 models, the floor mate and the floor mate deluxe. The deluxe holds more solution and has a slightly longer cord, but you lose the dry vacuum feature. As I said in a previous message, my friend's floor mate deluxe never removed much of the water, it was like the nozzle was too high. I used to put a bit of weight on it when going over the floor and it worked much better. Apparently at some point, there was a model that also included a hose and some attachments as well.

Post# 330584 , Reply# 20   7/30/2015 at 17:55 (3,164 days old) by Miskini (Northville, Michigan )        
Good idea. I'll

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Have to try putting some weight on the front of mine. Don't get me wrong, it gets the floor cleaner than anything else I've tried.

Post# 330659 , Reply# 21   7/31/2015 at 16:46 (3,163 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)        

There were 2 versions of the 1st generation FloorMate

H3000 has 30ft cord* & one set of SpinScrub brushes

H3010 has 35ft cord* & two sets of SpinScrub brushes

*approximate length


Post# 330809 , Reply# 22   8/2/2015 at 16:57 (3,161 days old) by tazcatsdad (Buffalo, NY)        
I have the same one that John Lucia does

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and I simply love it.  It's the FloorMate Spinscrub 500.  I did my kitchen and dining room floors with it yesterday: I really can't believe how wonderfully clean the floors come out when I use it!  And to think, four decades ago my Mom would drag out a bucket of water, some Spic 'n Span, an o'Cedar mop, and some Glo-Coat to do the same thing!

 

Mom's still around: we have laminate floors now instead of linoleum, which we had back then, but oh how much easier that FloorMate makes it to keep 'em clean!

 

Bill W.



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