There's a 'speed mop' that gets more than 1,450 five star reviews on the Dunelm website. The Vileda Turbo Smart Spin Mop has a wringer that you work with a pedal on the bucket to quickly spin out excess water.
The mop head is made from microfibre designed to tackle dirt and grim on all types of floor. The mop can be machine washed at 30°C to ensure it stays super clean. But at £25, it's not cheap, so is it any good? We tried it out to see.
It arrived promptly, all in one box. The mop handle came in three parts which easily screwed together. Once assembled, it remained fixed rather than being adjustable in length, unlike my old mop.
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The first thing I noticed was that it was a good chunky mop head. Whilst dry, it looked like it wouldn't fit into the wringer but, of course, this was no problem once it was wet. The bucket and handle were really sturdy, which was good.
The spin action means that you don't end up with gallons of water all over the floor which, in turn, enables the floor to dry quicker, making it less likely to be streaky. At first, I wondered if the water would spray everywhere when I pressed down the pedal, but it was well contained and worked really quickly with very little effort.
Once I started mopping the floor, I found the mop head tended to flip over quite easily, causing the plastic part to scrape along the floor at times. Maybe I was just a bit brutal, having 'made do' with a tatty old budget mop for ages.
It felt like I whizzed around the kitchen way faster than I normally do, which was good. The floor took around half an hour to dry but there were no pools of water left on the surface which was good. And it was really good on stubborn stains, like mud or spilt coffee granules, as the microfibre seemed to work really hard at these without much effort on my behalf!
Said to 'remove over 99 percent of bacteria and viruses with just water alone', I tried it the first time with only water. It lifted lots of dirt off the floor but there wasn't, of course, that zingy clean floor smell. So the next time, I added an Aldi concentrated disinfectant to the bucket which foamed up with a lovely linen aroma.
The water was brown when I'd finished so it was clear the mop had picked up a lot of dirt. Being microfibre, it seemed to attract bits missed by the vacuum.
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Overall verdict
You need to have the mop square to the floor otherwise the plastic top seems to scrape across the tiles, which is unpleasant and ineffective. So it took a bit of getting used to. The plastic disc is triangle shaped to enable you to get into corners but I didn't really find it got into the corners very well for me.
I found it harder to store than my old mop, which had a retractable handle, meaning it didn't stand so tall in the cupboard. I had to rethink where to store this. I could disassemble it but I have a hard enough time summoning up the enthusiasm to mop the floor without having to assemble the mop each time to do it!
The spin action on the bucket is definitely the best feature of this mop. It means you can adjust how wet you want your mop to be - fairly wet for lino and tiles, just damp for wooden floors.
And the floor definitely dried much quicker than normal - a real blessing when you have kids wanting to come through in muddy football boots from the garden, or socks to grab snacks from the fridge! And the floor stayed cleaner, which showed it was getting a much deeper clean than before.
This Vileda mop usually costs £38.99 from Amazon, where it has more than 55,000 five star reviews. The same mop costs £37 from Argos. It makes the Dunelm price really good value for money at just £25.
