Some flooring are protected to scrub with a steam mop, although. Glazed tile, sealed granite, and most different sealed stone flooring often will come out of the cleansing undamaged. Fortunately, that is additionally the form of ground that steam mops work greatest on. We interviewed Jolie Kerr, host of the Ask a Clear Individual podcast, proper after she had completed testing a steam mop for {a magazine} evaluate. On Kerr’s tiled toilet, the steam mop glided, cleaned up effectively, and “obtained issues clear in a method that I’ve by no means felt I may get with an everyday mop,” she stated. On her parquet-style hardwood flooring (which she stated she was not nervous about, as a result of they had been “so outdated and beat up, nothing can hurt them”), the steam mop didn’t do any higher than another mop. “I had excessive hopes it might get extra grime off the ground than regular. I used to be anticipating some form of steam magic, which could have been unrealistic, nevertheless it wasn’t magic.”