Better than a Swiffer or Spray Mop, Make Daily Mopping Part of Routine
I’m going to write this review comparing the Crosswave to both a $30 spray mop/swiffer that you can find a million different models of on here, and to a traditional mop and bucket. Summary at the bottom.Cleaning Ability: 4.5/5The crosswave lands somewhere between the mop and bucket, and spray mop for cleaning ability. It does land much closer to the mop and bucket, however, which is the best way to deep clean your floor. What this does do better than the m&b is sanitize. I feel much better cleaning my bathroom with this rather than a mop and bucket that becomes contaminated the second you rinse the mop. Something the Crosswave also does that the others don’t is cleaning solid waste. You can clean up a spilled bowl of cereal, for example, with just this one device; vacuuming and mopping simultaneously. I’ve had some pretty messy spills, dried liquids, food that’s fallen and been stomped on, and this has no problem cleaning it up.Ease of Use: 3/5The winner here is clearly the spray mop or swiffer. I would say the mopping itself is extremely easy, but you’re only deferring your effort. After use, you’ll have to run the cleaning cycle, empty the drain water container, clean out the solid waste from the basket, rinse the filter, and possibly clean the rotating head every few uses with soap and water. I still find this easier than dealing with a mop and bucket, but barely. Just don’t expect to be able to grab this, mop up, and then throw it back in the closet having saved so much time and energy.Price: 3/5Well, it’s a bit more than a mop and bucket to say the least. I got mine on sale for less than $300, and I’m not sure I could justify spending full price ($411 List Price) on this. But, I don’t have any regrets so far. I find myself much more likely to mop daily, and my house has been cleaner since I’ve bought it.Reliability: -/5This is an unknown, but its already lasted longer than any spray mop I’ve bought, which seem to fail after 2-4 months. The win here will definitely go to the mop and bucket. I’ll update this if anything changes.Maintenance: 4/5Maintenance is pretty easy here. I’ll eventually have to replace the filter, but it came with an extra mop head. The mop head seems high quality and should last quite a while. The filter is washable, so I haven’t had to worry about that yet. I haven’t tried any other cleaners, but you’re supposed to use the stuff from the manufacturer, so be prepared to pay more for cleaner than you’re used to, but it’s pretty reasonably priced.Build Quality: 4.5/5This feels like a high quality product in line with a Dyson or Miele. My only concern is that the charging/cleaning station feels quite cheap. Other than that, I have no worries that this will last a while. The battery lasts plenty long to mop my whole house.Overall: 4/5If you have the money to spend and want to make daily mopping part of your routine, this really does beat the spray mops and swiffers of the world. It’s very nice having something I can easily grab after cooking dinner and give the kitchen a once over, mopping and vacuuming at the same time. It certainly beats the mop and bucket for cleaning a localized spill, and can still handle my whole house if it needs to. It won’t replace the deep cleaning of a good mop and a bucket of hot, soapy water, but it will get you 90% of the way there, and for me, that’s enough to make it worth it.

A Rush To Market
I think you can handle a small to median sq ft (under 1900 sq ft) apartment or house with this, but you have to move fast which doesn’t account for any hard to clean spots you have to go over and over again, nor if you want to dry your floor rather than leaving it damp to dry.And this cleaner ends up dumping messes, not mud exactly, but dirty water as well so you’re going to have a wonderful time cleaning this machine. I think the wet part of the vacuum – the mop – is the issue as the liquid causes the clogs. It’s also an extremely time-consuming cleaning method. It might be too frustrating for some to bother with all the details on cleaning this vacuum.Another problem, with the self-cleaning option, you can have a build up clogging of dirt in the pipe from the brush to the dirty water tank, which means you can’t clean your floors without cleaning that out too. Not so easy to do since it has a curve in it. I use a flashlight to verify if there’s dust bunnies or clumps stuck in it.Cleaning. Maybe they no longer promote it as self-cleaning? Because it’s not and never was. You have to pull apart all sorts of the apparatus and I hope you’re comfortable getting hands dirty ’cause that’s what it takes. Also the enclosed cleaning implement is inadequate. I even added a metal letter opener to the list of useful utensils.Hopefully you’re not also stuck cleaning up the soppy mess on the floor which this tank dumps.AND one battery charge doesn’t allow for SLOW mopping if you’re in the medium sq ft category.At least you can see the progress of your battery life by watching it drop from three ON lights to one blinking light. That can spur you on.There is no pull out attachment for dust bunnies, that is a huge drawback, esp if you have pets. Or what I call Real Life. So you might do the dust bunny mop or a pole vacuum. But now you’re back to mopping separately from your vacuum, if you’re using the mop.(Speaking of dust bunnies and pets, I don’t think the Bissell Pet Pro comes cordless and it def doesn’t have the attachment. That and streaky floors (usually tracks) made me return that item. Also because the Pet Pro wanted to suck up and destroy any dangling cords I had.)Both these vacuums – Pet Pro and Cordless – have huge suction (and burn!) power when it comes to dangling power cords (so watch this!) but not much power otherwise. It’s almost a conundrum.Both machines are quiet in comparison to my noisy two syllable expensive brand name starts with D.So I appreciate the relative quiet and the two-in-one combo but my floor isn’t as clean as it was with separate noisy vacuum and mopping applications.UPDATE: I have given up the mopping entirely with this unit. To avoid the sludge and occasionally clumping within the unit. That feature simply wasn’t worth it. I have a stick vacuum which I use as a second stage floor cleaner as it can get under and around items this one can’t. Then, after using two different vacuums, I do a standard mopping. This gets the floors clean.ANOTHER UPDATE: I find I still have trouble getting the plastic roller cover snapping into place. One time I was working on it for twenty minutes. I have found I can cut that time down to 5-10 minutes if I can correctly position the cover, manually shove it into place, then literally put one foot – and my weight – on the top of it and it MIGHT snap into place. But it easily comes off.In general there is also another issue and that it usually takes longer to clean the vacuum than it does to run the thing through the house.One cleaning issue to look out for is you can turn on the auto roller cleaning mechanism but that also requires the cleaner so that’s a wet process. My roller brush takes at least a week to dry unless I put it outside. There is also the issue with the wet that it will cause a clog of buildup so you are probably left manually clinging out the tube where it connects with the roller. It is bad! You will have water leaking out and you will also have a big mess dropped onto your floor. It’s like you need to clean your house because you’ve just cleaned your vacuum.If that’s not enough you have to look for clogs everywhere.AND you might want to walk through your house checking your floors for dirt pileups, where literally the vacuum just dropped dirt in sections. I have to sweep that up before I mop, of course.And I wanted to decrease the amount of liquid going on here, because that is what is causing the clogging of the suction tubes. However you might have the cover of the vacuum come off because the vacuum for flat floors has a different height issue than for a rug. Therefore you are stuck using the carpet setting, which means you are back to using the cleaning solution. However a lot of carpet/rug dust/hair gets into bundles and I have to manually scrape it up.The suction on this vacuum cleaner is abysmal even when you’re not supposed to be adding liquid into the mix, which causes clogging of the tubes.So whether you want to do a manual push-button to turn on the auto-cleaning function of the roller is an individual choice as it definitely clogs up the tube. And the tube might already be clogged, just evidence of the amount of dumping it does prior to the cleaning of the roller. And the roller is soaking after the clean cycle. Sometimes water is sitting in the vacuum holder.And you will have to pull and unwind or cut the hairs that have accumulated and knotted up at the corner of the roller itself.Something that happened recently is to vacuum a furnace filter, it doesn’t work. However, I have taken to banging the filter one side and the other repeatedly. This vacuum doesn’t pick up anything, it merely gathers the dust into sections which I try and clean up with my stick vacuum. I shouldn’t have to do this.Like I said, for a self-cleaner I have never cleaned a vacuum cleaner as much in my life. It’s more about the vacuum needs cleaning than it cleans anything.

I had seen this cleaner advertised on TV and it certainly lives up to my expectations. It’s so light to move around. Very easy to clean and my tile floors have never looked so clean and shiny. I love that it vacuums as well as wet cleans. I can easily buy the floor sanitiser online. The parts are easy to keep clean too. I recommend this cleaner.

Mi esposa dice que está bien, que hasta ahora no hay problema.

Like the cordless and like the price.