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Spring cleaning is the time to tackle deep-cleaning tasks that improve the look of your home and ensure that negligence doesn’t cause permanent damage to big-ticket items like appliances, fixtures and floors.
If deep cleaning tile and grout floors, or carpets and rugs is on your spring cleaning to-do list, we’ve got all the resources you need to get the job done. We’ve also created a guide to properly cleaning and maintaining hardwood, engineered hardwood and laminate floors.
Rounding out this guide is our collection of vacuum cleaner, carpet cleaner and mop reviews and recommendations. if this is the year you invest in or upgrade your floor care tools, our product reviewers will help you choose the best option for your home and lifestyle.
Oxygen bleach is the secret to deep grout cleaning with very little effort on your part.
Even with regular cleaning and care, tile and grout floors can get dirty as foot traffic drives dirt, dust and grime into porous grout. If the thought of deep cleaning grout makes you imagine hours of scrubbing with a toothbrush, fear not—there’s a technique that takes the heavy lifting out of deep cleaning grout, using an oxygenated bleach solution that does most of the work for you.
Our top pick in a mop review, the O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop combines a hands-free spin bucket with a lightweight, triangular mop head that’s perfect for both mopping and spot-scrubbing on any surface.
Cleaning and maintaining hardwood, engineered hardwood and laminate floors is simple, but there are things to avoid when it comes to caring for them. There are many cleaning methods on the Internet that will permanently damage these types of floors. To understand how to care for hardwood, engineered hardwood, and laminate floors, we talked to experts about the tools and cleaning solutions to use — and what to avoid.
Thanks to the Hoover CleanSlate Pet’s 7-inch vacuum head and compact design, you won’t have to sacrifice performance for portability.
Regular cleaning and maintenance of carpets and rugs will keep them looking their best. There are also certain things to avoid when it comes to carpet care. To understand how to care for your carpeted floor, we talked to experts about how and how often to vacuum, how to spot stains as they happen, and what to do when carpets and rugs need a deep clean.
Treat deep, established pet stains with this professional stain and odor remover.
Pets can do a lot to your home, and that’s especially true for flooring. We asked pet experts—groomers, vets, celebrity pet experts, and the pet parents on our staff—what cleaning products they can’t live without, and rounded up the best products to tackle just about any mess your pet can make.
A squeegee is a smart choice for removing pet hair from all types of floors.
We tend to think of vacuums first when it comes to cleaning up loose pet hair, but brooms also play an important role — especially for big jobs like spring cleaning. The trick when choosing a broom for sweeping hair is to go for a broom with rubber bristles instead of a traditional brush broom.
Named the best standing carpet cleaner overall, the Hoover SmartWash+ is built with simplicity in mind, thanks to its automatic carpet spray system.
With great cleaning power and flexibility, the Shark Rotator Professional Lift-Away NV501 stood out in all our tests.
The Miele Classic C1 Turbo range is strong, versatile and built to last. The six suction speeds and excellent tool loading make it excellent, even a pleasure to use, for hard floors, low carpets and rugs, upholstery and dusting.
With impressive power and the ability to tackle cleaning jobs on surfaces ranging from high-pile carpet to hard floors, the Dyson V11 Animal is the most capable cordless vacuum we’ve tested.
The Black + Decker Dustbuster is the easiest to use, charge and empty of all the handheld vacuums we tested, with a large capacity canister and convenient built-in attachments that make it handy and versatile enough for any small cleanup.
This is the best robot vacuum you can buy right now, with simpler mapping, more cleaning power and smarter features than anything else we’ve tested.
The compact, affordable iRobot Braava Jet 240 is simply the best robot mop for the money. While it lacks the smart technology of more expensive models and can’t do double duty as a vacuum cleaner, its efficient design and simple pattern-based navigation deliver impressive cleaning.
Our top pick in a mop review, the O-Cedar EasyWring Microfiber Spin Mop combines a hands-free spin bucket with a lightweight, triangular mop head that’s perfect for both mopping and spot-scrubbing on any surface.
