When you critically inspect the last year, there are plenty of things to complain about. We’ve been through the ringer, us.
Yet still we persevere, whether that’s against some evil corporation silent and faceless corporations trying to keep us sick as a cash crop or the tried-and-true follies of mother nature, whose ultimate goal remains to ensure that everything dies and gets broken down into the composite particles necessary to spur new life into growth. That she will also destroy.
Regardless how you slice it, we have fought and lost and won, and there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
What we HAVE come out of 2020 with is an ultimate sense of DYI attitudes. What previously would have taken a contractor has often times taken an online tutorial and maybe a few extra minutes of swearing.
That’s not to say it’s been perfect for anyone. I have a few pieces of kit furniture that can attest to that.
But ultimately, the habits we’ve built in isolation and the ways we have grown might ultimately have been worth the cost. Well, part of it, at least. There are some tabs that can never be paid in full.
It’s for this reason that I found myself researching the best steam mop for tile.
Taken by itself, there’s probably not a lot of surface relating. Mopping is a mundane task, hardly worth the time to read about, much less writing about.
But what used to be the job of a cheap Swiffer mop with an absolute minimum of cleaning power has become the heroic task of the finest sterilization equipment that money can buy. The paramount requirements of any cleaning instrument going into 2021 is an ability to positively NUKE anything closely resembling basic life.
So, while the nature of humanity has not been wildly altered, it is fair to say that our tolerance for microscopic junk has been diminished with such significance that I wouldn’t be surprised to see nuclear mops in the near future.
Until then, steam remains the very best protection against microbial build-up. Soap is well and good, but nothing beats a nice blast of super-heated steam. And steam can be a do-it-yourself with relative ease, assuming you do your research and point your penny in the right direction.
Assuming you remember pennies here, folks. They’re that pesky “exact change” that most places require you have right now.
Whether you are looking for an easy DIY with a minimal clean or the most invasive, exhaustive explosion of heat and water that you can aim at those floors, you can find no better substitute than a steam mop.
They’ve become readily available and the technology never ceases to improve. No one wants to schlep anything these days, least of all a bucket of water. Some steam mops come with a strip you change on the bottom of the pad, some with a basin of water.
All of them enable you to ditch the bucket. Or kick it.
Literally, not figuratively.
And once you’ve gone to steam, you will never go back.
