As a very active household with seven people and two huge dogs, I know very well how incredibly dirty floors can get — and fast. Even as a shoes-off household, kids and pups running in and out of the house track in a steady stream of dirt, crumbs, leaves, and unknowns. And don’t get me started on the kitchen floors!
To manage the floors without spending an inordinate amount of time keeping them decent, we run a robot vacuum every morning once the kids are off to school and regularly do “postage stamp” vacuuming. I also have a really fancy Tineco steam mop that vacuums and mops at once and is great for spilled bowls of cereal and similar mishaps, but I only use it when I really need to.
Despite having all the latest housekeeping robots and gadgets, there’s one floor-cleaning tool I’ll never stop using: my O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop. To me, there’s nothing that lifts dirt and refreshes floors like a good wet mopping session, and the O-Cedar spin mop makes the task efficient and almost fun (my kids always beg to press the pedal to spin the mop!). Here’s why I tell everyone they need one, and why I’ll never give mine up.
To start, the cult-favorite O-Cedar spin mop has over 161,000 five-star ratings on Amazon. It’s an updated take on a timeless floor-cleaning chore: good old-fashioned wet mopping. The system comes with a mop with an adjustable handle length, microfiber mopheads, and a bucket with an integrated spinner that operates with a foot pedal. And the whole system costs under $40.
What’s So Great About the O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop
It dissolves dirt. Squirt mops and steam mops are fine, but there’s something about just a bit more moisture that seeps into and dissolves the ground-in dirt. Whether it’s a sticky area on the kitchen floor or dried mud in the entryway, using a mop is the most straightforward way to wash the floors, and it’s critical to have the right tool for the job.
It allows you to adjust moisture levels. While I love wet mopping specifically because, of course, it’s wet, it’s important to be able to adjust moisture levels accordingly. For instance, wood floors should never get too wet while tile floors can handle much more of a sudsy bath. We have LVP floors that can get wet, and it’s super convenient to be able to adjust how wet my mop is based on where I’m cleaning. The kitchen gets mopped with a pretty wet mop while the relatively clean living room floors only need it to be damp.
The O-Cedar spin mop has a spinner that sits right in the bucket that allows you to customize the moisture level of the mop to your situation. It’s easy to operate with a foot pedal (no squeezing!) and works super well to the point that you can easily end up with a barely damp mop.
The microfiber mophead. The fluffy microfiber mop head is incredibly good at pulling dirt from floors. Our LVP floors have tiny grooves for texture, and the mop does a much better job of getting in there and picking up dirt than anything else I’ve tried, including flat microfiber pads on squirt mops or my Tineco.
It’s super user-friendly. With the O-Cedar spin mop, a wet mopping session doesn’t feel like a deep-cleaning Saturday chore that’s going to take hours. The bucket is small enough to fill, carry, and dump out easily, and the system is simple but powerful enough to pull out on a weekday.
In short, the O-Cedar spin mop makes wet mopping cool again. It’s been a favorite cleaning tool of mine for almost a decade and holds a coveted spot in my (short) list of desert island cleaning tools.
Buy: O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop, $39.96
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