Hoover Enhanced Clean Disinfecting Handheld Steam Cleaner – WH20100
- Disinfects and Kills 99.9% of Harmful Bacteria
- Two-tank system lets you clean with steam alone or with Hoover Multi-Purpose Disinfectant solution
- Disinfects and cleans multiple above the floor areas of your home
- Portable and easy to use with a host of tools for all your cleaning needs.
- Clean every area of your home
The Hoover Enhanced Clean Handheld Steam Cleaner is a portable steam cleaner that can utilize Hoover Multi-Purpose Disinfectant solution to deliver a one two punch on germs and harmful bacteria around the home. The two tank system gives you the ability to clean with steam alone or to add the Hoover Multi-Purpose Disinfectant solution. Steam alone can not eliminate harmful bacteria dwelling on surfaces in your home without a substantial exposure time. When used with the Hoover Multi-Purpose Disinfectant solution on hard non-porous surfaces, the Hoover Enhanced Clean Steam Hand held Cleaner kills 99.9% of harmful bacteria including: influenza A, Swine Flu (H1N1), MRSA, staph, Salonella, E-Coli and others. This unit also comes with a host of tools to take on every surface in your home. Clean Every Area of Your Home – An all new powerful and disinfecting cleaning tool has arrived. Meet the Hoover Enhanced Clean Handheld Steam Cleaner, a portable steam cleaner that combines with Hoover M
List Price: $ 119.99
Price: $ 119.99
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Amazing what some steam can do!,
There has been this stain on my vinyl floor for the last several years. No amount of mopping, scrubbing or chemicals have been able to get it completely removed. To this day I still have no idea where this stubborn stain had come from. After receiving this product I thought, “If this can get that stupid stain out, I’ll give it a 5 star review.” So to work I went.
At first I used the extender attachment on the floor (along with the cleaner that came with the product), set it to high clean, blasted it for several minutes, wiped it with a rag and the stain didn’t budge. I was about to call it quits but for the sake of the review I thought, “What the heck… I’ll give the small plastic brush attachment a shot” but had little expectation after that. The plastic (not metal) brush in conjunction with the steam removed the stain with just a little elbow grease. I was floored (hehe)! I no longer have to hide the stain with an awkwardly placed appliance. Also shocking, my vinyl floor has a ton of grooves and pits by design and all of the darker ridges I thought were part of the design was actually dirt that had gotten deep into the vinyl! When I stopped cleaning my stain area I realized how gross the rest of the floor was by comparison. I mop and sweep regularly!!!
After that I started seeking out things in the house that needed a good scrubbing. First up was the refrigerator door handle. I have a white fridge with a plastic textured handle that has turned gray from grubby kid hands. It only took seconds for the grossness to melt away as opposed to the other times I have cleaned it and scrubbed for several minutes. I was starting to wish I had kept the old nasty shower door from the bathroom before the remodel. I am super curious to hear how this performs on showers from others’ experiences. The only reason we didn’t put a shower door in the bathroom post-remodel is because it was ridiculous to keep clean.
So why four-stars after my promise of a five-star review if Hoover could remove my stain? Well…. I used it on a HOT day and was wearing shorts and was barefoot… yeah… I know… but between the heat and the steam I wasn’t putting on long pants to test a product that I didn’t believe would actually work. I also moved my precious works of art from the fridge to the nearby kitchen table. I removed one star for the amount of sputtering which hit my legs/feet and ended up on my Picassos. I did NOT receive burns and there was no major damage to my child’s artwork, however, I think there should definitely be less sputtering and the Hoover should be able to maintain a steady flow of steam instead of steam/spray/sputter/steam. I would recommend pants or other protective clothing in case your skin is more sensitive then mine and be sure to move items away from the surrounding area where you will be working. Also, all the sputtering just makes water pool up on the floor unnecessarily, wastes the water/cleaning solution, and makes the steamer less effective.
I have posted my before and after stain photos under “Product Images” if anyone is interested. I highly recommended this product to save time and energy getting out those tough stains/messes that seem to melt away with this product.
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|A new take on household steam cleaners,
The “sell” for household handheld or canister steam cleaners has long been the argument that you can throw away caustic or potentially dangerous chemicals and still get your surfaces clean and germ free. It’s a “green” argument as well – less products washing down the drains and into the sewers and water tables being a Good Thing.
Hoover has definitely retooled that argument with this new handheld cleaner – it uses an optional disinfecting solution, a proprietary formulation sold by Hoover, as a 2nd line of defense against germs and bacteria. You can fill the solution tank and spray that for a touted 99.9% effectiveness against germs, or just stick with the steam for unspecified lesser efficiency.
I don’t know if that is partly the function of the machine’s maximum temperature, but the manual for the Hoover Handheld Steamer cautions that you have to steam an area for a long time, perhaps longer than is good for whatever is being steamed, in order to get full benefit of steam’s ability to sterilize items. Hence the disinfecting solution.
Now I’m not a huge fan of sterility – germ wise – in the home environment. Why? If you read studies and current medical thought on the issue, all the antibacterial this and that in our homes, as well as in institutional environments, are encouraging the evolution of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs”, and maybe even contributing to an increase of health issues in young children not exposed to the variety of bugs kids used to be, at a young age. Remember farms? And kids being outside all day, getting downright dirty? Exposure also builds immunities; we may literally be cleaning ourselves sick!
Which is not to say that I want to be a slob, and in fact a steamer that kills most of the bugs, leaving me the choice of whether I want to get even more aggressive with the disinfection on *some* surfaces, sounds pretty good to me.
An embarrassing secret: I bought a canister steamer years ago, which is still in pristine condition today, mostly because I haven’t much used it. It was hot and noisy and the manual had plenty of warnings about potentially breakage if you used it on cold glass, and so on. It made me nervous.
After testing the heat of the Hoover (very hot on immediate surface contact but not so much that I have much concern about a little peripheral steam that may hit my skin or surrounding items), I am now fearlessly using it on mirrors and my home’s windows (spotless – I’ll never want to go back to rags or newspaper and a spray bottle) – though I’ll doubtless be more careful with the later in winter. And I am pretty amazed at how much it can do, for it’s size.
Hard water has made shower door cleaning a real bear in my current home. I can either use one of the really strong bathroom cleaners with the contact warnings all over the bottle, or considerable vinegar/baking soda/elbow grease. Using the Hoover – wow. Not perfect; I still had to follow up with a bit of the baking soda paste, but I have never seen the door as clean with so little effort.
A special “hate” of mine is caustic oven cleaners, and even with self-cleaning ovens, there are always areas you have to go after by hand, particularly the door. I still have to do a bit of pre-prep loosening with ammonia in a pan the night before to basically evaporate into crud-loosening fumes, but once that pan is removed, I’m finding the steamer helps to make quick work of whatever stubborn bits still cling.
This is NOT a model with attachments for the floor, although Hoover’s other new release in steamers is a “dedicated” floor unit. I’m somewhat ambivalent in how much I like that splitting of tasks. On the one hand, I imagine that an “upright” would be easier to use on floors than my canister model with the hose, much as an upright dry vac tends to push around easier than a canister vac. Also, although the Hoover Handheld is fairly light for what it does, it’s more work for the wrist than a hose attachment on a canister, and the tank is smaller/needs to be refilled more often than the canister. I’d recommend this unit, for that reason, only conditionally to older folks or those with concerns about carpal tunnel/past wrist injuries. That’s not a big knock against the product though – there’s no perfect tool for everybody.
I find some of the attachments to this steamer somewhat silly, including the squeegees and cleaning pads that attach by way of a long, rigid(ish) hose and an adaptor. I can’t see where they are anything but clunky, and I worry that they cool down the steam that I’m trying to keep hot for whatever item I’m cleaning. It’s just less work to use a separate squeegee, microfiber cloth, or whatever – from my point of view.
I also have concerns about the inability of using a descaler on this product, although I believe that many steamers share the same…
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|Powerful Handheld Steam Cleaner,
Upon unpacking my Hoover Enhanced Clean Disinfecting Handheld Steam Cleaner I got right to work. I immediately hit the bathroom shower then the floor grout around the toilet. Wondering what else I could clean I put on the wedge attachment and cleaned the handprints on the wall around the light switch. Within seconds the handprints were gone!! I then attacked the hand prints on the bathroom door, they disappeared just as quickly. Realizing my grandchildren have deposited their little handprints throughout the house I kept going. In less than 30 minutes I had cleaned all their little handprints from every room of the house. Scrubbing handprints from the walls used to be a Saturday chore I dreaded.
I had been meaning to wipe down the dusty ledges on the baseboards, so I changed the wedge attachment to the wand attachment and cleaned a six foot section in less then a minute. Another cleaning drudgery has now been replaced by the Enhanced Clean Disinfecting Handheld Steam Cleaner.
Initially, I had a trouble hooking up the nozzle and hoses, but once I figured it out I have had no further problems. I don’t blame the product design or the instruction manual; I take full blame as I am challenged in that department.
I liked the lightweight design. I also like the carrying bag which allows me to take all the attachments easily from room to room. The microfiber covered wand and wedge attachments covered a large portion of my cleaning needs.
The Hoover Enhanced Clean Disinfecting Handheld Steam Cleaner is now in my regular cleaning equipment lineup. Thank you Hoover!!
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