Woman's 'mind-blowing' hack for shiny floors without constant dirty mop water

11 March 2024 , 11:02

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Woman's 'mind-blowing' hack for shiny floors without constant dirty mop water

Say goodbye to the grim nightmare of dirty mop water thanks to one woman's game-changing trick.

If you're cleaning particularly filthy floors you'll notice how quickly your mop water turns grey and disgusting - and if you keep dunking your mop into it all you're doing is spreading that back onto the floor. The alternative to that is changing the water and adding in detergent to make it clean, but this is not only time consuming but costly too.

And with many Brits still feeling the pinch of the cost of living crisis, it helps to think of alternative hacks that can save us both money and time. To help out, one woman has shared a 'mind-blowing' cleaning hack which ensures your floor comes out sparkly clean each time.

You'll never use dirty water to clean your floors again

She placed a bucket with fresh water next to the spinner (tiktok/samina_iltaf)

Samina Iltaf, who posts cleaning tips and reviews on her TikTok page @samina_iltaf to her 33.4k followers, shared a video where she showed off the savvy trick. The content creator showed a wide Vileda bucket, with a spin function for her mop, which gets rid of the excess water.

Normally, the dirty excess would drop straight down into the bucket, and you'd then have to dip your mop back into the now-mucky water. But instead, she placed a separate bucket with clean water into the wide bucket – essentially separating the dirty from the clean water.

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That means when she spins the mop to get rid of the excess dirty water, it stays separate from the clean bucket. Speaking to The Mirror, she explained: "Instead of mixing the mop into dirty water after every use I used a small bucket filled with warm clean water and floor cleaner.

People said the hack was 'genius'

People hadn't thought of it before (tiktok/samina_iltaf)

"Once the area of the floor is moped nicely, I would then rinse out any dirty water left that I used in the first round. I then go onto using the clean water washing the mop ready for round two, then rinsing it clean. This becomes less dirty as you can see the results are shown in the video."

People in the comment section were amazed by Samina's results, with one person saying: "Brilliant hack!" and another simply saying: "This is GENIUS!". A third added: "Makes so much sense".

Many were wondering why they hadn't thought of this sooner, with one person saying: "So simple, why have I never thought of this? Will be doing this from now on, off I go to clean my floors." "Wow this is amazing," adding another.

What's your best cleaning hack? Let us know in the comment section below.

Ariane Sohrabi-Shiraz