Ok here is the skinny... Don't buy this... Lets start with the cleaning aspect... you need about 10 of the pads to clean the kitchen and living room if you have hardwood floors... or it leaves streaks... the steam killing 99.5 percent of the germs is true... but at what cost? As a pro cleaner I cringed every time i saw one of these in a clients home because... over time all of their hardwood flooring was getting damage that was going to end them up with needing to replace VERY expensive real hardwood floors.In houses that were 5 years old the gap was extremely large and some of the floor boards showes signs of warpage... the gaps were always bigger in the homes with these mops. In laminate flooring... the wood kind it can cause the seam to puff up and wreck it... I have seen vinyl flooring in brand new homes peal because of these mops. When you use this mop on tile flooring it cleans the tiles and totally misses the grout.

I have seen flooring from people that have used these mops for up to 5 years and in my opinion it is one of the most destructive pieces of cleaning equipment to own.