If you are looking for a small, lightweight, apartment-friendly floor washer, take a look at the features this Tineco iFloor Breeze offers to help you with keeping hard surface floors in your home very clean and sparkly.

In addition to its lightweight and cordless design, there’s another notable feature: the self-propelling capability that enables the cleaner to move in the direction you desire.Tineco does not advertise this as being used on area rugs, and with the soft roller brush as it’s main cleaning mechanism, we might be able to get away with very low pile rugs. Personally, I'll eventually use something like Pine-Sol solution, as I like its smell and I know that it's going to give me the clean I'm looking for (I don't know the cleanliness of Tineco's solution -- again, I've never heard of them before this test). Clean brush roll and empty already full dirty water tank if there’s low suction/machine makes whirring sound. Fill the solution tank, switch on the machine, recline it to not more than 142°, and just move forward and backward to clean the floor. Since both the models are nearly identical, with only slight differences in battery life and display indicators, we have combined the pros and cons into a single overview (labeled as the iFloor 3 series).

Between me, my dog and my partner whom I share an 800-square-foot apartment, our floors collect a lot of hair and crumbs. I highly recommend to take a moment to read the manual to know what the, usually blue circle light on top of the vac/mop is communicating.A good old wringer mop bucket and mop with a long handled scrub brush would cost 1/3 as much and do a better job in half the time. The battery stops charging when it is fully charged, thanks to the intelligent battery charger that comes with the cleaner. Carpets require very high suction power to reach the deep, which even the top-end tineco wet dry cleaners struggle to provide, no doubt about these base iFloor 3 series models.

After every self-clean, we suggest ejecting the brush roller and letting it dry under the sun or in the windy space. The Auto can be used for usual cleaning, the Max gives an extra boost, and the Suction mode is for using the cleaner as a vacuum. You will really appreciate fine engineering of the brush head – it actually drives itself forward to lightly wash away the dust and dirt on the floor.

The FLOOR ONE S5 COMBO modifications have smaller clean and dirty water tanks, a smaller battery, and less power than the standard FLOOR ONE S5. Although this difference plays a less vital role in selecting between these two, we thought of explaining why it is so.

The cleaning mechanics remains the same for all models, the cleaner uses clean water for mopping and sucks in wasted water into the DWT so the device does not drag dirty roller around the floors. See the tineco iFloor 3 series brush roller image below for a clear understanding of why these models are not suited for edge cleaning.With the clean water tank in place and all the other attachments locked in position, it was time to wash the floors. The days of vacuuming before mopping are long gone and now you can do both simultaneously and with great results.