Sanitaire HydroClean Commercial Hard Floor Washer, SC930A

It’s so much better than a mop and bucket. 100% happy with it. Floors dry quickly. Easy to use, easy to clean afterwards.

After having this mop vac for a few weeks I can say that it has saved my back from regular mopping and scrubbing. I find myself using it frequently just because it’s easy! I use to mop once and week because it was hard on my body but since having the mop vac, I mop 2-3 times a week. It is completely worth the money and we have tile floors. I have a German shepherd who sheds like crazy and tracks in dirt after playing outside and it has taken care of the mess on our tile. The mop vac is simple to use, light weight, and great quality. I can see a visual difference in my tile. I personally just mix vinegar with water into the tank it comes with and it works perfectly.

We've had several Hoover Floormates over the years, most of which lasted only about 3 years before being unusable due to no pickup, or screaming motors, or totally dead. The Sanitaire model, while more expensive, is a HUGE improvement! The cleaning action is much better due to the horizontal roller as opposed to the spinning brushes, and the swivel-head makes getting under cabinets and into corners easy. The wet pickup is outstanding, the Floormates always left our floors wet and could never pick up very much water, the Sanitaire leaves the floor very close to dry such that it only takes a few minutes to finish drying. The self-clean operation is very handy and works extremely well, but even if you need to dismantle the unit to clean it more thoroughly, it's really only a matter of 10 minutes or so to do the complete job. Finally, the detergent and pickup tanks are larger than the Floormat so you can do more work without stopping, the detergent tank alone is about twice the volume. Plus, the one I bought on Amazon came with an extra spare cleaning roller and an extra waste tank filter. Finally, this unit is much quieter than the Floormate, I'd estimate about half the sound level. We've only had it for about a month so I can't speak to its longevity, but the construction seems much more solid and heavy-duty, which is what you'd expect from a commercial version of an appliance. Definitely a satisfied customer!

DO NOT WATSE YOUR MONEY OR TIME - So many others have the same issue! After using the device for a little while I have to say it is tremendously better than the last 3 Hoover floor cleaners I have owned. It does a decent job scrubbing the floor and applies a healthy amount of solution to work with. The squeegee action does an excellent job as well. The biggest issue I cannot seem to overcome is the machine is constantly stopping and reporting that the retention cup is full. Like most machines, there is a float that rises to create a plug in the vacuum system which the computer reads as a full condition. The machine never gets to that point. When the system is fully dry it will run for about the first 15 minutes. Then the first trigger happens. The cup is only half full and I am not violently thrusting the machine back and forth causing the plunger to give a false reading. Nor am I using any concentrate that creates a foaming action. It appears the gauze and filter at the top of the cup collect enough water to "lie" to the trigger mechanism that the cup is full. Two of these filters came with the device initially so after emptying the half-full cup, I place the second filter in the retention cup and continue cleaning. Within ten minutes this replaced filter goes through the same results. Now, when I replace the cup I can get anywhere from one to three minutes of run time, and the machine stops to report that the retention cup is full. At this point, there is almost nothing In it and the plunger mechanism is all the way at the bottom. I cannot figure out a way around this problem. The mechanism for detecting that the machine needs to be emptied is WAY too sensitive. I cannot complete a small kitchen area with it. When the machine works it does a decent job. The auto-cleaning cycle also works well, when and if I can ever get it to work through a complete cycle because it also stops mid cycle reporting the cup is full. I just get frustrated. Clean the parts by hand and put the machine away. I would like to give it more stars, but this issue is a real deal breaker for me. I am at the point now where I cannot get any support or return for the device. If there is some way to correct this issue, it would be a decent floor cleaning machine. DO NOT WATSE YOUR MONEY OR TIME

Absolutely worth the money. I am comparing the Sanitare to the consumer grade machines by the other two major brands. They didn't scrub very well, extraction was okay at best, noisy, cheaply built, they are get what you pay for grade machines. The sanitare is well built, quiet, scrubs and extracts well. Due to the higher performance, the time to clean my floors has been greatly reduced. I now can skip the precleaning that was required with the other consumer grade machines. My entire house has hard surface floors. This is a major deal to now have a quality high performance machine for a reasonable cost.